Race Riot toll increases to four in Alabama town

RACE RIOT TOLL woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen. IN ALABAMA TOWN On Independence Day Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed INCREASES TO FOUR an automobile battery for which the Negroes had failed to pay him. Governor Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence, ran to his aid and was fatal- Four Negroes, Each With $300 ly shot by one of the Negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Jacob Price On Head, Are Still Robertson, who had participated in At Large the attack, fired the home of John Robertson, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie EMELLE, LA., July 7 (AP)-Rifles Marrs, a white posseman, and and pistols were sheathed today as wounded Jim Ayers, another white this strife-torn village completed man. the burial of its dead-two white men and four Negroes-slain in dis- TIMBER YIELD AUGMENTED orders arising from an Independence WASHINGTON, July 7 (AP)-Full Day debt dispute. fire protection, replanting and im- Four other Negroes, each with a proved cutting practices will im- prize of $300 on his head, still were prove the yield of timber areas of at large, but virtually all of sever- the northeastern states, one of the al hundred white possement had country’s most heavily timbered re- given up a three day manhunt, in- gions, says the United States For- stituted after a Negro family en- est Service. gaged in a gun fight with a white family over the payment of an au- A 100-acre airport is operated by tomobile batterv. the American Legion post of Car- Official rewards which have been bondale, Ill. posted for the four Negro fugitives Governor Bibb Graves said at Mont- gomery, “are not merely for Negroes 500 Patterns who killed white men” but would be “for the arrest and conviction in New of anybody, white or black, respon- sible at Emelle.” All Wool Suits An unidentified Negro man and Viola Dial, a Negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the com- and Topcoats mands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Governor Boyd 2 PIECE SUITS and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a Negro AND TOPCOATS was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the Negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who $23.50 with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified Negro killed yes- XTRA TROUSERS terday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered $7.50 to submit to a search. The Negro RACE RIOT TOLL woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen. IN ALABAMA TOWN On Independence Day Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed INCREASES TO FOUR an automobile battery for which the Negroes had failed to pay him. Governor Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence, ran to his aid and was fatal- Four Negroes, Each With $300 ly shot by one of the Negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Jacob Price On Head, Are Still Robertson, who had participated in At Large the attack, fired the home of John Robertson, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie EMELLE, LA., July 7 (AP)-Rifles Marrs, a white posseman, and and pistols were sheathed today as wounded Jim Ayers, another white this strife-torn village completed man. the burial of its dead-two white men and four Negroes-slain in dis- TIMBER YIELD AUGMENTED orders arising from an Independence WASHINGTON, July 7 (AP)-Full Day debt dispute. fire protection, replanting and im- Four other Negroes, each with a proved cutting practices will im- prize of $300 on his head, still were prove the yield of timber areas of at large, but virtually all of sever- the northeastern states, one of the al hundred white possement had country’s most heavily timbered re- given up a three day manhunt, in- gions, says the United States For- stituted after a Negro family en- est Service. gaged in a gun fight with a white family over the payment of an au- A 100-acre airport is operated by tomobile batterv. the American Legion post of Car- Official rewards which have been bondale, Ill. posted for the four Negro fugitives Governor Bibb Graves said at Mont- gomery, “are not merely for Negroes 500 Patterns who killed white men” but would be “for the arrest and conviction in New of anybody, white or black, respon- sible at Emelle.” All Wool Suits An unidentified Negro man and Viola Dial, a Negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the com- and Topcoats mands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Governor Boyd 2 PIECE SUITS and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a Negro AND TOPCOATS was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the Negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who $23.50 with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified Negro killed yes- XTRA TROUSERS terday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered $7.50 to submit to a search. The Negro