Race Rioters in Alabama Town Kill Two More

RACE RIOTERS IN ALABAMA TOWN KILL TWO MORE Negro Man and Woman Shot to Death Yesterday When They Refused to Obey Commands of White Posse Seeking Cul- prits in Fourth Riots FOUR STILL SOUGHT Emelle, Ala., July 7-(AP)-Ri- fles and pistols were sheathed to- day as this strife torn village com- pleted the burial of two white men and four negroes-slain in disor- ders arising from an Independence Day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a price of $300 on his head, still were at large, but nearly all of several hundred possement had given up a three day manhunt instituted after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over the payment of an automobile battery. An unidentified negro and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were the last two killed, shot to death yester- day when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Pre- viously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and a negro was lynched and an- other fatally shot. Both of the ne- groes were kinsmen of Tom Rob- ertson, who fled with his three sons The unidentified negro killed yes- terday, officers said, shot and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to sub- mit to a search. The negro wo- man was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen. On Independence Day Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clar- ence Boyd after he reclaimed an automobile battery for which the negroes had not paid. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence, ran to his aid and was fatal- ly shot. A crowd gathered, lynched Ja- cob Robertson, who participated in the attack, fired the home of John Robertson, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman, and wounded Jim Ayers, another whit man. RACE RIOTERS IN ALABAMA TOWN KILL TWO MORE Negro Man and Woman Shot to Death Yesterday When They Refused to Obey Commands of White Posse Seeking Cul- prits in Fourth Riots FOUR STILL SOUGHT Emelle, Ala., July 7-(AP)-Ri- fles and pistols were sheathed to- day as this strife torn village com- pleted the burial of two white men and four negroes-slain in disor- ders arising from an Independence Day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with a price of $300 on his head, still were at large, but nearly all of several hundred possement had given up a three day manhunt instituted after a negro family engaged in a gun fight with a white family over the payment of an automobile battery. An unidentified negro and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were the last two killed, shot to death yester- day when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Pre- viously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and a negro was lynched and an- other fatally shot. Both of the ne- groes were kinsmen of Tom Rob- ertson, who fled with his three sons The unidentified negro killed yes- terday, officers said, shot and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to sub- mit to a search. The negro wo- man was slain when her husband failed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen. On Independence Day Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clar- ence Boyd after he reclaimed an automobile battery for which the negroes had not paid. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence, ran to his aid and was fatal- ly shot. A crowd gathered, lynched Ja- cob Robertson, who participated in the attack, fired the home of John Robertson, a relative, and shot him to death when he killed Charlie Marrs, a white posseman, and wounded Jim Ayers, another whit man.