Six death tolls of race riot at Emelle, Ala.

SIX DEATHS TOLL OF RACE BATTLES AT EMELLE, ALA. Debt Argument Brings Whites and Blacks Into Conflict (By Associated Press) EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife-torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Independence Day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with an award of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white 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 for an automobile bat- tery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Mont- gomery, “are not merely for negroes who killed white men” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible at Emelle.” An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday. Previously Grover Boyd and Char- lie Marrs, both white men, were kill= ed and in turn a negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Rob- ertson, who with three sons, fied and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro killed yes- terday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search. The negro wom- an was slain when her husband fail- ed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen. SIX DEATHS TOLL OF RACE BATTLES AT EMELLE, ALA. Debt Argument Brings Whites and Blacks Into Conflict (By Associated Press) EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-Rifles and pistols were sheathed today as this strife-torn village completed the burial of its dead-two white men and four negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Independence Day debt dispute. Four other negroes, each with an award of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white 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 for an automobile bat- tery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Mont- gomery, “are not merely for negroes who killed white men” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible at Emelle.” An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday. Previously Grover Boyd and Char- lie Marrs, both white men, were kill= ed and in turn a negro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Rob- ertson, who with three sons, fied and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro killed yes- terday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search. The negro wom- an was slain when her husband fail- ed to halt his automobile at the command of possemen.