Strife-Torn Town Buries Dead in Riot

STRIFE-TORN TOWN BURIES DEAD IN RIOT Four Negroes And Two White Men, Killed at Emelle, Interred SEEK FOUR FUGITIVES. EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-(P)- Rifles and pistols were sheathed to- day as this strife torn village com- pleted the burial of its dead-two white men and four Negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Inde- pendence Day debt dispute. Four other Negroes, each with a prize of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possemen 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 automobie blat- tery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four Negro fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Mont- gomery, “are not merely for Ne- groes killed “for white the arrest men” and but who would be paid conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible at Emelle.” Negro Woman is Slain An unidentified Negro man and Viola Dial, a Negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the com- mands of white searchers were not and obeyed. Charlie Previously Marr, both Grover white Boyd men, were killed and in turn a Negro was lynched Both of Negroes another fatally kinsmen shot. and the were of Tom Robertson, who with three (Continued on Page 8) STRIFE-TORN TOWN BURIES DEAD IN RIOT Four Negroes And Two White Men, Killed at Emelle, Interred SEEK FOUR FUGITIVES. EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-(P)- Rifles and pistols were sheathed to- day as this strife torn village com- pleted the burial of its dead-two white men and four Negroes-slain in disorders arising from an Inde- pendence Day debt dispute. Four other Negroes, each with a prize of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possemen 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 automobie blat- tery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four Negro fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Mont- gomery, “are not merely for Ne- groes killed “for white the arrest men” and but who would be paid conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible at Emelle.” Negro Woman is Slain An unidentified Negro man and Viola Dial, a Negro woman, were the last two killed. They were shot to death yesterday when the com- mands of white searchers were not and obeyed. Charlie Previously Marr, both Grover white Boyd men, were killed and in turn a Negro was lynched Both of Negroes another fatally kinsmen shot. and the were of Tom Robertson, who with three (Continued on Page 8)