Two more dead in race rioting at Emelle, Ala.

TWO MORE DEAD IN RACE RIOTING AT EMELLE, ALA. Negro. Couple Slain Sunday, Four Others Sought With Prices on Heads LULL IN STRIFE TODAY Possemen Quit Three-Day Man Hunt Begun After Fatal Row Over Debt EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-(PP)– 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 negoes, each with a price of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possemen had given up a three-day man hunt, instituted after a Negro fam- ily engaged in a gunfight with a white family over the payment for an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four Negro fugitives, Gov. Bibb Graves said at Montgomery, “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 when the com- mands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a negro was lynched and another fa- tally shot. Both of the Negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended, The unidentified Negro killed yesterday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being or- dered to submit to a search. The Negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automo- bile at the command of possemen. On Independence day, Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clarence Boyd after he had re- claimed an automobile battery for which the Negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence, ran to his aid and was fatal- ly shot by one of the Negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Jacob Robertson, who had participated in the attack and fired the home of John Robertson, a relative. TWO MORE DEAD IN RACE RIOTING AT EMELLE, ALA. Negro. Couple Slain Sunday, Four Others Sought With Prices on Heads LULL IN STRIFE TODAY Possemen Quit Three-Day Man Hunt Begun After Fatal Row Over Debt EMELLE, Ala., July 7.-(PP)– 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 negoes, each with a price of $300 on his head, still were at large, but virtually all of several hundred white possemen had given up a three-day man hunt, instituted after a Negro fam- ily engaged in a gunfight with a white family over the payment for an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four Negro fugitives, Gov. Bibb Graves said at Montgomery, “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 when the com- mands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a negro was lynched and another fa- tally shot. Both of the Negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended, The unidentified Negro killed yesterday, officers said, replied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being or- dered to submit to a search. The Negro woman was slain when her husband failed to halt his automo- bile at the command of possemen. On Independence day, Tom Rob- ertson and his sons attacked Clarence Boyd after he had re- claimed an automobile battery for which the Negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence, ran to his aid and was fatal- ly shot by one of the Negroes. A crowd gathered, lynched Jacob Robertson, who had participated in the attack and fired the home of John Robertson, a relative.