Victims of race riot are buried

VICTIMS OF RACE RIQT ARE BURIED Alabama Village Sheaths its Weapons to Lay at Rest Two White Men and Four Negroes. EMELLE, Ala., July 7. (AP) Rifles and pistols were sheathed to- day and 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 price 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 and a white family engaged in a gun fight over the sale of an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Mont- gomery, “are not merely for ne- groes who killed white men” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible at Emelle.” “I am going to go to the bottom of this business and anyone impli- cated is going to be prosecuted,” he asserted. An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a ne- gro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro shot to death yesterday, officers said, re- plied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search at a railroad depot at Narkeeta, Miss., ten miles west of here. 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 Clar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery for which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence’s, 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, 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 white man. VICTIMS OF RACE RIQT ARE BURIED Alabama Village Sheaths its Weapons to Lay at Rest Two White Men and Four Negroes. EMELLE, Ala., July 7. (AP) Rifles and pistols were sheathed to- day and 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 price 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 and a white family engaged in a gun fight over the sale of an automobile battery. Official rewards which have been posted for the four negro fugitives, Governor Bibb Graves said at Mont- gomery, “are not merely for ne- groes who killed white men” but would be paid “for the arrest and conviction of anybody, white or black, responsible at Emelle.” “I am going to go to the bottom of this business and anyone impli- cated is going to be prosecuted,” he asserted. An unidentified negro man and Viola Dial, a negro woman, were shot to death early Sunday when the commands of white searchers were not obeyed. Previously Grover Boyd and Charlie Marrs, both white men, were killed and in turn a ne- gro was lynched and another fatally shot. Both of the negroes were kinsmen of Tom Robertson, who with three sons, fled and has not been apprehended. The unidentified negro shot to death yesterday, officers said, re- plied with bullets and wounded Clarence Bush, a white man, upon being ordered to submit to a search at a railroad depot at Narkeeta, Miss., ten miles west of here. 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 Clar- ence Boyd after he had reclaimed an automobile battery for which the negroes had failed to pay him. Grover Boyd, an uncle of Clar- ence’s, 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, 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 white man.