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Show Negro Convicted of Stirring Race Hate JACKSON, Miss.. April 15. E. R Franklin, a negro, said to represent "The Crisis," a rew York publication, has hQn sentenced In Holmes doun-ty, doun-ty, this-state, to six months imprisonment impris-onment and -fined $(M00. The case arose out of an" editorial in the January Janu-ary issuo of the paper. A law enacted I at the last session of the legislature J prohibits dissemination of literature tending to stir lip racial trouble, and j Franklin was prosecuted for violation of ihis act. |