Show i RACIAl CONFLICT HAlTS AS MILITIA Governor Sends Troops Troops' oops to Stop Tr Trouble in Little Rock r NEGRO IS MOB VICTIM Assailant of Woman Is Lynched and Burned LITTLE ROCK Ark May 5 AP The AP-The The sight of militiamen standing guard on on important str street et corners corners with fixed bayonets greeted gr eted residents of or Little Rock Rock today f following owing a night nigh of disorder disorder der den during which a negro was taS as asI I lynched his body dragged through the business section and burned upon a funeral pyre while while- several sev sev- eral ral thousand persons looked on Fear of or additional serious ra racial racial racial ra- ra cial trouble caused Governor Martineau Martineau Martineau Mar- Mar to lo to order out a n national guard company for tor all aU night patrol patrol pa pa- trot duty He e hurried here hero on ona ona ona a tram from Van Buren where he e attended a strawberry festival By midnIght midnight after art fter r hundreds of ol erm Jl men bad Th 1 f r volley ot hott Into the tle air alt the national iti guard rd had vi virtually cleared the streets and gained control contro of the situation AUTHORITIES AUTHORITIES' HELPLESS Th The governor acted when ip- ip formed ormed that local authorities were were standing by il helplessly while angry an an angry gry ry men invaded a negro quarter quarter quarter ter and a general outbreak of Df violence was Vas threatened threaten d. d The negro lynched was John Carter 38 He was was' was was' said sald to have admitted that he attacked two white women early yesterday One of t th the women women Miss Glen Glen- Stewart identified him and saw him killed Her mother Mrs B. B E. E Stewart was In a hospital hospi- hospi tal suffering from Injuries Injuries' In Inflicted In in- ted by the tue o negi-o negro with an iron bar Carter had attacked them heni after acco accosting Ung them as It- It they rode rod along the road near the city In Ina Ina ina a wagon f The mob together with posses Continued on on page 6 G. I RACIAL CONFLICT HALTS AS MILITIA PATROLS STREETS x S Continued from page 1 of officers pursued pursued- Carter into a forest forestI and I 1 c captured pt red him The mob numbering several hundred persons then took tool charge ch of the negro hanged hi a telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone pole riddled the body with bullets cut it down and tied it behind an automobile which dragged drag it through h the principal business thoroughfares BURNED IN STREET It later was vas saturated with gasoline gasoline gas gas- oline and burned In a street bordering bordering bordering bor bor- dering on the negro section Another negro Am Arn Christian was found armed in a crowd In Inthe Inthe Inthe the negro district and was at at at- tacked He was finally rescued and removed to a hospital Robert Love a white youth was struck by one of the many bullets fired at random by the mob His injury wa slight S Governor Martineau expressed the belief that no further outbreaks would result The Tile lynching of Carter followed three three- d days ys of Intense feeling aroused over the murder of 12 year old Floella McDonald by a a year old negro Lonnie Dixon Efforts were made both Sunday and Mondoy nights by a mob to find Dixon but he ITe had been spir spirited spirited out of the city Th The angry r men searched several jails and the state penitentiary before abandoning abandon abandon- ing ilg the hunt |