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NEGROES BEGIN EXIT | AFTER ULTIMATUM BY WHITE MINERSAction Follows Attack on 12-Year-Old Girl at Blanford, Ind.*\SptriQl to Tkc'lndxanapolix Star,}CMNTON, Ind.. Jan. 20— Negro*** [ began leaving Blanford, a small mining | j town, west of here, early this afternoon, , following an ultimatum Issund by the I white residents demanding that nil sin* gle negroes should Ieaie the town by f7.30 o'clock and all others by next J Wednesday unless they were able to pro-j dure Alber Mays, a negro, known a*1Baby Boy” of Tam Jlle. Ill Mays J* j wanted In connection with a brutal at- 1 tuck on Thelma Bales. 12 years old, 1 daughter of John Rule* a miner of Blanford.lt; Prosecutor W. A. flatteries luts tonight said everything was quiet in th* i mining onmp ' «All available automobiles operatingbetween Bland ford and Clinton, were filled with negro passengers and a number of trucks were filled with household 1 goods. ,Attack Thursday Night.The attack was made Thursday night hut the general populace of Blanford 1 was unaware of It Until last night. The girl was taken to a Terre Haute hospital and the attending physician today said ! she was In a serious * ondltion The r negro grabbed the glr! at the rear gatp I of the Bales home, as she was return-1 lug from the grorerj store and carried r her for almost a quarter of a mite. He j carried her part way back and sent her on home threatening that he would return and kill her If she told.Th* four mines fn the’Blanford field were Idle today owing to the excite-’ mem and a mass meeting of about 400 1 whites was held thris morning when the j 1 ultimatum was adopted ji County officers rushed to the *oeneias soon as word of the mob action was(received In this city and effort was.-made to talk the mob out of inv vio-l: lence.i G t'ARP OFFICER RlAVrORT).TKRKK HAT TK Ind. Tan 20—. fjeut. H A Collins, commander of Companv I. lfW infant r\ National Guard. of Terre H^ute, w^nt to Blah-*] ford early tndav after It wti* reported irace feeling w lt;s hlch and 1« there tonight If outbreak* ocrui Jt 1«po^«4ble. tt w f* Aid at the '(•'mnrj to-[ night, that the rnmf*-im wi I he calWl om and sent tlv re to handle the situation Negroes r^^rit the nlt;oj*at»o ns made that they arc shielding the offend-*’M*n7 of the colored folk of tht.CfcNTINtTED ON PAGE RT.RVfSX, 1
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Indianapolis Star
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Sun, Jan 21, 1923
Page 53
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