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SaysSLynchings Will Lead ToBetter Day HereSAYS THREE LYNCHING8 WILL LEAD TO BETTER THINGS IN STATEJACKSON, Miss. Oct. 20—A committee of Negro Citizens of Jackson. today, presented to Governoi Paul B. Johnson, in his office ii the new state Capitol Building here, a letter on behalf of the Paragon Brotherhood of the Pearl Street AME Church, and its si» hundred members concerning the three lynchings in the state during the past week, and the altitudes and sentiments now preve-lant regarding its Negro Citizens.Extending a most cordial reception to the Committee, during a conference which lasted nearl* an hour, the Governor assured the committee of the sincerity of his efforts and purpose, as far as lay within the powers of his office, to bring those guilty of the lynchings to punishment; emphasizing this fact by saying that, in Jones County, he had caused the arrest of persons reputedly his political supporters, thought to have been implicated in the Laurel lynching.Deploring the murder of the Copiah County Jailer in what appeared to have been an unprovoked shooting by a’Negro in Hazel-hurst last Saturday night, the Governor, at the sametime, pointed out. in support of his stand against lynching, that he had sent a group of state police, especially sworn by him to prevent a lynching, to protect the Negro should he be captured.In revealing the presence of sub-ddtiviHof in tha ctatP thp
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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Mississippi, US
Sat, Oct 24, 1942
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