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...Tallapoosa's racial clash produced reverberations outside Alabama. In New York the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which has been conducting a legal defense of the Scottsboro convicts denied that it was connected in any way with the Camp Hill affair. It charged that Communist agitators were deliberately "muddling the matter" and warned that their tactics to win Negroes to Communism were "the best means in the world" for getting the Scottsboro boys hanged or mobbed. The International Labor Defense, a Red organization which has been exploiting the Scottsboro case for political purposes, said the Camp...
Black mixed with Red last week to make a bloody brew for Tallapoosa County, Ala. At a rural church in the woods outside Camp Hill several hundred Negroes met furtively by night. Ostensibly they came together to form a sharecroppers' union against what they were told was the oppression of white landowners. One Ralph Gray was posted outside as a picket. Inside, the management of the meeting was taken over by a black Communist from Chattanooga. He represented, he said, the "Society for the Advancement of Colored People." He told his auditors to demand social equality and white intermarriage...
...week most of Tallapoosa's Negro population had moved to neighboring counties. Still uncaught was the Red black from Chattanooga who had incited the outbreak...
Next year there will be a new lake in the state of Alabama. Engineers are now constructing giant harness for the Tallapoosa River which, when reined in, will be called Cherokee Bluffs Lake, a body impounding 530,000,000,000 gal. of water and having a 700-mile shore line. The bits and bridles to govern so much potential power were told about last week by the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y.: three electric generators, each driven by a 45,000-h.p. waterwheel turbine. Alabama industry will point proudly to the largest power units in the South...
Several Harvard men attended a hop given by the officers of the "Tallapoosa" Wednesday...