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A mates a ¥. JAX 100-1355 i“ in that “ounty, inasmuch as they had been ordered to straighten the matter 5 out themfelves or else the whites would straighten it out for them, ‘The a Sheriff suggested that the City Marshal of Hupora would be able to give me the full story concerning this matter, fF groceryman in Eupora, advised that he has nA arann« we feancearnt ne the sahawe daeerthnad Innatidant hut ¢hat ‘= age oS Mie EUS ESOC P eS ae, PY Mele w Tr. fe; ont ay F EC Fh el a sows 5 oe hi, he had attended the mass meeting called by the whites, to which a few of. © - the leaders among the negroes had been invited, and at this meeting the ‘ . negroes were told that it had been rumored that there was an organizatim ~- among them which they had better straighten out themselves or it would be handled by the whites in their om my. The alia be cooperative and only one of them, a negro by the name of ge Joffered to make any statement whatever, However, he was owed to * do so and the negroes have said nothing about the mtter since that time, of Bupora, advised that the only s organization was what he had been told by He felt that this organization, whatever it was, Was purely a local matter ami that any ideas the negroes had for organizing they had obtained from reading negro newspapers obtained from negroes who had gone north and had returned to the South and from negroes who were soldiers and who had received more or less equal treatment with white soldiers in the camps. He feals certain no one had been agitating among the negroes in that commmity or stirring them up in any way. He . expressed the opinion that the negroes in that County were very good and he would put them up against negroes anywhere, He feels that the City Marshal now has the situation well in hand and that no organisation is now in existence, QUE «27022, fersiotes tre fottoring = informations Approximately three or four months ago, one of the clerks at the Local Draft Board called him and told him that a: a . negro selectee, had become inpu she reprimand or appearing . five days late for induction. arrested this negro, who told him that an Eleanor Club had j sén organized in that vicinity and tint about two-thirds of the cooks belonged to it, while the others - wo have nothing to do with it, To the best of recollection, an had mentioned a few names, but the only one Me rane an by the name of am. who left the same night with his ~ ou 2»