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_ FD-902 (Rev, 1-25-60) " FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGA” *N 1 Date 2, 64 Mrs. ELIZABETH ALLEN was located and interviewed at 10568 Bertha Street, Scotlandville, Louisiana, at which time she furnished the following additional informations ; Mrs. ALLEN stated that following her husband's testifying in the HERBERT LEE matter in 1961, her husband found it difficult to get contracts to cut timber from _white people. She stated her husband told her that before this he had no trouble in getting such contracts, further - that in Liberty, Mississippi, there were a number of business establishments where he could get credit such as grocery stores and gasoline stations when he did not have the ready cash. She could not furnish the identity of any géscline stations but identified one of the grocery stores as the Fairway Grocery Store. She added, however, that her husband still was able to obtain eredit from Blaylocks Grocery Storein Liberty. ; Mrs. ALLEN could not furnish the identity of white persons who.would not sell timber to her husband. — As a result of individuals refusing to give her husband contracts to cut timber in the Liberty area, her husband had been forced to go to Louisiana to cut timber which he was able to do. She said that her husband sold the timber that he cut to SAM MAYBRY Lumber Company, Liberty, although she did not know for sure, ste said her husband had indicated to her that on occasions MAYBRY had made her husband small loans of money. . - After her husband was releaséd from the Amite - County Jail, Liberty, Mississippi, in November, 1963, her husband told her that he felt that the white people in the area were “picking on him" because the white people would not given him anymore logging contracts or give him . ‘anymore eredit, therefore, he was thinking of moving away Se . from the Liberty area. | ma Pe . os . Bpout one month before her husband's death, her husband mentioned to her that he thought hé would go to ‘Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to look for any kind of work. Mrs. File # NO Wh-2100 . - Date dictated 2/6/foh i. Thie document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, It ts the property of the FBI and ts loaned to nit! ¢ your agency; it and its contente are not to be distributed outside your agency. 32 oe to babe ce eee o . . wa, :