The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-06

horized investigators of the ection.
 the plot included a widespread up- rising in the event certain de- mapds were not met. With De- tober 6 set as the day for the up- rising, negro prisoners are said ts have confessed each member of the organization, at specified places, was to have picked a bale of cotton by that date. take the cotton to certain prominent land owners, plantation managers and merchants and .dcmand a settle nient." The confessions. as an- peunced. made it appear to the i'm ve$dEators that without further ado following this demand the blacks were to shoot down all
 vhites in sight. A list of 21 names, admitted to represent tho men to whom the demand would be presented. is in the hands of the Investigating committee.
 Killing of these 21. the prison- CTS said. was to he the signal for all mem bers of the organization to attack the white popuIa ton. An extensive courier system was ex- PiaiDed in the evidence, providing for messengers known to the ne- gr0es as @PauI Reveres., These couriers had been duly appointed to ride into all parts of the ter ritory, according to the testimony. and summon members ts arms. The organization concerned was declared to be the local lodge of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America, con- fiseated literature of which desig- mates Washington, ID. C.. as na- tional headquarters, with state of- ffccs at Winchester. Ark.
 1sWe've just begun" was the password of the uprising. the ne- groes told the investigators. This password and the @PauI Revere- eouriers were confessed to have been employed last Tuesday night and "Wednesday morninE in srm- morning blacks to Hoop Spur, IS miles south of Helena, after W. A. Adkins. special agent of the Mis- souri Pacific railroad. had been killed and Charles Pratt, deputy sheriff. had been wounded.
 The confessions were taken to explain the rapidity with which the armed blacks were assembled at Hoop Spur and the neighbor- ing town of Elaine following the incident. The statements added that at the time Adkins was killed l. the church at the scene of the men, it was said, carrying auto matic revoIvers in their stockings.
 Questioned about their supply of shotguns, rifles and ammunition. negroes declared that they often had been advised by speakers all ways to skeep their racks fulI'' and eff your rack ain't full, fill it now,
 MORE THAN LOCAL
 Fifty thousand rounds of ann night in the Branch Normal school at Pine Bluff, according to tele- phone message received here to- day from Mayor Hollis of thnt city. The institution Is n negro school maintained by the state. This report and evidence found To- cally lead authorities here to be- Iieve the contemplated uprising was of more than a IocNl nature. possibly planned for the entire south.
 Members of the fnvestiga ting committee declared there Is every evidence that mercenary indi- yiduals have been melting the negroes in the name of the federal government. Among other things. it was stated. they were led to believe a part of the government at Washington upneld them in arming and organizing against the whites. that . large temple and arm0ries were to he erected at Washington for the converting of their "congress- and for fed eraI training of 5000 soldiers to protect them in their uprising.
 Much of the investigation is known to be directed In an effort to establish concIusively connec- tion of white men with the agita- ton and there is said to be strong indications of such a relation. Only two whites were in custody here today following last weeks disorders. A man named Fuller was brought in from POstelle last night and placed in the county jail Q. S. Bratton. of a Little Rock. Ark, law firm. has been in custody several days pending i'm vestigation.
 Pending investigation thirteen allegt aders of the negro organization fla' cen brought to the local jail from Elaii nee yesterday. A drive through u ake View territory south of this ci as to be made late tonight and ear ,morrow morning in an effort to TOUT D other prime movers. The authoriti ave announced that they still are seel Ig Robert l.. Hill. of Winchester. repr ,nted on the union literature various s government agent, employed ie United States service" and Unit, tates and foreign detective" Anoth lleged leader said to be at large vi d Ware, whom negroes declared to ha cen their ''secretary" V. E. Iowa councillor" of the union, was brought lelena last night from Arkansas Ci nd jailed.
 While the citizens committee and u lilitary authorities continue their i estigations in meetings here and Ilaine, where the latter have headqua srs. patrols of troops are maintaining optinuous search of localities thoug } be hiding places of negro bands. Esp al attention is being given. it was sai , the canbrake regions neighboring. 0 own and Modoc. Fallen cane. den ines and undergrowth add to the diff ulties of the dragnet. veterans of | campaign in the war 8 erting that the Mississippi lowlands a
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