The Omaha guide., 1936-02-01
SAVE THE LIVES OF sCOTTsB0RO BOYS

An n%nspeabable oine-one that outrages all decent people
hos been committed
Ole Powell, one Of tho nine Seottsboro boys has just been
foully shot by one Ct The police guarJs as he was being trans
ported fs5m the Patterson t5al to the Birmingham Jail
This monstrous lynch assault was Che result Of three days
Of savage terror dcl beratcly worked mp against the Scottsboro
boys their attorneys and witnesses At tbe. Patterson trial
When Tire police lynch agcni Of the Alabama officials shot
Ole Powell ne was carrying out the bidding OF Judge Callahan,
whose every attitude in the Patterson TRIAL screamed: 4Waste
no time. Lynch emf
The 15syear living death sentence against Pattenon-as
brutal IS it vas did net appeaso the lynch desire whipped up
by fhe prosecution all over Decatur, Alabama. The Alabama
lynch class must have blood Blood to symbolic the oppres-
thousands Of Negro and white who have shoulder to shoulder re-
peatedly stayed the l%ynehefs hand.
Th lives Of al the boys are IN the gravest danger!
The Southern lynch class clearly intends to use rope and
faggot instead Of the cumbersome process of legal lynching.
The pretext for the shooting of Powell is being used today
by Hitler faseists in Germany, Mussolini in Italy and in helish
capitalist dungeons all over the world: "shot while trying to
escape
When Powell arrived IN Birmingham after the shootig
too weak to arise from the wound, Sheriff Sandlin yelled. "Get
npl" The wounded boy, with blood gushing from his face, cried,
Il can't Such besdal cruelty could hardly be found anywhere
else in the civilized woldl
The meaning of this hideous lynch attempt is as clear as
daylight.
Liberty Leaguers and all their Ku Klux hordes are aiming to
Hitlerize the country. They mean to cast into an abyss the
fundamental rights of liberty, justice, fsr play and freedom,
on which this country was founded.
Today they struck through the lynch class of the South
Seeking to make the Negro people the scape-goat of their loath-
some barbarism, they struck through the wounded body of in
nocent Ole Powell.
But tomorrow like poisonous vipers they will strike at
every decent human being who dares to speak against the mer-
CHESS rule of savage faseism.
This monstrous act is a warning Of what will happen to
all liebrtylovng, fair-minded people-unless they rise in one
united mass to save the Scottsboro boys and set them free.
The danger to these boys, threatened with brutal tynehng
by the Alabama officials who have them captive, presents the
American people with one of the most critical attacks on civil
r.ghts-a threat which must not so unanswered by all who
cherish those democratic rights and who seek to resist fascist
assaults.
Let your voice be heardl
Demand the release of all the Scottsboro boys and their
safety from lynching by their jailersl
Demand that the boys be Immediately turned over to the
custody of the Federal court, as the courts and officials Of
Alabama, unable to prove them guilty, are plotting their death
by open murderl
Demand that President Roosevelt act in the face of this
great lynch threat to nine innocent Negro boys, symbolic of the
oppression of the 100000 Negroes in the United States.
Save the Scottsboro boysl
Their lives are in great peril.
One has a~lreadybeen murderously struck down