St. Paul recorder., 1952-01-11
Florida Bomb Victims
Wife Dies After
Attending FuneroI

a p
victim of an anti-Negro bomb
ing, died in a hospital here,
Thursday night, thus becoming
the second fatality in the dyna-
mite attack.
Mrs. Moore left her hospital bed
on New Years Day to see the
body of her husband. After view
ing his body as it lay in state,
Mrs. Moore, who had been inn
proving, grew steadily worse.
Her attending physician, DR..
George II. Starke, said the death
was caused by blood clot. She
had been hospitalized since
Christmas night when a bomb ex-
ploded under her bed after she
and her husband, Florida NAACP
leader, had gone to sleep.
More than 600 persons attended
the dead mans funeral. DR..
Richard V. Moore, president of
Bethune Goodman college was
among the speakers.
No new developments have
been announced officially in the
investigation of the incident al
though the federal bureau of in
vestigation and local authorities
repeatedly are studying the case.
In the meantime, innumerable
protests of the bombing are being
directed to President Truman,
Gov. Fuller Warren of Florida,
and to local authorities asking
that something be done about an
til Negro violence in Florida.
Rewards totalling $19325 have
been offered for the apprehension
of the murdered or murderers of
the Moores. They are headed by:
5000, state of Florida announced
by Gov. Warren; $1,000, NAACP
announced by Walter White, eX-
ecutive secretary.
Several theories, however, have
been introduced as motives for the
killing.
Khan Not Guilty, II Claims
An unusual factor in this case
is the stand of the usually vicious
Ku Klux Klan. The Florida Klan
burned a cross on New Years
Eve and denounced persons who
accused it of the bombing. The
xxx denied all connections with
The incident.
Walter White, NAACP head,
failed to show up at the Moore
funeral, but left the state hastily.
giving as his reason pressing"
NAACP business. Before leaving,
White said he knew the names of
three white men involved in the
bombing.
He said he has given the names
to the FBI He added that he was
not leaving under pressure or
threat.
Gov. Warren continued his
blasts at White, calling him "a
paid professional agitator."
The two most prevalent theories
on the cause of the bombing are
that it is connected with recent
bombings in Miami aimed at the
Negro Carver Village housing pro-
ject, Jewish synagogues and Cath
olic perishes, and that the Miami
incident and the Minis action We're
separate events, the Moore bomb
ing being caused by MoOre,s mill
fancy in the NAACP.
The biggest supporter to the
first view is the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai Birth. In a re-
port the League said it found no
connection even between the
bombing of Carver Village and
Miami Jewish and Catholic relig-
ious institutions. It considered
housing the cause of the project
blasts, fanatics, the cause of the
religious attacks. and anti-Negro
the reason for the
Moore deaths.
The League also proposed
through Benjamin r. Epstein, ma
tional director. a three point pro-
gram to end terrorist bombing in
Florida:
/ Passage of a state law con-
trolling sale of explosives.
2. A survey in local areas for
racial danger and tension spots.
3. Community level projects to
promote interracial understand
ing.
More Protests Flood Mails
More newspapers and organiza-
tons added their names to the
growing lists of objectors to mob
rule. Among the newspapers act
ing through their editorial pages
were the Atlanta Daily World, the
Memphis Commercial Appeal, and
the Raleigh, N. C. News and OBJ
server.
Also denouncing the blasts
were
The National Council of
Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.,
the American Civil Liberties
Union, the United Furniture
Workers of America, CIO. the
United Electrical Radio and
Workers of America
CUE). the National Conference of
and Jews. and the Pro-
gressive party.
The Moores are survived by
two daughters, Miss Annie Moore,
teacher at Ocala, and Miss Evan
geline Moore, Washington. ID. C.,