The Daily Bulletin

U. S. To Guard Rights Of All Southern Voters

JACKSON, Miss., July 2 -Charges of "wholesale" intimidation, "threats and assaults" to keep Negroes from voting in tomorrow's Mississippi Democratic primary were made today just before U. S. Attorney General Tom Clark announced the justice department would back up their right to vote.

The charges came from Emanuel H. Bloch, counsel for the Civil Rights congress, New York, who asserted that "exhortations" by Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo have "spread a blanket of terror and apprehension" over 1,000,000 Mississippi Negroes

Bilbo and Rep. John E. Rankin both outspoken advocates of white supremacy, are candidates for renomination in the primary.

Bloch telegraphed protests to President Truman, Attorney General Clark and Senator Mead (Dem., N. Y.). member of the senate committee on elections. He urged'an investigation and an "immediate pronouncement that the federal government will protect any citizen in his civil liberties and constitutional rights."

Clark said a few hours later that the full force of his department would stand behind any qualified Negro voter seeking to cast his ballot in the primary.

Senator Maybank (Dem., S. C.) said in Washington, however, that the senate campaign investigating committee would not send investigators because "it would be an insult to the people of Mississippi."