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Boyle Would Ban Negroes From Memphis Racial Parley
Police Commissioner Wants Only White Pastors Present

MEMPHIS-(A N P)-Commissioner of Public Safety Boyle Saturday afternoon notified the Memphis Commission for Interracial Cooperation that he would meet with them to discuss better white-Negro relations in Memphis, but that the conference would be limited to the commission's white minister members only.

His notice was sent to Dr. Sam E. Howie, white, president of the commission, in response to a renewed request by a special committee appointed by the commission for a conference with city officials on the question of better race relations, for which the organization was formed.

The first request for such a conference met a firm refusal from Boyle, who pointed out that he considered certain commission members inimical to better racial relations here. Plans are being made by the interracial group to stage a mass meeting of whites and Negroes here in February to promote improved racial relations, with Dr. Will W. Alexander, white executive secretary of the National C. I. C. and administrator of the Farm Security administration, as principal speaker.

Boyle's letter said in part: "It's true I declined to discuss the racial question with your committee and wrote you giving my reasons, that some of the newspaper Negroes on your committee for many months had been carrying on a campaign with inflammatory articles calculated to disrupt the present relations between the white and colored race in this community......

"HAVE NO TROUBLE"

"We have no race trouble here, and there will be none unless some foolish misguided persons are determined with the help of outsiders to foment strife. Negroes are given every opportunity to engage in any honest endeavor. They will not be disturbed, but to the contrary will be given all possible encouragement.

"If some of you who have resided here but a comparatively short time, and necessarily are ignorant of real conditions that exist in a large city day and night, intend to attend these social meetings merely as an outlet for oratory, and propose to import an anti-lynching speaker to the city, it will only stir up bitter feeling, and will certainly do no good to this community, only a lot of harm. If you white ministers desire to confer with me, I will be pleased to meet with you."

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