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LYNCH REPORT IS
TURNED DOWN B'
CHURCH BODY
Federal Council Bows to Eastern Shore Mob Sentiment.
SECTION CALLED BACKWARD ARE.
Dr. Broadus Mitchell'j Report Caused Furore.
NEW YORK—On account of what they call "misunderstandings" cre-
r
ated by discussion of the recent re port of Dr. Broadus Mitchell of Johns Hopkins University on the Salisbu; lynching, that document will not be included in the official publications of the Federal Council of Churches c Christ in America, its general secre tary anounced this week.
In a communication to a whit churchman at Salisbury, Samuel M ¦ "'avert, general secretary of the coun ell, said:
"As a result of counsel given us bj friends of the Federal Council, we have not published Professor Mitch ell's report in our weekly 'Information Service.' These friends have advised us that in view of misunderstandings created by discussion, the printing of the report in one of our own organs might occasion still further misunderstanding by making it erroneously appear that Professor Mitchell's findings have been adopted as expressing the official judgments cf the Federal Council, although the full text of the report had originally been scheduled to appear in the Federal Council's publication during the week of February 1."
Bow to Sentiment
Many churchmen in Maryland are of the opinion that the decision of the Federal Council, of which Dr. George E. Haynes is one of the national secretaries, not to include the Mitchell document in its official bulletins, is a direct bow to lynch sentiment on the Eastern Shore.
They point out that it is common knowledge that hundreds of whites witnessed the lynching in which Williams was taken from a hospital, where he lay helpless, strung to a tree and then his body dragged about the streets of the city and later burned. Dr. Mitchell spent several days in the lynch area and it was his report that the sentiment of the whites of the community condoned the mob action.
His statement that he found the Eastern Shore a backward section of ""*¦» state, brought a flood of criticism \&t section.
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