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DROPS MARYLAND FROM HOP ROLL
i i Federal Council Of Churches
Lists 39 States Having No
Lynchings In 1931
13 MOB VICTIMS IN YEAR
Fifty-Seven Attempts Were Frustrated By Officers—21 Were Kitted In 1930
[By the Associated Press!
New York, Jan. 31—Thirty-nine States which had no lynchings in 1931 are placed on the honor roll published today by the Commission on Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches.
In announcing the honor roll, Dr. George E. Haynes, secretary of the commission, said six of the States not present had been on honor rolls of other years — Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota, Tennesee and West Virginia. Three—Florida, Mississippi and Alabama—had never appeared in the honor list, he said.
A feature of the survey was the drop in the number of victims from twenty-one in 1930 to thirteen in 1931. 57 Attempts Frustrated
Dr. Haynes called attention to the fact that fifty-seven attempted lynchings were frustrated by officers of the law in 1931.
The report especially commended Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, which have never recorded a lynching; Maine and New Jersey, which have not had one since 1886; Delaware, Michigan and Wisconsin, which have not had one for twenty-five years; Idaho, Iowa, Nevada and South Dakota, none for twenty years; New York, Oregon and Pennsylvania, none for fifteen; Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Washington and Wyoming. none for ten, and Illinois, Utah, Virginia and Ohio, none for five years.
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