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_ tdentt fy any menbers of the. lynch mob tn the saree, Georgia, = dynching ta the latest eromple of this.” se _ _ we G& atrengthening of the Federal Civil Rights Statutes, Marshali elatned that there would be very little use to atrengthen these etatutes tf the FAI continued tte policy of betng unable to pro- ‘ Guce the names of persons guilty of such crimes. He said that ‘he belteved tt was the Attorney General's duty of making a complete tnuestigatton of the FAI to determine why it ta tr- possible for the FSI to naintatn a record aa te crimes itn which Negroes are victias comparable to tts record as to other crines. Re «a = - Fucear -— On Janucry 10, 1947, the Director in o memorandun to the Attorney General answered the charges of Morahall. The Director pointed cut that frankly he did not expect Marshall to accept any factual erplanation of the sttuations about which Marshall had complained because the Director had found from previous dealings with Marshall that Marshall was most careless A, as to the truth and facts tn the charges which he makes against . + the FRI L—~ © The Director nentt oned the Roger Molcolm lynching case necr Monroe, Gecrgia, which Marshall ctted. It was pointed out that a thorough and erhauative investigation had been con- ducted in the course of which nearly 2,800 persons had been tnterutewed and that the teatinony of apprort mately 106 witnesse was heard by a Federal Grand Jury tn Athens, Georgic, which Grand Jury did not return any itndtctments. Columbia, Tennessee, Race Riots Allegation: In hie letter of December 27, 1946, to the Attorney General, Morshall stated, "In the diaturbonce ot Colunbia, Tennessee, on Februcry 25 and 26 of this year, tt ia reported thet FAI Agents were sent tn almost tmmediately and were sup- Posed to have made ao thorough and complete tnuestioation, yet, they were unable to produce the name of a single tndividual responatble for the acts of viclence and the destruction of the property of the Negroes tn that town.” Facts: The Director, tn his memorandum to the Attorney General dated January 10, 1947, referred to the Columbia, Ten- nessee, race rtot on February 25 and 26, 1946, mentioned by - FF w=