The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 5

THE MACON DAILY TELEGRAPH: SATURDAY MORNING MAY 31 1919 PAGE RYE ic NEGRO IS LYNCHED FOR KILLING WHITE Man Alive Get Comfortable New Victor Records For June John Dowdy Shot to Death at Milan After Return From Moving Picture at Eastman OH BOSTON! WHY HAVE YOU NOT CONFESSED IT? BOSTON May SO There are dosena of fashionable women residents of ths Back Bay who "have not touched water to their bodies for for tha past ten and as a re suit are the pictures of physical health So asserts Dr Charles Page physician author of health books and advocate of ths non-bath doctrine In addition to his hath Ira theory he sounds a serious warning against the wearing of underwear lie says: "Leave It all ofr and you will escape colds bronchitis Influensa pneumonia and al Ithe physical ailments that are commonly supposed to theraten the average human being "Attire the body In 'draperies only' Is his Injunction meaning drop all underwear both woolen and cotton He advlaea men to dress only In shirt trousers suspenders jacket stockings and low shoe Wear a hat If you must but your heir will do much better without one" Dr Fage Is seventy-nine and thinks he should live to one hundred and ten or one hundred and fifteen and anybody he says can do likewise Friends of Young Man Get Prisoner From Telfair Jail Details Are Kept Quiet Mohair Silkool Breeze Weave Kool Kloth Palm Beach and other altogether satisfactory fabrics to delight the eye and to lend comfort to the physical man SPECIAL SATURDAY $7 A0 All Wool Bathing Suits SSOO Sizes 34 to 40 TMs list shows some wonderful records by such artists as Breslau Gluck Garrison Galli-Curci and Homer in those sweet old songs that take you back to long ago but sung only as those artists can sing them Blue" is the popular Fox Trot and played by the "All Star is like nothing you ever heard We Will Be Glad to Play Any of Them for You i a Victor List for June Immense Still and Much Beer Seized Sheriff Tucker of Irwin County Find 125-Gallon Outfit Further Ar-' rest Expected (So ABBEVILLE May Accused of killing John Dowdy a young white man son of a minister a negro named Wash Horn was taken from the Jail at MoRaa In Teirair county last Saturday night and lynched at Milan according to Information brought her today by parties Just returning from a vltslt to Telfair and Dodge counties They report that the details of the lynching had been kept quiet and no one in the communities figuring In the case would admit knowing anything about It Inquiry of a report of trouble at Milan several days ago resulting In the statement that nothing had taken place there Visit Negro Section The report which comes through reliable sources Is that Dowdy and a com panion went to Eastman Friday night to a moving picture show Returning to Milan they are alleged to have gone into "negro town" and fired their pistole a number of times The negro Horn Is sold to have come out of iid house having a gun with him to see what wae going on Dowdy Is said to have asked the negro what he was doing with a gun and the negro In reply asked the whits man what he was doing down there with his pistol The white man fired three times at the negro it Is said none of the shots taking effect Horn shot Dowdy who died almost Instantly Taken From McRae Jail Saturday the negro was arrested and taken to the Telfair Jail at Mcitaq During the night a party of men said to have been friends of Dowdy went to the Jail and took Horn lack to Milan where the lynching took place The negro was 63 years old Many whits people of the community are understood to resent the action of the party that went to the Jail and later killed Horn It is reported Dowdy and his companion obtained a supply of "stump while on their trip Friday night and this is believed to have been responsible for their actions Milan is twenty miles east of here on the Seaboard Air Line No action has been taken by county authorities as far as has been learned in fact the entire matter until today had been kept secret and efforts to get at the bottom of the rumors heretofore were futile Everything for Men 559 Cherry Street The Quality Goes In Before Our Name Goes On JFJ OCITLA May Sheriff A Tucker today captured the largest still ever brought to light In this section The still proper was ol copper with a capacity of 125 gallons With it the sheriff seised four 16-gallon kegs of whisky four gallon Jugs twenty-seven CO-gallon barrels of beer and a 500-gallon tank of beer Tha still was being operated when raided by Sheriff Tucker and Frank Morris a white man was arrested and Jailed here Other arrests are expected as It Is reported officers have Information Indicating the still which was on the Inte John Fletcher property near Mystic was the property of two prominent citixens of Irwin and Ben Hill counties SETS NEW AIR SPEED MARK TRAFFIC LEAGUE TO MEET Railroad Legislation Will Be Topic al Atlanta on June 10 JACKSONVILLE Fla May Gardner president of the Southern Traffic League this morning Issued a call for a siieclal meeting In Atlanta June 10 when the report of a special committee on railroad legislation will be eiibmllted The outstanding feature of the proposed plan emhrHees a liberal financial policy toward rallrond though opposed to any form of government guar antes of earning It also wll propose the preservation of state oommWone with authority over Intrastate ratse Members of the committee are Resident Gardner Caskle chairman of the executive eommfttee Montgomery and Cotterlll of Atlanta association coonseL At least Osrraajiy win new not deny that our warnings were as reliable tha The flag of the country first but forget the oz and tha potato In a 360-mile flight rrom Atlantic City to this town In comiwtltlon for tha Boston Uloho aerial trophy and a cash prise of $1000 This was 25 miles an hour faster than the time made by Melvin lluclgdnn In a flight from here to Atlintic City last week James Inst his way on ths return trip to Atlantic City and landed at Tyrlngham last night lie Intends to resume his flight to Atlantic City today By a new refrigeration process a I on-Isiana engineer claims to freese a block of les a foot thick In an hour British Flier Avera-ei 115 Miles tn Hour in 360-Mile Flight SAUGUS Moss May 30 Captain Mansell James of ths British Royal Air Force averaged about 115 miles an hour In This Week MINE FOREMAN AND NEGRO KILLED IN PISTOL DUEL Five Bullets Pierce Body of Former Employe Fired by Homer Watterson Member of Prominent Family of Rome A Valuable Colored Map OF- ROME May 30 Homer Watters foreman at the Goodrich mines at Bhack-elton Chattooga count' and Walt Freeman colored a former employe were both killed today in a pistol duel While there were no eye witnesses to the shooting evidence and circumstances show that two shots struck the foreman one penetrating his right lung while he emptied his pistol Into the body of the black inflicting five wounds any one of which would have proved fatal Watters a member of a well known Rome family discharged Freeman last week The negro threatened to "get Mm" and warned of this he armed himself with a pistol The negro waylaid Watters today opened fire upon him end was In turn shot down according to atorifg from the mining camps The dead man is survived by his widow and one child No Inquest was held and no court action will follow THE HOUSE THAT FURNISHES WACON WITH MUSIC" 365 Second From Street to 165 Cotton Ato The Mew Germany 4 One of the most interesting features in the May 31st issue of The Literary Digest is a full-page colored Map showing the new Germany as it will be after the Peace Treaty is signed and the old Germany as it was before the war The Map clearly indicates the areas lost by the treaty those to be awarded by plebiscite and those to be made international territory This map will prove invaluable as a present and future source of information and can be cut out and inserted in your encyclopedia atlas history or other reference volume where it will always be handy as a means of settling doubtful points There is a wide selection of authoritative timely and very interesting news-articles included in this among which are: The Across the Atlantic The Exploit of the American Naval Aviator Considered From All Its Intensely Interesting Angles Wilson and Wine The Peace Critics which appeared on occasion of Huddleston's action in voting against the selective service During a recess In the hearing of the case the Jury sang the Spangled Banner" as it Hied into the Jury room BLACKBERRY CROP LARGE THOMASVILLE May Thomas-ville's big blackberry crop is ripening fast and the supply seems the greatest in several years The frequent rains of the spring have made the berries unusually line and large in contrast to the small hard one of dry seasons in the past There is no fruit that sella better here than blackberries both for eating and canning and the demand for fruit Jars has already begun FIGHT MOBS BY CONGRESS National Campaign Agsinil Lynching Launched by Negroes NEW YORK May A nation wide campaign for a congressional investigation of lynching has been Inaugurated as a result of the mob murder of Jay Lynch a white man at Lamar Mo the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced today State and local authorities having hern proven "utterly unable and in many cases to cope with mob violence the association said congressional action was necessary to set In motion machinery for ending threat to civilisation" The association declared that twenty-one persons had been lynched flve of them burned to death In the United States this year GUARD KILLS UGLY CONVICT LIBEL SUIT IS HALTED Huddleston Cliims Juror Called Him Socialist and Traitor to Country BIRMINGHAM AIh May Proceedings In the $50000 libel milt or Congressman George Huddleston of the Ninth Alabama district against the Age-Herald Publishing Company of Birmingham came to an abrupt halt today when the plaintiff presented an affidavit alleging that Suydan one of the Jurors had stated before the trial that Huddleston was a "socialist and a traitor to his country" Huddleston is suing because of a cnr-toon in the Age-Herald portraying him as "the little Bolshevik of Birmingham" War-Risk Insurance and Red Tape Transforming Canadian 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