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Newspaper Page TextA Southern Newspaper For Southern People FORTY-FIRST YEAR.-- NO. 294? Taken From Seminole and Lynched 150 REDS MOB FERRY STATION TO ELLIS ISLAND Wife of Deported Man Smashes Glass In Fury —Riot Call Sent In NEW YORK, Dec. 22—Led by a •woman who declared her husband had b'een deported on the “Soviet I Ark" Buford, a mob of 150 Reds i today attacked the entrance to the i Ellis Island ferry in an effort to reach their fellow radicals still awaiting deportation. Proclaiming herself an archist, the woman step ped in front of th’e mob and drove her fists through the glass windows while the crowds chanted the “Inter-’ national.” A riot call was turned in i before the police could restore or j def. NEW YORK, Dec. 22—The “So viet Ark” Buford, which sailed for an unnamed Russian port yesterday with 249 radical deportees, will be followed before she has had an op portunity to land by a second “ark’’ load of reds, according to the best in formation available today. The sec ond sailing probably will b'e some time this week. The transport Buford sailed before dawn Sunday with a cargo of anarch ists, communists and radicals, bar red from America for conspiring against the government. The ship’s destination was hidden in sealed or ders but the 249 passengers it carried expect to be landed at some far northern port giving access to Soviet Russia. “Long Live the Revolution in America” was chanted defiantly by the motley crowd on the decks of the steel gray troop ship as she churned her way past the Statue of Liberty. Now and then they cursed in chorus at the United States and m'en who had cut short their propaganda here. Not until the Buford steamed out of the Wadsworth did the din cease. Over their heads, whipping in the wind the Stars and Stripes floated from the mast head. The autocrats of all the Russians * on the transport were Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, his boon companion for thirty years. With them were 245 men and two women—Ethel Bernstein and Dora Lipkin. None knew where they would debark and even Captain G. A, Hitchcock, commander of the vet-; ] eran transport, was no better off. At j daybreak today Colonel Hilton com- , manding the troops on board as guards, was to hand the skipper his instructions. Only a few high offi cials of the War and Labor depart ments know the ship’s destination. The voyage will last eighteen days i unless it is prolonged by unfavorable ! ; Weather. The presumption is that ( the Buford will land at Hange, Hel- , singfors or Abo, in Finland, which are connected by rail with Blelo- Os-, 1 poroff on the Russian frontier. It ■ 1 was intimated in official quarters that arrangements have been made with the Finnish government to permit the , passage of the Russians through that.. country. Career of Leaders. The deportation of Emma Gold man and her devoted companion, Alexander Berkman, ends a joint ca reer of 30 years in the Unitedi States during which they preached: the overthrow of government by vio lence. He spent 16 years and she ; 3 years in jail, but they Were never punished for the part their teachings | played in attacks by others on lifel and property. Berkman served 14 years for shooting Henry Clay Frick and 2 • years for urging young men to an- . stain from registering for the draft, early in the war. Miss Goldman was in prison two years for opposing conscription and one years for incit ing to riot. Berkman was never brought to trial on an indictment for murder in connection with the Pre paredness Dav bomb outrage in ban Francisco. Miss Goldman was.ac quitted of illegal distribution of birth control literature. Their joint activities as publishers of the anarchist magazines, Mother Earth” and “The Blast,” suppressed during the war combined with their ad Iresses at anarchists' meetings, helped cause the assassination of Frc ident McKinley, the government charged in its deportation proceed in gs. The confession of described the influence which Miss Goldman’s writings had on hiia. Their influence was traced in i dynamiting of the Los Angele (Continued on Page Four.) ? Seal Its Fate With Red Cross Christmas Seal By Morris : ■ 1 ■ ■■ . 1. . .. ' ' r - ® -I L—— - ——4 l ALLIES HOPE TO EFFECT PEACE BY CHRISTMAS Rush Efforts To Reach Agreement With Huns On Protocol PARIS, Dec. 22.—The Supreme Council, it became known today, is making every effort to reach an agreement with Germany on the question of reparation for the sink ing of the Scapa Flow fleet, so the proptocol may b’e signed and ratifica tions of the peace treaty exchanged before Christmas. 24,000 Bags of New Cuban Sugar Arrive NEW YORK. Dec. 22.—The first cargo of New Cuban sugar, consist ing of 24,000 hags, reached here to day consigned to American, refiners. ! The Cotton Market LOCAL SPOT COTTON. Good middling 38 1-4 cents. NEW YORK FUTURES. Prev. Close Open 11 am 1 pm Close ' Tan 36.88 36.70 36.90 36.95 36.85 Meh 34 70 34.60 34.75 34.65 34.97 May 32 70 32.65 32.73 32.65 32.48 July 30’.90 30.70 31.02 30.95 30.<8 NEW ORLEANS FUTURES. Prev C l ose Open 11 am Ipm Close: Tin 38 25 38.15 38.25 38.29 38.15 Meh 35 40 35.31 35.44 35.48 35.35 May 33.30 33.22 33.36 33.38 33.18 July 31.15 31.30 31.46 31.42 WEATHER forecast For Georgia.-Fair tonight and, Tuesday. tonight; fresh : Btr Generany e S^^ er wi " Vn '! ' ,Urin tfle h l'' -th”"nrobVblv 'rain.' n Sf. ’Normal temperatures, ! are indicated. THETIMK&RtCORDER ggjlPUBLI SHED IN THE HEART OF FEDERAL JUDGE WARNS HO WATT, MINERS’ LEADER Violations of Injunction Must Stop In Kansas, He Declares INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 22.—De claring violations of th’e Federal | Court’s injunction under the Lever act against any further coal strike in Kansas must stop if persons guilty have to be put in jail and kept there, Judge Anderson today permitted Alexander Howat, president of the Kansas District United Mine Work ers until next Monday to prepare his defense to charges of contempt of court. Paving Men Heard By County Board S. E. Finley, originator of the Finley method of laying asphalt mac adam ; Prof. R. D. Kn’eale, of eGor gia Tech, and until recently a mem ber of the state highway commission; Don M. Dickinson, general manager of the Willite Road Construction Company, of Atlanta, and Paul A. Duke, manager of the Atlanta branch of the Austin Western Road Machinery Company, were Americus visitors today, appearing before the Sumter county board which met in special session to discuss matters in connection with the rural federal aid paving program. Joseph Hawkins, the county’s paving enigneer, also was with the board. It was stated after the meeting that no decisions were reached by the board, although several matters were discussed. State Road Engineer To Be Located Here Application has been received by the county board from the state highway department for office room here for an assistant state highway * engineer, whom the department d’e l sired to send to Americus as head i quarters for supervising road work in SoWh Georgia. The board is ses sion today voted to offer : afei office ! space in the court hous free of I charge. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 22, 1919. 3 ALABAMANS ~ IN FRAUD NET Trio Arrested On U. S. Indictments For Mis use Os Mails CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 22.1 —D. Henry Riddle, once a candidate for attorney general of Alabama, was arrested at Anniston today and re leased on SIO,OOO bond on an in dictment charging conspiracy to mis use the mails. Warrants also were ■ issued for W. A. Savage, of the Sav age Cotton Company, of Talladego, and S. E. Graham, former agent of! the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlan-! tic road at Talladega on the same! charge. Senator Lodge Silent On Hapgcod Report WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Sena tor Lodge declined today to discuss ! published reports that Norman Hap good, U. S. minister to Denmark, had i decided to return to the United States after the State Department had learned that the Senate Foreign ! Relations Committee was prepared to I make public information which was expected to show his activities and sympathies for the Russian Soviet government. Rcosevelt Society To Be Non-Po’itica' NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—A now or ganization to be known as the Roose velt Society and which, will have as its numose “the development and ap-1 plication of the apfl ideals Theodore Roosevelt.” is to be formed, a statement issued bv w ’Hli"m t’o-co Thompson, president of the Roosevelt Memorial A committee has been named to es ; ta’'l'rh tt"- foo’evelt Societv, which I will be national in scope and non- 1 COALOPERATORS’ STAND MAY HALT PROBE OF WAGES I Refuse To Accept Gov ernment’s Terms Os Strike Settlement WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—The re fusal of the Coal Operators to ac cept the government’s strike settle ment terms it-was said today might embarass the operation of the com mission appointed Saturday by Presi dent Wilson and authorized to investi gate the miners wages and working conditions and if necessary increase coal prices. The question of wheth er the operators would stand aloof or co-operate in the ■■nmmisdion’s vestigation has not been decided. The commission named by the Pres ident consists of Henry M. Robinson, lof Pasadena, Cal., for the public; John P. White, for the miners, and Rembrandt Peale, for the operators. The coal operators of the United States, through their executive com mittee, last night issued a statement as to their reasons for refusing to participate in the Government’s plan for settling the bituminous coal strike. Renewing the denial that pre vious agreements had bound them to accept the Government plan, the op erators asserted that they were bound by and agreed to accept the strike settlement proposal made by Dr. Gar field, former fuel Administrator, the Government proposals as accepted by the miners differ vitally from those of the Garfield plan. The executive committee did not say that the operators would stand aloof from the commission in its in vestigations and decision, but left the question open, to be settled probably at a meeting Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio, where a general session of the scale committee central competitive field and other operators generally has been called. Clemency Is Xmas Gift To All Lifers RALEIGH, N. C., Dec. 22.—The sentences of all life-term prisoners in North Carolina state penitenti aries have just been reduced to thir ty years each through an order issued by Governor Bickett. The number affected through the exercise of clem-1 ency is thirty-five, twenty-three of whom are negroes and twelve whites. Th’e white prisoners include two women. “I am opposed to eternal punish ment in his world,” declared the gov ernor in explaining his act, insisting that the prison sentences depriving a man of his freedom should not deprive him of hope. No Xmas Tree This Year At White House WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—There will be no Christmas tree at the White House this year. The Presi dent and Mrs. Wilson plan forspend the day quietly. Mr. Wilson will ’eat Christmas din- I ner in his room and it is not exnect j ed that his daughters, Mrs. William jC. McAdoo and Mrs. Francis B. j ! Sayre, and his grandchildren will be i I at the White House. TO SAVE NEWS PRINT. RALEIGH. N. C„ Dec. 22—In or der to conserve news print paper, E B. .Toffress, of Greensboro, N. C., territorial chairman of the American j Newspaper Publishers’ Association, . has requested all daily newspapers | in North and South Carolina to sus ! pend publication on Christmas day. SANTA ASKED s 5 TOJR.B.Y.P.U. TREE FRIDAY; J\EAR SANTA: We respectful- j j invite you to our Missionary ? Tree next Friday night S |( at half-past 7 o’clock. This tree > !is given by our Junior B. Y. U.. ? and we wish you to take al) sifts > from the tree and help us to know j which group shall excel with their $ offerings, as they will be marked > very carefully. S Hoping you will be on time and S encourage us in all the good works < we are trying to do. Sincerely < i HERM AN HOWARD, Pres. < COMER, Sec’y. ( RICHLAND MAN’S KILLING AVENGED BY SUNDAY MOB Johnny Webb, Seized At Smithville and Taken To Scene of Brightwell Murder, at Richland, Where He Is Hanged and Body Riddled RICHLAND, Dec. 22.—(Special.) —Charlie West, alias Johnny Webb, the negro who murdered E. W. Brightwell, a prominent citizen of near this city, last week, was quietly taken from the Seminole Limited train at Smithville Saturday night and brought to the scene of his crime a few miles from this city and lynch ed Sunday morning at sunrise. The crowd was quiet in its organi zation, taking the negro and carrying out its work, and the lynching was not known of in Richland until Sun day mornig when the report was quickly circulated that the murderer had met his fate. The body was swung to a tree and riddled with bulletw and allowed to hang there until after the noon hour where it was viewed by hundreds of spectators from Richland and many other nearby towns. The negroes of the community, who esteemed Mr. Brightwell very mucn, as weil as the whites, expressed themselves as well pleased with the capture and hurried lynching of the murderer. Negro Confescec The neg-o confcitsed to his crime before being lynched and told just how he escaped the crow is which were pursuing him during the night. He admitted having spent the night in Richland after killing Mr. Bright well, but this part of his story is doubted and it is believed that he was hidden out elsewhere by some of his associates or friends further away. After the excitement aroused yes terday by the lynching the city and surrounding communities are quiet to day and nothing would indicate by the general appearance of the town than anything out of the ordinary had happened. No further results are ex pected from the affair. The coron er’s jury returned a verdict yesterday at the scene of the lynching that the negro came to his death at the hands of an unknown crowd. Crowd Unknown. Deputy Sheriff Knox Johnson, of this county, who was in charge of the negro, bringing him from Jack i sonville, en route to Macon, where' ; the negro was to be placed in Bibb county jail, stated that the crowd who took the negro from him was unknown to him and the work of the lynchers was conducted so quietly that there was nothing to indicate who they were or where they were from. NEGRO WAS BEING BROUGHT TO AMERICUS. LUMPKIN, Dec. 22.—Johnnie Webb, the negro who shot and killed E. W. Brightwell near Richland Sun ' day, December 12, was lynched about ! four miles south of Richland by a i mob of about fifty persons, who took ’ the negro from Deputy Sheriff W. K. Johnston, Jr., at Smithville. The ne gro was captured by the authorities at Jacksonville, Fla., last Thursday and the sheriff refused to give out any information in regard to his where abouts, fearing that the negro would be lynched if the people of the Rich-' land section learned where he was being held. Deputy Johnson was sent after the I negro and was bringing him to Amer-: icus to lodge him in the Sumter coun-1 ty jail. At Smithville, about 3a. m. the negro was taker, from the deputy by an armed mob numbering about fifty persons, and was taken to the scene of the crime about 4 miles south of Richland where the body was found later by the coroner. The body was hanging to a tree and had been riddled with bullets. The coroner held an inquest < ver the remains Sun day afternoon and rendered a verdict to the effect that “the deceased came t to his death at the hands of a person or persons unknown.” The members of the mob which took the negro from the deputy were all masked and it was impossible for the deputy to recognize any of the men. The negro was taken from Smithville to the scene of the crime : in an automobile and the mob also; left that place in automobiles. News of The Whole ® World By Associated Press PRIeE FIVE CENTS." The shooting of Mr. Brightwell oc curred on the plantation owned by R J- Dixon, near Richland, and where Mr. Brightwell was employed as over ne“r,| ? n Fnda y> December 12 he s th 0 : wounds from which he died \n abort forty minutes. The woumh-H ‘ XI • h ° rUi ' The officers of the county were quic y notified and posses scoured the country in search of the negro but cwSnThki * n SUpPing througb th « cordon which was searching for him made E „„d bi. e <c , oL ™ neu and a sharp lookout was kent or the negro, a reward of S4OO be ing offered for his capture. News of the negro’s capture spread :d ry th q : i l ly ’ and a/ tb e Sheriff Tar Xl f it n h Br ° Uld mCCt with violence if it became known where he was ,n custody, he refused to mak! the whereabouts of the negro known XiXb" 1 ' r “" l ’ ißh ■” ih » where the crime was committed. It as supposed that no persons outside of those in the sheriff’s office knew the negro’s whereabouts, or the Plans for bringing him back to Stew art county for trial. Deputy John evffi ‘ d ma, . ntained th e utmost secre y n regard to the identity of his prisoner and was taken wholly by • surpr lse hen met by thp ban Y by ed his • masxed men w ho demand ed his prisoner. The negro was about eighteen years to p ge .^ nd , had hut recently returned Ku-hland from Chicago, where he had been living for some time. His Snd Xb WaR u Y itnMS t 0 the footing and although he had fled from the tan” 6 # e .? aV<? the °thcers the full de tails of the crime and was not ar rested. e ’’ r RIFF STOPS HFRF. after losing prisoner Deputy Sheriff Johnson, Z Stew, art county, stopped over in Americus several hours Sunday on his way | home, after the mob had relieved him jof his prisoner at Smithville. He was bringing Webb to Americus to place him in the Sumter jail for safe keeping, and Sheriff Harvey was pre pared to receive him. The sheriff had be’en expecting him to arrive Saturday morning and met the Semi nole this morning to pilot him and his prisoner to the county ’ail. The mob, however, appeared ve had more direct and reliable information than Sheriff Harv*ey. According to informat’/n Johnson gave to local officers, the entire af fair was a surprise to him. The train stopped only three minutes at Smithville, and the work of the mob was done so quickly and orderly that it was not delayed and few knew what was taking place. About 12 men, he stated, boarded the train and “covered” him with pistols, at the same time taking charge of the handcuffed prisoner. It was said about fifty remained on th’e outside of the train, guarding the entrance to the car to prevent interference with their plans. The officer »'oclar ed that h'e could easily r or more members of the mob, hut that there were so manv of them this would hove accompl'"hod no good. He said he recogniz d n'-’i" of ttmm. Several Americus n'tizens who heard of *he affair mr !c 'he t,- : n h v auto yesterday to the scene of the lynching. They reported that the ; bodv of th" negro remained hang- I ing to th‘e tmo in th'- nsTi™ near | srene of h’s c-’mc rm-rlir day. The body was still handcuffed when vlo-r-'d bv *hem They etalnrl if was "round P’chland that boforo heir," bnno-od W'-bb confessed and imnlomd the mob not to molest, bis who was with him at the time of the kill- I ing and who did not run away.

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, December 22, 1919, Image 1