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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1918-04-26

the Douglas or Williams woman.
got the information and imparte(
it to the sheriff on the afternoon o
last Saturday. He then proposet
that we get a car and 90 aftel
Noyes, which we did, one Lee Cog
dell, white, driving.
Having heard of threats made by
the desperate negro, ! tried to gel
the sheriff to take additional meI
to help bag him, but he said in sub
stance, No, we will Get him our
selves" So we went after him
alone, except being accompanied BY
Cogdell, as stated. Arriving at the
house of the Douglas woman, VA
left Cogdell in the car, but lie go
out later and did not 60 closer thar
twenty feet of the house. Tbs
sheriff, when we got out Of the car
said, Il will 90 to the back door and
you take care of the front" which
we did. The house is but cabin
a frame front and back or shed
room. The front door was open
and | walked up to it with my pis'
tol in my hand. | stepped into 4
door and the negro, Noyes, was in
the back room and made for the
back door, which | saw him open,
and just as he opened the door, he
fired downward, there being a dis.
tance of some 3K feet to the
ground. He then turned and said
to me, get out of this house." and
began shooting at me, firing three
shots and | fired three a. him. He
then jumped out of the back door
attempting to shut it as he did so
and | fired my fourth shot at him
as he went out, the shot passing
through the door shutter. | follow.
ed him, running after him, and fired
my last shot at him as he ran of
up the hill to the West. Knowing
that he had two shots in his gun
from information as to the kind ol
pistol he had, | then turned and
went back to the fallen sheriff, not
knowing how badly he was hurt un'
til | reached him and found him
lying fiat on his back, still breath.
ing and he groaned a few times af.
ter | reached him. There was pres.
ent in the house another negro man
Ed Douglas, while the shooting was
going on, but he sat on trunk al
my right in a corner Of the front
room. Rachael Williams or Doug
las and her daughter were also il
the front room while the shooting
was going on and on the opposite
side to Ed Douglas.
After | fired my last shot a
Moves, as he fled, and went back t
the sheriff where he had fallen
with his head toward the house
the negro man. Ed. Douglas, came
around the house and close to me
as | stood over the fallan officer
Possibly Sheriff Mcbride lived fiv'
minutes after | got to him. Pres
emily Ed Douglas broke and raj
through grove nearby and mad'
his escape, but he has since beeI
captured at the home Of his father
twelve miles Northwest of Lexing
ton. Going back to the happening
as it occurred in the house, vii
say that | was at a disadvantage il
the fact that | was in full light il
the front room, while the negro
Noyse, was in semi-darkness in tn
back room.
After moving the body Of tn
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1918-04-26

Following the killing of the sheriff,
organization of posses was effected
as soon as possible and men with
dogs were secured first from Henry
county and Hardin county. over the
line from Sardis. The first dogs
seemed to do no good on the trail,
but finally there came from Madi-
son county Messrs. G. H. Webb and
D. N, Bates, with a dog that took
lup the trail on the South side of
Lexington and followed it to the
fStegall neighborhood. Here it was
lost, the negro seeming in some way
Ito have been transferred from that
place to a point about eight miles
North Of Lexington, where the scent
was again found by the dog. How
far the trail was followed from this
point we do not know, but the ne
gro was finally located in Carroll
county, In the Yuma vicinity. by
Mr.. Roland Umstead and Hulie
Pritchard was the first man who
came to him and held Noyes in
sight until the searching posses
came across him, of which posse
members Jasper Tate, former sher-
if of Henderson county was first.
Tate was shot at by the negro and
also shot him, turning him back in
to the bottom, where he met J. D.
Franklin another forming sheriff Of
this county. The negro approach
ed Mr.. Franklin shooting at him and
Franklin shot him twice. AS Mr..
Franklin was backing of, reloading
his gun, the negro, Noyse, turned his
pistol on himself, swapping one time
against his throat and then dis
charging ball into his stomach.
The body of the yet living negro
was taken to Wildersville by Mr..
Roland Umstead, who there turned
it over to others who brought it on
to Lexington in an auto. Reaching
Lexington about 5 o'clock Monday
afternoon, the crowd started first to
hang the unconscious negro to the
flag pole in the Court House yard,
Dr. W. B. Summers prevailed on
them not to do so, and the tele-
phone cable in the yard was used
for gibbet. The negro's body fell
one time but was rehung and allow
ed to remain awhile, until life was
fully extinct, when it was taken
down and carried to the scene Of the
murder, where a pile Of crossties,
goods boxes and coal oil had been
prepared to burn it-after the body
had been dragged, we hear. to the
house from which the negro had
shot and killed the sheriff.
Comment is almost wholly un-
necessary. 1t was almost the unan.
imous intention ol those who search
ed for the negro, Noyse, to make his
life pay the forfeit for his dastardly
crime, when found The genera
understanding that capital punish
ment can not now be inflicted by
the courts Of Tennessee for any
crime except rape (under the Bow
ers act which is said to have moi
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1918-04-26

Debt failto see the Mystery Of
a Double Cross" at the Princess on
Every Tuesday night.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29
News of the Labor Unions
Machinists

w. F. Evans, business agent of
Denver Machinists Union No. At, and
c. W. Woodman, representing the
United States department of labor,
have succeeded in adjusting the metal
trades trouble in Pueblo. The eight
hour day and 65 cents per hour was
gained for the machinists, boilermak-
ers and blacksmiths, three cents per
hour more than obtains in Denver.
One of the significant features of
the Pueblo settlement is that Herb
George, the Moocher, had gone down
from Denver to organize branch of
his phantom Employers Association"
to mooch off the Pueblo employers.
This helped considerably in a settle
ment being reached, for Pueblo labor
and business men didn't propose to be
a part of Herbs traitorous schemes
in aiding the kaiser to breed trouble
among American industries. The
Pueblo employers dealt directly with
employees and their accredited repre-
sentatives.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29
LIBERTY WINGS
By THEODORE M. KNAPPEN,
In the New York Tribune.

DAYTON, Ohio-We were darling
thru space at 100 miles an hour when
we drove thru a fleecy cloud, 5000
feet above Dayton. didn't know it
then, but Howard Rinehart, the pilot,
told me so afterward.
That cloud was a symbol.
In Washington the day before an
aeronautical authority" had called
me aside to give me grave counsel
in this manner: Don't let them fool
you. have reason to believe that
no Liberty motor has ever been in the
air yet" Then he told me how no
good aviation motor could be made
by machine processes. In the pres
ence Of authority was dumb.
The thunderous buzz Of the mighty
motor that was now projecting US
thru the air at rate at which few
men had ever flown before was the
answer.
We were shooting thru the cloud of
Ignorance regarding the Liberty mo-
tor. The reticence Of the signal
corps, the vocal abilities of the enc
mics Of the motor and the well known
difficulties that have been encoun-
tered in its production have created
generally believed legend of the
failure Of the Liberty motor.
Seeing is believing. The legend was
being demolished at better than two
miles a minute.
The motor that was developing this
speed was just plain Packard pro-
duction Liberty motor No. 533. Three
or four weeks ago it was a pile of
about 5000 parts. These parts had
been quickly put together at Detroit,
rushed to Dayton, placed in De Hav-
fko o.
climbing the stairs Of the skies faster
than the finest handmade motor the
wonderful machinists Of France, Eng
land and Italy have ever produced.
And they said it couldn't be DONE
The wiseacres have been telling the
public that after all the Liberty mo-
tor would not develop speed, that it
is only mediocre creation at best,
but here we were shooting thru the
blue in two-seater faster than any
German ace has ever sped horizon
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29
Cooks

1t may be necessary for the union
cooks of Denver to go on strike next
Monday to enforce their demands for
an eight-hour day and basic scale
of wages. The Denver Restaurant
Keepers Association has rejected the
union proposition and has refused to
recognize the Miscellaneous Workers
Union of Hotels and Restaurants, con-
sisting of kitchen helpers and bus
boys. However, further conferences
are expected and the cooks, who are
standing firm for their demands, be-
lieve satisfactory agreement can be
reached. Some of the restaurant pro-
prietors have threatened to close their
places of business rather than concede
shorter hours and better wages to the
cooks and helpers. Several restau-
rants have agreed to the new sched-
ule, so that in any eve,t there will be
places to eat.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29
Cigarnakers
BY j. w, SANFORD.

At our Tuesday evening meeting
nominees for various offices for the
ensuing six months were declared
elected without the formality of an
election, there being no opposition for
any of the offices. A. Peterson, George
Chapeloni and ]. w. Sanford were Sc
lected to represent US in the Trades
Assembly and G. M. Edwards, George
Chapeloni, Sam Rifkin and j. w. San
ford for the Label League.
Charles Hornburg, who served US
for several terms as president and
delegate to the Trades Assembly and
as delegate to the Boulder convention
of the State Federation Of Labor, is
temporarily confined to his home, suf-
fering from acute rheumatism, which
has attacked his short pedal extrem-
ity. 1t is expected that his disability
will be of short duration.
VIM. Feinauer, for many years Sec
rotary of the local union at Fremont,
Neb., has been called to the colors and
is now on his way cover there"
G. B. Slanker dropped in for a day
this week. Charlie is employed as
painter for the Union Pacific.
Jack Shively left last week for Los
Angeles, where he expects to locate
if the outlook is favorable.
Bennie Specks has made formal ap-
plication for his war retiring card in
anticipation of his early enlistment
with Uncle Sans boys for a rap at
the kaiser. Ben is the first one to be
called from this local, but a number
are on the anxious seat and will soon
follow suit.
John Sack has charge of the roller
coaster at Elitch again this season,
where he may De seen any evening
with his sleeves rolled up waiting to
start the kiddies and their escorts off
on their skyscraper round trip voyage.
Jack is famous for that perpetual
smile that he acquired some years ago
IN Philadelphia, Pa, while engaged in
similar occupation.
Several of our members are back
from Wyoming after a try at sheep
herding, convinced that the band at
City park produces a better grade of
harmony than the various bands of
coyotes that persisted unlimited in
serenading them up there by star
light.
Cigars that are made by machine
and cheap labor are not entitled to the
label of the C. M. l. U. of A. Here
is the names of some of that class of
goods: High Altitude, Flor de Chic
Zero, Ranger, Queen City Winners,
Best Value, Sierra Cruz and Silver
Bow. Do not look for the label on
these goods, for it is not there.
Pledge cards for national war saw
ings stamps are being literally sub
scribed to by our members. The
stamps are on sale at our Office for the
convenience of our members.
Communication from international
Organizer Sol Sontheimer, who is busy
around New York City, says that he
will be glad to receive another ap-
pointment to come to Colorado. He
sends regards to The Bulletin editor
and number of other labor men he
met here on his visit last December.
We would all be glad to have Sol with
us again.
Ask for label goods at all times
your duty as well as interests are in,
volved. You can't afford to buy scab
goods.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29
STANDARDIZATION OF WAGES.
Will Halt Enormous Turnover Of
Workers TROUT Country.

Standardization Of wages Of COM
mon and unskilled labor, to halt the
enormous labor turnover that is slow
ing up war work thruout the country,
is under consideration by the depart
ment of labor.
Such move is essential to equal
distribution of the present labor sup
ply, officials of the department say,
Under the standardized wage plan,
carpenter, for instance, would get
the same wage in California as in
New Jersey. This would automati-
large groups Of men to concentrate
in one district at the expense Of
others.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29
Union Labels

There are now fifty-one labels and
ten shop or house cards issued by the
following organizations which have
been Endorsed by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor:
Organizations Using Labels-Amer-
lean Federation of Labor, Bakers and
Confectioners, Bill Posters and Bill
ers, Boilermakers, Blacksmiths, Book
binders, Boot and Shoe Workers,
Brewery Workmen, Brickmakers,
Broommakers, Carpenters and join
ers, Brotherhood; Carvers, Wood;
Cigarmakers, Coopers, Electrical
Workers, Garment Workers, United;
Garment Workers, LADIES'; Glove
Pocket Knife Blade; Hatters, Horse
shoers, Iron and Steel Workers, jew
elry Workers, Lathers, Laundry
Workers, Leather Workers, Litho-
graphers, Machine Printers and Color
Mixers, Machinists, Marble Workers,
Metal Polishers, Metal Workers,
Sheet; Molders, Painters, Papermak-
ers, Photo Engravers, Piano and Or
gan Workers, Plate Printers, Powder
Workers, Pressmen, Printing; Print
Cutters, Sawsmiths, Slate Workers,
Stove Mounters, Tailors, Textile
Workers, Timber Workers, Tobacco
workers, Typographical, Upholster-
ers, Weavers, Wire.
Organizations Using Cards-Bar-
bers, Clerks, Retail; Engineers, Steam;
Firemen, Stationary; Hotel and Res
taurant Employees, Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen, Musicians, Stage
Employees, Theatrical; Transfers,
White Rats Actors.
The following crafts and callings
are using the American Federation Of
Labor label: Badges Banner, Rega-
liza, Button, Novelty and Lodge Para
phernalia Workers; Bottle Cap, Cork
Workers; Coffee, Spice and Baking
Powder Workers; Nail (Horseshoe)
Workers; Neckwear Cutters and Max
ers; Paper Box Makers; Suspender
Makers; Garter, Arm Band and Hose
Supporter Makers; Flour and Cereal
Mill Employees.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29

tally in a single scatter and faster
than any of the allied fighters have
ever flown in action.
The enormous power Of the Liberty
motor in proportion to its weight has
given us a two-seater that can out
run and Outright the very pursuit ma
chimes for our failure to develop
which there has been so much criti-
cism. This is another chapter OF the
legend that has enshrouded the Liberty
motor. 1t is the most powerful flying
motor the worlds has yet developed.
It can climb with unprecedented rap.
idity in the right sort Of plane, and
it can overhaul or run away, from any
enemy. 1t gives two-seater plane
every advantage over a single-seater
except in the matter of quick maneu-
variability.
But greater than its merits as a
motor is the manner Of it's produc-
ton by. machines. It thereby solves
the problem of supply. The time is
comparatively near at hand when the
six factories that are now at work on
it will be able to turn 1t out at the
rate of 500 day or 49, 800 month.
It took many years to develop guam
tity production Of automobiles. The
task of attaining quantity production
OF Liberty motors has been performed
in less than a year.
Perhaps it might have been done
sooner. It was believed that it could
be 80 done. The disappointment
about the Liberty motor is neither in
the motor nor in the actual time 1t
has taken to attain production. but
only in the failure Of fact to fulfill
the prophecy. We have done won
derfully, but not SO wonderfully as we
foretold. Cast the aircrafters into
outer darkness If you will for their
them just reward Of praise for the
actual achievement.
AS we rushed thru the air behind
the machine-made, quantity produc-
ton motor we passed over the great
Dayton Wright factory. where they
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29
PRODUCTION BUREAU FORMED

The production bureau Of the fuel
administration has been organized
with James B. Neale as its head. The
production bureau will devote its eff
forts to increasing the efficiency Of
individual mines and miners, in both
anthracite and bituminous fields. Up
to this time the mines have had no
trouble keeping production up to the
facilities of the railroads in trans
porting it. AS the plano of the ad-
ministration materialize, whereby
there will be better transportation ac-
commodations, and industry will be
shifted to some extent away from the
congested districts Of the East, hea-
the mines to produce. It will be the
business Of the production bureau to
see that production does not lag, but
keeps fully up to the capacity Of the
railroads to move the output.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29
Labor Meetings
Coming Week
THE TIME AND PLACE

Tonight-saturday.
Asbestos Workers, 301 Amer. Bank bldg.
Carpenters No. 1421, Bank blk. W. Colfax.
Railway Carmen No. 49, K. Of p. hall,
Sunday.
No meetings scheduled.
Monday.
A%algapated Sheet Metal Workers No. o.
Blndery women, 5:15 p. M, B. T. c.. Club
Briekiayers. B. t. C, Club bldg.
Busheimen, s23 Charles bldg.
Carpenters No. 50, Carpenters hall, 1S47
Cooks No. IS. $50 p m. B. t. c.. Club
Electrical Workers No: es. Railroad bldg.
International Defense League. 1747 Arapa-
KAN asf:s as1s asFT ss It
hotel. 18th and lawrence or, -
.' BANK and Trust Bldg. ''- ~
stORs Cutters 17s1 , AMf,aPaIhoe st.
Tailors No. 204. 200 Charles bldg.
q @a r. so so % 1 p n c1 1Tsi c e
B. L. F. =. No. $40 1887 Platte st.
B. l.. e. No. 45l, 1870 p. m, Sixth and
Trades and Labor Assembly, 1747 Arnpa-
Carriage and Automobile Workers. 1747
Arapahoe st.
Drainiayers. b. T. c. Club bldg.
Ladies' Auxiliary to swltchmen, 200 Charles
Painters No. 1874, 1747 Arapahoe st.
Plasterers, Railroad bldg.
B. II. T. No. ESQ, Club bldg.
Wednesday.
Carpenters District Council 1917 Stout st.
Cement Finishers; b. T. c; Club bldg.
GS Ss stokers les harimer st. .0i
Hotel Maids and Assistants. Painters hall,
Nd III iAtapaihYSss7 st Ar.naboe al.
Meat Cutters No. es4 downtown. t. NJ
A. hall, 1715 California st,
R Retn CLERKS s TO- S s5s cS SaaE bldg
Stereotypers and Electrotypers, Charles
Structural Iron Workers, 1871 Arapahoe st.
yulsanizers, ~ y. Club bldg Ga. .n, c,,v
B. r. i. No. 90. 1913 champa st.
Ladies' Auxiliary B. L. e. No. 1874. 2:so
Thursday.
Auto Mechanics, 800 Club bldg.
Auto Painters. 1747 Arapnhoe st.
Electrical WORKERS No H. Railroad dI,,s i,6 bldg
Janitors Union, 4o1 Club bldg.
Meat Cutters and Butchers tStockyards),
Miscellaneous Hotel and Restaurant EN-
pIoyes, 412 Club bldg.
PalnterS NO. ~, AIhphnOe
Ladies' Auxiliary to Painters No. 10,
p. M, 1747 Arapahoe st.
Photo Engrnvers, lib California st.
Stationary Engineers. B. r. c., Club bldg.
B. L. F. z. No. n, Masonic Temple.
Ladies' Auxiliary. B.. F. L. p. No. "a.
D. M, 3sth and Franklin ST.
Friday.
Ash Haulers Union No. 654, 44s1 Logan
Blacksmiths No. 457. 1924 Charles bldg.
Building Trades Council, Carpenters hail.
1o47 Stout ct
Board Hotel and Restaurant Employees,
3 p. m, 1871 Arapahoe st. ~
Cleaners, Dyers and Pressers. 2U2 Charles
Drug Clerks. Charles bldg.
Elevator Pilots, 1876 Charles bldg.
Printing Pressmen No. 1. Charles bldg.
Sign Writers: 1747 Arapahoe ct;
Transfers and Chauneurs No. 575. Club
bldg. 1871 Arapahoe st.
Union Label League. B. T. c.. Club bldg;
Workers Cooperative Association, 414
Ladies' Auxiliary B. L. F. F.. No. %, 9Th
and Santa Fe.
1751 Champa st.
b. L. F. q. No. 27s. Eighth and Santa Fe.
p. II. r. No. 446 1913 Champa st.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29
AFTER WARHOVER
THEN WILL COME ADJUSTMENT
OF OUR ECONOMIC PROBLEM.
President Donlin of Building Trades
Department Urges Importance OF
Organized Labor in Future Policy.

Individualism is the creed preached
by j. H. Donlin, Washington, D. c.,
president of the building trades depart
ment, in st. Paul for the American
Federation of Labor convention.
Before the organized labor move
ment achieves success it must recog-
nize the fact that only men as indi-
viduals can bring success to the multi
tude," Mr.. Donlin says.
at is not sufficient that we have
organization. We must demonstrate
that we are an active, concentrated
power moving along lawful lines. This
is an age of law, authority and force.
When we as nation emerge from the
present holocaust, the labor movement
will be the determining factor for
higher and better principles than OBJ
tain today.
Better World After War.
can adjustment of the whole eco
nomic problem must take place in this
country, but let it come only after
we have adjusted our international
differences. 1t is true that in de-
handing higher wages labor some
times finds it necessary to resort to
the strike method.
Wage earners must receive some
port, otherwise it would be impossi-
BILE to continue the already too much
neglected home life, to raise our fam
lilies and preserve the nation. So
far wages have not kept pace with
the advance in prices. AS to the high
cost of living, l feel that the sense
of justice to the American people must
soon be aroused when some protection
will be given to the consumer in re-
gard to the relative cost of living and
the wages now being paid.
Common Sense to Prevail.
"The situation in Russia today af-
fords US glazing example of social
philosophy and evolution. The COM
mon sense of people will sooner or
later determine that law and govern
ment are essential to nations prog
ress, where extreme democracy will
not recognize any authority nor the
right of any person to administer.
ave are making fight for human
ity, not against people but against
a system. The German people are
the greatest victims of this system, in
which they neither have a vote nor
voice. We must make this the last
of all wars. 1t is necessary to win so
that we may achieve that peace which
will result in the elimination of mill
tary autocracy."
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29

are making planes by quantity pro-
duction methods to match the ma
chine-made motors.
What the prophets wrote has been
fulfilled.
Their chronology was poor, but
their vision was clear.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29

Funny how a man who couldn't pro-
duce a literary effort that would be
worth 10 cents to him can write .
love letter that is worth 81 900 to some
woman.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29
Painters

H. M. Mum, an old-time prominent
member of Denver Painters and Dec
orators Union No. 10, has gone to
San Diego, Cal, and may decide to
locate there permanently.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29

There are SO many cranks in this
country that IL the Society for the
Prevention Of Useless Noises ever Or
for disturbing the peace and creating
n disturbance.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29

The truth of the matter is that a
man likes to be made fool Of if the
right girl is doing it.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29

1t may be cowardly to place the
blame on dead man, but it is mighty
convenient.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29
BARRIERS GET WAGE ADVANCE.

By the boss BARRIERS acceding to
the demand Of the Journeymen Bar
bers Union Of Seattle, WASH, for an
advance, threatened cessation Of
work was averted. It calls for guar
anteed wage Of $22 and go per cent
on all over 1872 per week.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29

II it's in The Bulletin. its true.
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-06-29

The advertisers in the Bulletin are
your friends-patronize them.