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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
THREATS IN LETTERS
TO TWO GOVERNORS
GOV. DORSEY GETS ONE. IS. So
TO COME IF HE HEARS OF
MORE LYNCHINGS.

WASHINGTON.-Two threaten
ing letters, one addressed to the gov
ernor of Georgia and the other to
the governor of Mississippi, were ia
ken by the police from Willie Laney,
negro, alleged slayer of a 17-year-
old white boy during the riots of last
week. The negro denies authorship
of the letters and claims he found
them.
The writer of the letter refers to
himself as the rs. S. of the United
States" taken by the police to mean
sharp shooter. The letter to the gov
ernor of Georgia reads:
The Letter He Wrote.
"Dear Sir: You are the governor
of the state of Georgia and l want
YOU to consider that the negro was
drafted during the worldwar to fight
for this country as well as the white
man, and l want you to understand
that this thing of lynching in the
state of Georgia must be cut out.
eve went and killed Germans for
your rights. and we can also kill
Americans for our rights, and If l
hear any more of lynchings in the
state of Georgia l will come quickly
and the people, will weep after l
leave, because l sweep from the
cradle up. 1 will remember you this
time. Why did you let that man be
lynched in May?"
In the letter to the governor OF
Mississippi the writer repeats the
part the negroes played in the war
and what they will do for their rights,
and concludes:
"Sir, this thing of lynching of ne
groes in the state of Mississippi must
be cut out. / am the negro S. S."
In the opening of the message to
the governor of Georgia the writer
wrote: From the S. S. of the negro
race"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
HEY! PAY THAT LITTLE
PLEDGE WITHOUT DELAY
Two Million Dollars Subscribed to
United War Work Still Unpaid.
The Money Is Badly Needed.

Nearly two million dollars pledged
last November to the United War
Work campaign in the South has not
yet been paid in. Unless the people
who promised this sum at once the
work of the seven welfare or
carnations, including Une Young
Mems Christian Association, Young
Woman's Christian Association, Ma
tional Catholic War Council TX. of
CO, Jewish Welfare Board, War
Camp Community Service and Amer
lean Library Association, participant
ing in the campaign, must be serious
ly curtailed.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
RADIO WEDDING.
Nuptial Knot Tied With Couple
in One Plane, Minister Using
Wireless Phone in Another.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Travel-
ing eighty miles an hour, 1000
feet in the air, Lieut.. George
Burgess of the army aviation
corps and Miss Emily Schaefer
of Brooklyn, were married on
Saturday by wireless telephone.
The ceremony was conducted
by the Rev. DIR. Alexander
Wouters from another airplane
piloted Orr. f. H. Harris
dale, best uInarn +hn ma
chimes circled al
persons attending a police
day at Sheepshead Bay speed
way. The details of the cere-
mony were announced to the
crowd after being received at
a wireless station. The brides
maids who were in the grand
stand, also had wireless tele-
phone connection with the air.
planes.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
COMPANY FORMED TO
COLOMBO DOUGHERTY
A 100000 Corporation Organized
to Settle Small Farmers.

ALBANY, Ga.-A step has been
made to increase the white popuia-
ton in the rural sections of Dough
erty county. A corporation capital
led at 100000 has been formed by
e. B. Young, W. C. Holman, Gordon
F, REYNOLDS and D. L. Beattie to
settle small farmers in this county:
They have purchased 2,1OO acres OF
land. all in one tract, just four miles
west of the city and will sub-divide
it into farms of from so to 200 acres,
to be sold to white farmers. A five
room bungalow, a deep well and a
barn will be placed on each farm
and all will be ready for occupancy
by the late fall.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
GEORGIAN AMENDS
FEDERAL DRY LAW
VEHICLE CARRYING LIQUOR
CONFISCATED UNDER CONDI-
TIONS. LIENS MUST BE PAID.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-When the
national prohibition bill passed the
house of national representatives
it carried very important
provision, proposed by Representa-
tive Landlord, of the Eleventh dis
trict of Georgia.
The original bill provided that
whenever intoxicating liquors trans
ported or possessed illegally shall be
seized by an officer he shall take pos
session of the vehicle, team, or auto
mobile, boat, air or water craft, or
any other conveyance, and shall ar
rest any person in charge thereof.
Such officers shall at once proceed
against the person arrested under
the provision of this title in any
court having competent jurisdiction.
The court upon conviction shall order
the liquor destroyed, and unless good
cause to the contrary is shown by
the owner, such as ignorance of the
purpose for which his team, vehicle,
water or air craft or automobile was
being used, order sale by public auc-
ton of the property seized, and the
officer making sale, after deducting
the expenses of keeping the proper
ty, the fee for the seizure, and the
cost of the sale, shall pay the pro-
H. l,o Of ha
States a, miscellaneous receipts"
Liens Must Be Paid.
There was no provision for the
payment of bona iide lien, heia by
an innocent person, on the team, au-
tCmobile, or other conveyance, which
is to be confscated.
Judge Landlords amendment pro-
vides that the officer shall pay ''all
liens, according to their priorities,
which are established by Intervention
or otherwise at sail hearing or in
other proceedings brought for said
purpose, as being bona fde and as
having been created without the Ii
cense having any notice that the car
rying Nohicle was bei1s used or WIS
to be used fer illegal transportati n
of Iiqlor.'
The amendment also provides that
"all liens against property sold un-
der the provisions of this section
shall be transferred from the prop
erty to the proceeds of the sale of
the property"
Representative Landlord argued
that the amendment would make GER
tain and definite the rights of parties
holding liens; would have endless and
needless litigation and loss and would
protect people buying and selling
mules, horses, wagons, automobiles
and other carrying vehicles on a cred
it and also protect banks and indi-
viduals dealing in paper secured by
personal property. His presentation
of the matter not only secured the al
most unanimous adoption of his
amendment, but won the applause of
both those favoring the original bill
and those opposing it.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
PROHIBITION.
House Recess Means 2 Months
Delay in Enactment of En-
forcement Legislation.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-Leg-

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Leg-
islation for enforcement of
wartime and constitutional
prohibition probably will not be
enacted for two months at least
as the result of decision of
republican leaders to have the
house recess from Aug. 2 to
Sept. s.
Senate leaders have indicated
many changes would be made in
the house bill and, even should
the senate pass the measure be-
fore the house reconvenes in
September, much time would
elapse before final enactment,
as differences between the SEN
ate and house would have to be
thrashed out in conference.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
CHEAPER, IF
If Three Certain Events Take
Place Shoe Costs Will Go
Down Without Doubt.
ST. LOUIS.-Shoe prices will

ST. LOUIS.-Shoe prices will
topple:
When Europe hits her stride.
When Argentine re sum e S
leather trade relations.
Or when general conditions
become normal.
John C. Roberts, part owner
of the international Shoe Com
pany here, and one of the larg-
est shoemakers of the country,
said on Saturday that these are
the only hopes he entertains for
footwear to come out of the lux
ury class.
Prices will not rise So or 81
higher than at present as recent
Gently predicted, Roberts be-
lieves, but he did forecast an ad-
vance.
"The amount of hides being
used on the other side while the
take-off in this country is as
great as ever is a cause for
prices awaiting" he said.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
PLAN THIRTY-sToRY CHURCH;
COST FOUR MILLION DOLLARS

A church, 80 stories high, to cost
about $4,000, 900, will be erected by
tbe Christian Scientist Fifth avenue
CONGREGATION. of New York city. Inc
totai amount involved will be in the
of S7,5O0,OOV. me snf
scraper. in addition to the cnui '"'
win contain hundreds OF othces'
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
SAM II. SIBLEY WINS
PLACE ON U. S. BENCH
Prominent Union Point Attorneys
Name Is Sent to the Senate.

Name Is Sent to the Senate.
President Wilson has sent to
the senate the name of Samuel H.
Sibley, prominent attorney of Union
Point, for appointment as associate
district judge for the Northern dis
trict of Georgia.
Immediately upon its confirmation
by the senate the new jurist will take
the oath and enter upon the duties.
While officially he will be an asso-
ciate of Judge William T. Newman
it is expected he will preside over
most of the court sessions.
Judge Newman recently sent a re-
quest for an associate, acting under
the provision made several years ago
for the retirement Of district judges
at the age of seventy years if they
so desired Judge Newman will not
retire. His request was for aid in
handling the business of the court.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
FORMER GOVERNOR BROWN
A VISITOR IN WASHINGTON
az title" Joe Drops in On Friends at
the National Capital.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Former
Governor Joseph NJ. Brown, of Ma
rietta. Ga, was prominent visitor
around the capital today. The ex-
governor stopped off in Washington
on his way from New York to Geor-
ora While in the city he paid his
respects to a number Of the Georgia
delegation and other officials of the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
| BARONS ARE
',gGID) OF BOARDING
I-,,,rp PROPAGANDA IS
ruAN GERMAN SYS-
p rARMERs DUPEs.

-, Drosecution of the big
|p' .tsrs including Armour q
|asA E Co.. Morris & Co., Will
an5 the Cudahy Company
~ from the dual investlga-
h, the prices of food institute
Eis s,, authorities in Chicago
hi investigation is an -, "un eas
h commission in an attempt
\ All evidence to sustain the
made ,a'l in the commissions
|. 'l President Wilson, that the
~ control the food corpora
The United States. This evl,
L. be presented to a federal
T. ~ late in July or early IN
L.or5 investigation is being
\ directly by the United
l+ornpv's Office, and is aimed
| Of the cold storage ware
IT, majority of which are
h controlled by the packers
Ind that, on June l, there
storage in Illinois 89,Ooo'-
IDS of beef, 7O,617,0OO
/ nork. 7.893,OOO pounds of
II 1,28O,OOO cases or 49,
|5ozen eggs. Since June l.
led stocks of these commod-
Il grown in abnormal pro
in spite of the fact that
|esse would 90 far toward
food shortage and reducing
II william S. Kenyon, IT
kbOr of the bill to stimulate
bction. sale and distribution
|pck products" is planning
Egbt against the meat barons
. Dor of the senate. He has
|that he has sufficient pack
Baganda to fill a one-horse
HI that the packers propa-
ktem is worse than that con-
II the Germans before the
hates entered the war.
Kenyon proposes that con-
! the public in general shall
q realization of the grave
brought about by the efforts
Heat packers to control the
5lies of the United States
Snterefere with legislation.
Is farmers and merchants
i of the packers.
elans 1900 Markets.
Kenyon bill, which has en-
severe opposition on the
BE- packers, would have APP
BIZ 1900 markets instead OF
w centering about Chicago.
u would be to encourage the
II Of beef cattle. Under the
Estem the cattle are shipped
br-away pasture in the big
Rghter houses and the meat
#nt back to where the cow
Aced. These long hauls of
would be stopped by the
Dill.
n provision of the measure
4 the licensing of packers.
is bitterly opposed by the
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
co AHEAD AND SHOOT.

Ball Crank predicts that the high
wayman of the near future VIII say:
''Your bottle or your life!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-05
TERRELL COUNTY

lbs in the help ngI in the production o
here, ana share hare in the prosperity.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-05
KERR AND ALCOCK
PLAN TO "HOP OFF,
ABOUT JUNE 13

ST. JOHN, N. F., June Both
Admiral Kerr, pilot of the Handley-
Page biplane being assembled at
Harbor Grace, and Capt Jack Alcock,
pilot of the Vickers- Vimy bomber,
soon to have an airdrome in this city,
today expressed confidence that they
would be able to chop off, for their
transatlantic fights in competition
for the $4,000 prize offered by the
London Daily Mail about June 10,
when they will be aided by a full
moon.
Admiral Kerr said ne hoped to
make the first of a series of trial
flights next Saturday or the following
Monday. The machine was here
from England before final tests were
made.
Captain Alcock is planning to make
his first trial flight next Thursday.
Thirty men will begin work Mon
day constructing Alcock's airdrome
The work involves leveling of much
ground to provide 5OO-yarC
straight-away, on downward grade
for a take off.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-05
Poles Want To
Buy Our Guns

LONDON (By NALL American
shells and bullets, fired by American
guns and american stomaches" may
be used to fight Bolsheviks menac-
ing Poland, according to General
Chevalier John De Remer, who is in
London to buy munitions and food
for the Polish army. The possessors
of the american stomachs" will be
Polish soldiers, fed with food pur-
chased from America.
De Remer is in London as an au-
thorized agent for the Polish govern
ment to spend between thirty and
forty million dollars for guns, shells
and bullets and to buy all the foou in
sight.
De Remer told the United Press he
has already started negotiations with
the American government with a
view to purchasing light artillery and
rifles. He expects to make huge food
purchases of Americans.
"Poland is great admirer of
America. 1t will never forget its
generosity in helping to feed the Po-
lish population. The work done by
the Americans was wonderful. Just
now what Poland wants is food and
guns for its army to fight the Boil
sheviks. It also wants to build up
the nucleus of Polish artillery
force.
at is for this reason we wish to
buy American light guns if possible.
/ understand America is agreeable
to selling some of them to us rather
than to 60 to the trouble and expense
Of shipping them back to America.
We may also buy many Of their RI
fies.
ave are not interested in buying
heavy guns, owing to the fact that
raods in Poland are very bad.
But the purchase of guns for
which I mprepared to spend be-
tween thirty and forty million dol,
lars, is not the only thing we want
Poland needs food, machinery and
many other things. Much of this we
expect to buy in America"
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-05
Mexico May Get
u. Wine Makers

MEXICO CITY, (By Mail.)- AS
result of the prohibition amend
ment to the national constitution of
the United States, there promises to
be something in the nature of a
wholesale emigration of vine growers
and wine makers from California to
Mexico.
information has been received
from that state that there are in the
neighborhood of one hundred thou
sand persons, engaged in that indus
try who are looking toward Mexico
as affording the only possible relief
from the ruin with which they are
threatened by the prohibition laws.
They are the owners of hundreds of
thousands of acres of wine grapes.
which will become of little value with
the enforcement of the amendment,
since the varieties of fruit adapted
to wine making are not suitable for
other purposes, except to limited
extent.
There are extensive areas, espec-
tally in the northern portion of Mex
leo which possesses all the requisites
of soil and climatic conditions for the
growth of grapes and the making of
wine to fully as great an extent and
of fully as high character as Cali
fornia. This has been demonstrated
notably in Coahuila, as well as in
some of the other States, and the
national government has for some
time been encouraging the cultiva-
ton of the grape and importing mil
lions of cuttings of vines adapted to
this country.
The Mexican Consul-General in
San Francisco, Ramon P. De Negri, is
taking an active interest in the pro
posed emigration of California wine
growers to Mexico, and has notified
his government that at least eighty
thousand persons, largely of foreign
ancestry, are now preparing to leave
their adopted State and intend com
ing to Mexico.
President Carranza has signified
his lively interest in the movement
and plans are now being prepared by
the Department of Agriculture fol
welcoming these immigrants and aid
ing them in re-establishing their in
dustry. All of the northern States
Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Coahui.
la, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, etc
possess extensive areas that are
adapted to the cultivation of wine
grapes.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-05
100000 Men On
Strike In France

PARIS, June 4.-The Paris sub
way employees at meeting lasting all
night voted unanimously for strike
and yesterday morning Parisians
found the doors of the subway sta
tons closed and the lines not oper-
ating.
Meanwhile the strike in the metal
trades, which includes the automO-
bile industry, is steadily growing
There also are strikes on at sugar
refneries and among house painters
and dressmakcrs and :he walkout de-
clared in the coal mines of northern
France has already brought out 50,-
900 men.
Strikes of more or less Importance
are reported in other parts of France.
There were 100000 persons on strike
in France Monday, according to an
estimate by the newspaper La Verite,
Of these, 100000 are in the metal
trades in the Paris region.
In sympathy with the subway WORT
ers, the chauffeurs and conductors
on the auto-bus lines stopped work at
noon yesterday.
A dispatch from Lille states that
approximately $4,000 men are out
in the general strike in the Pas dc
Calais mining region.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-05
RECKLESS Drinks
At Old Prices

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 5.-NOw
comes the kickless wine card.
Old topers who have fiirted with
John Barleycorn for years will rub
thei reyes in wonderment when they
lamp the "camouflage booze" lists
prepared by downtown srills.
"Exhilirating and Non-Alcoholic
Beverages" reads the new drink list
prepared for the aria DAYS that be-
gin in Ohio May 9th.
The new card reads just like the
old ones. There are sparkling
Wines" "high balls and rickeys,"
"fizzes and flips" and "beers." You
can also get an Evening Smile"
guaranteed to have no Morning At
ter"
Buff you feel groggy the next
morning, take a "Noil Bracer."
Then again, if you feel real devilish
along towards noon you can lasso a
"Horse Neck" This will cost you 40
cents in the coin of the realm, and,
the list says, it is composed of ginger
ale and lemon peel.
The only thing on the list remin-
iscent of the days past, is Spark
ling Grape Champagne, at two dol
lars throw.
Despite the "camouAage" makeup
of the new kickless drinks, the old
familiar prices will stare the hopeful
tippler in the face.
"You can't tell" one old tippler re-
marked optimistically when the new
list was exhibited. "There might be
kick in the stuff. 1t says exhilirat-
ing"
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-05
FAIR VIEW

Rev. Harris filled his regular APP.
pointment at this place Sunday.
Miss Georgia Smith and Helen
Hall spent Saturday night at Tuscu-
lum.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Kilday spent
Sunday with A. P. Taylor and fami-
ly.
Mrs. Joe Ward was shopping in
Greeneville Saturday.
Farmers are all busy hoeing tobac-
co and blowing corn.
Miss Naomi Smith spent Sunday
with the Misses Taylor.
Quite number from this place at.
tended commencement at Tusculum
Tuesday.
Mr.. Cecil Shanks, who has been in
the service of Uncle Sam for some
time, has returned home. We hope
how soon all the boys who are yet
in service will be discharged.
Mr.. A. P. Taylor is on the sick list
at this writing.
Our new superintendent of Sun
day school, Mr.. P. X. Miller, is get.
ting along nicely with the work. We
think that there ought to be more OF
the parents engaged in the work
Come out next Sunday and make g
start in the work that is inspiring
and helpful.
WHIPPOORWILL.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-05
GREYSTONE VALLEY

Some of our people took in the
commencement exercises at Tuscu-
lum College Tuesday.
Miss Stella Tanning is improving
slowly,
Jas. White, wife and little son,
Walter, were the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jake White Sunday.
Mrs. Robt. Moncier and children
spent the weekend with Mrs. Sa-
ram Moncier, who is in feeble health
Mrs. Noah Moncier went to the
Greeneville hospital Monday for
treatment.
Quite number of friends and rel
atives called at Mrs. Sarah Moncier's
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Robert Griffin contemplates
moving to Greeneville in the near flu
ture. Her husband, who is now in
Philadelphia, will join her in few
weeks.
Misses Georgia Collect and Madge
Griffin spent Friday night at the
home of Mrs. Robert Moncier.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Johnson called
on friends Sunday.
Mr.. Billie Hopson has recently
purchased a new Ford car.
Gernia Tanning, who has been il
the service of Uncle Sam for more
than two years, was a caller at this
place one day last week.
MORNING GLORY.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-06-05
Labor to Hold Wet
Rally Here June IA

WASHINGTON, June 5.--Organ-
lied labor will stage monster dem
on stration against prohibition and
legislation affecting the manufacture
of 2% per cent beer in front of the
Capitol on Flag Daytime Ia.
Plans toward this end were further
ed last night at meeting of the Cen
trail Labor Union in Musicians Hall,
1905 E street northwest. Mrs. Rena
Mooney, wife of Thomas Mooney,
who was convicted of bomb-throw-
ing in the San Francisco prepared
ness parade in 1916, addressed the
meeting.
Pledges to participate in the dem
onstration are being received from
every labor union of the District,
Some local labor organizations will
impose fines members who fail to
take part, it was announced.
1t is estimated that from $4,000 to
$4,000 union men will be present at
the Capitol in protest. Special trains
will bring delegations from New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and
other nearby cities, including the en-
tire attendance of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor convention at At
lantic City. The refusal of the Rail
road Administration to grant spec
ial rates for the occasion will moi
hamper the out-of-town delegates, ar
official of the central body said last
night.