Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-23
ALL COLUMBUS
STIRRED BY new
DEATH THREATS
Huge Mass Meetin Called BY
Chamber OF Commerce To
Combat Lawlessness

COLUMBUS, May %. - A huge
mass meeting has been arranged for
tomorrow to consider means to check
any future plots such as occurred
early Sunday when the residence OF
Mayor Homer Dimon was damaged by
a bomb. The meeting was called by
the steering committee of the local
Chamber of Commerce.
Mayor Dimon late yesterday re-
ceived two communications referring
to the bomb attack as ''our last warn
ing and demanding that you and
Hinkle "go at once" One of the COM
munications was unsigned, while the
other, postcard, was signed
"K. K. K"
Hinkle referred to in the letter
is City Manager H. Gordon Hinkle,
who was attacked the night of April
21, on one of the principal streets
of the city. In an anonymous let
ter received by the mayor April 22,
the resignation of the mayor and
Text of the Letter.
The text of the letter received yes
terday by the mayor, which has stirr-
ed the whole city anew, follows:
1--WE asked you to fire that blue
bellied Yankee and you did not do
it. You see. what we are going to
do to you. We will get you both if
you don't fire him at once.
This is our last warning. 1t will
be too late for you when you find
out who we are. Act at once"
The following was contained on the
postcard:
This was merely a warning; we
will get you next time. Damn your
$4,000. You may offer million and
still not get us. You and Hlnkle
must go at4oaaee.@~ This is your last
warning. K. K. X"
Rewards totaling $4,000, in sums
of $4,000 each, for information with
evidence to convict the person or per-
sons who placed explosives at the
home of the mayor were offered oy
the county and city through their re-
spective commissioners when these
bodies met Monday at joint called
session to deliberate over the anar-
chistic manifestation that alarmed
the city early Sunday morning.
Mayor Kept Calm
The spirit Of Columbus, which is
one of indignation less than of
alarm, was reflected in the meeting of
county and city officials, according to
expressions of the latter after the
session adjourned. Mayor Dimon,
centered out by the disorderly
forces as the target for their attack
on society, attended the meeting, and
is said to have viewed the situation in
the utmost of calm, discussing the
matter unperturbea.
Assurance from a number of
sources of outside aid in rounding up
the "bolshevists" have reached the
police department since the explosion
occurred, according to Chief of Po-
lice j. Tom Moore, whose force is
working on every clue that presents
itself.
Additional rewards are expected
from private citizens and business en-
terprises. The first to augment the
cffers of the city and county COM
missloners was that of Blanchard &
Booth company, which today Of
fered $100 for information leading to
the arrest ond conviction of the dyna-
miters.
Throughout the city Indignation is
being freely expressed by citizens
ever the bomb throwing outrage.
Never in the history of Columbus
nave the people apparently been so
wrought up, and it is likely that the
proposed mass meeting will be largely
attended.
Condemnation of the bomb outrage
was voiced in serious and emphatic
manner at practically every church
in the three cities at services Sunday.
Perhaps not in the history of the
city of Columbus was an incident OF
tragedy and lawlessness more gen
orally denounced from the pulpits
OF various CHuFCleS dS Well do AIMING
the great majority of the citizens of
Columbus, Phenix City and Girard.
Earnest sympathy for Mayor Di-
mon and his family as well as de-
nunciation of those responsible for
the unprovoked attack on his home,
was voiced by the ministers Of the
three cities. Qualification was gen
orally expressed that every member
of the household escaped bodily harm
when the bomb planted apparently
on the front porch just in front of
the large double doors to the living
rooms went off, practically wrecking
the front part of the house down
stairs.
The scene of the explosion-the
work of anarchists-wa visited by
thousands of Columbus people dur
ing the day, many of them going to
the home of the mayor before day.
light and hundreds of men pledging
to the city administration, the may
or and city commissioners and the