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Industrial PreparednessTheme of Bi# Meeting.Chicago, May 22. Tti* human far*tor in industrial proparrdneaa was the keynote of thlt;* national lt;xmf©reHoa#headed by the Western Efficiency So defy which convened in Chicago today.The purpose of tin* conference is to deal with the war wilh Germany and with industrial preparedness following the termination of the struggle. Every phase of the industrial preparedness program is being discussed by efficiency experts, educators, representatives of labor ami business men from various parts of the country.II Unto j Pres*)Memphis, Tenn.. May 22.—Eli Pearson, th« negro who confessed to killing Antoinette Rappsl, a school girl, was burned at the stake today by a mob of 5,000 armed men.He was lynched at the aids of the lonely road where ha cut off the head of his pretty little victim.Hundreds of persona who heard that the negro was In the handa of the mob rushed to the scene to witness the lynching. The spec-tatora formed a great circle with their autoe and the man wai burned In the center of it.Peurson was taken from deputies at Potl’a Camp. Mina, last night. 8eventy-flve men surrounded the train on which he was being taken to Mcmphisi for trial and forced the officer* to give up their prisoner. The policemen and deputies made everyeffort to save the negro but the mobThe otherto the treehie fingers He was*PEACE PLOTthe- stake at 10 o’clock lhis morning.the time scheduled.$ •“ ■ ~ - -v- 7**.7:''T' .' i•; .v?' SV.. ftPearson was tied to a treend to death by the mob.man is being sought.Before Pearson was tied his ears were cut off and torn from their sockets, otherwise mutilated.Some of the members of the mob proposed to shoot him before setting fire to his body, but a woman relativeof tbe murdered girl protested. “Let him suffer ten millions times to per for the girl's death! she screamed. Her appeal was received with cheer*.None of the members of the mobwere masked. All defled the officersboldly. Many of them are well known thruout the country, j After the burning of Pearson andgro chauffeur named Burt Ingram seized a United States flag fromauto he was driving and cried, on, boys, w’« are thru! Let'* Join the Germans!He tore up the flag and was seised by a dozen men. He would have been lynched at once bad he not been at |once turned over to Federal authorities.VV henhe made that he off, andI! (United Press)Amsterdam, May 22.—All German i .Socialists except one- of both the majority and minority parties, who i have been designated by their two or-i gani/alions as delegates to the Stoek-In the vast throng which burned the two negroes were hundreds of woiuofta complete confession, saying!and etrln. Ah the mob prepared the had chopped the girl'a head stake to burn the negro the womenhad then assaulted the Iwdy. sang. *\7ohn Brown’s body, JohnHe Implicated two other negroes, Brown’s body. As Pesrson burned towhom he said afterwards assaulted death the mother of the murdered girlihe body of the girl. The mob start stood nearby,od after them and both will be burned! After the two men wereif found.Later-eated by Pearson, a deaf mute, was blooded daughter of the South who found by tht* mob, and w as also burn-. died for a negro’s fiendish desire.One of the negroes Impltlynchedplacard: death of a red
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Athens Daily Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Tue, May 22, 1917
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