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Show MffliflT" STKG 000 Ii! CHIEF EXECUTIVE UNEASY OVER INCREASING OUTBREAKS IN UNITED STATES Excitement Runs High in Georgia City as Result of Another Whipp'ng Incident: Governor Hints of Martial Law. Macon, Ga., Excitement ran high Monday when Macon awoke to find another man had been kidnapped by the iloLrin iranus which for two weeks have been striking terror to the heart of this entire community. The latest victim had not been located early Tuesday. The latest floguin;, with a neitro as victim, led to ihe arrest of three white men, brothers, who are being held in jail without bond. The men gave their names as S. R., C. F. and J. C. Hudson. This district has witnessed two lyni'hings in the past ten days. Adjutant General Charles II. Cox, spen -Monday in Macon investigating thp situation but refusing to make an r .nouncement until he confers with Jovernor Walker at Atlanta. He hinted, hint-ed, however, that martial law will not be declared at present. Flogging after flogging had been reported recently. Frequently recurring outbreaks of mob violence throughout the nation have caused officials of the Coolidge adminisl ration to consider enactment ot legislation making these offenses a crime against the federal government. With governors of four states alarmed by mob uprisings and martial law proclaimed in one locality, President Presi-dent Coolidge was reported deeply concerned by the apparent increased disregard for law and order. The president and other government officials of-ficials were said to be considering the advisability of enacting an anti-mob bill in the next congress. The proposed pro-posed legislation would apply not only to lynch mobs but'to all organizations of masked men who take the law "into their own hands." |