During 1918, 63 Negroes and 4 white persons were lynched, as established by well authenticated evidence.[3] The Executive Office has been advised of a probable increase of this figure by 12 cases of which it is said that confirmation of lynching can be obtained, but, as the Executive Office has been unable to investigate these cases, they have, of course, been excluded from our figures. An Association staff member, while in the South studying special problems, was informed by reliable colored people in Georgia that twelve unreported cases (in the press or elsewhere) have occurred since the Association investigated the Brooks and Lowndes Counties, Georgia, lynching orgy of May, 1918, and that the only apparent effect in Georgia of the President's lynching pronouncement of July 26th last, has been an apparently concerted agreement on the part of press and authorities to keep all news regarding lynchings out of the Georgia press. Lending some color to this charge, is the fact that, so far as we are aware, no Georgia daily has at any time since May, 1918, published any account of the investigation made by the Association or of the fact that 17 names of mob leaders were put in the hands of Governor Dorsey, despite the considerable press comment in the press of other states. One of our Texas branches (Houston) reported the case of one alleged victim of a mob who was buried secretly and no publicity given to the facts. The branch's president had written to the acting-governor requesting an investigation of the circumstances.[4] Finally, some lynchings which do not get into the press, are not carried beyond the immediate neighborhood, sometimes a very small one, unless there is some unusual feature to distinguish the event. DISTRIBUTION OF THE 1918 LYNCHINGS During 1918 lynchings have occurred in the following states:[5] Alabama 3 Arkansas 3 California 1 Florida 2 Georgia 19 Kentucky 1 Louisana 9 Illinois 1 Mississippi 7 North Carolina 2 Oklahoma 1 South Carolina 1 Tennessee 4 Texas 11[6] Virginia 1 Wyoming 1 --- 67 OFFENSES CHARGED AGAINST THE 1918 VICTIMS[7]