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'WHOLESALE CUT
* INFOOD PRICES
'LEADS RETALL
: T
RETAILERS DROP ONLY ON SOME
COMMODITIES.
Washington, Oct. 20.—The decline
the retail prices of foodstuffs during
September was placed at two percent
by the bureau of labor statistics in
monthly report today on food costs.
Some food stuffs, notably potatoes
and sugar sustained a marked de:
crease, while others, such as eggs.
pork chops and oranges, showed in
creases. b .
The .decline ip retail prices, how
ever, did' not keep pdce with the-tirep
in wholesale quotations. A drop of
two percent in retail 'l)l'i'cés was re
ported at Atlanta, Memphis, Mobile,
and Richmond, and one percent at
Birmingham, Norfolk and Savannab
GOV. COOLIDGE EMPHASIZES
TARIFF IN KENTUCKY
Knoxville, Tenn,, Oct. 20—The tar
iff issue was emphasized by Governor
Coolidge in his two addresses here
today. He predicted that many de
mocrats in Kentucky and Tennessee
would vot e the Republican ticket
this year.
Addresses also were madge by Gov
ernor Lowden of Ilinois, Gov. Mor
row of Kentucky, and Joe B. Hedges
of New York. Earlier in the day in
the stop at New Tazwell, Gov. Low
den denounced the league of nations
as brouught back by Wilson.
“That league is regarded with dis
trust by Americans who, desire. their
coul;lt"l"y'yto be a,,u.seml-jmembe‘r of a
society of nations, but. to"look -first
to its own affairs,” he said.
GAMES OF COWBOYS . ;
CAUSES DEATH OF. |
- BLEYEN YEAR BOY
¥ x" " ePR & pod R ‘,-,;f;";
. Memphis, Oct. 19—" Playing hang |
ing™* was fatal yesterday. to Charles.
Weiss, agefly eleven, &f Efif’%@f AT
when the "rope. ‘pmdé& ' iunder -his
arms by . seyerak ~-39W?agiog1§ pin g
game pf “cowhoyy” ‘sipned uhiler;his.
chin and he was strangled to deathg
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A new electrie’Jamp for Vsign‘al'flfi'g’:
to chauffeurs from inside closed aut(»‘
mobiles has a magnetic base so that
it can be placed on amny convenient
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CORDELE, GEORGIA.
EO D. CARROLL FILES
~ BANKRUPTCY PETITION
Mr. E. D. Carroll of Byromville,
Dooly county through his attorney
Crum & Jones, has filed petition in
bankrutey returnable to the United
States court in Macon. Debts sched
uled amount to $2,181.00, and no as
sets shown. Mr. Carroll is a farmer
renting lands.
HOUSTON SAYS
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1. S. WILL SPEND
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NEXT YEARSY INCOME WILL BE
- CUT DOWN MATERIALLY.
Washington, Oct. 20.—Government
expenditures of four billions during
the next fiscal year were forecast
by Secretary Houston today in an
address before the convention of the
American Bankers Association.
He outlined the treasury’s program
for handling the war debt, the liqui
dation of which, he said, must go on
steadily in order that final redemjp
tion may be accomplished without
disturbance to nantional life
Secretary Houston appealed for the
strictest economy in ail public ex
penditures ang thrift on the part of
the people
Secretary Houston said there were
indications of falling receipts be
cause there was no means of predic
ting the course of buginess or incomes
profits and .receipts for the present
fiscal year. He reported to be mater
ially lower than the record of five
and half billions last year.
LEAGUE OF NATIONE
STUDENTS GIVEN ACADEMIC
| STUDY OF COVENANT. =
‘ lClevelanc}, .oet. 20.—;—Franklin D
Roosevelt in’an address here beforc
!,tim;‘ students -of ~Western® Reserv:
”filii’verg;it& ‘this moruing denied ' the
l‘a.;s.sertio*n' of “/Elihu Ro)t’ ‘that " Vov
;peace treaty and the lague covenan
Cox insisted on theratification of the
without a -change. “Such a state
"ment is fully unwarranted by th
facts,” he said. His address was de
voted largely to an acedemic discu
sion of the league. He compared tt
;esta.hlishment of the leagueu to the
]estublishment of th constitution. Nt
| one believed the constitution perfec
he said. No one believes the leagus
prfect, but both are designed to car
ry out a great purpose.
UNION ‘REPRESENTATIVES HAVE
“GRAVE FEAR OF GOVERNMEN
ATTITUDE. - -
'Lon:_ion. Oct. ~2o.—The nationa.
union fof rajlway inem, ‘executives e:
transport workers. and the parliamé l
trary committee of the traders unjo:
congress all held meetings this mer
ing to consider their attitude towarc.
the coal strike, but thus far no deci:
ion has been taken.
The national council of the inde
pendent labor party adopted a resoli
tion today expressing grave apprehe:
sion over the attitude of the govern
ment toward the miners union, “eon
.veying as it does an agressive chal
lenge to the whole working clas:
movement.”
A resolution pass requests the la
bor pafty to convene a special cor
forencedl ;o v 4 ,
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'MAh, AGED 93, WINS .
BIBLE ‘READING CONTROVERS®
l Senatpbia, Miss,, Oet. 20.—Mrs.
iMary C%;Solomon, 93 years old, the
only living mother of & Confederate
’soldier fn ‘Mississippi, won first prize
‘at thie De Sota county fair yesterday
for heing the most accomplished
horsewoman, |
Mrs. Solomon won the prize t‘romfi
a large field of contestants. }
According to the judges, she rode
her horse with the ease and grace ot?
a young girl. I
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
WAR WILL CEASE
195 321} 5} g 8 g Ity
BETWEEN POLES'
AND RUSSIANS
ORDER TO 'BSTOP .HOSTILITIES
BECOME EFFECTIVE MONDAY.
Warsaw, (Asso)—~Gen. Pilsudslki,
President of Poland. has issued +
manifesto to the army in connectioh
with the cessation of hostilities with
Bolshevik Russian midnight Monday
after nearly two years of war.
He urges paticace, as the actual
treaty of peace has not yet beei
signed.
Severe Fighting in South.
Sebastopo!, (Asso.)—Severe fight
ing contipued along the Dnieper and
porthwestern front in the vicinity -of
Nimopol. Soviet Wwar minister
Trotsky is rcported to be bringing
up ten divisiens of conmunist forces
which will not surrender as easily
as ordinary troops hoeretofore used in
this line, it is 'asserted.
A number of former German offi
cers in the Baltic provinces are of
fering their services to Gen.Wrangel
head of the anti Bolshevik South Rus
sian governmrt.
Relations more Straired.
Warsaw, Oct. 20.—(Associated)—
Relations . between Poland and Lithu
ania are becoming more strained, ac
cording to advices from Kameniski,l
Folish minister to Letvia, who has
heen attending a conference of the
Raltic States at Riga. |
YCCURRED WEEK AGO IN CHi LI
. PROVINCE. .
Peking, Tuesday, Oct.' 18 —(Asso)
\n explosion and-fire in Tong- Chan
‘Yo e i Chl T 4 proviics” killed
apward of four hundred Chiuese la
yorers Thursday last, but the news of
‘he accident reached here only yes
“tday. The official report oi the
uining company places the dead at
‘our hundred and twenty tw .
NANTS REPRESENTATIVE IN
WASHINGTON COUNCILS.
Melbourne, Oct. 20.—1 t is impera
ive that Australia appoint a repre:
entative to go to Washington to de
elop trade relations and place Aus
ralia’s point of view before the
Tnited States government, when nec
ssary, declared Sir Joseph Cook,
minister of the treasury in speaking
in the House of Represntatives here
today.
VSWINEY SUFFERS
a
-~ SERIOUS ATTACKS
“AMILY ALL SUMMONED TO HIS
| BEDSIDE. 3
. London, Oct. 20~—MacSwiney suf:
fered a serious attack of extreme
delirium shortly after ten o'clock thig
| norning, the sixty ninth day of his
ihunger strike, said a bulletin of the
(rish Self Determination League this
§ afternoon.
“All relatives were summoned to
' him. He regained his normal condi
ition at one o'clock, and is now quiet
hut not qugte normal mentally,” the
bulletin added. :
! MacSwiney had another and an
oven worst attack of delirnm this
r:zftemoon. a bulletin said.
SEVENTY BUSHELS TO AN
ACRE MINUS FERTILIZER
Fitzgerald, Oct. 19.—Seventy bush
els of corn to the acre without use of
an ounce of commercial fertilizer and
a six-months old hog weighing 261
pounds, took prizes in the corn and‘
pig club exhibits at the Fitzgerald ex
pesition, according to announcemant
of awards today for the exposition
last week.
CORDELE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBE R2O 1920.
TWELVE YEAR OLD
ENTERS FRESHMAN
CLASS COLUMBIA
New. . York. Qct. 20 —Master 'of
“twelve languages, keenly interested
{in batting averages, but more devoted
;j.‘l'l) tan ganie bf marbles when played
v keeps, twelve year old Edward
‘fochic Rardy, Jumior, of this city:
today qualitied as the youngest fresh
e that ever entered Columbia Uni
‘vm'sary. Tt
' Young Hardy is five feet, thres,
weighs @ hundred and forty three, is
normal in appetite, habits, recreation
and his mother gays he started to
school at the axge.él three,
. FOREIGN TRADE
APPROVE PLAN FOR CORPORA
TION TO FINANCE FOREIGN
TRADE.
Washington, Oct. 20- Appraval of
the prepesal to orgdnize a hundrad
million doHar -corporation to finance
the Naticn's fofl'eign trals was given
today by the American Bankers as.
sociation in convention here,
President Hawes authorized the
call of a conferenge of btankers ap<:
business men to work out plans for
the 'corporation under the provisions
recently enactad in the Edge Law. l
HARDING FALLS
BACK ON TARIFFS,
L ik |
Jackson, Ohio, Oct, 90 —Democra- |
tic “phrase making” and republioan}
“performance” were contrasted by .
Senator Harding in.a speech here to: \
day, launching the protective tariff
policy. as an example of republican
accomplishment, .. | e Oy :
“The. truth is,” he said, “that with
all the progressive ___gbngues and_ all
the literary ideaksm.f our oppoments
it is still ‘the republiban party which
stands- as_the sategurd of & merigg,
‘-not-‘oflfi*fi‘fi%&?‘fi&i&?fibfififi
as to every other kind of protection.
, Tt Is a simple matter to make phra
ses, but it is ‘much more difficult to
perform. The nominee gave particu
lar attention to the iron and steel
industry as it has developed in this
section of the state.
Balloons male in Holland for me
teorological purposes of rubber treat
ed by a chemical process rise to great
er heights than those usually employ
ed.
Stead’s
Cold
Tablets
Highly .Recommended
by, Arkansas Ministex,
Here is what he thinks
of thein:
Helena, Ark., Sept. 12, 1920
Stead Drug Store,
Cordele, Ga,,
Dear Sir:—Please find a dollar
bill enclosed and #end me by re
turn mail its worth in Stead’s
Cold Tablets, I have not been
without your tablets since my
first acquaintance and use of
them in your city in 1914, while
on a visit fto my mneice, Mrs.
Hugh Lasseter.
Yours truly and fraternally,
(Rev)CADSMAN POPE.
THE ORIGINAL LETTER I 8
ON DISPLAY IN OUR’
WINDOW, ’ A
STEAD’S
DRUG STORE
WHIPPLE & McKENZIE BLDG
DPHONE 1 A. M. STEAD, Prop.
COX IS SHOWERED WITH QUES
TIONS IN PROVIDENCE MEET
ING.
Providence, Oct. 20.-Probably the
livcliest bambardment o questiona
during his vumpuixin was experienced
by CGov. (‘ox today dquring an addvess
to’ several thousand persons in the
public square.
Holding what was called a "town
mm-tixig,“ the governor was asked
questions on the league, liquor, Irish
and other matters; repeating his
charge that Senator Lodge had form
ed “the basest and most infamous
conspiracy” against the league, Gov.
Cox declared that Senator Lodge
“was the most despised man in
Ameriea,” o
Loud hisses from the audience fol
lowed the mention of the senator’s
name,
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WINE AREKILLEDIN
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FOUR WOMEN DIED IN ONE AC
CIDENT.
Jirie, Oect. 20.—Six persons are
known - to have been- killed, and at
least fifteen injured when the Chica.|
go and Boston limited on the New
York Central side swiped a Buffalo)
and Clevelani train west bound' at|
the West End Union station here to-|
day. v |
Four bodies from the wreck are |
women.
The body of a baby was recovered
from the wreckage and a few minutes
ilale:- _“Iror:l. cama from St. Vlnceht’_s
hogpital that two of the injured had
diéd, making a total of nine deaths
ASRige e Wi adthositten,
| Three Trainmen Killed.
| Roanoke, Va., Oct. 20.—Three train
! men were killed and five injured and
. half a dozen passengers were shaken
~up in a head-on collision at Rural
' Retreat, Va., this morning between
lpasmmg(-r trains fourteen and twenty
seven, according to an official report
li‘mm the Norfolk and Western cof
iiicers here. |
| An open switch is said to have
lcaused the wreck. !
]flousmN DEPUTY IS INDICTEDI
G _B. White Charged with Extortion
. From Negro He Arrested. ‘w
! ° et
{ Perry, Ga, Oct. 19.—1 n the (‘,lty!
‘!Ccurt yesterday morning John Sim-{
' mons, alais Bennie McMickens, en
. a motoreyele without having the 1920
| #4g attached to his machine and was
| centenced by Judge Riley to two
imomh‘s or he released on payment-i
I'of $25.00, which he paid. |
On June 17, C. B. White, deputy
'sherit‘t of Houston county, arrested|
‘a negro, who gave his name as Johnl
| simmons, at Byron, for operating a
!motorcycln withoit the tag. White]
requested o’ friend at Byron to col
!]oct $35.00 from the negro for coste
in the case and to take a bond for
lhim to appear at City Court for trial
| The negro paid the $35.00, which war,
i pail to White and the motoreycle re '
Ileusml, but no bond was taken. The
negro told White he was going tr
Montezuma, White deposited the
money with the bank in Perry. (Whi!
%thn grand jury was in session on Oc
tober 7, a true bill was turned against
C. B. White for extertion, under col
or of his office of $35.00 from Bénni |
McMiekens, The warrant under |
which John Simmons was ax-restedi
was mislai¢ and found in Clerk Snl
perior Court office behind a desk af
tar - the Indicement wasg returnodl
against White for extortion,
To distribute adyvertising matter,
cver 5 wids streteh’of territory from
a drafting palloon. an .inventor has
patented an. ‘atfachment -operated by
a slow Burning fuse. l
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“ Before the air reaches the regular
heating elements in a new French
electric stove it is warmed by con
tact with stripes of fabric interwov
en with resistance wires.
The government of the Federat:d
Malay States is aiding nrivate exp ri
ments in the production of rubber
seed oil, a substitute for linseed oil,
on a commercial basis.
SELL IT SOUTH ADPOTED
AS CAMPAIGN SLOGAN
New Orleans, Oct. 20—“ Sell it
South,” was adopted totday as the
keynote and slogan of the twenty
five thousand dollar ddvertising
campaign Southern newspapers are to
use to advertise the south in other
gections of the country.
FINE BUSINESS
COQUNTY FAIR WILL PROVE OCCP-{
SION NORTH, WHILE. ‘
it |
Plans arve under way for the m‘c:uj
husiness parade whih wili take pluce‘
one week from today marking the
weh tide of the loeai county fair.
Chairman ¥. L. Bartholomew. of the
parade committee is getting this part
of the fair program in shape and a!
kinds of float from all the busines:
enterprises of the community will go
in for the advertising advantages. |
Thig parade was one of the finest
fcatures of the fair last year. It will
he much better this year, if all plans
materialize. 1t will carry besides
the floats prize winning live srock
farm floats and two big bands. The
ldecorated cars will enter this parade
for the prizes and altogether there
will be quite an enlivening occasion.
People on’ all sides are preparing
o get in and mak this a great day.
Cp to the present time Chairman
Bertholomew of the parade commit
tee has the following lined up among
the merchants for floats and the pa
rade will start promptly at ten o'clock
Louis Miller, L. J. Roobin, Heims
Mnsic - Store, Bert Cain, Heard Gro.
Co. Lime Cola, Cordele Motor Car
Co;, Wilkes Webster Co., Lewis &
Thompson,. Palmer-Jones Co,, Cordele
Top ‘& Harness Co., S. L, Ryals and
iDekleßms.~: Bls e _'
PROPOSAL OF PEACE
SENATOR FRANCE OF MARYLAND
DESCRIBES LETTERS HE RE--
: CEIVED. Gain
Chicago, M., Oct. 20—The letter
from France received by Scnator
Jeseph France.of Maryland proposing
a change in the organization of the
present League of Nations, was frem
a woman, not g man, the Senator
said today. The proposal dealt chiefly
with the desirability of calling an,
“International Convention of the
friends of peace”, he said.
Senator France said the offer was
very much the same ag mads to Sen
ator Harding and thaf, although: the
writer said #he ‘believed she was ex
pressing the views of the French peo
ple, the government of France in no
way was connected with the affair
and there was nothing official abhout
it, Senator France declared.
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PONZI RECEIVERS
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FIND NO MONEYi
GOT VERY SMALL SUMS TOI
MEET MILLIONS IN OBLIGA
TOINS.
Boston, Oct, 20,—The Federal re
ceivers for Carles Ponzi in their pre
liminary report today are said to
have been able to collect to date only
a hundred and ninty: three thousanil
and thirty eight dollars in cash a$
assets to meet the claims for miL;
lions presented by the army of disap-!
pointed investprs in his quick rich
scheme. :
In addition, however, receivers hold
proprty not appraised, and certifi
cates of deposjt aggergating a million
and fifty eig’n thousand, from the
Hanover Trugt Company, now closed
and two hundred and. twenty eight
thousand dollLrs {n notes, secured and
unsecured.
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NEW YORK COTTON MARKET |
; Open Close
Jan L Y 19.23
RERY s e 19.23
MEY . ook ity SR 19.15
06t Lo e 19.66
D 6 il ks TR 19.35
THE CORDELE COTTON MARKET
GOOD MIDDLING 19.25
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KU KLUX BEAT UP
YONKERS FRIEND:
5 ‘ $g
e NS
POLICE IN QUAKER CITY HEAR
STORY OF STRANGE READ- %
_t ING, -
Philadelphia, Penn, Oct. sa'.—-.é
man giving the name of Peter Macmoy
han, aged 56, of Yonkers, N. Y., witlf
his wrists scarred by a rope and: hid
back bearing the marks of a éhip&
who left the northbound ?enusylé_ang
ia train early today and sought thd
police for medical attention, says hq
was seized and whipped Monday n!ghf
a few miles outside of Trent.op& QC{
after be atcempted to uli!f’;i Eis:
Florcnce Powell-of ' Alken; S4B 18
the settlement which involved @ divi
slon of her fathers estate, -%%
e sald ho believed his assadlant
were adopting the methods of the e
Klux Klan, that the men wore: _g“fl
oods, and after heating. hist, pat §
hced on him and drove him to g
house whare they fed and eyamin
him by a physiclam aad then he was
taken to Demmsrk, S. C. and gives
money to Luy a ticket to Washingto
He said & guard also was on the
train all the way to Washington. M
‘mahon sajd he was the friand a
‘adviser of Miss Powell whose ¥at
lives at Aiken and ls?@ t t‘
‘Bank. He sald the father recently
had a_division of property. among n:g
shildren and Florence Powell's sbar
was fifty thousand dollars. .. &
“I_did not believe that' madeni
and she and I went to Aiken to si
it we could not get a better share’
he said. ol ke ‘4.,‘_; ".:s.-.vgwg
.. Denied amry '
Columbia, S.: C:” Qety" 20.—Denial,
‘was made in telephonicsadvices fram
Alken of any White.cap. activities A
ken and, Fdgefield counties ip connec
tion with the visit. of McMahoh &
that section. ’flfi&%@f TIURG
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NO CONFIRMATION
: v Y e .3-’;‘1,:,,".;.‘5
REACHES LEGATION AT ~WASH:
INGTON THIS MORNING. ..
Paris, Oct, 20.—No’ con(irmat}éfi oi
rumors of the dath of King Alexaunder
legation here this morning. == °°
PARTARS:
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