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VOL. 4.
- COTTON CREDIT
FIRYT NEGOTiATIONS OF HUG.E
CHARACTER REPORTED IN:
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Berlin, July 19.—The first million
‘dollar American cotton credit has just
‘becn negotiated between the Ameri
can products exports and import cor
poration of Charleston, S. C., and the
Darmstader Bank of Berlin, the lat
ter guaranteeing repayment which ig
based on three-to six month credits
on collar basis. !
Half Million on Cotton
Washing%(zn, July 19.—An agree
ment to makz an advance of fivia hun
dred thousang dollars to southern ex
porters to finance the exportation of
approximately twelve thousand bales
of cotton was announuced today by the
finance corporation. The cotton, the
corporation said, was from Georgia
and North and South Carolina. |
Under this loan the cotton will be
held in warehouses for export within
a period of six months. ‘
R e M L A BRI |
FORD OFFER STARTS -
OTHER BIG FOLKS
FOR NITRATT. PLANT
Washingtofi: July 19.—Secretary
Mellon may be called into consulta-s
tion with Seecretary W'2eks, officials
said today, before final determinaticn
of the government’s attitude * ward
Henry Ford's -offer to take over the
nitrai's plant at Muscle. Shoals for
conversion into a fertilizer plant.
Officials =aig Mellon was rogarded
as an authority on hvdraulic powsr,
According to Secretary FHoover ihe
Dupont interests and seyer-al, othéer
chemical and power concerns aze stid
to be considering submifting offers for
tke plant, although nothing definite
has yet been receiveg by the govern
ment,
REMEMBER WEDNESDAY
IS CURB MARKET DAY
Thig is just a gentle reminder thag
Wednesday is ‘curb market day. It is
‘an opportunity for you to purchase
fresh - vegetables of all kinds and
thes¢: will be on sale tomorrow moin
ing in' large quantities. Remember the
market opens at. 7:30 o’clock and
closes at 9:30. e
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The prayer r;weting Wedm;f;davi
evening at the Presbyterian church
at 8:30 o’clock is a most interasting
and edifying mid woek gathering. The
book of Ephesians will be the subject
of study this week. Come and bring
your Bibles. Every body is welcome.
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"WATSON SHOUTS
HEIS NOT WHISKY
SOAK TO SENATORS
; Washington.‘Ju‘lz 19—In the course
‘of the d:bate in the senate today on
the Willis-Campbell bill Senator Wat
“son of Georgia interrupted Senator
| Nelson to shout:
- “I want it understood I am not 1
- whiskey scak.”
E'2 also attacked Coca Cola as a
“pernicious belly ‘wash” that has al
-most “ruined” Georgia.
-T0 SINK CRUISER
BOMBING PLANES WORKED ALL
i DAY ON TARGET BEFORE END
OF VESSEL CAME.
Newport News, July 19.—The for
mer German Cruiser is lying on the
floor of the Atlantic today with six
other former enemy craft disposed of
in the recent bombing and target
practice off the Virginia Capes as a
result of a successful attack by army
and navy fllers Monrday which con
tinued all day before the crtiiser was
sent to the bottom. 1
Surviving eleven direct hits, six
with small bombs of two fifty to three
hundi'zd pounds, scorad during the
first phase of the attack ‘and five with
heavier bombs up to six hucdred
pounds. The cruiser rac:zivei its
death blow from a six hundred pound
or hurled from one of a squadron of
"six army Martin planes which pro
‘ceeded to attack from Langley Field
late in the day.
SECOND - INNING
PLAYER WHO TURNED STATES
EVIDENCE EXPECTED TO TES
IFY TODAY.
Chicago, July 19.—After the first day
filled with legal arguments anq alter
cations, the trial of -seven former
Whit 2 Sox players and four alleged
.Z2amblers charged with conspiracy in
connection with the 1919 world series,
today enterad the. second. inning with
every indication that the excitement
of yesterday as the taking of testimo
ny got under way would be continued
today.
Bill Burns, indicted White Sox play
er who gained immunity by turning
state’s evidence, was expected to take
the stand during the day., :
That the gtate had a surprise wit
ness was learned today when “Wild
Bill” Donovan, manager of the Phila
delphia Nationals, appeareq in the wit
ness room. Asisstant State’s Attor
ney Turrell said Donovan would testi
fy to .information of an alleged con
spiracy which he obtainad from Bill
Burns, former White Sox pitcher.
Club Secretary Witness ‘
Chicago, July 19.—Harry M. Rabhi
ner, secretary of the Chicagz Amer
ican League Basekall Club, was ‘ha
first witness called today when the
state resumed the presentation of tes
timony in the trial of White Sox
players and others charged with con
spiracy to throw the 1919 World Se
ries to Cincinnati. Ho testified that
the Sox players were employad for
the series period as well as the regu
lar season with pay at the same rata
as in the regular season. This was in
troduced to counteract the contention
of the defense that the m'>n were not
under contract to the clubgyduring the
series, ,
NEGRO PREACHER PATENTS
- DEVICE TO KILL WEEVILS
W. M. Walker, a well known negro
preacher, patentee of a bush and
gig outvt for destroying the boll
-weevil, has done some effective work
in destroying weevils on a patch of
five acres in cotton owned and at
tended by students of the Holsey
Industrial - Acaemy, colored institu
tion located in Cordele,
The pest have been killed in large
number by the preacher boll weevil
fighter, and he declares that in a
short time he will entirely rid the
¢oatch of them. The colored minister
says that he has studied the nature
and habits of the boll weevil and
has learned when to get in the most
effective work on hem. He says that
waht he has done in this patch of
cotton he can effectively and rapidly
carry out on mu(:-h larger crops.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Feagle arrived
home yesterday from their vacation
trip. Mrs. Feagle has been visiting at
Newton, Ala.,, and points in Florida,
while Mr. Feagle has been the guest
of his parents, at Littlo Mountain,
8. C. |
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Skipper an
nounce the birth of a son, to be named
James Marvin, .
CORDELE, GEORG'A, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1921.
CLAIMS OFFICERS -
} ACCEPTED MONEY
TELLS HOUSE COMMITTEE MAJOR
CAMPBELL RECEIVED $5,000 OF
HER CASH, .
Washington, July 19.—Mrs. Emma
C. Bergdoll today told the house com
mittce investigating the escape of
| Grover Bergdoll, ler slacker son, that
she gave five thousand dollars to Maj.
Bruce Campbell, army officer at Gov
ernor’s Island for use aboug righ offi
cials at Washington to halp obtain his
frezdom.
Mrs. Bergdoll said Campbell first
demanded ‘a2 hundred thousand but
she refused. 'She said she took the
money to Grover wno handed it to
Campbell. She said Campbell told her
he had passed.the money to another
officer for the purpose indicated.
" Campbell recently told the commit
tec he did not receive one dollar from
the Beargdolls. He hag been summon
ed from Camp Pike to answer the
charges.
NEW PLAN T 0 COVER
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ALL COTTON LOANS
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FEDERAL RESERVE DIRECTORS
, MEETING WITH. HARDING 7O
FORMULATE UNIFORM SCHEME
Washington, July 19.—The forma
tion of a’uniform policy to cover cot
ton loans in five of the largest cotton
growing sections of the country dar
ing the coming marketing season was
undertaken today by representatives of
the reserve districts in thogt sections
mecting here with Gov. Harding of the
Federal Resery: Board.
Changes in prices and the cotton
situation generally 1 the last faw
months, according to Harding, will
make it necessary for a 2 new loan
scheme for the crop to cover all fac
tors in the extension of credits, terms
maturities and edequacy of securities..
TWENTY SEVEN DEAD
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INMINGO BATTLES
'WHTNESS TESTIFIES BEFORE SEN
ATE INVESTIGATING COMMIT
‘ TEE.
| Washington, July 19 —Twenty sev
’en persons are known to have lost
their lives in the Mingo county, W.
Va., coal f{iclds disorders since the
, middle of May, 1920, Harry Olmstead,
representing the operators, testified
today before the senate investigating
,committ‘ee. "Of thege he said, three
- were state police and national guards
'men “shot in the back while in the per
formance of their duties.” !
A witness for the miners previously ‘
had testified that a hundred persons
had been killed during this period.‘
Charges of union officials that “mi
ners were ‘anslaved and held in peon
age” were absolutely without founda
tion,”* Olmstead testified.
NUMBER OF BANKRUPTCY
~ PETITIONS DOUBLED
During the fiscal year which ended
June 30, 4 total of 765 people in the
Southern division of Georgia went
into bankruptey with total liabilities
of $3,822,241 60, according to the
annual report of United States Clerk
L. M, Erwin.
Twice as many petitions were filed
during the past yeear as in 1919.20,
when 338 were filgd. The amounte
‘realized by marshals, trustees and
referees for creditors in the <765
[cases totaled $1,330,249,9%, ='most
#51,000,000 more than was realized
the previous year.
There are now 804 bankruptcy
' cases pending in this division of the
United Statees court, the l.rgest
number ever scheduled.! From the
fiscal year ending June, 1920, 470
cases were brought over. During
the past year, 431 cases were con
cluded, leaving a total of 804 cases
still on the docket.
Of the 765 cases filed this year,
667 were voluntary petitions and
ninety-eight involuntary. Of the 431
concluded by Judge Beverly Evans
and Referee J, N. Talley, 404 were
voluntary and 27 involuntary,
More wage earners filgd b:§krupt
¢y petitions than any other class of
people, with farmers coming second.
One hundred and seventy-two wage
parners filed voluntary petition:
Eighty-two farmers filed voluntary
petitions and one filed an involun
itary petition. Ninety-nine merchants
filed involuntary petitions and twenty }
filed involuntary petitions. No pro
fessional men went into bankrupey.
Six manufacturers filed voluntary
petitions and one involuntary petit
ion. Other classes totaled fifty
petitions,
Liabilities in voluntary petitions
amounted to $3,427,968,77; in in
voluntary petitions $394,272.83.
AND DAILY SENTINEL
COTTON EXPORTY
LOST OVER MILLION
AND HAITX BALES
Washington, July 19.—Exports of
cotton sead oil increased substantially
during the last fiscal year over th..
previous jytar, while cotton expor.s
fell off by more than a million and a
half bales, according to the depart
ment of commeree fyures today.
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HARDWICK URGES -
BIENNIAL SESSION
UPON LEGISLATURE
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IN SPECFAL MESSAGE TODAY AP
PEALS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT.
Atlanta, July 19.—in a gpecial mes
cage to the general assembly {oday
Gov. Hardwick recommended a coa
stitutional amendment providing for
biennial sessions of the general as
cembly insiead of annual. He declar
-2d it would save thgusands and elim
inate muph useless legislation and pre
vent the disruption of business thru
azlpicipzttion of drastic legislition.
RIOTING CONVICTS
- SHOW TWO MISSING
GUARDS STiLL HAVE TROUBLE
WITH PRISONERS AT PENM
Pittsburg, Pa., . July 19.—Western
Penitentiary officials today had ac
ccunted for gll but twe of the convicts
who yesterday rebelled, anc after sct
ting fire to a numker of - buildings,
fought the guards, deputy sheriffs,
and city police for more thaa tao
hours. These two, it was stzted, were
probably hiding in thc cellars and
woula be retaken heforse nightfall.
Excitement still prevailed today and
ZE police reinforcing the guards had
their kands full trying to keep the
convictg quiet. :
ASPHALT ISPUT
- BACK ON FREE LIST
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DUTY ON CITRIC ACID RAISED
FROM TEN TO TWELVE CENTS.
Waghington, July 19.— The house
today transi2rred asphalt from the
dutibla to the free list in the Fordney
tariff bill and thus secured disposi
tion of the last of the five contested
schedules on which geparate votes
were permitted. ‘
Duty on citric acid was increased |
from ten to twelve cents a pound. l
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- RUPTURE OF PEACE
DELEGATION WILL BE RECALLED
NEXT WEEK SAYS SECRETARY
IN STATEMENT.
Belfast (Asso) July 19.—The return
to Belfast of Sir James Craig, Ulster
Premier, and members of his cabinet
who hay 2 been in London in connec
tion with the Irish peace move, must
not he take as a rupture of the nego
tiations, it was declared today by Col.
Spencer, cheretary. of the delegation.
It is thought, indeed, the delegstion
will be recalled to London next week,
None of the members of th» cabinet
would have aunything to say.
VIGOROUS DEFENSE
.RESERVE FARM LOAN
HARDING CLAIMS HIS BCARD HAS
NOT CURTAILED FARM LOANSS,
BUT DOUBLED THEM..
Washington, July 19.—Vigorously
defending the federal reserve hoard
policy toward agricultural interests,
Govenor Harding today gave the on
ate banking committee official statis
tics to show that instead of curtailing
farm loans as charged by critics, the
federal reserve system advanzas on
long term loans virtually had doubled
during the last year.
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|CL§F CONCERT COMPANY
. APPEAR AT THE CIRCLE
|A.TTRACTION WEDNESDAY EVE.
! NINCG: PRESENTS THREE MUSI
| CAL STARS IN DELIGHTFTUL
PROGRAM. : :
MThe Clef Conceit gompany compris
ing threc musical stars, will appear
in cntertainment Wednesday evening
‘at 8:30 o’clock at the Circle Theatr2
IThe entertainment will eonsist of vo
cal; violin, piano and saxaphone
numbers, humorous readings, cartoon
ing and whistling, and press comments
{WOuld indicate that it is a high-class
| attraction, clean and refined through
'out. offering a program of wholesome
’:mvl 12freshing character and of wide
variety.
Miss Clarie Anderson appears as
singer and reader; Miss Lillian Wealls,
cartoonict, reader, singer and pianist;
Mr. George Anderson violinist, saxa
phonist and whistler. |
The prices of admission are 20 and,
30 cents.
LUMBER INTERESTS OF [ENTIRE
SOOUTH WILL BE REPRESENT
ED SPEAKERS OF N ATIONAL
REFUTATION ON PROGRAM.
v Atlanta, Ga., July 18,—Lumber in
terezts of the entire South will be
represented at the Southern Forestry
Coneress which ovens in Atlanta Wed
nesday for a session of three days. At
this gathcring steps to the proposed
reforesting of the south will b taken.
After having been forced for muany
vears to pay high freight ratés on lum
her from Washington and Oregon,
Irmber dealers in the south have de
cided to build their own forests in
their own sections. This plan will be
definintely diseussed during the con
aress. It will be nut hefore the mx~et
ire by Henry F. Hartner, president
cf the Southern Forestry Congress.
Amone the noted speakers who will
be heard at the Atlanta meeting are
Henry (. Wallace, secretarv of the
. S. Devartment of Agricnlture; Col.
Jozeph Hyde Pratt, chairman of the
executive committee of the Sonthern
Forectry 'Congress; Col. W. B. Grady,
11, 8, forester; H. H. Benneott, of the
U. 8 .Bureau of Soils; J. F. Rhodes,
secretary of the Southern Pine Asso
eiation; Mai. J. L. Thompson, of
Houston, fex.. Dy, E. N. Lowe, State
oeologist of Mississippis and Charles
Lathrop Pavk. of Washington. D. (',
president of tho American Forestry
Acenciation, |
The South iy in bad need of re
forestation, according to Mr. Pm;k}
and only cooperation of lnmber and
forestry interests can bring abmlt‘
the needed improvement. Mr. Pack
said the bill, paid hy lumbermen in
Goorgin to ship wood from Washine
ton and Oregon in a few years wovld
pay the expenses of replanting the
statn in such way that it soon willl
have its own lumber mills. I
INEW YORK COTTON MARKET
Or;‘_tl- Close P-Close
e~ e N 12200 1287 12.20
Ottober 00l iios 12941280 12.70
IDegember ... 1317 - 13.28 ' «:138.10
JBANaLY: . s las L 18T 1830 13.10
Mareh ... ... 5. 1848 1358 13.43
CORDELE COTTON MARKET
Good Middling close .--.-ceoaa 11,00
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
DOLLAR A YEAR FOR
POLL TAX PROPOSED
FOR WOMEN VOTERS
lAtlanta, July 19.—P01l tax of a dol.
lar a year will be imposed on women
of Georgia under the terms of a bill
introduced in the house to revise the
general tax act.
The measure would produce an es
timat2d half million increase in state
revenues, half to come from poll tax
and the balance from revision of oc
cupation taxes.
AT WEEKLY LUNCHEON WED
NESDAY AT THE SUWANEE
HOTYEIL: CATE.
Wedncsday will be farmers day
with the Kiwanis club and about
twenty-five farmers from all sections
of the counfy will be guests of the
Kiwanian at their weekly luncheon at
the Suwanee hotel cafe. The hour for
the luncheon will Le from 1 to 2
».'clock. A ‘good program is arranged
for the affa’r and it is hoped to make
it an occasion of special interest to
all who attend.
- FOR THE CRACKERS
BUT THEY WON FROM GIANTS
IN MONDAY'S GAME BY A
LEAD CF ONE SCCRE.
With the spirit to win strongly
l'al'i-.sed on both sides, the game
Monday afieirnoon betiveen the
Crackers and th> Giants in the
Business Men : Loague was a Fard
fought contes* from the first ball
tossed over the home plate. While
the Crackers held the major score
from the initial inning thejr lead
became a shaky uncertainty in the
seventh and final when the Giants
put five runners over the home bag
and came within one tally of the
fCrnckers’ score, the game closing
12 to li. From a standpoint of
pnthusiasm, Tast playing and good
team work the gama Monday was
decidedly among the best that has
been played on the new schedule,
though there were no particular star
features, : |
Batteries: Crackers, Mima andi
‘A. M. White; Giants, Morris and
- Bazemore, :
This afternoon the Pirates oppose
the Cardinals. Wednesday afternoon
the Tigers meet the Crackers,
BUSINESS MENS LEAGUE
STANDING
Clubs PW L Pci
White:Box - 0 Loviil d 2 0 1000
Gardinals 7o 8l o 5 i 500
Bipatess: it o 00 o i il 500
AHEEPR oA T L i o 500
Crackers ¥ -iwears 00l b ER
Gianbs -0 o 0 @0 adg ) 6 dnp
ATTACKED OFFICER
~ MORRIS ARRESTED
!TWO NEGRO HOBOS WHO SEVERS
LY BEAT PITTS POLICEMAN ARE
~ NOW IN CUSTODY.
Dennis Morris, one of two negro ho
bos wh oseverely injured Assistant
Chief of Police Grace of Pitts in a
fight last Wednesday night which
ensued when the tofficer attempted to
eject the two negroes from a fast
train on the Seaboard railway, was
arrested last night at Americus by
Sheriff Harvey of Sumter county. He
was returned to Cordele today in
charge of L. M. Sumner, special agent
for the Seabcard ang was lodged in
the county jail,
Clarenc> Williams, the other negro
who cngaged in the difficulty with the
Pitts officer, was arreste:l Thurzday
morning when he made his way into
Cordele, the arrest Leidg made by
Specinl Agent Sumner and Police offi
cer Sirmons. The officer emptied his
and Morris was shot though the thigh
revolver in th fight with the negroes
When trainment on the f{regiht
brought the train to a stop to assist
the officer, the negroes ran. Rreach
ing the dg~ of the town Morris gave
out from the loss of blood and Wil
liams carried him for three miles on
his shoulder. Being forced to aban
don him, according to Morris’ story
to the offisers this morninn, Williams
gave him $2.00 all the money he had
to hir‘a an automobile to carry him
further. Morris rode with a white
man to Coney, tellin the white man
that 2 negro had shot him in a crap
game, and from that place made his
way to Americus.
Morris will be held for assault with
intent to murder, the same charge on
which Williams is held.
| Two bandits in evening dress 'arei
pperating in Miami, Fla.
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PORT HEAPS RESPONSIBILITY
FOR MANY ILLS ON suourl.bmg
OF DANIELS. : Y
Washington, July 19.——Form0ri‘;.s,g¢a-$
retary Daniels and former Assistants
Secretary Roosevelt of the navy wex:e;
@enounced for methods used in himr
tigating war time scandal among efi=
listed men at Newport Training Stas"
tion in the majority report of the M-%
ate subcommittee made public today
Charges made by clergymen’.-’figi
Providence and the Providencé Jour=
nal, the report says, “have been provs
ed to the satisfaction of tha commit<"
tee” and both the clergy and the' Jdn_%
nal, says the report; - “deserve -‘the
thanks of the people at large.” ‘
At the same timo today Roonv‘l_é
issued a statement declaring senators
Ball and Keys, two republicans vhg
constitute the majority of the invéstiX
gating committee, issued findings with;
out giving him a hearing, after pm;m’g
ising to do so, which Roosevelt coge
tended, “shows the premeditatad, qu{
fair purpose of seeking 'what th'ayfi_n‘i:é
takenly believe to be partisan politis
cal advantage.” o
Most of the datails of the Newpert
scadnl as disclosed in an investigad
tion are of an unprintable naturej
Senator King, democratic membe_r-:i
the subcomittee, will file a mlnormi
report later. ; ‘3
The crux of the majority repo
charges is that with the knowledgo%
Daniels and Roosevelt, enlisted men
of the nafy were improperly-use¢'~la
participants in immoral practices fo¥
the purpos» of securing evidence 'qi
which to dismiss offenders from’ th
navy. \ 1§
Roosevelt under whose offige the ine
vestigation was concluded, is held by
tl'2 majority as “morally respons_ibloff
for the orders. The findings of thé
naval court martial which ifiveltigates
the scandal are introduced in the res
cord for the first time. 'lt held tl@
action of Roosevelt as. “unfortunaté
and illadvised.” i
Daniels disanproved a portion of the
findings which condemned the metit:
od of inveastigation. Roosavelt in“a
statement summed up his reply this
wayv: : gt g
“Thronghout thair report T acm’*g
them of delibarat2 falsification of evi
dence, perversion of faécts @of flf‘p’-
statements of reeord and of -deliler
ate attempt to deceive.” Ly
. CABINET MEET CANCELLED-
Washington, July 19.—~Because of
the absence of members who were dt
tending the bombing tests off the Vir
ginia capes, the regular cabinet meet
ing scheduled for today . was caf
celled. ' o T A
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