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GEORGIA WEATHER
Probably showers tonight
and Wednesday,
VOLUME 5
FIGHT TO PLACE BONUS BILL
BEFORE SENATE LOSES WHEN
WALSH MOVE WAS PUT ON TABLE
“HAS SANCTIONED PLAN TO
LEAVE OFF <CONSIDERATION
FOR ONE MONTH )
«\Masthington June 20. Efforts to get
the oaus bill before the senate fail
ed when the senate voted to table
the motion by Walsh to displace the
tariff with the bonus.
Delay gi.\'ip Subsidy
Wiashingtcn June 20—The president
has given informal sanction to the
republican house leaders for postpone
ment ‘of the Ship Subsidy considera
tion for cne month it wag said today
at the white house.
SLAYER ALICE MALLETT
PLEADS GUILTY AND GETS
: LIFE SENTENCE IN PRISON
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(By The Associated Press.)
Jackson, Mich., June 20.—George
Straub, confessed slayer of Alice
Ma]lett pleaded guilty of first degree
murder in Jackson county ecircuit
court this morning and was im
mediately sentenced to solitary con
finement at hard labor for life in
Marquettee prison by Judge Wil
liams.
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CONSIDERING LEGISLATION
FOR RETURN OF PROPERTY
TO GERMANS AND AUSTRIANS
Wiashington June 20.— Legsslation is
being prepared with the presiden~
sanction which will return to approx
mately thirty thousand Germans and
Austrians their property taken over
during he war in amounts of ten thou-
Yand or less, it was announced at the
white house.
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REVIVE EFFORT TO GET
ACTION ON FUTURE TRADING
Wlashingtcn June 20.—Further ef
forts to obtain favorable report from
the house rules committee for the
consideraticn of the Capper Tincher
bill of supplement the future trading
act will be made at a meeting «f the
committee called for today.
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CABINET DISCUSSES CUT
SECOND CLASS POSTAGE
Washington June 20.—The admin
istration is consldgring the advisabili
ty of reducing gecond class postal
rates it was said at the white house,
The matter was ccnsidered at todays
cabniet meeting.
DON'T
the old way, the
best way to get
the real satisty
ing, refreshing
drink is to make
it
COCA -COLA
We bottle it the
right way, the
safe way, in a
modern plant.
ONLY 5 CENTS
Cordele
Coca-Cola
Bottling
Company
CORDELE, GA., &
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
EXCLUDE HEBREWS
OVERSHADOWED ALL ISSUES OF
TEXT BOOKS AND THEIR CON_
TENTS
Cincinati June 20.—Organized la
bors attitude on educational questions
!was before the American federation
‘of labor convention today for conisd
‘deration.
QOvershadowing the usal questions
icentering about the contents of school
text books and courses of study on
labor movement and free school books
was the resolution proposing an in
vestigaticn of alleged discriminator:
action contemplated hy Harvard col
lege to deny admission to Hebrews.
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PRIMARY ENTRIES
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FOR CRISP COUNTY
DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COM-{
MITTEE HELD MEETING TO
DAY AND FIXED ASSESS
MENTS
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At a meeting of the county demo
ciatic executive committee this
morning at the Citizen’s Bank, plans
were made for conducting the prim
ary September 13 and assessmentg
against candidates were determined.
The time limit for the entry of can
didates into the primary will be July
Ist. The voters will be called upon
to name a superior court judge, a
solicitor general and a member of the
legislature in the county primary. |
The meeting was presided over byi
Chairman J. M. Hunt of the county
committee. Present were J. M. Hunt, {
representing the Cordele district; J.
F. Barnwell and J. R. Smith of the
Thirteenth; W. H. Stephens of the
Fourteenth; and N. F. Carden for the
Hatley district.
Candidates for judge and solicitor
were assessed $30.00 each and those
for representative, $20.00 each. It
was also decided on motion to ask
the board of registrars of the coun
ty to meet about twenty days before
the election and restore to the re
gistration lists the names of those
voters who have paid up and quali
fied for the primary since their names
were removed for cause.
The session then adjourned sub
ject to.the call of the chairman.
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KIWANIS BUDDIES WILL
HAVE NEW PRESIDING BOSS
AT WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON
Members of the Kiwanis elub wi]l{
' have a new chairman tomorrow at the
lunchcon at one o’clock at thei
Crystal Cafe. Chairman McArthur is
gone to Toronto and the Vice prosi-'
dent, Wallaco Wear is to be in charge
. Among the subjects to be discussed
will be ‘“When a man loses faith
in his town—then what?’’ There will
be others quite as intercsting {
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ASKS INVESTIGATION |
i DEATH NEGRO PRISONER
1 Amerieus, Ga., June 20,—Jule Fel
ton solicitor general of the circuit
- will apply to Judge Littlejohn for
an order to make an autopsy on the
‘ body of Jim Montgomery a negro
prisoner who died in the Sumter
stockade here June 14, | |
i Judge 8. L. Rainey, a member of
the prsion commission, requested t¥y
golieitor general to take this aetion
‘ after complaint had reached 'the com
mission concerning the circumstances
surrounding the negro’s death. John
B. Ansley, county road sup(“rintcndvnt‘
who is in charge of the chain gang
asserts Montgomery died of natumli
causcs which statement is borne out
by physicians attending the negro.
He was sent up from Sumter su
perior court on a liquor charge an
died soon after reaching the chain]
gang. l
(Esthonia has deposits of oil shale
estimated at 1,500,000,000 tons, which
the government is mining and distill
ing for fuel oil. |
FOUR ARE KILLED
KANSAS WHEAT FIELDS
Wichita, Kan.sas June 20,—
Four harvest hands the cldest
aged 22 were run over by a
train and killed near here to
day :
POULTRY YIELD
. SMALL, BUT GOOD
__PRICES PREVAIL
PHILADELPHIA HOUSE OF RIS-’
SER & COMPANY BOUGHT EN
TIRE LOT HERE TODAY |
Rariing some saperstitions, lomcl
mean little rumors about price and,
weight, the first cooperative sale ofi
poultry ever held in Cordele went on
today with splendid results in price_l
and cash yield and the entire lot of
about 7,500 pounds went to the
Philadelphia holse -£f Rigser & Couni
pany at 19 cents for hems, 28 cents
for friers, and seven cents for cocks.
The cash yield 'was about fifteeg
hundred dollars, and the money went
into wide distribution, reaching pro
duecers in Crisp, Turner, Wileox and
Dooly counties. Crisp and Wilcox
had the largest st‘pcks in the car.
The local shipment will not makol
up the full ear and the sale which is
being condueted in Tiffon today will{
be brought into Cordele and loade
into ithis same car. It will then goT
forward to its destination. |
County Agent Culpepper, Messrs.
J. M. Hunt, R. D. Mims, ‘‘Uncle
Dol’? Cleveland and Professor Ganan
poultryman at the State College of
Agriculture, with a dozen or more
other enterprising loeal citizens, were
busy at the scales and amomng the
producers who camg with the
‘chickens.
A dclegation of Wileox county eciti
zens came to Cordele today to confer
on the holding of another sale :n
fifteen days. They were deiighto-]‘
with their returns d{rom th 2 salel
and went to ke:p it up. l
Thore will be ¢ther powtry sies,
hus they will take in 4 large enougzh
ter.‘tory to procu e a full car *withont
wa t.ng. This is considered necessary
in ¢ der to bring the buyers znd 40
ensure a fair price. 1
VSERATORIAL RACE
MAY BECOME DEMOCRATIC
NOMINEE IN MINNESOTA PRI
MARY.
St. Paul, June 20.—With the out
come of the major republican con
tests apparently determined the in-;
terest in the Minnesota primary turn- l
ed today to the race of Mrs. Anna.
Dickey Oleson made for the demo-l
cratic senatorial nomination.
Available reports showed her in a 1
nip-and-truck contest with Thomas |
J. Meighen.
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W. E. MAYS STRUCK ON CROSS
ING AND ESCAPED ONLY
SLIGHTLY HURT.
-
While driving a new Ford Coupe
eastward on Eighteenth Avenue, w.
E. Mays, an insurance man only re
cently located here, and who has a
family in Macon, was struck by a
south bound Southern Railway pas
gsenger train shortly after three
o’clock this afternoon and when he
was pulled out from under some coal
cars standing on a siding near by,
he showed only minor injuries, as
they appeared on first examination
at a railroad physician’s office. l
Cars and buildings block 2 full
view of the passing trains at this
crossing very often. Mr. Mays es
caped with cuts about the face and
some spraing or bruises which pro
mise not to prove serious. He did
not have to go to the hospital.
His car was completely wrecked by
the train. It was just getting under
way out of Cordele and the speed
was not very great.
AND DAILY SENTINEL
CORDELE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1922
SHOOTING OCCURS NEAR NEW
RESIDENCE OF ULSTER PREM
IER AT NIGHT.
(By The Associated Press.)
Belfast, June 20.—Shots were
fired today in the vicnity of Stor
mont cagtle, which was purchased by
the Ulster government as an ofl®:ial
residence of Premier Craig, who with
his wife took up his residence therc
for the first time last evening.
Officials were reticent regardinz
the firing, but the belief was expres
sed in other quarters that an at
‘tack on the castle was contemplated,
but frugtrated by police guards.
Ship Used as Prison
Belfast, June 20.—The former
United States shipping board vessel,
Argenta, has been refitted as a nrigon
ship in which to confine Sinn Feiners
captured by the Ulster government in
the recent round up. The Argenta is
a wooden ship laid up in a British
port on the completion of her oniy
voyage from America to England.
Protreaty Memberg Win
Dublin, June 20.—Forty-four
coalition protreaty members and 25
coalition republicang have been elect
ed to Irish parliament from the con
tested and uncontested constituen
cies, according to returns so far re
ceived.
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KEARN AND REPUBLICAN
GROUP PROPOSE TO TELL THE
TRUTH ABOUT MUSCLE
SHOALS.
Waghington, June 20.—Henry
Ford’s offer for Muscle Shoals was
attacked today in a report to the
house prepared .by representative
Kearns, republican, and signed by
several other republican members of
the committee.
The report declared dissatisfaction
with the opinions already presented
by other members of the committee
and announced that the signers were
determined to tell the “people”, the
real facts about Muscle Shoals and
the so-called Ford offer.
Declaring the belief that the coun
try little understands what it is Ford
ig offering to dc lor what if anythin
he is offering for this great plan
signajories denounce what they des
cribe as one of the most insidicus pro
pagandas the nation has witnessed
for many a day. He deilared that
many of the Fordg advocates have
be>n misled as to the facts cf the
offer made,
Pure
Drugs
When you hLave
to use them you
wr.at something
dependanic — It
pays. We put
the best and only
the best in our
preseription or
ders. It is hon
est value every
time. Are we
not entitled to
some of your
business?
Just Received a
Fresh Supply of
Bunch Butter
Beans
STEAD’S
DRUG STORE
Phone No. 1
ARE STRIKE INTEREST CENTERS
IN MEETING OF MINE AND
RAIL UNION HEADS.
(By Associated Press)
Cincinnati, June 20.—Interest
here today in the nationwide rail
strike situation centered in the con
ference tonight between officialg of
the miners and railroad shop crafts
uniong where plans for concerted ac
tion will be discussed.
None of the “big four” or trans
portation brotherhoods, was expect
ed to attend the meeting, it was
stated. Members of these organiza
tions are not affected by the recent
wage decisions.
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Board Shoping Repiy
' Chicago, June 20.—Formal reply
to the communication of the leaders
of ten railway unions who informed
the United States labor board that
the railroad gtrike would be author
ized if the present referendum
favored the suspension of work, is
being prepared by the hoard, it was
learned today.
The reply to the union chiefs will
not be forwarded for several days.
However, it was said that meanwhile
union headquarters was speeding up
l the strike vete in an effort to have
| it completed and tabulated by Satur
| day.
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BABE RUTH GIVEN
SENT TO BENCH FOR THREE DAY
FOR TILT WITH UMPIRE
Chicago June 20.—Babe Ruth was
suspended for three days by president
Johnson for an altercation in yostmu!
days Cleveland-New York, game, ‘
Ruth later was suspended indefini
tely by Johnson pending full 1'0;)4”'1.‘
of hig argument in yesterdays game. <
Faces Another Suspengion
Chicago, June 20,—Babe Ruth
faces another guspemsion on fine as a
result of his conduet yesterday in
the New York-Cleveland game when
I he was banished in the eighth inning
for disputing a decision. President
Johnson said his action would de
pend on the report of the umpire,
KINSMAN TWO .ORDELE CITI
ZENS LOSES LIFE IN ELECTRIC
STORM l
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Ticmas N. Smith, brother-in-iaw
of Ernest Purcell and 8, M. Watson
of Cordele was killed by a bolt from!
an eleetrie storm while plowing in
his farm yesterday. Mr. Pureell left
this norning to atrmd the fangral
wheel: will be h2'd tomorrow mm:li::gl
Toccoa Account
Toccoa, Ga., June £o,—During a
severe storm this afternoon, lighten
ing struck James Neal Smith at
Avalton, about ten miles from Toe-
Jl'll.'l, and, killed him gustantly. Ac
cording to information reaching liere!
ho was plowing in the field near hisl
home when struck. He was married
and leaves a wife and children, |
In Toceon much damage'was done
to telephone and cleetric wires by
falling troes, some of the largest in
the eity were torn up by the roots
by tic hard wind. 'The rain was the
heaviest in reeent years in thig sec
tion, It is rcported that the hail |
whieh accompanied the sain and
wind did considerable damage to the
growing erops in the country.
rMRS A GALBREATH HURT
"IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
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i In a automobile collision which ce
curred in Eleventh Avenue last night
‘u|'|y'».\'ih~ the Circle Theatre,, - Mrs A
Galbraith was painfully though not
sericusly hurt., She and her hushand
were in a Ford car while the other
was a Buick roadster driven by Mr
I. ‘W, Dasher of the Cordele Fish &
Oyster Company, Mrs (Gialbraith sus--
tained cutg about the face and several
'hruiw s. The men are nol injured. The
cars' ere considerably smashed up,
\Tht-)-' collided in the middle of Hml
street and ne one has as yet placed
the fault. 1
ESTABLISHED IN 1908,
MINISTER AT CANTON
ASKS FOR WARSHIPS
PROTECT AMERICANS
PADRICK ADMITS
- KILLING HIS WIFE
AND HER MOTHER
MAN HELD IN AUGUSTA JAIL
SLAVS JEALOUSY PROMPIED
DEAL
Augusta, Ga., June 20,—Elliott
Paddvick, charged with killing his
wife and mother-in-law whose bodies
were found in an automobile between
Clito and Dover Ga., yesterday has
| lodged in Richmond ecounty jail here
! early today.
In a statement given to newspap
er men this morning Paddrick told
of the double killing. He gaid he
killed his wifc because he was jealous
but his mother-in-law’s death was an
accident,
Two Found Slain
Stateshoro, Ga., June 20,—Mrs. M.
B. Dixon 38 and Mrs. Padrick 18 her
daughter were found slain in an auto
mobile between Clio and Dover late
this afternoon. The hushand of Mrs
Padrick was arrested ecarly today by
Bulloch county officers and taken tc
an unknown place for safe kecping.
The women had driven ,to €
where they were they were met by
Padrick. A short time later the bodies
Mrs. Dixon on the front seat and Mrs
Padrick in the rear seat were found
by a paSserby. An alarm was given
and Paddrick was overtaken officerg
two miles from Sylvania Padrick and
his wife are alleged to have been
separated, {
FORMAL OPENING
~ RICHMOND REUNIO
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MORNING SESSION WAS GIVEN
OVEE TO SPEECH MAKING
Richmond, Va., June 20,—Surround
i ed by traditions of the old sgouth
l\'(-h-r:um of the Confcderate armies
officially opened their annaul re
union here today. The convention
was called to order by Geeral William
B. Freeman, commander of the Vir
ginia division, and General Julian
Carr, commander: in chief who Jater
iumk the cnair,
The session was given over to
| speech making.
60 CIAL
BOTH HAVE NOT DEPOSITS OF
FIFTY MILLIONS IN MONEY l
. New York, June £2o,—~The New|
' York. Life Insurance and Trust Coms|
pany and the Bank of New York, ’
two of the oldest, most congervative
financial institutions in the Uniln-:lI
States soon will combine, action to!
that end having been taken :nlrr-:ulyl
by the controlling intcrests in both
companies, '
The new company will have a ('2l]!l';
tal of four million, surplus and undi-|
vided profits of twelve millions :unli
net deposits excecding fifty million
ATLANTA MAN DELIVERED AN
NUAL ALUMNI ADDRESS
Athens, June 20,—Today is alumni
day at the commencement of the Uni
versity of CGeorgia and many alumni
oration,
CORDELE COTTON MARKET
Good middling closed —-...-.._.. 2260
NEW YORK COTTON
January ....... 2183 2234 2160
March . .. .. 21> 22720 2146
quly ... ... 2276 2204
October _. ... 2220 2270 2189 ¢
December ..... 2206 2248 :176!
THIS NEWSPAPER
Devoted to good Farming
and Industrial Development
for over 100,000 neople,
NUMBER 189
SHELLS DESTROY -
AMERICAN HOMES
IN CHINESE WAR.
REAR ADMIRAL STRAUSS IS EX
PECTED TO SEND QUICK RE-,
LIEF - ;
(By The Associated Press.) :
Peking, June 20.—Three American’
buildings in Canton were gtruck by’
shells during Sunday’s bombardment
of the city by the gunboats of Sun
Yat Sen, who has been trying futile
ly to recapture his stronghold.
Jacob Gould Schurman, American,
minister, has asked rear admiral
Strauss to rush protection to Canton’
and American gun boats are expected
to proceed there.
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SEC. WEEKS SAYS MANY
MILITARY SCHOOLS IS ;
GOOD SIGN IN AMERICA
Lexington, June 20.—Secretary
Weeks / gpeaking to the graduating
class at Virginia military institute,
hailed as a “‘good sign” the increas
ing number of military schools in the
country. The increase, he said, must
be a “great satisfaction to those
believing in adequate military pre
parednesg.” ;
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HON. WALTER R MCDONALD
IS HERE CAMPAIGNING FOR
MURPHY CANDLERS POSITION
Hon Wilter R. McDenald blind
member of the Gecrgia house of re
presentatives wag here today with
hig wife campalgning for the place
on the Georgia Railroad Commission
now held by ifion Murphy Candler who
is retiring. He declares he is finding
a great deal of encouragement in the
race. He was in fine humor and ap
parently enjoying the campaign,
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STORM SETS FFF BURGLAR
ALARM, POLICE CALLED
Augusta, Ga., June 20,—A squad of
blue coats and a small army of eiti
zens rushed to a down town store
here late yestcrday afternoon when
a burglar alarm went off and set up
a din that could be heard several
blocks. A hasty search of the store
revealed that the high wind during
a storm had blown open the fromt
door and pulled the electric wire at
tachment to the alarm from its fast
ening.
One of the gmartest midsummer
wraps is of black crepe embroidered
with an intricate pattern of eyelets
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