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GEORGIA WEATHER
Fair tonight and Saturday,
colder tonight
VOLUME NO. 9
ATTORNEY GENERAL CRITICISED BY LAMIER FOR SCRIPT STAND
REPRESENTATIVE LANIER SAYS
NAPIER WRITES TWO DIFFER.
ENT VIEWS. :
ATLANTA, Ga., February 26—At
torney General George M. Nopier
was criticised in the house today by
Representative Lanier of Columbia.
Lanier asserted when the Confed
erate scrip bill was before the house
" at its last session, he obtained a let
ter from the attorney general stat
ing in his opinion the bill constitu
¢ional and the attorney general later
jssued a statement to the press La
nier said stating in his opinion the!
bill was unconstitutional. Such ac
tion Lanier said was: “reckless to the
point of inefficiency. 1
Assembily Adjourns
ATLANTA, Ga., February 26-——Af—|
ter a thirteen minute session senate
of the Georgia general assembly ad-1
journed today until Monday. Nol
business was transacted. ‘
Thomaston Kiwanis
Favors Pay-As-You-Go
Highway Paving Pian
THOMASTON, Ga., February 26
—At the regular meeting of the
Thomaston Kiwanis Club Tuesday |
evening the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution entertained with a
special dinner for the occasion. The
tables were arranged in a large let
ter K, 50 feet long and were dec
* orated in red, white and blue stream
ers and flags, with a cherry tree in‘
the center. Cherry pies werz2 in pro-'
{us.on. ,
“:After the dinner. the pupils of the
sixth grade of the lo=al school. Missl
Emma Jacks , .eacher, gave al
Waszhington Bt day proginm.
The following resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
w hereas, we vers wmuch desirce to
have paved roads in Georgia, we do
not believe that conditions at this
time justify a state bond issue for
this purpose: therefore be it resolved l
that our representative and state
senator be urged to oppose a bill
which will be introduced for an
election for this purpose. We also
pledge our hearty cooperation to the
state highway department in a pay
as-you-go plan for paving.”
Upson county is spending consid
erable money on its main roads and |
hopes to have one of the best ruadsl
running north and south, also cust:
.and west, in the state, : :
The local orchestra interspersed
the meeting with national airs. }
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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
COOLIDGE SIGNED MEASURE TO
i DAY WHILE CAMERA MEN FORM
ED CHORUS AROUND
. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (P)—The
‘new tax reduction bill became law
today, as President Coolidge gave it
his formal approval. The measure
which provides for reduction of three
hundred and eighty-seven million dol
fars in the amount of taxes to be paid
/by the American people this year, was f
signed by the chief executive in, his
offices as a battery of camera men re-}
fordede the scene. The bill received
final congressional sanction \Vednes-:
lday and was transmitted yesterday
‘to the white house from wlhere it wasj
‘sent to the treasury for review‘before
ihcing signed by the president. Inl
;signing the bill the president madoi
1o comment as to its provisions or |
probable effect. ’
| Eisgsen il e e
EDUCATORS RAP |
ANTI-EVOLUTION]
NATIONAL BODY GOES ON
RECORD AS OPPOSED TO BAN|
ON TEACHING THEORY. I
WASHINGON, February 26—(#)
—Anti-evolution legislation is con- |
demned in resolutions adopted by thel
department of superintendents of the
National Educational Association,
one of the largest groups of educa
tors il the country.
Five thousand teachers were pres
ent and the resolution was approved
unanimously. Action on the report of |
the resoluticns committee ended the |
annual convention of the associa-}
tion here. |
Text of Resolution |
The resolution said: {
“While legislation seeking to con-l
trol the subject matter of the cur- |
riculum may impede educationali
progress it has not the power to al-!
ter, modify or set aside any immu-!
table law of nature, of science or of:
God. !
“Only that education can be free
which provides under conditions ap
propriate to the student’s age, com
plete liberty to seek the answer to
any honest question.
Although evolution was not speci
“ically mentioned in the resolution,
it was common Kknowledge that the
law which made possible the trial of
John Thomas Scopes in Dayton,
Tenn., was the target. John R. Neal,
one of the defenders of Scopes, had
urged its passage before the resolu
tions committee. It was pointed out
that statutes such as the Tennessee
anti-evolution law were spreading to
other states. During the convention
here, the legislature of Mississippi
passed a law very similar to that
which was tested in the famous case
at Dayton. |
Gaston B. Means Leaves
N. Y. For Atlanta Pen
NEW YORK, February 26—(&P)—
Gaston B. Means, brought here from
Atlanta federal penitentiary, where
he is serving a two year prison term
to testify in a grand Jjury investiga
tion of the American Metals Com
pany case, left today on his return
journey. He had heen absent from
prison a month, v
Means formerly investigator for
former Attorney CGeneral Harry M.
Daughertry, was examined concern
ing the transfer of securities of the
American Metals Company by former
alien property custodian, Thomas W.
Miller. No part of his testimony has
been made public.
QUARTERLY CONFERENCE
AT METHODIST CHURCH
The first Quarterly Conference of
the Methodist church will be held
this evening at 8 o’clock in the Sun
day School room, All the officials of
the church are urged to be precent,
and all who wish to attend will re
ceive a hearty welcome,
CORDELE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1926
| BIG TOURNAMENT
- INLOCAL COURT
“, STANDARD AND LOCAL BOYS
l NEED HOMES FOR MANY MORE
BOYS FOR THURSDAY OF
I NEXT WEEK.
| Superintendent Standard and the
| local basketball squad have found an
embarvassing situation developing
out of the failure to find homes for
the 150 boys who are coming here
i next Thursday for the three days
l basket ball tournament staged by the
' Middle Georgia Athletic Association
! Unless the homes of the community
‘are thirown open to the high school
boys ceming 1t is going to be diffi
cutl to take care of te visitors.
Superintendent Standard said to
day that there is yet quite a number
—over half of the visitors not taken
care of. Something will have to be
done very promptly in order to
meet the situation. Cordele has a
- fine stadium and surrounding con
ditions which make it convenient for
the visitors to come here for tth
tournament and the local school en
thusiasts count themselves fortunatc‘
in being able to bring this big school
athletic event here. ‘
There will be some twenty high
schools represented. Many visitor:
will come to the games to boost for
‘their teams and it is expected thatf
this will be one o fthe really fine.
high school athletic events of thei
whole basket ball season in Georgia.
Te arrangements are moving in fine
form save for the slow offering of
‘homes for the members of the teams
who will ave to be ouse during thel
tournaent. l
. Cordele lligh is going Into this
tournament with great e.\:pe’:tutions.!
Some few of the teams in this tourn
ament have shown greater playing
ability than Cordele, but the locals
are coming throught with an excel
Eent showing.
CORDELE GIRLS
| VICTORY
|
SNATCHED
PUT BYROMVILLE OUT OF VIENNA
TOURNAMENT IN YESTERDAY’S
FIRST CONTEST
The girls of the Cordele ligh bas
j&et ball team put Byromville out of
!thc running in the girls high tourna
ment now under way in Vienna in
itheir first game yesterday afternoon.
i'l‘he score was 37 to 7. This was 2
|remzn‘kuble and a surprising victory
]‘for the local girls.
: This afternoon Cordele High girl:
'play the girks from the Cochran A. &
M. and they have a harder fight to
make. The Cochran girls have plenty
of athletic record behind them and
they will diminish the chances of the
i(,‘m-delp girls by several stages. The
JJocals went through the contest yes
'terday with Byromville in the finest
iikiml of form, and tlmy.huw- a battle
today to offer (ochran.
INBIGRO= CARNTRIN 5 L, i
| i
. Chralie Wynn, negro, was arrestei
in Daytona a few days ago and held
~for Sheriff Noble on a charge of mur
fer here. Wynn killed another negro
named Burch in the fall of 1920 near
!;lm Kyle Drug Store here and skip
lpml out,
i He was captured by C. J. Luke ai
tOrmond and held in Daytona jail and
.smmr Nobl2 returned here with the
prisoner this morning,
‘ i Rl L sAo
YOUTH IS HELD
~ FOR AUTO THEFT
Claude Posg, fifteen vear old mem
cber of a family on a farm near Penia
i in the Crisp county jail under charg
lof having stolen the automobile he
longing to Temming Bland, Jr, last
night here,
i On a phone message from Mr, Bland
[the police at Unadilla took him in and
{the car was recovered. The hoy is
lhr*l(l here pending trial,
AND DAILY SENTINEL
APPROPRIATION BILL
REPORTED TO
HOUSE
| WASHINGTON, ' Feb 26 (#)—The
appropriation; bill —carrying seventy
!ninv millicn, eigt ffi't.\’-:w\'vt: thon
sand dollars for depattments of state,
justice, commerce and labor was re
ported to the house teday by the ap
propriation committee. The amount
'is two million three firty-thrze thou
'sand dollars above Jast year's Dbill,
‘The report of the commitiee said the
three federal penitentiavies are being
loperated efficiently and each peni
r'lvntiary reported continued housing
rbf more than twice the number of
!‘,n'isons estimated to handle. 'T'he
Jrommittee recommended eight six, six
thousand Seventy two dollars for the
'Atlanta federal penitenttary. The cur
irent appropriation is séven six, four
Ithousand dollars; six thousand dollars
also was provided to huild an auh!i-f
tion to the textile mill at the peni
[tentiary, i ,gfifgi
TEHICH IN
CORDEA 1 RS
GAME LESLIE
AME WITH LESLIE
“.CCALS WIILL APPEAR IN CON-!
: TEST AT STANDARD STADIUM"
AT EIGHT O'CLOCK TONIGHT '
. The Cordele High basket ball team !
will engage Leslie High tonight :nf
eight o'clock at Standard Stadium iu!
basket ball contest. This ig lhul;
{ix-st turn the locals have taken with |
Leslie and it is a guess as to what |
will be the outcome. |
Plans have been made by the lm-ul‘
team to give the visitors one of the |
hardest battles ever offered by thv]
season’s fine aggregation. Cordele |
has a boys team which is making its '
record in the game. E
MARKETS AT CLANCE
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LOCAL CREAM MARKET
Standard butter-fat ... o 42034
PEANUT MARKET
Choice Clean No. 1, per ton ... $lOO.OO
DRUGS
And
Garden
Seeds
And our best sery
ice along with them
Please continue to
think of our store
when there is care
to be exercised
thout a prescrip
“ion you necd,
We have good gar
den seeds for our
gardening friends
and custoniers,
4 y
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Drug Store
PHONE NO, 1
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FLEVEN DEATHS
- IN MIDDLE WEST
, e A
'HIGH WINDS. SNOW AND RAIN DID
| GREAT PROPERTY DAMAGE
[ MR
' CHICAGO. Feb. 26 (P)—Eleven are
|dead and scores injured as the result
of high winds, storms in the middle
west. Sweeping out of the northwest
pnd Texas yesterday, a storm struck
,Lhu central part of the country accom-'
panied by heavy rains and snow, at a
velocity of sixty miles an hour, caus
ine incalculable property loss. |
Buildings were desiroyed, lulcgruph!
and telephone lines damaged, and
traffic delayed. i
A.B. & A. FORECLOSEURE
i |
AWAITS 1. €. €. ACTION
ATLANTA, Ga., February, 26—
First steps toward bringing fore
closure proceedings in behalf nfi
bondholders of the Atlanta, Birming
ham & Atlantic railroad will be
taken as soon as approval of the sale’
of that railroad to the Atlantic (,‘nu\‘l,:
Line is given by the Interstate (':.m-f
merce Commission, it was ]vhrn«-di
Thursday, following announcement
of the closing of the deal made Wed- |
nesday by Colonel B. L. Bugg, rv-!
ceiver of the Atlanta. Birminah:lm!
and Atlantic. !
While the sale plans awaited :m-‘
proval Thursday the stock of the At- |
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail- |
road took a tumble when the New |
York stock exchange opened Thurs- |
day morning. according to dispatches ‘
from New York. The stock was nl!;
fored at $2 a share when the ex-|
change opened, as compared to $4 a
share, the closing price Wednesday. |
In the announcement of the S:ll('i
plans it was stated that no provision |
had: been made by the bondholders’ |
committee for the participation of |
the stockholders of the Atlanta Bir- |
mingham and Atlantic railvoads in
the new company which is to be
formed to operate the line. |
ED C. NUTT PLAYERS
HERE NEXT WEEK
Business Agent “Dad” Zelno, who
has not been in Cordele for over
{wenty years, but who is still remem
bered by some old timers says the
Ed Nuit shows is the Show Beauti
ful, so-called because it ig different
from 01l others of its kind.
The tent ig the only onc of its
kind in the United States. The
scenery is a work of art. The plays
are all rovalty plays. several of
which were written especially for Ed
C. Nutt, the oldest and best known
comedian under canvas today.
They do not carry a band, but they
have the best lady orchestra in
America. They carry vaudeville per
formers who do not take part in the
regular show, Mr. Walt Pruitt is ac
knowledged by press and public to
he the funniest comedian in vaude-
Noble the champion Charleston
ville. “Little Quick Silver” Geue
dancer of the Sunny South, and oth
ers are in thecasts,
This tent positively does not leak.
and is steam heated by & new pro--
cess, This show is composed of
maney, brains, and talent. Thirty
five people are carried besides a
working force, Positively no smut or
cugeestive expressions used on this
show. You have seen the rest, Now
see the best., Al next week., The
thow that never misrepresents.,
PENSION MONEY
| have in hand $£50.00 for each Con
['-d-‘:';m- soldier and widow who wasg
Riving on IF'eb. 15th. "This money can
‘.m he paid on funeral or last illness
oxnpoense
Please give prompt and proper af
',~h7i'll: to the following also: | wish
illl bills for funeral and real last ill
ness expense of every pensioner who
has died sipce 1921, Each bill must
e properly made up and properly
gworn to, not as ‘“just due and un-
Puid,” bnt for faneral and last illnes:
{‘l'X)N'llx""\',
W. P. FLEMING, Ordinary
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
|
U. S EXPORT TRADE
| DIRECTOR KLIM
f ST
| PRESSURE OF OVERSEA RIVALS
CAMPAIGN BEING FELT IN
‘ THIS COUNTRY.
-
WASHINGTON February 26—(2)
-Dr. Julius Klein director of bu
reau of forcign and domestic com
merce, told the house appropria
tion sub committee in a testimony
made public today, that “export
‘trade of this country faces a serious
crisis an dwhich urgently requives
the continuance of an encouraging
policy followed.
Since 1921 and the outstanding
problem, he explained “is the coming
contlict for foreign markets, attend
ant upon the economie recovery of
one of our overseas rivals has launch
our Kuropean competitors. Every
cd a most aggressive drive against
our export markets and pressure of
these campaigns is already being
felt by our exporters, in Many im
portant trade centers, especially in
Latin America and the far east” He
said Amercian investments abroad
total about nine billion five hundred
miilion dollars. exclusive of govern
‘ment war leans.
MRS. BOUTELLE KILLED
WHEN STRUCK BY AUTO
|
sy 1
ATLANTA, Ga.. February 26—
Mrs. Letha Boutelle, of Smyrna, Ga.,
a bookkeeper for M. Rich & Bros.,
was instantly killed Thursday morn
ing near the Mozely station on the
Marietta car line,, when she was
struck by an automobile driven by A.
(G. White, of Cartersville, Ga., ac
cording to reports received in At--
Janta. |
Witnesses stated the accident was
uravoidable and White overturned
his car trying to avoid striking Mrs.
Boutelle, Neither he nor his brother,
Van B. Whitefi Cartersville, who was
riding with him, were hurt when the
car overturned. {
No charges have been m:ulu%
against the driver of the car which
struck Mrs. Boutelle. {
Reports stated that Mrs. Boutelle
was standing at the station waiting
for a Marietta car, when Miss (}l;ul.\':\“
Carsley, of Fair Oaks, and Miss l"lus‘-l
sice Stewart, of 421 Woodbine ;n':--!
nue, Atlanta, drove by and invited |
her to ride with them. Mrs. Buutollt-‘
started across the road and despite
warnings of the two women, stepped
dircetly in the path of White's car, I
Power Of
Interest
The man who has never ex
pericneed the power of in
ferest to inercase his wealth,
cannot guess its strength,
NSave with us and learn the
seeret, . i :
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GEORGIA
STATE BANK
CORDELE, GEORGIA
| PLEDGE OF LOVALTY
| I shall welcome in my com
| munity of all methods and
| measures that have proven
| beneficial in other communi
:i ti"S.
NUMBER 88
PENSION BILL i
i
| & i
~ AND BOND BILL *
! 3 '
IN HOUSE TODAY
~WOULD LET GOVERNOR DIS
COUNT FUTURE RAIL RENT
AL FROM W. & A. :
ATLANTA, Ga., February 26—
(/P)—A bill by Representative Cul
pepper of Fayette, providing for pay
ment of past due Confederate pen
sions was reported favorable to the
house today. The bill authorized the
governor to discount future rentals
from the Western and Atlantic
railroad for a period not exceeding
five years. A bond bill introduced to
day by Representative Lindsay of
DeKalb authorizing the state to is
sue bonds not to exceed one hundred
million dollars, to construct a sys
tem of hard surfaced paved high
ways. The bill made no provision for
a bond commission. Both house and
senate adjourned until eleven o’clock
Monday.
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Trick of Nature Results
In Birth Twin Canaries
DALLAS, Tex., February 26—(&)
Two canary birds from one egg is
the unusual trick of nature reported
by Miss Addie L. Clark, of Dallas.
The mother bird started with three
eggs. Miss Clark said. The bird broke
one and Miss Clark another, leaving
the third egg which produced two
birdlings. The twins are normal and
are among the hest she has seen,
Miss Clark said.
Twin birds are reported by bird
fanciers to be very rare.
Building At Way Cross
Continues Very Active
WAYCROSS., Ga., February 26—
Several important real estate sales
were announced here today.
Q. L. Garrett purchased a lot in
Cherokee ieights, where he expects
in the near future to erect a home.
H. D. Hereford, prominent hard
ware merchant, purchased three lots
on Sweat street.
Washington Wins Next
Convention Of Builders
OKLAHOMA CITY, February 26—
()—Washington, D. C., was chosen
as next year’s meeting place by the
National Association of Builders’ Ex
changes at the final session of its an
nual convention here late today.
The zelection came after Miami,
I']a,, and Pittsburgh Pa., had waged
a spivited fight for the convention.