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‘GEORGIA WEATHER
Partly cloudy tonight and
Saturday, slowly rising
temperatures tomorrow,
VOLUME NO. 9
GOV. WALKER'S PENSION MEASURE IS GIVEN SENATE APPROVAL
£ ETERANS
GOESTO Y
pEws OF PASSAGE OF PENSION
BILL IN SENATE GETS WILD AP
- PLAUSE IN HOUSE
ATLANTA, March 5 (#)—By vote
of thirty-one to nothing the senate
teday passed the Culpepper bill pro
viding for payment of past due pen
sions to Confederate veterans. The
bill which was recommended by Gov
ernor Walker provides that for a per
iod not to exceed six years rentals ac
cruing from the state owned Western
and Atlantic Railroad shall be dis
continued and the proceeds thereof be
used to pay pensions which have been
outstanding since 1922. |
The bill now goes to the governor;
for his signature. ;
This was the first act of legislation
passed hy the extraordinary sessioni
called by the governor to consider pen
sion payment, highway bong issue,
and schonl hond issue.
" The house machienry proceeded on |
twelve cylinders today. It passed five |
local bills and launched into debate on
an educational measure. '
Schoel Merger Measure i
The senate next passed the bill by
Harrell of the Twelfth 'which would
'po"m‘t municipal ang local scheol sys- .
tem to repeal their present education
al systems and conform or merge |
with the county system. The senate !
then adjourned until tomorrow.
The house was informed that the
senate had passed the Cnlpepper bill |
and the receipt of this information |
provoked much applause. |
When the pension bill is signed by ,
the governor, who recommended the '
measure, nearly tne thousand eligible |
confederate pensioners will receive |
past due pensions running from abouti
a hyndred and seventy-five dollars to
.;woi.hundred and fifty dollars each. '
Thig amount will be in addition to the |
regular 1926 pensions of approximate
ly twq hundred dollars per capita. |
DUTCH TROOPS SLAIN }
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BY CHINESE BAND
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BATAVIA, March s—(#)—Ten |
Dutch soldiers were killed and six |
wvounded in a fight with thirty Chi-- |
nese who attacked a Dutch patrol |
near Achin, Sumafra, yesterday. The |
patrol lost seventeen rifles to the’
mbels. ‘
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-I\Tré.f,,He!'n'y'Mashbum and Mrs.!
Mildred Rountree, of Rochelle, were
visitors here on Wdnesday. i
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and convenient
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Cordele Coca-Cola
Bottling Company
Cordzle, Ga. Phone 87
J ‘-‘i C.Towns, Manager
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
Countess Cathcart Wins Fight To Remain In America
FEAR STORMY SCEMES OVER COUNCIL SEATS AT LEAGUE NATIONS MEETING
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
FOUNDATION GOES
AFTER LIGUGR RING
{ APPEAL TO WOMEN OF COUNTRY
! IN SERIES OF QUESTIONS ASK
| ED ABOUT LIQUOR CONTEST
! WASHINGTON, March 5 (&)—Put
'ting itself on record as resenting what
[it termed “wet propoganda being cir
;culated by heavily financed whiskeyf
!rings,” and “scurrilous charges that,i
:'ninety percent of our school children
\carry hip whiskey flasks,” the Susan !
}“B. Anthony Foundation today address-;
jed a questionnaire to the women’s or
‘ganizations asking how the women of;
.this country can best unite upon a'
tlaw enforcement policy. ]
! The questionnaire asked amom:;E
“other things whether the recipent fav-f
cred deportation of aliens for violat-f
'im: American laws and a “habitual
‘criminal act which would sentence to !
‘a life term those continuously violat-?
ing the law.” This is to include “gun
‘men, hold ups, and bootleggers of nar--
‘cotics and whiskey. i
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STOCK MARKETIN
2 X BE K 4 N
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ANOTHER BATTIE
'BEAR TRADERS LAUNCHED SAV-|
- AGE ATTACKE ON POPULAR IN-,
; DUSTRIAL ISSUES “
. NEW YORK, March 5 (/2)—Another |
'-batt!e between obnposing speculative
forces developed in today’s stock mar-jl
let. After prices had heen msrked |
up one to; nearly nine points in the
first half of the hour, presumably at
tracted by yesterday’s brisk recovery, !
[ bear traders launched a series of sav-i
‘age attacks against popular industrial |
; issues.
WOOLEN MILLS PROPOSE
|
~ COMPLETE SHUT DOWN
!
| PASSAIC, N. J.,, March s——(.lP)——§
Operators today had under consid
io:‘at,ion a prcposal for a complete !
shut down of the Woolen mills and
it,he strikers hailed yvesterday's
peaceful parade of four thousand
workers as a moral victory over the
'police who have broken up a pre
vicus gathering. :
Approximately seven thousand
workers are on strike and four
thousand more would be afftected by
; the shut down.
NEW YORK STARTS BIC
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SALE MEMORIAL !
COINS |
' NEW YORK, March 5 (£)—The sale
of two hundred anq ({fifty thousand
iStone Mountain Memorial coins at dou
ble their face value started here to
flay under the directorship of a con1~;
mittee headed by Bernard Baruch.
Governor. Smith and Mayor Walker
‘are members of the committee. :
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VIARKTTS AT CLANCE
NEW YORK COTTON
MAYCHR i 1088 1924 1930
IS i 18080 1802 1805
Decembet ... 1718 1700 1706
CORDELE COTTON
Migaling closetl e 10 18
LOCAL CREAM MARKET
'Standard butterfat ............... 42 1.2
PEANUT MARKET
Choice Clean No. 1, per ton ... $lOO.OO
CORDELE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1926
Fight to Convert Muscle Shoals ;
Into Big Fertilizer Making Plant
SMITH BATTLES
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- TOUSEPOWER FOR
- BENEFIT FARMERS
i ' 4 i SN
fSENATE IN AGREEMENT TO
¢ VOTE ON SHOALS ISSUE AT
.+ MONDAY SESSION.
| WASHINGTON, March s—The
' senate today agreed to begin voting
. on the Muscle Shoals resolution and
- amendment . Monday afternoon.
- Unanimous consent was obtained on
the motion of Senator Heflin, dermo
| crat of Alabama, after he had fail
‘ed to obtain consent at any time
. earlier than Monday.
é Would Use for Farmers
', WASHINGTON, March s—(P)—
- Muscle Shoals would be turned over
to the Department of Agriculture
-to be used for the benefit of the
- benefit of the farmers under a joint
resolution prepared by Senator
’ Smith, democrat, of South Carolina,
author of the original Muscle
wboals legislation.
- Smith plans to introduce his reso
lution as a substitute to the pending
! ‘cuse concurrent resolution that
would authorize a joint congression
al committee to negotiate a private
‘ iease for the shoals. Under the
. Smith resolution the property would
"be turned over to the agricultural
: department: for the production of
i fertilizer and other materials for the
benefit of the farmers.
| TERY \ VAY
PLANKING ONEV
TERGUGH CORDELE
: i g i 3 a
EFFORT TO SEND HIGHWAY
OUT TO NORTH END OF CITY
. AND MAKE SEVENTH
. STREET WHITE WAY.
' Plans are under way in Cordele to
. send the highway out to the extreme
north end of town and over the
Scuthern Railway lines back to the
National, thus making the run
Jdirough Cordele one long drive. This
‘hanwe, it is urged, will make it pos
. «ible for Cordele to have one of the
ettiest white ways in the whole
state.
Several hundred citizens have sign
«d a petition to the city commission
asking for the change and it is now
a matter of general community in
| terest. The cost, it is pointed out
! will be small in comparison to the ad
| vantages which will be gained by
| the change of the routing of the
higchway into Cordele at the north
nd. The county commissioners are
taking the bend out of the south end
of the highway and there will be a
I straight approach for more than
| two miles.
DR. PINSON WILL
EMINENT METHODIST DIVINE
WILL BE HEARD AT FIRST METH
ODIST CHURCH SUNDAY
Dr. W. W. Pinson of Nashville,
Tenn. will occupy the pulpit at Mecth
odist church Sunday morning.
Dr. Pinson is one of the outstand
ing men of Southern Methodism and
Cordele is favored in having an op
portunity to hear him and give him n
full house.
Mr. Henry Jennings will sing a solo
and there will be other special music.
A church in the little Dutch vil
lage of Bloemendaal has a radio-cast
ing station in its tower for the pur
pose of disseminating the church ser
vices,
AND DAILY SENTINEL
FGOD TRUST GETS
- BY WITH EIGHT
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' ..UNDER COURT ORDER TO DIS
! POSE OF VOTING STRENGTH
¢ IN SEVEN OTHERS.
NEW YORK, March 5-—The Na
! t‘onal Food Products Corporation
| today wa s under federal court con
i sent decree curtailing its activities
i to prevent a possible monopoly in
| foodstuffs.
i The decree orders the corpora
‘ tion to dispose its holding of voting
| strength in seven food concerns
! within sixty days. It was permitted
! to retain stock in eight others no two
i of which, however, operate in the
same part of the country.
B s e
DR. ALONZO SCOTT
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NOTED EX-SLAVE WILL BE HEARD
' IONDAY, TUESDAY AND WED
' NESDAY NIGHT AT COURT
| HOUSE
" Dr. Alonzo Scott, noted exslave,
‘negro singer, poet, and orator, will ap
!‘ it in coneerts as the court house
iat seven-forty-five o'clock Monday,
] Tusdoy and Wednesday nights of next
iweek. He was here two weeks ago
! and made a wonderful impression on
his hearers which consiste dof large
‘audiences of both white and colored
i peonle.
| Hhe argues that the best friends of
:g!u\ negro are the best southern white
i'people. Old time negro songs and
| humorous chort stories are included in
‘the program. There will be separate
seats for both whites and colored and
‘there will be no admission charge.
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' Mr. and Mrs. Britt Williams have
as their guests for the basketball
tournament, Bennett Foreman and
Lamar Plunkett, of Unadilla,
NMisses Martha and Annie Caudle are
ire the week-end with relatives
in Waverly Hall,
Garden
Sea.ds
And our bhest serv
ice along with them
Please continue to
think of our store
when there is care
to be exercised
ibout a preserip
rion you need.
We have good gar
den seeds for our
cardening friends
and customers.
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Stead’s
Drag Store
PHONE NO. 1
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SHELLMAN WINS
- MONTEZUMA ALSO |
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- LESLIEOUT ONTOP.
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TODAY'S BASKET BALL CONTESTS |
' BR!NG LARGE ATTENDANCE AT!
EACH STAGE OF TOURNAMENT .
. Shellman easily took the first game
joi the Middle Ceorgia basket ball
!tcurnament . today when the battles
;Cpened at Standard Stadium, Hawk
insville being defeated in a score of|
]fox‘ty-one to six. The Shellman ag
| gregation was much stronger at all
! stages of the game and never was one!
i time in danger. The Hawkinsville
toam remained in the hattle to the .
vend, though, econtestine every gain |
{ made
. In the same which followed Monte- |
i,zuma had a harder battle with Pine
hurgt hnt won in a geore of twenty
four to sixteen. Thece were the only
two games scheduled for the morning.
i This afternoon at two-thirty Vienna
swung corners with a good rivel in
-'Lumnkin. but the latter loct to the
fast Vienna five, the score being forty
five toeleven That tall hoy, Camp- !
bell, of the Vienna five is plaving an-'
‘unbeatable game and the eizhteon m'}
, twenty hich scheols that have had a
"mfl\- in on his playing are finding it |
| hard sledding. !
l Tieclie put the TTnadilla team mll‘i
i of the tournament in the cecond mmr\l
!n!‘ tha afternoon today in a score of’
l? 1 to 12. Both teams had alreadv met |
and defeated their rivals in yester
l day’s contests. !
| Teclin had a hairraicine hattle last
[ nieht with Plains anq went to the
=ound of the whiatle in an even crore
of twentv to twenty. In the extra five
I minntaa added 7,ociln crared throo
‘noints and thns ecame out victor. This
| was far the hest hattle the tonpna. !
}'nunt has afforded during the series
thng far. Several timea thean twn
frams were an even score in the game
amd only the added five minntes ant
| tleq it.
i Cordele was to have nlaved Rich.
Tand in last night's contest, hut Rich-
Innd filnd ta oentor at tha Jaat mo
ment and thus the Cordele team hasg
net vet, gone into a hattle. The localsg
- will play Ashburn tonisht in their first
contest of the series, These two
teams will enter the fray with an even
‘eore of the nast season. Cordele has
defeated Ashburn in one game and
“Ashburn hag defeated Cordele in one.
"\«hhm'n is in the tournament with a
very strong team and the locals are
rromised a hard battle. This game
is scheduled to be played at eight
thivte tonijolt
Shellman will tackle Montezuma in
‘the game following at nine-thirty.
’ These teams are very evenly matched, |
‘ as their playing so far in the murna-z
- ment has shown and there ig a battle
~ royal ahead for them, {
| The semi-finals will be played Sat- |
| rrdav morning at ten-thirty anq the
| Ainals at eight-thirty Saturday night. |
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Two Fisted Killer Replaced
By Gunman—Miss Booth
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. March 5
~——The picturesque two-fistad
criminal of a quarter century ago is
wone and in his place is the young
weakling who kills with a gun,
vangeline Rooth, commander of the
salvation Army, told the Lion’s
Club here, ‘
“I am appalled,” sald Miss
Booth “at the great number of
voung men in prison who are killers,
The old timars in prison were not
killors,”
| It was Mi:s Booth’s first public ape
~ pearance since she came here Satur
il day to recuperate from an illness. l
ESTABLISHED IN 1808
(HAMBERLAINTO |
HAVE FREE HAND |
N LEAGUE MATTER
BELGIUM AND POLAND AND BRA.
ZiL ALL CLAMOR FOR SEATS IN
LEAGUE COUNCIL I
LONDON, March 1 (/P)—Sir Austen
(‘hamberlain, secretary of foreign af
f2irs, is to have a free hand when he
005 to Geneva fo rthe meeting Mon
day of the League of Nations before
which is to be threshed out the ques
tion of new permanent seats in the
League council, |
It is the announced purpose of
Chamberlain, however, to do nothing
which will militate against Germany
becoming a member of the Jeague.
(Germany opposes admission of new
members other than herself at this
{ime. i
|
Stormy Scenes Feared
The German delegates are about
{ Inany for (ennvp Theyv are ex
pecting fair treatment, but a feeling
ne uneasiness poervades tha tthere may |
be stormy scenes over the allotment
of permanent seats.
The Belgian foreizn minister has |
wold the Belgian chambero f deputies |
that he thought Belgium and Poland
‘Hould b 2 elected to permanent seats. !
Brazil, if not given a permanent
seat, will contenq for the richt to fil"
the permanent chair held for the Unit
ed States' until that country r]er-id/'.k‘.;
to enter the League and oceupy it. |
PR PICKARD WILI,
PREACH SUNDAY
SUFPLY PASTOR OF FIRST BAP-'
TIST CHURCH WILL BE BACK AT
HIS POST OF DUTY HERE
* Dr. W. 1.. Pickard will he hack in
the pulpit at the First Baptist chvreh
lere Sunday and will preach at hoth
thours. . He has been away filling en
wagements during the npast month, |
but will be here regularly from this
2 Mo
Dr. Pickard is one of the ablest
preachers in the state and hasg al
ready in his short time here made
the work he is dnine of orcat valne
to the chureh and congregation. {
Don’t Cry Over
Spilt Milk
Spult WVin
If you have suffered losses
in the past, forget em. Plan
anew, work hard and save.
This bank is certain surety
against bank losses in the
future and pays interest on
your savings, too.
WIB 1K W N 3B ’! @&
GOO A T TR A N
bt 4% AT\ i frandd SR S WSN B | QA
ORDIELE, GEOIWA '
PLEDGE OF LOYALTY |
1 shall welcome in my com
munity of all methods and
measures that have proven
beneficial in other commugi
ties.
NUMBER 9%
COURTRULEDIN
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PT.ANS HAD BEEN MADE TO
SEND HER BACK TO ELLIS
ISLAND HAD SHE LOST HER
FIGHT. )
NEW YORK, March s—(#)—The
Countess of Catheart won her suit tn
main in this country today when
Federal Judge Bondy sustained w
writ of habeas corpus after Distwiet
Attorney Buckner had entered in the
record that adultery does not ¢om
stitute a erime under the laws of the
mnion of South Afriea.
The countess had been refused 14- .
mission by immigration authoritigs
on the ground of moral turpitade gf
ter her admission that she had 8-
companied the Earl of Craven to
South Africa from England while
both were married.
Preparations . had been mpde o
return the countess to Ellis Islagd
immediately for deportation, shouid
she lose her fight in federal court.,
Countess Surrendered . '
NEW YORK, March 5-—-(")*--
Vera, Countess of Catheart, surpep
dered to United States Distriet 4t
torney Buckner today before %‘
opening of the hearing on her h§-
beas corpus petition to obtain = ¢@ei
trance into this country. "- _.3;
ANNUAL INSPECTION OF y!
LOCAL TROOPS TONIGHT
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The annual inspection of: vfia
Cvisn Volunteers will take place ¢
tha armorv here tonight. Captdin
Eph Matthews and the members ‘of
“he company have been busy 'gil
wool: making their plans for the .jx_iv
spection. Captain Fall of the rége-’
far armyv in charge of the Flor&h
National Guard, will be in charge:ot
the inspection here. Colonel Kim-
Lroneh has promised to come alsp,
and it is hoped that he can be here.
NEW PILAN URGED FOR
FARM RELIEF .
PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, March s—(P)—
A new plan for farm relief based an
1~ Dickinson bill was presented to
e house agricultural committee to
day by a middle west delegation ap
(il at the Des Moines Agricul
al conference.