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VOLUME NO. 9
WRIGHT SLAYERS DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR, PROTESTING INNOCENCE
© PART INMURDER
WARDEN DUNAWAY GIVES
_NEWS AFTER TALK WITH MA
\-‘}. “ CCN WELFARE WARKER.
5\ STATE PRISON FARM, MIL
JEDGEVILLE, Ga., March 25—(#)
. \=Floyd McCltlland has confessed to
's part in the murder of Prof. W.
..+ Wright, aged Eatonton educator,
* Mareh fourth 1925.
.News to this effect was conveyed
to Judge B. H. Dunaway, warden of
the state prison farm, at ‘7 o‘clock
this morning shortly before McClel
land and Ted. Coggeshall, jointly
convicted with him, were to die in
the electric chair. |
Judge Dunaway received the news
in & telephone jconversation with a
Mrs. Bigbee, Macon welfare worker,
who was a close friend of McClelland
while he was confined in the Macon
jail. : 1
‘After having been up late last
night in conversation with friends |
afd.in.attendance at a nfidnight
prayer service, arranged by . the
church people of Milledgeville, Cog-i
geshall and McClelland passed a |
destless night in which apparently
+ they slept little. '
The jailors said McClelland was
astir early, - Coggeshall awakening |
shortly aftérward. They were served i
wifli an enticing breakfast, but ate
sparingly. - |
’L|UGai. flh oayerpinc r d uu?
DENIAL APPLICATION: l
~ OR RAILWAY EXTENSION
WASHINGTON, ‘March 25 (&)—The
examiner's. report submitted today to
the Internftgq@;' Gommerce Commission
recommended denial of the applica
tion of the South Georgia Railway to
construct .an extension thirty-five
miles long in Florida from Hampton
’prings to* Deédn\an’s Bay. :
(‘fr!L BILL BEATEN
« & FING 'MEASURE 1S REJECT--
N ) BY SENATE BY 46-33 VOTE i
WASHINGTON, March 25—(&P)— |
The Gooding long and short haul’
bill was defeated today by the Sen--
ate. : I
‘ _The vote on the measure, which |
would have prohbiited railroads from
charging highernipates” for short
hauling than fdtflong hauls was 46
to 33. Aeab leroves Loens iy
. How delightful
am%{ convenient
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by the case
Cordele Coca-Cola
Bottling Company
Cordele, Ga. Phone 87
& A.C.Towns, Manager dis
THE CORDELE DISPATCH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
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COGGESHALL WAS
’ .
~ FIRST TOPAY WITH
HIS LIFE FOR CRIME
'BOTH YOUNG MEN MADE NO
~ SHOW OF EMOTION IN DEATH
MOMENT. # ‘
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., March 25
()—With denial of guilt on " thier
lips and without showing a quiver of
emotion, Ted Coggeshall of Clayton,
Lllinois, and Floyd MecClelland of
Brockton, N. Y., today died in the
electric chair in expiation of the
murder of nggfessor W. C. Wright
of Eatonton on March fourth, 1925.
‘Coggeshall, the first to go, was
brought into the death chamber at
twelve twen%'-'three, after his fath
er and brother had said their last
good byes and the first shot of cur
rent was sent through his ' body at
twelve thirty. A moment * later a
second shot was administered and at
twelve thirty-four he was pro
nounced officially dead by five at--
tending physicians. |
Removal of the body was accoms
plished quickly and at twelve forty--
five MeClelland took’ his place in
the chair. The first shocks were
given and after the required three
minutes it was found he was not
yet dead. The third shock was given
and he was pronounced officially
dead at twelve fifty-eight. |
Coggeshall’s body was taken by
the family and will be sent home to
Illinois, |
. McClelland’s remains will be sent
to his mother. , |
On Tuesday, March 23, the Geor--
gia prison commission heard counsel
for the condemned men make pleas
for recommendation to executive
clemency. William Schley Howard,
chief of counsel for the men, spoke
for more than two hours, and his as
sociate, Joseph. Pottle -of Milledge--
ville .also made a lengthy address,
asking that the commission act as a
court of equity and recommend
mercy. i |
The commission took the matter un
der consideration Tuesday afternoon
and on Wednesday morning an
nounced that the application for
recommendation had been declined.
Following this action counsel for
the condemned men and Solicitor
General Joe B. Duke of the Ocmul
gee circuit appeared, respectively,
before the governor and argued for
and against executive clemeney. So
licitor General Duke asserted that
the Coggeshall-McClellan case had
been one of the “fairest, most order-‘
ly trials” he had ever taken part in
or had ever heard of. Defense coun-l
sel praved for mercy from the gov-i
ernor on the grounds that there
still remained ‘‘a reasonable doubt”i
of the idenity of the two men. |
The governor late Wednesday af—}
ternoon issued an gexecutive order:
denying the application for commu
tation of the sentence to life impris-‘
onment and preparation at Milledge
ville went ahead for the e]ectrocu--‘
tion. i
l Friends here will be interested in
the announcement that Prof. K. B.
Fdwards. formerly a teacher in the
Cordele public schools, will sing to
night in a solo on the radio at WSB
in Atlanta sometime between nine
and ten o’'clock.
NEW YORK COTTON
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CORDELE COTTON
'liddling CIOBSA ivuiiiiiviiin 10 18
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i LOCAL CREAM MARKET
Standard butter-fat .................. 40 1-4
PEANUT MARKET
Choice Clean No. 1, per ton ... $lOO.OO
CORDELE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1926
FIRST QUARTER INCOME TAXES EXPECTED TO SHOW $430,000,000
WILL NEED ONLY SIX MILLIONS
TO BE EVEN WITH AMOUNT
LAST YEAR. .
WIASHINGTON, March 25—(P)—
Income tax collections for the first
quarter under the new revenue law
are now expected to reach four hun
dred and thirty millions, or within
six millions of the ‘collections a year
ago under the higher rates
STATUE OF LONG
T0:BE UNVEILED
TWO DAUGHTERS WILL UN.-
COVER NATION’S TRIBUTE TO
ILLUSTRIOUS GEORGIANS.
WASHINGTON, March 25—The
daughters of Dr. Crawford Long,
Mrs. Frances Long Taylor and Miss
Emma Long, will be the ones to un
veil the statue to their * illustrious
father on next Tuesday in Statury
Hall in the Capitol when the eighty
fourth anniversary of the discovery
of ether anesthesia will be celebrated
A committee of twelve from the
University of Pennsylvania Club of
the District of Columbia will be
present to lay a wreath upon the
statue as a {ribute from the alumni
of the universiay where Dr. Long
graduated in medicine.
Senator Pepper will represent the
nnivercity itealf. Ahant two hundred
Georgians are expected to be pr
ent and the hall is being prepared
for such a number. The statpe has
been shipped from the Georgia Mar
ble Company, where it was made
and is expected to arrive shortly,
when it will be draped and made
ready for the exercises. Such ar
rangements being directly in the
hand of David Linn, the capitol ar
chitect. The sculptor is John Massey
Rhind, and the carver James K, Watt
WANTS LARCE SIM
ALLEGED SUNDAY LAW VIOLA--
TION GOES AFTER SHERIFF
WITH SUIT FOR $20,000.
# . ——————
MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 25—(&)
—As a- price for alleged . false, im
prisonment for four hours on charge
of violating the Sunday closing law
of 1803, W. W. Thompson filed suit
for twenty five thousand against
sheriff Will S. Knight here today.
Thompson charges that he was ar
rested March seventh at his soft
drink stand and grocery store and
held at the county jail for four
hours. No warrant was served on
him to legalize his arrest, Thompson
charges, and he was held without
bail under the sheriff’s orders.
FELDER IS HONORED
Friends here will be pleased to
know that H. B. Felder is making a
fine president of Kiwanis in Tifton.
When Dr. Baker left for Florida, the
Tifton Kiwanis immediately |named
Mr. Felder to lead them. He is a
former Cordele man and is popular
;n Tifton.
Bacon County Clerk
Removed From Office
Wins For Reelection
ALMA, Ga., March 25—G. W. Mc-
Clellan, former clerk of Bacon su--
perior court, who for impeachment
at the January term of the court
and removed from office on the
charge of using jury scripts that did
not belong to him, and on 11 other
counts, announced for the office
when a special election was called by
the ordinary and was reelected last
Monday. A committee of citizens is
protesting and have asked Governor
Walker to refuse him a commission.
AND DAILY SENTINEL
BOND. ADVOCATES DELAYING VOTE ON EDUCATIONAL ISSUE
| TO RHINELANDER
s =W
NEW YORKER WILL APPEAL
| FIGHT FOR SEPARATION FROM
i' NEGRO -WIFE
' POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., March 25
)i\'.lP)——Supreme Justice Morschauser to
flay denied Leonard Kip. Rhinelander
’a new trial in his annulment action
‘lgainst his negro wife, Alice Jones
iTchinelandc:', which was tried before
Justice Morschauser in Westchester
county supreme court al White Plaing
last November. :
{ It is understood Rhinelander will
appeal to the appellate division :in
/Brooklyn from Justice Morschauser’s
sruling.
iONE DEAD. EICHT
| HURT IN TORNADO
'STORM STRIKES IN TEXAS OIL
VILLAGE DOING GREAT DAMAGE
| vy
' ORANGE, Texas, March ‘25 ()—
One dead and eight injured was the
toll of a tornado that struck Orange
Village and oil field, seven miles west
of here thig morning.
; In addition about one hundred der
ricks were blown down.
MINERS STICK TO
'UNITED MINE WORKERS WOULD
OUST PEPPER AND VARE IN
PENNSYLVANIA
'"HARRISBURG, Pa., March 25 (/P)—
United Mine Workers and their
friends are determined to elect Gov
ernor Pinchot to the United States
isonate and defeat Senator George
| Pepper and Congressman William S.
| vare. The governor’s opponents in
the three-cornered race, so asserted
! Philips Murray, international vice
‘fpresident and Thomas Kennedy, in
j',crnation:d secretary-treasurer in a
?statement protesting the suggestion
ithat Governor (Pinchot withdraw from
;F?xc contest.
HARRIS WOULD NAME
SONS OF SERVICE MEN
WASHINGTON, March 25 (£)—A
bill authorizing the president to make
certain additional appointments to
West Point and Annapolis to appli
cants who are sons of Amnricap citi
zens killed in the world 'war was in
froquced today by Senator Harris,
democrat of Georgia,
CHIRST CHURCH
J. HARRY ;i—;;LEY VICAR
Come to the Vesper Service Friday
Evening at five o'clock.
Save Your
Baby Chicks
» Put AVICOL
® in the drinking water
Avicol is guaranteed for the
treatment and prevention of
white diarrhoea or baby chick
Choll)eerl?t;i\%.‘s‘ll ‘t 1:: p.‘xdt): ?1?1 dl n;;.lx.-
Seld Under a Moneys
Back Guarantee,
Stops Chick&Dying
STEAD’S DRUG STORE
PHONE NO, 1
SENATE ELECTIONS COMMITTEE
IN FAVOR OF SEATING STECK,
DEMOCRAT, FROM lOWA
WASHINGTON, March 25 (P)—A
majority of the senate election com
mittee ypted today to recommend the
ungeating of Senator ‘Brookhart, Te
publiczn, in favor of Denidl F. Steck,
Hamoerht oo 1T EEATECH DR,
Ad Tia i AR oo aEiy b N
DEBATING TEAMS
FIRST BATTLE TOMORROW NIGHT
AT EIGHT-FIFTEEN IN sCHOOL
AUDITORIUM
The affirmative team reprdienting
the Cordele High, Misses Ella Wehlitz
and Annie Mae Brooks, will enter the
first battle of the preliminary debates
in the Third District contest at the
high school auditorium here at eight
fifteen tomorrow night with the af
firmative side of the' question, 0
“Resolved, that the political solid
arity of the south is'mot .to the best
P)t‘eresi of this section.” This local
;a‘t‘tle'will besagainst Ashburn High.
The negative team will debat Fitz
gerald tomcrrow night at Fitzgerald
'pn the same question. These debat
g.'s are Miss Francis Gower and Is
bael Roobin. The high school teams
coming out of the preliminaries ‘with
*he highest score will tackle each
pother in the April meet at Dawson. ‘
~ COME HERE SOON
i & ANNZ
REV. CARL BARTH PREACHES
LAST SERVICES IN MACON
SUNDAY--CHOSEN BY PRES
BYTERIANS.
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[ Rev. Carl Barth has been chosen
as pastor of the First Presbyterian
church in Cordele and will come to
take up work in his new field at the
close of the week in Macon.
' On account of a pleasing surprize
| for Rev. Mr . Barth and his wife in
’ théir Macon home is included in the
' following from the Macon Tele
graph: © Loy
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{ MACON, Ga., March 25-—~When
. Rev., Carl Barth, pastor of the East
Macon Presbyterian church and his
i wife were invited by the Ladies Au
| xiliary last night to come over to the
{ church for n little while they went
| wondering why.
i When they arrived they found the
ientire congregation of the church
! waiting them. Rev., Mr. Barth won
t dered if he had made a mistake and
{ forgotten all about prayer meeting,
| but the thought, “It isn't Wednes--
‘ day night,” The Ladies Auxiliary had
| prepared a surprise party for him
l on the eve of his departure for an
! other field.
l Sunday evening Rev. Mr. Barth
will preach his last sermon to the
East Macon congregation. He will go
to Cordele Presbyterian church. At
the surprises services held last night
the pastor and his wife were pre
' sented a large silver vase as a token
|of love and appreciation
from the congregation for the past
! five years,
SILVER SERVICE TO
COME BACK TO
GEORGIA
WASHINGTON, March 25 (2)—The
genate today passed without record
vote the bhill authorizing the secretary
of the navy fo deliver to the State of
Georgia the silver sorvice presented
years ago to the United States for
the battleship, Georgin,
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
ON WOODLOCK AT
ROW WITH COOLIDGE OVER NEW
YORK MAN COMES UP LATE FRI
DAY
WASHINGTON, March 25 (P)—The
gsenate ‘will settle tomorrow its con
test with President Coolidge over the
nomination of Thomas F. Woodlock
of New York to the Interstate Com
merce Commission. :
Under unanimous consent an agree
ment was reached today that a vote
will be taken not later than five o'cloc
tomorro wafternoon.
CHANGE TO MONTHLY SYS.
TEM CAUSES WALK OUT ' OF
1,700 IN COAL FIELD.,
WHEELING, W. Va. March 25—
(#)—Seventeen hundred miners em--
rloyed in three mines of the Elm
Grove Mining Company went on
strike today in protest against a
company order placing in effect a
system of monthly payroll distribu--
tion.
Wages previously have been paid
semi-Monthly. The strike was called
last ngiht by sub-district officials of
the the United Mine Workers. - Jo
seph Arkwright, general manager of
the company, said no arrangements
had been made to confer with
union leaders.
20 MILLION AUTOS IIN
USE IN UNITED
; STATES
——— T g
WASHINGTON, March 25 (£)—
More than twenty million automobiles
were in use in the United States last
vear, of which nineteen million nine
hundred and fifty-four thousand threo
hundred and forty-seven ... .
tered and ninety-six thousand were
state and federal government owned
vehicles, the bureau of public rcads
reported today.
The total is one car for every five
and eight-tenths persons and an in
creage of thirteen and four-tenths per
cent.
O '
All Winners Are
o ‘ i
Persistent
The fact that you have fail- e
ed in some of your past ef
forts, ought to make your . |
future suecess more prob- :
able. We will gladly help
vou to keep trying—until
you win.
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CORDELE, GEORGIA: .
LA e R e B T R ]
PLEDGE OF LOYALTY -
I shall welcome id my co%j
munity- of ‘all’ methods and
measures. that. hava. proyfi |
beneficial in other communi:
ties. R
NUMBER 111
IWHOLE WEEKIS -
3 Y
~ ORDER BUSINESS
'CONSIDERATION OF aoun“r‘nué
POSAL WILL GO OVER TikLk
. NEXT WEDNESDAY « it
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ATLANTA, March 26 (#)-Plans;
which would assure a vote on the
proposed twenty-three milliona in edity’
cational bonds by .next Wednesday,
‘were offered to the house t“"‘:.-&”i
the rules committee. =, - .
At a meeting held .hefore the dayp's
session began it was decided to'recofd
.mend that consideration - of ’th"é"‘fio;f{
| proposal, which 'was begun"yeifbfi_'iy?g‘
| be postponed until next Thur'sd'iy"ét“
ten o'clock and andther order of Biials
‘ness determined upon. , = - u
No Adjournment This Month &}
| ATLANTA, Gi; Maveh 25—t
When the genersl assembly rgcufitg(fi“
ed Thursday it had before it, "4 !?
dition to the nuwerous 'billi"ln”f%-'
I hopper of tbge honte of re'pr’e'ld_f_ifgi'
tives, the definit: knowledge flll %
there would be no sine die adjoutys
meni this month; that the | sengl#
would not ask for mileage: and thag:
I after Thurcuay the 1 wer b.d;\m%
meet at nine o'*lvek and i evaps .
] speaker weadd be limit:d (o twénty"
minutes debate, ek L R
In additior 14 thas sknowhilge’
Ithf-rc was tne predeavily of | sl
passage of ipe amerded * Culpeppér”
bill by the apper brancir thup taking
care of the deficit reported by,
State Auditor under provxs}i?nt jg:’
the original Culpepper measute’ for
the payment of past-due Confid:fi?
pensions. Likewise it loomed. a 8 preh--
‘able that the school bond isafleifif&"
posal would soon reach the‘sm'j&fl
debate that it had reached wlie‘h‘f‘gfie‘”
last extra session adjourned ‘sin'e{;‘;’i,o:"
and the new assembly was convokdd.’
The house Wednesday voted démn’
the propsal fr double sessions. ‘lgB~"
ginning next Monday by 78 to 7%,’
but adopted the proposal that &J’?
Thursday the lower body meet evly |
morning at 9 a. m., instead of at ID, "
in order that the legislative day MBy,
be lengthened and work may prge.
gress on -the flood of measures fiafi
before it. L i
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Hunt :léft"
yesterday by automobile for Atl&g"b%
where they will spend several' day¥.::