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GEORGIA' WEATHER
Fair tonight and Wednesday,
not quite so cold tonight,
warmer Wednesday.
VOLUME NO. 9
BATTLE FOR VOLSTEAD ACT CONTINUES BY CHURCH LEADERS
W. H. THORNTON IS
E. B. LANE FIRED FOUR SHOTS
INTO UPPER CHEST AND
SHOULDER IN - MORNING
TRAGEDY.
E. B. Lane, local bank teller, shot
W. H. Thornton local dray line op
erator four times, all taking effeci
in .the upper chest and shoulder this!
morning at ten o’clock as the two{
men met in the street near the post-‘
office following differences which‘
arose between the two men when
Miss Lillie Thodnton, sister of the{
latter went out of the bank where{
Lane is employed, it was said be
cause the two, Lane and Miss Thorn-‘
ton, did not get along together in
their work. ‘
Lane is a member of one of the
leading families in Whigham, Ga.,
and has been a bank employee for
years. He has been in Cordele some
twoyears. Mr. Thornton is popular in
Cordele as alho is his sister, both be
ing reared here. He is married. The
wounded man’is in a local hospital
in most critical condition, but still
alive at noon. Lane is in custody.
pending the outcome. ‘
The tragedy caused deep sorrow
and regret on all sides because of
the high esteem in which both princi-}
pals are held throughout te communi
ty. |
Surgeons tis afternoon reportedi
four shots had taken effect, two in!
the shoulder and two in the upperi
chest. One shot penetrated the lungs
The patient is in most critical condi-]
tion and over night developments!
will only tell whether he will be ablei
to pass the crisis. ‘
‘No statements regarding the oc-i
currence have been made regarding
the shooting, though it was witnessedl
by several people. f
-yt REAGAN FUNERAL
~ M’'DONOUGH, Apr. 20 (#)—Funeral
servicgs for Judge E. T. Reagan, kill
ed yesterday afternoon when his au
tomobile was struck by a freight train
at Milner, Ga., will be held here to
orrow.
‘Reagan was formerly judge of the
Old Flynt circuit, attorney for the
Georgia Public Service Commission,
chairman of the state Democratic ex
- ecutive committee and mayor of Mc-
Donough. - His widow, two sons and
three daughters survive.
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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
ADVOCATE U. S. JOINI
ST. LOUIS HOST GO TO SEVENTH
ANNUAL MEET LEAGUE o©OF
WIOMEN VOTERS.
1 ST. LOLIS, Agril 20.—(&)—Immedi
ete entrance of the United States m-'
‘fo the League of Nations was rstong- |
ly advocated before the sevenih
annual convention of the League of
Women voters by Mrs, I. W. Harrisoa
of Lexington, Kentucky A delegate;
here today. “If we are not ready now
to take our seat in the vacant chairl
awaiting us at The-vi;éagues, fi(;ou'g}c‘iqli
Table,”” Mrs. Harrison decldred, #£it
least we can work with it'in t\tfi,&fr" :
efforts to eradicate cvils and Temove |
perils th!at have no res‘pect “for {
National Boundaries.’* - |
MACON MAN MAY BECOME CAN-}
DIDATE FOR CONGRESS RU
- MOR SAYS. 1
ATLANTA, Ga., April 20—There
is a good bit of gossip going thei
rounds today that John T. Boifeuifletl‘
of Macon, who recently was re
placed.on the Georgia Public Service
Commission by executive appoint--‘
ment, following the death of Hon.l
Paul B. Trammell, will probable be
a candidate for Congress from the:
Sixth District for the seat held by
Congressman Sam Rutherford, who
succeeded the late J. Walter Wise. ‘
In capitol circles it has been pre
sumed that Mr. Boiffuillet would of
fer to succeed himself on the Pub
lice service Commission. He admits
though, that he has had quite a
large number of letters from the
Sixth district, urging him rather to
make the race fod congress and that
he is turning the matter over in
his mind, but has not yet reached
any conclusion.
These who know Mr. Boiffeuillet
well believe” the Washington post
would appeal most to him in view
of the fact that he served so long in
Washington with Senator Bacon, and
thereafter in the diplomatic service.
Two other names mentioned in con
nection with congressional races as
prospective candidates from the state
superior court service are J. F. Eve
and Judge Roop, but nothing direct
has been heard from these men.
TRIAL WIFE MURDERER
PUT OFF TILL JULY TERM
COLUMBUS, _(;a—:_April .‘!o_—‘(l]-))--1
The trial of Jesse Whitley for the
murder of his wife called at Hamilton
vesterday was postponed until the
regular July term of court, on account
of the illness of the defense attoiraey
Lake Superior, the largest expanse
of fresh water in the world, has an
area of 31,800 square miles.
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CORDELE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1926
MAN SAYS HE WAS REQUESTED T 0 SLAY MATE
HEARD DR. JONES’
2o |
LECTURE ON’ SCIENCE OPENS
CHAUTAUQUA SEASON COL
LEGE SINGING GIRLS SPLEN
DID PROGRAM. i
The College singing Girls, one of!
the' leading attractions of the cur-;
rent chautanqua season, proved a'
strong drawing card. at the opening‘
of the seventh annual session of thel
Redpath Chautauqua in Cordele yes-!.
terday afternoon. The large tent
was filled with young and old who!
vigorously applauded the efforts of!
tl_l‘e fair quinted to- provide whole- %
Jsome -entertainment {or a period of
more than hour. '
= The musical company appeared in
numerous popular songs, humorousg
interpretations and folk songs, the
latter in costume. Readings of a
humorous nature and several piano
‘selections completed an. unusually
strong repertoire which was hailed as
indicative of many good things to
fcllow during the chautauqua season
At 8:15 the College Singing Girls
‘again appeared in a thirty miuutei
prelude, among their numbers being.
a folk dance in costume and the
“Baseball Song” which was given in
the afternoon and repeated by re-|
quest. ) |
The lecture by Dr. Hilton Ira’
Jones, noted chemist and for the past
nine years head of the Redpath Re
search Bureau, proved the big at
traction and inspiration of the even
ing. His subject was entitled
Science and the Future. In ‘these
day of big battles between modern-*
ists and fundamentalists onc might
think that he was going to go over,
the well beaten path in a lecture of |
this title, but not so. Not a hint of!
any kind that he had ever heard of |
this controversy was drovoped from.
his lips during the entire lecture
which was a wonderful feature. ‘
* Dr. Jones being a practical chem
ist, dealt with the facts of the most'
wonderful of all sciences strictly andf
alone. He brought to his hearers a|
feast of good things from the
chemical laboratory with complctc§
ease of manner and a clear forceful
style, in which humor mingled with
solid fact, he drove home to his hear- |
ers the wonders of modern science
and the findings of those who devote,
their lives to the study of the chemi-|
cal compounds in nature. 4 !
He told how out of seemingly,
waste materials, many of the most
wonderful things in every day use
were made. He spoke of the vast
quantities of cotton seed one time
going to waste in Texas but the]j
chemist discovered that the oili
would make. soap, cooking oil and!
even olemargarine. Then he showed|
the wonderful things the chemist had |
done with common sawdust, spinningt
the product into. He assured the
ladies present that perhaps the hose.
they were wearing were not made of |
silk at all but cast out of sawdust. !
Dr. Jones told most graphicallyl
Low the next war would be one of |
the battles of the air, and of loteral!
extermination. There are now gases!
discovered which are so virilent thatt
eight 500 pound tanks of it would;
destroy all life in the City of New|
York in half a day. i
Of the future he said that if|
chenical knowledge was properly ap=
plied it would make the world a!
paradise in which to live and bring!
to pass that part of the Lord’s Pray-l
er, “Thy Kingdom come, thy will bc'
done o nearth as it is in heaven.” |
This afternoon Dr. Lestern N.|
Stearns will give his lecture recital,!
Shakespeare and life . o
- |
In the evening the Colonial Hal'p{
Ensemble Company will give an (xri-|
nal musical production featuring the
Shepherds Dream. They will alsui
give an original musical pruductiunj
featuring the Shepherds Drcam.i
They will also give a thirty minute|
prelude to Dr. Stearn’s lecture in thel
afternoon,
Sep—
HUSBAND KIL '
9
WIEE AND QRDERS 1
COFFINS FOR BOTH
L |
POLICE FIND MAN IN BASE.
MENT DPRUNK WITH GUN IN
HAND. |
NASHVILLE, April 20—(P)—Re
iterating that he shot his wife Mrs.
Fay Kline Sharp, “by request,” Wal
ter Sharp, forty two,: theatrical em
ploye and charged v@jth killing her
early this morning at their home
here, declared that the only thing
worrying him was having “to wait to
get mine because it will be about two
months before they take me to the
pen and I will get mine in the chair”
He denied he was drunk at the time
of the killing. Soon after two this
morning the police were advised by
a local undertaker that Sharp had
called them ordering caskets for self
and wife and that the bodies be
sent for. The police frushed to the
home and found the §wozan dead
and Sharp in the bas@ment with the
gun in his hand and ih a drunken
condition they said. ‘
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
WANTS TO ISSUE BONBS
Cai |
WASHINGTON, April 20—(P)—
The Central of Georgia asked the
Interstate Commerce Commission
authority to conditionally issue five
million three hundred ninety six
thousand dollars, five percent re
funding and general mortgage bonds,
W. B ROGERS DIES
IN TENN. HOSPITAL
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FUNERAL OF FORMER CORDELE
MAN HELD HERE THIS AFTER
NOCN [
The death of Mr. W. H. Rogers, of |
Atlarra, occurreq Monday morningf
in a hospital in Johnson City, Tein., |
following an iliness of some mont]:s.’
Mr. Rogers was an employée of the
Southern Railway, and formerly :'o-t
sided in Cordele at which time he \vz.sl
connected with the local freight offico
He was well known and ponular
among a host of friends here who will l
be grieved to learn of his untimely |
death. He was twenty-seven yenrs!
of age and surviving him are his '-.v‘i'n,!
who was before her marriage Miss |
Epsie Jane Avery, of this coum,v;’
two children; his mother, Mrs. M. I).‘
Rogers, of Cordele, two sisters, Mrs.'
Mclnues of Albany, ang Mrs. Clara}
Kennedy of Lakeland, Fla., and a;
brother, Mitchell Rogers, of this city. |
The remains were brought to Cor- |
dele last night and funeral svrvicc:;;‘
were Leld this afternoon at thrnei
o’clock from the First Baptist church |
of which the deceased was a 11mmb0r.§
Fev. Mr. Greer conducted the services 1
and interment was at Sunyside. i
Friends here extend deepest sympn-]‘
thy to the breaved family. ’
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STEAD’S DRUG STORE
. PHONE NO’l
BUILDING NEARING COMPLETION
SUSTAINS LOSSS OF $75,000.00 ‘
ROME, Apr. 20 (/)-—~The new l)oys'E
dormitory, nearing completion at the
foundation school of the Berry schoolg
burned early today at an estimated
loss of sevelity five thousand dollars.
The forty-five room two-story struc
ture of native stone was to have cost
two hundred thousand. l
The walls are helioved undamaged.
The foundation school is an elemen-l
tary department of institution an(ll
five miles from the man part of the
school.
HUMBLE CARPENTER
OFFERS MONEY |
TO BRIAND |
\
PARIS, April 20—(P)—Aristide
Briand, premier and foreign minis--
ter of France, has returned to a
humble carpenter of the town of
Moulins a one thousand frane note
sent him for pccket money “I have
just learned,” the carpenter wrote,
“that you are paid only ninety
thousand francs a year—about
three thousand two hundred twenty
{ive dollars—please find enclosed a
thousand two hundred twenty five
franes note forivour incidentals.”
Briand made reply, refusing the gift
SYSTEM OF BUS
* LINES PLANNED
‘LARGE- EASTERN. COMPANY. 18
MAKING SURVEY OF GEORGIA
| i
ATLANTA, Ga., April 19—It de
’veloped here today that, according tc
'infcxmation recently given memblers
cf the legislature hy Capt, William
Gordon Roper, a large Bastern con
icern, engaged at the present time in
Emakz‘ng a survey of the State of
‘Georgia for the purpose of putting in.
’to operation an extensive line of inter
tcity motor buses, the purpcse being
!to“ connect up the several larger cities
{of the state with these motor trans
:l“ol'tation lines,
% Captain Roper ig also’ quoted as
iszzying that arrangements are in (he
{making by the companies which have
beén operated similar transportation
lines in Florida during the Wintar
ithat the Florida companles are mak
:ing plans for dividing their equipmen®
!::n(l bringing a large part of it to
{Georgia for operation during the
; Summer,
| In addition to this information it
iis learned that other interests are ar
il‘anging to begin in a short time a
"daily bus schedule between Atlanta
land Asheville N. C.,, and bhetween
!(,‘hatmnooga and Asheville,
’ The Georgia organization of hus op
;el‘atm's, it is learned, are opposed ¢
all of these plans, on the ground that
the proposed Eastern development
will bring into the State a concern
with large capital which will so cut
|pricns that the smaller operatovs in
Ithe state will be unable to continue
!business and then after the smull
!o))erators have been frozen out, prices
!will be raised so that the public wi'l
(have to make up the loss to them,
! In respect to the coming of equip.
ime.-nt commonly used in Florida for
[lin- winter the confention is that
ithwsz\ transportation units will oper
lute on the reads of the state during
the best part of the year in CGeorgin,
!\vilh no comparitive cost to thems
iselvcs, and marely by the payment of
Elh:- tag fee, which Georgia owners
;wnm-ml is unfair to the companies
]\\'hi(-h live in the gtate all the time,
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
FOR KIDNAPPERS OF‘
TAKE GIRL FROM STREET%
CROWDED WITH ICHILDREN
AND SEND NOTE TO FATHER. \
m——— \
Police this morning reported the
recovery of Emma Martuccoi the
tend year old daughter of a wealthy
Brooklyn tile manufacturer kidnap--
ped had demanded a six thousand
dollar ransom,
NEW YORK, April 2)—(P)—A
squad of twenly detectives today
searched for kidnappears who whisk
ed Emma Martucei, aged ten from a
street crowded with school children
and sent her father a wealthy Brook
lvn tile manufacturer a not threat
ening death to the girl and the en
tire family unless he paid six thous
and dollars ransom. The note was
delivered by a telegraph messenger
in less than half an hour after the
girl disappeared. It instructed Mar
tucci to give the money to the West
ern Union messenger Wednesday
morning, otherwise “we will kill your
whole family; you are closely watch
ed:’’
- TWELVE MEN INJURED
, ;
. WHEN BATTERY EXPLODES
YI [———
t NEW LONDON, Conn., Apr. 20 (&)
—Twelve men, members of the crew
of the ship forty-nine which was moor
ted at the dock submarine base here
were injured this morning when &
| battery exploded. All were taken to
a hospital. One may die.
l The battery was under process of
being charged and throughout the
inight escaping gas fumes were believ
ed to cause the explosion. A tre
mendous shock concussion hurled the
Qlozen men against a side chamber,
some suffering effects of gas and fire,
but fractured Ilimbs constitute the
greatest injuries. About thirty men
in the forward battery escaped with
apparently little injury. |
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SMALL ROCF FIRE
Slight damage was done to the
Fourteenth avenue residence of Mr.
Arthur Wheeler yesterday afternoon
from fire in the roof. Prompt work
of the fire department soon had the
blaze under control and only slight
damage resulted.
T TT—
It is foolish to throw away
a dollay which might be
working for you. Save and,
at the start, draw savings
interest. Later, as surplus
accumulates, vou can invest,
Let us help to guard you
from speculation, by our ex
perience,
e s . e e s
GEORGTIA
CORDELE, GEORGIA
|
' PLEDGE OF LOYALTY
| I shall welcome in my com
! munity of all metkods and
| measures that have provei
. beneficial in other communi
| ties.
NUMBER 133
METHODIST AND
“HOLD OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC BROK
"EN IN CONVENTIONS,” SAYS DR.
BARTON
WASHINGTON, Apr. 20 (}P)—ngh
dignataries of the church carried the
battle today as the drys pressed for
ward to close their case for the Vol
stead act.
William Frazier McDowell, regident
of Washington, bishop of the Méthod
ist Episcopal church and a meémber
of the temperance prohibition and pnb
lic morals board of his denomination
read a paper declaring against any
weakening act.
Dr. Clarence True Wilson, generat
secretary of the same board said “we
are well satisfied with the resulty of
prohibition, all things considerad,”
'Wilson said “We have broken tho
hold of the liquor traffic on nomiaat
ing conventicns and we think we hate
today the cleanest politics in out his
tory. ' ;
Dr. A. J. Barton, of Kansas 15",
chairman of the social service gommit+
‘tee of the southern Baptisl cotlv.a . -
told the committee that Baptists ol
the south “are a unit” against modi
fication of the Volstead act. Charges
that prohibition has corrupted Ameri
can youth was declared false by Dr.
Daniel, a poling of New York, presi
dent of the United Christian Endeav
or,
old Ladies’ Home Demands
Pheto Of Film ‘‘Shiek”
WASHINGTON, April 20-—Ap
parently it’s not the flappers who
are the most devoted followers .of
Rudolph Valentino.
Inmates of “old ladies’ homes”
always demand pictures with the
modern “sheik” according to €. C.
Pettyjohn, counsel of the moving
picture producers and distributors of
America, who opposed the Upshaw
censorship bill before the hguse edu
cation committee today.
MURDERER CAUGHT
BUFTTALO, N. Y. April 20.—4(.4’)-'
Howard Barr of Nashville one of the
trio held here and who it is alleged
escaped from the Tennessee peniténe
tiary is wanted in Indianapolis for
murder, the police are informed and
will be turned over to the Indiana
authorities,