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GEORGIA WEATHER
Mostly cloudy and cooler.
probably showers on the
coast toniglt.
VOLUME NO. 9
GERMANY WANTS TO BAN PLANES, TANKS, GAS AND BIG GUNS
C(flhICT CAN OCCUR NOW ON:
LY BETWEEN AGGRESSOR
" NATION AND LEAGUE HE
SAYS.
GENEVA, May 20—(#)—Con.
crete proposals to forbid the use of
airplanes and poison gas in wariare
and to suppress heavy artillery and
tanks were put forward t{oday by
‘Germany at the session of the
preparatory disarmament commis
sion. The proposals were presented
by Count Von - Bernstoff, former
ambassador to the United States. (
Von Bernstoff complained that a
number of delegates to the confer--
ence seemed to approach the prob
lem with a view to discovering why‘
nations should not disarm, rather
than finding reasons why they should
He declared the creation of the‘
League of Nations had changed thel‘
whole aspect of the world and mok-‘
ing war is virtually impossible, sinCQ‘w
conflict only could occur between
the League and an aggressor state.
He further complained that Ger--
pany was forbidden by the Treaty
of Verzailles to organize an air de
fense. He added “we can understand
the desire of some countries to have
security because Germany hasn’{
any security. ® iu‘l
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- ISSUE CREDIT PAPER
WASHINGTON, May 20—-(:’!’)»—‘
The reivers of the Savannah and At-‘
lanta railroad asked the Interstate
Commerce Commission today for au
thority to issue five hundred thous
and dollars in seven percent re
‘ceiver’s certificates, the proceeds to
be 'used to retire one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, such ertifi
cates maturing June twenty-ninth
and the remainder to buy new rails
TO CHRISTEN INFANT
L:’?;?NDON, May = 29—(P)—The
eof York’s infant daughter.
Elizabeth Alexandria Mary, will be
christened in the private chapel at
Buckingham Palace May twenty
ninth, it was announced today. .
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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
Three Of Five Senators Resign From Campaign Slush Fund Probe
U. . Army Captain Is
Captive Chinese Bandits
MINISTER M'MURRAY BELIEVED
TO BE ACTIVE IN SECURING
RELEASE.
PEKING, May 20—(#)—Captain
Thomas J. Betts, of the American
army attached to the American
legation here, is a captive of bandits
in Yunn province in one of the most
inacessible parts of China, the lega
tion informed today. Betts is a
native of Maryland.
No Official Reports
WASHINGTON, May 20—(P)—
State and war department officiais
expressed confidence that Minister
Mac Murray was exerting every ef--
fort to obtain the release of Captain
Betts, captive of Yunn bandits.
No official wgports have come
through from Peking on the inci--.
CALLS UPON (CONGRESS TO
PASS FEDERAL CENSORSHIP
BILL.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 20—(P)—
The general conference of Methodist
Episcopal church South, hurrying to
ward adjournment today, scored the
moving picture industry and called
upon congress to pass the federal
censorship bill now pending.
The resolution introduced by Rev.
R. H. Shuler of Los Angeles attack
ed the moving picture industry and
“kirivate lives of those who make pic
tures—the socalled artists.”
MAC BYBEE PLAYERS
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CONTINUE TO MAKE GOOD
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iN BiG TENT THEATRE
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Another large audience witnessed
the performance at the big tent thea
ter last night and this play went
further to demonstrate the ability ot
the players of this excellent company
than any play yet presented.
Tonight they will offer for the
first time here “The Flapper” This
play was written around the modern
flappers of today, Miss Susan Inman
the dainty little leading lady that
was admired during the first half of
the week will have the title vrole.
Mac Bybce will be seen again to
night in one of his ‘Toby’ paris
which he says will be the Gest part
he will ave during te halance of the
week.
Tomorrow night will be the fea
ture play of the engagement “A
Good Little Bad Girl” and again
Miss Inman will have the title role,
Mr. Barton Adams, the leading man
wiil have one of his best parts and
each member of the Company will
be scen to advantage, the staging of
each of the plays will be complete in
every detail as well as a complete
change of vaudeville.
During the first part of the week
the Mac Bybee Players have proven
one of the best stock companys ever
seen in Cordele and Mr., Bybee say«
that the best plays are yet to come.
Special mention ghould be made
of Mr. Murrice Luckett, who always
entertains at the piano for twenty
minutes before the curtain rises on
the play. He also introduces several
songs each night.
GEORGIA ELKS MEET
ALBANY, Ga., May 20—(&)—
Several hundred Elks gathered here
today from all sections of the state
for the annual convention of the
Georgia Elks Association, |
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REAT FIRE LOSS
HETS BALTIMORE
FERTICIZER MILL
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MILLION AND A HALF GOES UP
IN BLAZE WHICH EATS UL¢
SUBURB.
BALTIMORE, Md., May 20—(4)
—ifire wrecked two fertilizer plant:
and damaged property at Canton
Baltimore subrb, today causing a lose
which mav reach a million five hun
dred thousand dollars. The Griffith
and Boyd Company, fertilizer manu
{acturers, lost six hundred thousand
and the Summers Fertilizer Com
pany five hundred thousand.
The zhipping and fire stations of
the Baltimore Copper Smelting Com
pany and Central Chemical Company
were damaged to the extent of twe
hundred thousand. Twelve dwellings
six railroad cars, and as many scows (
and the transmission lines of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company and the gas and electric
company were also damaged
GREAT EONORS FOR
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WEARERS OF GRAY
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VETERANS OF CONFEDERACY
- "SWUNG INTO FINAL BUSINESS
OF SESSION TCDAY.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala,, May 20—
(/P)—Veterans of the Confederate
army today swung into the final
business of their thirty-sixth annual
reunion amid seenes that inspired the
highest enthusiasm.
The remnant of - Lee’s immortlas
wended their way to the mectine
place along :treets lined with cheei
ingg humanity. Sons and duaughlers
and admiring thousands were out o
applaud the gray uniformed warriors
Bands and flags were on every cor
near. Traffic downtown was bloek
ed as the multiplying hundreas
gathered to honor the group who witl
not walk these streels again.
SIX ROBBERS SEIZE
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. 20,000 IN GOLD %
LEAF |
CHICAGO, May 20—(/P)—Twenty
three employees, including three
women, were forced to lic on the
floor while =ix robbers tcok eioht
thousand packages of gold leaf
valued at between fifteen and twen.
ty thousand dollars from the safe of
the Price Gold Leaf Manufacturing
cempany today.
MARKETS AT GLANCE
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NEW YORK MARKETS 1
NEW YORK, May ::o_-«','rn-_f
Stocks, higher; bonds, steady; for
eign exchange, firm; cotlon, steady
sugar, firm: coffee, barely steady.
CHICAGO MARKETS |
CHICAGO, May 20—(4)—Wheat
firm; corn, higher; cattle, steady
hogs, slow,
CORDELE, GEORGLA, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1926
ONLY REED AND
LA FOLLETTE LEFT
ALL THOSE DODGING JOB ARE
REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF
SENATE.
WASIHINGTON, May 20—(/4")—
Three of the five senators named as
member: of the senatorial cam
paign investigating comnittee ten
dered their resignations today.
They were Senators Reed of Penn
sylvania, Deneen of Tilinois and
Bayard of Delaware. The members
left are Senators Reed, democrat
Missouri, and La Follette, Republi
can, Wisconsin,
CORDELE-ALBANY
HIGHWAY BOARD HEARD PRO
POSAL FOR FITZGERALD OCIL
LA STATE AIID.
ALBANY, May 20—(P)—The
auestion of state aid on the Ocilla-
Fitzgerald road and the road be
tween Alpany and Cordele faced the
three members oi the State Highway
Commission today in the last series
of hearings held here cach day this
week.
Following today’s hearing, the com
mission will go to Americus for a
sitting tomerrow and then to Way--
cross for a series of hearing, chair--
man John N. Holder said.
Chairman J."B. Sheppard and
Commissioner Sloan and Williams
tozether with citizens along the
route to Albany, went to Albany this
morning on this hearing. Decision
~will doubtless be rendered at a later
Lie.
The commissioners will go to
Americus tomorrow to appear in the
cffort to open up the Americus-Los
lie-Cordele state projeet by way of
Hugeinin’s where a new bridee will
Le built.
FASHHIONABLE HOTEL
VICTIM Ol
itOUBBERS :
NEW YORK, May 20—(/P)—Four
10bbers entered the lobby of the
iHotel Ambassador in fashionable
Park avenue woday and held up the
cachier and cceaped in o waiting au
tomobile with belween ten and fif
teen thousand dollars, - :
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CANDIES
Ore Sure Friend
is Mother
The world moves on—{riends
ofttimes forgotten in passing
yearsg, but Mother alone is one
iriend who can never fade from
the memory.
How happy the thought of Moth
er's day und how opportune a
gift of Dlock’s Aristocratic Can
dies to express your love,
Mother will appreciate your
sentimenis so sweelly express
ed, Picture her joy as she op
ens her gitt package and revels
in its assembly of Delicious
Rich Chocolates, Tender Nuts,
Fruits and Cream Pieces—all so
delicately blendeq by DBlock’s
Master Candy Makers,
The Aristoerat and Perfeetion
Packages are the most appro
priate packages for Mother,
Fresh Shipment just received
Make your selections today
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PHONE NO. 1
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SESSIONS IN JUNE WILL BRING’
PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS
OF SINGERS TO CORDELE. !
by y i
Local members of the Union Con- |
vention of Singers are engaged in :n'
guict search for a suitable Inc:\linn’
for a lareg building to be erecled
and used as an assembly hall and l,m-!
perimanent hoe of thel body: swhen
that assoeiation weet: in Cordele or
June 18, 19 and 20, That this move
iv 1o be made was developdd at the
reeont Georgia-Florvida® association !
sesions held in Valdosta, Dates were
set for the unien convention here
and it is cxpected that ‘somewhere
near ten thousaid peonle will come u-l
the seszions, Plans are now unie ;'l
way for taking care of these enor- |
mous crowds when thy will cnm(!
here. ; :
Judge J. B. Clements of lrwinvlll(-!
iz president and T, J. Luke of Vitz 1
: A
gerald is secretary and treasurer of
this association. Some of the best
quartets in the south wit perform
oo these meetings in Cordele. Amun:'"
them will be a favorite Vaughn
Quartet, with W. B. Walbert in!
charge, Morris and Hinson’s quurtct‘
of Atlanta, the Giddens quartet, ui
body of four sister singers and
olhers. l
Cordele is to be made the perma-|
nent home of this organization. Its!
meetings here last year were largely
attended and so satisfactory that the
move is being made to foeate here
permanently, :
HAY PROBLEM FOR
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CRISP IS SOLVED
NINE STACKS OF HAY
AVERAGING OVER ONE HALF
TON PER STACKX GROWN AND
PUT UP ON TWID ACRES GF
LAND.
Ry J. K. Luck County Agent
These fizures may sound so un--
reasonable that you at once may de
cide not even *Lo farther consider
seeing this, I grant you these figure:
look unreasonable but I trusl they
will create enough curiosity in-you
to cause you to go to sce it.
Sce this hay, oats and Canadian
peas on H, M., Goin’s place, near
town, beyond Mr. Ed Kiker's place
Sce for yourself the amount of hay
there,
VTHTETICS LOST
AAT}ifl.-“ MW A
EAD GET AWAY ENDS IN CLOSE
PULLING WITH REDS ON
HEELS OF RIVALS.
The City League game yesterday
the Reds against the Athletics, end
c¢d in vietory for the Reds in a score
of twelve to fourteen.: "The Red:
were bad boys at the start and maae
it lock like their rivals ought to go
off and learn how to play, hut the
tables were turnced toward the lag?
and the eighth inning netted seven
runsg for the under fellows, Another
innine of this kind would have
proven a bad crash for the winners
Darknces prevented that inning, Dut
the second inning enabled the Red
to rile up eight runs, This is the
whole story of the game—the sccond
and the eighth,
The Giants play the Senators and
the Pirates play the Reds this after
noun, The schedule call for two
games on cach Thursday aiternoon
Tomorrow afternoon the Bravesplay
the Athletics. The full schedule ol
the searon appears elsewhere in thi
issue of The Dispatch today. |
STREET TAX NOTICE
Don't forget yvous street tax will be
$5.00 after June Ist,
8, 0. HILL, City Meor, b 22 |
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
British Miners Reject
Strike Settlement Offer.
\AUGHFRTY CETS
["U X.‘ W L ‘
POND ON CHARGE
Lo WY UiN ‘
FORMER U. §. ATTORNEY GEN
ERAL PLEADS NOT GUILTY IN
COURT. |
NEW YORK, May 20-—(#)-—~lTar
ry M. Daughtery, former United
States attorney general, pleaded not
eiulty in federal court here today
and was released on five thousand
dollars hail.
He was indicted on charges of con
cphracy to defraud the government
in the American Metals Company
casgn involving an irregular return of
seven million dollars worth of alien
| roperty.
Thomas W. Miller, former alien
propeity cusodian, jointly indicted
with Daugherty, did not appear. At
terncys said he was ill.
CALL TO ELECT NEW
N
POLISH PRESIDENT
ALALAE 2 :
ACTING PRESIDENT WILL SUM.-
MON SENATORS AND DEPU.
TIES FCR TASK.
BERLIN, May 20—(/#)—A dis
patch from Warsaw to the Wolif
Bureau says Acting President Raota)
bas announced that tomorrow he will
send out smmones to senators and
deputies to attend a session of the
national assembly to eleet a new
president.,
The dizpateh adds that, according
to the newspapers, the session will be
held May twenty-cighth or twenty
ninth at Warsaw.
Fon Is Killed With
BSeissors, Woman Is Held
BLUEFIELD, W. Va.,, May 20—
(/1-—~Moss Leftwiteh was fatally in
jurcd at Coaldale, Mercer county,
witen o poir of seissors was driven
throush his heart. Lucy Hariston was
arvested charged with murder. She
pleaded self-defense,
ONE STATE .
FOR US ALL
City or country, north,
south, east or west, let us _
think as Georgians—not
merely as scetionalists, This '
hank is statewide in {ts in
terest—and in its strength.,
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GEORGTIA
STATE BANK
CORDELE, GEORGIA
PLEDGE OF LOYALTY '
I shall welcome in my com
munity of all methods and
measures that have proven
beneficial in other communi
tics,
NUMBER 139
E HINGES.
TROUBLE HINGES.
ON LOWER WAGE *
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NOW PROMISED:
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BALDWIN 1S CHARGED WITH!
BAD FAITH IN STANDING rggz
LOWER WAGES. .;
LONDON, May 20—(/)—The ns
tional conference of miners delo'}
cates today rejected the govern
ment’s proposals for settiemont 94
the miner’s strike, The delegate
adopted a resolution saying: “W
are un?lhl(,‘ to recommend L tb}
mine workers accept Premier Bald
win’s proposals for reduction' o
wares which do not at present.np
vide a decent standard of living.” |
The resolution adopted Oy ¢
delepates zaid the conference wi
largely in agreement with the le
lative and administrative proposa
set forth in premier’s plan, but u‘
no reason why these measures shoul
first be reviewed by the coal l’
visory committee. ;
The resolution said the mine
were prepared to render every assi
ance pozsible to assure success O
the measure, adding: “We Tfurther
oliieet Lo the proposal for a board
with an indepent chairman empowers
ed to abolish the national minimum
wage and to enforce various mini
mum wages by districts, We consider
that in making this jroposal the
premier is not honoring the pledge
we gave to the country in hil_fl!qu
sage broadcasted may eighth which
read: “I wish to make it clear as}
can that the government is not fight
ing for a lower standard of living: of
the miner or any other sections of
workers.” . :
The resolutions was adopted after
A. J. Cook, secretary of the miners
federation, gave a complqtef'lepod
of the government’s proposals, * . .
ROGERS SPEAKER . #77
MACON, Ga., May 20—(#)—The
annual convention of the Georgia
Retail Food Dealers Association re-«
sumed this morning with L& W,
Rogers of Atlanta the main apeaket,
The session ends this -mmo;!!/