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GEORGIA WEATHER
Fair tonight and Tuesday
little change in temeprature
VOLUME NO. 9
ANDREWS WILTS UNDER MERCILESS FIRE OF WETS AND DRYS
CITY OF CHATTANOOGA RENEWS
STREET EXTENSION PROGRAM
CITY FORCES ARE RUSHING
¢ THEIR PLANS TO PUT
STREETS THROUGH GEORGIA
PROPERTY.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., May 24
—{#)—ln the absence of any further
court action by the state of Georgia,
the city of Chattanooga this morning
was rushing to completion the exten
sion of Broad and Eleventh streets
through the yards of the Western
and Atlantic Railway. |
Work was resumed Saturday as
soon ac it was learned that the su
preme court of Tennessee had va--
cated the writ of supercedeas issued
by Justice Hall two wecks ago. |
The only tribunal which the state
of Georgia can now enter is the
Tennessee court of civil appeals. ‘
CAROLINTANS WILL l
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PRAY FOR ‘
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RAIN l
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CHESTER, S. C., May 24—(/P)—.
Continued drought today brought a
call from Mayor Cartre for a prayer“
meeting here tonight at which suppii-;
cation will bemade for rain. :
The last rainfal in the neighbor-s
hood came about two months ago,
.and’ continued dry weather has de
layed planting and germination. ‘
BRITISH MINERS RESENT !
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LONDON, May 24—(#)—The
fifth weektof the coal mine strike
finds mine owners and miners ap
parently as far from seftlement
when the lockout and strike begai
The miners, if the words of their
general secrctary, A, J. Cook, may
he taken as a criterion of their feel
ings, are bitierly resentful of the ac
tion Qf the trades union council for
ending the general strike, called in
sympathy with the miners.
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the Ice!
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At your grocer’s
—at the refresh
' ment stand—at
: the ball park—
, get it cold and
sparkling!
Buy it by the case
and keep it on
: ice at home.
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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
AIRPLANE ML .m <AR AND
. TRAIN WRECKS PILE UP,
. LARGE FATALITIES. '
| Death came to esghteen persons.
Sunday in the whir of airplane mo-|
tors and the roar of passenger traing
four were killed and three injured
in four flying accidents, while:
fourteen fatalities were recorded in’
. three major grade crossing accidents‘:
i Several also were injured in the‘
| derailment of the New York, New|
Haven, and Hartford Express at
|1 Mansfield, Mass., early today
MRS. ABANDA COBB IS
.
' BURIED IN MOULTRIE|
’. Mrs. Amanda Cobb, aged 71 ycars,‘
- mother of Miss Orba Cobb, secre
;’tary of the Crisp County Board of!
iTrade, died last night at (\ig“nt‘
i o’clock following a stroke from which|
| she never rallied. She was deemed!
critically ill from the oufset, an 9
while her death proved a shock to!
friends, it was not unexpected. [
E Mrs. Cobb was a constant and
| faithful member of the First ’VlethO-l
, dist church. Her hugband died in’
1906 while the family resided a’\“
j' Moultrie. The funeral was arranged!
‘ for ten o’clock at the resident here '
Rev. J. B. Johnstone, pastor of thel!
First Methodist church, conducted,
the services. The remains were takcn‘
immediately through the country toi
Moultrie and there were laid beside
the remains of her husband. A short’
service was conducted at the erave. l
Surviving here are her children,!
Miss Orba Cobb and * Mrs. Ne m|
Dukes of Cordele; E. R. Tobb of
Tylertown, Miss; Mrs. W. A. Forre"-!
er, of Orlando, Fla.; and Mrs. D. F.'
lDickerson of Orlando. Members ofi
the family will have the deepest
sympathies of friends I:hroughoutl
this community. }
FIREMAN HERO SAVES®
. MOTHER AND TWO l
‘ CHILDREN ‘
NEW YORK, May 24—(P)—A
| fireman’s courageous leap through
the air from the top of a swaying
ladder three stories high resulted to
day in the saving of a mother and
her two small children from being“
burned to daath in a harlem tene
ment fire. !
Whe the apparatus arrived the
| wolan was seen standing at the
third floor window with a child in
her arms, all chance of escape cut
off. A ladder was thrown up and
Firemen Reviello and Reilly raced up
the rungs. |
At the top Reveillo was still out
of reach of the iron grating below
the window. Crouching on the top
rung( Reviello sprang into the air
caught th® grating and pulled him
self into the room. He rescued the
woman and her two children.
LARGE CROWD ATTENDED
REMAINS OF MRS FOSS
When the body of Mrs, F. R. Foss
reached Ccrdele from Americus yes
terday afternoon. It was received at
the union station by a large nn.mhm-i
of sorrowing friends, many of them|
being members of the Men's Bihlo‘
l Ciass at the First Baptist church. A
long line of automobiles l)ring‘inu‘
people from Americus filed in be
hind the remains as they were boirne
to the grave at Sunnyside. Dr. W
L. Pickard was in charge of the brief
services held at the grave here,
. In Denmark a concrete bridge
| eighty-five feet long was built and
!put in use recently in forty-cight
| hours,
CORDELE, GEORGIA, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1926
IN VOTE FOR WOMEN
Mo |
SWEEPING VICTORY IN PRES:|
BYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEM-'
BLY VOTE TODAY. '
PENSACOLA, Fla., May 24—-4!l‘)—“{
Women of the Presbyterian church
in the United States won a s\\‘cvninu"
~victory in the general assembly here
today when the church court, by a
vote that was almost unanimous |
greatly broadened the omun*tunities‘
for participation hy women in churchl
affairs. J
The action came on _ overtures
from three presbyteries asking that
the general assemoly reaffirm its de-|
liverance of 1916 forbidding women
to preach. ’
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RIFKIAKS TURN
FROM THEIR CHIEF
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FRENCH REPORT CAPTURE Oi-‘;
STRONGHOLD WITHOUT FIGH'- |
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FEZ, Morocco, May 24—(P)—
French army leaders reuu.ted today
that one by one, tribes formerly ad-|
hering to El-Krim, leader of UT(“,
Riffians, are deserting him. l’
It was asserted that the capture
of Targuist which Krim boasted was )
impreenable, without fighting Sun--!
day morning, would make an im
mense impression on the tribesmen |
and accellerate the movement away!
from the Riffian war lord. l
BRITISH CONSIL.
& !
DEMARNDS APGLOGY
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CRINESE PICKETS ATTACK OF--!
FICIAL REMOVNG COMi-
MUNIST POSTERS. '
PEKING, May 24—While the'
British consul at Sgratow was en
gaged in removing communist
posters from the walls of the mn-%
sulate yesterday, seven rpickets at--
tacked him. The consulate defended
himself with a cane and retived in
side the compound.
" He summoned a guard from the
British gunboat and demanded an
apology from the Chinese {oreign
i' commigsioner.
\
l WARSAW, May 24—(/P)—Desir
ing to impress the country with the
fact that he does not intend to sct
up a military dictatorship, Marshal
Pilsudski has ordered five regiment:
to return to their provincial gairi--
sons from Warsaw.
NEW YORK COTTON
OPEN CLOSE P. C.
W s anns aßal 1845 1837
Dotober ... 1758 1762 1761
l)u"('lulwl‘ LT 1743 1751
CORDELE COTTON
MIQAUNEG closßA ..o 10 144
LOCAL CREAM MARKET
Standard butter-fat ............. 40 1-2
NEW YORK MARKETS
NEW YORK, May 22—(P)—
Stocks, irregular; bonds, steady; for
eign exchange ( mixed; cotton, high
er; sugar, lower; coffee, featureless
| CHICAGO MARKETS
CHICAGO, May 22-—(B)—Wheat
firm: corn, lower; cattle, casicr®
hogs, steady.
FYCUTIVE GRDER.
VERY BANGER(PUS{
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CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENER
AL THROWS WRENCH INTO
NEW ENFORCEMENT MA.-
CHINE. ‘
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WASHINGTON, Moy 24—(P)—
Bombarded by eriticism from both
wets and drys, Assistant Secretary
Andrews today assured the country
he had no intention of authorizing
state and local officials generally,
| throughout the country to act as pro
hibition agents. l
: The dry chief reiterated that
President Coolidge’s executive order
making possitle the periormance of
cuch function by state, county and
city officia’s was intended for the
present, at least for California onily.
He defended the presidential or
der, however, as entirely constita
tional, but conceded that it involved
sonmie aspeets which might be “very
dangerous.”
.. Calfiernia Not Sympathetic
SAN IFRANCISCO, Calif., May 24
—(P)—U. 8. Webb, attorney general
for California, today threw the first
wiench in President Cochdee's new
machine for county enforcement ot
the Volstead Act when he expressed
~doubt as to the legalily oi the move
- Under presidential orders, Ned
Green, federal prohibition adminis--
‘tr:xt(n‘ here, would be empowered to
swear in as federal enforcement oi
ficers deputy sheriffs who now en
force the law under the Wright act
the state law. The advantages of the
new move could not be seen by the
daeputies.
GIANTS PLAY ATHLETICS
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GAME THIS EFTERNOON
The Giants and the Athleties are
slated for this afternoon in the City
League baseball as the fivst atirac
tion of the week. The Athletics have
been hard uced in the first games
of the new sch “dule, but they prom
isa a come back in their fight today.
Tomorrow the Braves play the
Pirates. FFan attendance has grown
of late that it is now lareer than ii
} has been at any time since the City
~ League started four years ago.
| ENJOY SURF AT ST. SIMONS
! $2.50 rmm({'lrip Cordele to Bruns
|wick via A, B. & A. beginning May
“.’ml. For schedules ang other infor
lm;ninn apply to Ticket Agent,
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the memory.
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gift of Bloek's Aristocratic Can
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AL S
PHONE NO. 1
‘ EALTH |
MINING WEALTH |
l UNDER NEW SURVEY
|
EIGHTY THREE MINERALS SUF-‘
| FICIENTLY ABUNDANT 710
| JUSTIFY COMMERCIAL HAND-.
LING. i
CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 24—A
survey of mining possibilities of the’
| south, just completed, shows that)
I there are eighty-three minerals and|
| mine products in the south that zu'c'i
{ sufficiontly.ubundant to warx-unti
v;commor('iul exploitation, it was d(‘--!
1 clared in the Amecrican Mininfri
h Congress here today. |
* Burton Bunch, secrctary of the
| southern division of the congress |
]'suid these mine products inc!m!t‘]
!‘ zine, lead, coal, ironm, manganeze
‘ some copper, silver, aluminum and|
clays for ceramics and for tiles and
‘ brick. |
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FORT VALLEY MAN
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SLAYS KIS MOTHER
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l FARM OVERSEER DECLARES I
FIRED FATAIL SHOT IN BE.
’ LIEF THAT MOTHER WAS
l BURGLAR.
' FORT VALLEY, Ga., May 24—(P)
' —Leo O’Neil, 25, overseer on the
i Oakland fruit farm, shot and killed
his mother, Mrs. Tom O’Neil, 65
carly this morning, thinking that she
was a Surglar, he told a coroner’s
jury that investigale the tragedy at
| noon today.
} Mrs. ONeil was a widow residing
| at Byron, and had been visiting her
son over the week-ond,
‘ According to evidence produced
| at the coroner’s inquest, the family
! had been considerable disturbed over
, a misunderstanding in the paying off
. of their help on Saturday afternoon
' Some of the negroes appeared to
be threatening and O'Neil’s wife and
his mother were frightened.
When night eame on, the women
insisted that O’Neil puil a couch into
i the room in which they were asleep
! to protect them in the event of an
} ticipated trouble with nearocs.
During the night Mrs. Tom O'Nei
I heard a noise outside and she arose
and went to a window. ller con also
l heard the noize and as he looked up
i ke zaid he saw the figure of a peraen
He thought that the person was out-
I side te window and he drew his pistol
and <hot.
Mrs. Tom O’Neil sereamed and
cank to te floor, in a dyiny condi
tion, Not until then did O'Neil dis
i cover his mistake,
l _His mother diml' within two min
| utes. O'Neil at first denied that he
I fired the shot, when officers inves
: ticated the case, but when the coro
i ner's jury assembled at noon today
[ he gave the details of the tragedy.
{ The Oakland fruit farm is located
i a half mile out on the road to Pep
\ ry. The farm is owned by J. E. Da
vidson,
t No charge has heen preferred
against O'Neill, and he was allowed
l to go home to take churue of Li
! mother's hody. s
= T v
MRS, IDA HUTTO DiED
\
! m 1 oy s
I AT PLEASANT VIEW HOME
! News of the death of Mrs, Ida
| Hutto, which occeurred at eleven
| o‘clock this morning at the f amily
| home near Pleasant View in Wilc™«
% county, will sadden a large number
lof friends throuehot this section
t where she was well known, She wa
[ 23 years of age and had been ill
three weeks, Her hushand, Mr, O,
! B. Hutto, and two small children sur
i vive, The funeral will be conducted
i tomaorrow morning at ten o'clock at
f Pleasant View cemetery, The ser
% vices will be in charge of Rev., B, I
! Raincy, pastor,
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!
I, The ton meazurement of eareo wa
! originally the space ocoupied by four
| hogshead of wine, :
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
SENATOR GEORGE FIGHTS TO
SAVE PEANUT AND OIL TARIFF
CHANGE TO COURT\
CULBERTSON SAYS RAISING|
AND LOWERING TARIF&
DUTIES NOT A TASK FOR
PRESIDENT. ‘
WASHINGTON, May 24— (#)—
The tariff commission either shnuid!
be abolished or turned into a court
with authority to raise or lower tar-}
iff rates, William 8. Culberson,
{former tarilf commissioner, and now
minister to Rumania, said today be
fore the special senate tariff inves
tgating commitiee. \
“The burden is too heavy for the
president with all his other duties
and he should be relieved.” he said
“The existence of the commission 1¢
not justified merely as a fact-find
in» body for congress.”
Two Chorus Men And Two
Sisters Held For Trial
CHIZAGO, May 24—(/P)—Ar
raioned in morals court after they
had been arrested in the partment of
two chorus men, Mrs. Thelma Budd
Whallace, 19 and Marjorie Budd 18,
dauhters of a wealthy eastern hotel
owners, were put under $l,OOO bond
today and their cauhe continued un
til May 27. The two chorus men, Da
vid Mnrtun‘:md Jack Delys, appear-
Cing in 2 musical comedy here also
Cwere released under simflar bonds.
Continuance of the case came af
ter Jack Wallace, husband of the
elder sister, and Mrs. A. U, Budd, of
'Bnl'l":uln, their mother, had testified
that the chorus men were not in the
apartment when it was raided and
that both young men were well
known to te family.
Police said the raid was made at
the instance of vhe mother and hus
lband, on complaint that the pair
had vanizhed from their Buffalo
home.
| R TG |
| NGTICE, DOG OWNERS i
i |
! All dogs within the limits of lhl"‘
(lity of Ccrdele must be vaceinated |
against rabies and registered Iw(wm-n!
June 1 and June 1, 1926, as rvquirvd!
by law. Dogs found without l'u;',i:;ul
:I:':«:,un tag after June 15 will be kill-|
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; S. J. HILL, City Manager |
IT°S NOT
(PENSIVE
EX
You can go 1o Europe, from
New York, for a round trip
steamship farve of less than
$2OO, Save a little and broad
en vour outlook on life by
secing some other parts of
the world,
CORDELE, GEORGIA
PLEDGE OF LOYALTY
I shall welcome in my com
munity of all methods and
measures that have proven
beneficial in other communj
ties,
NUMBER 162
ASKING PROBE OF
PRODUCTION COST
OF RAW PRODUCTS:
GEORGIA SENATOR OFFERS
RESOLUTION CALLING FOR
COMPARATIVE COST. ol
WASHINGTON, May 24—(#)—
The tariff commission would be dié
rected to investigate the compsiyg--
tive production costs of peanute;
soy beans, and cotton seed in thé
United States and principal com
peting countries under a resolutjon
introduced today by Senator Geor”
of Georgia. :
The resolution set forth thst thd
commission has been inquiring forl
the past two years into proJuctimj
costs of vegetable oils carough out
the world and that for the same
reasons this investigation should .p}
ply to the three commodities spect
‘ fied. J
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FROM HOSPITAL HOME
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IN HUSBAND’S 4
PLANE !
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. ATLANTA, Ga., May 24—(#)==
Bearing his wife, who is convulmihi
from an operation, Captain Ros¢®
Turner left Atlanta today for Shef:
! field, Ala., in an airplane on the fl"t
lap of the journey to his wife's home
| at Corinth, Miss. "
t In addition to Captain Tumur.,tgc
rlane carried a nurse and phyllcllfi’.
Mrs. Turner was carried to the avig:
{ tion field in an ambulance.
British Royal Family .
|
~ Given To Queer Hobbies
' LONDON, May 24—(#)—King
| George likes radio, the Prince of
Wales plays jazz instruments, &nd
the duke of York, the king's second
son is waiting impatiently to try on
his new baby princess his own hoo
‘Ly—taking movies,
It is reported that the duke in
quires daily of his wife, the young
duchess, whether their new baby is
old enough and active enough to pbr
mit his taking a film; to be shown
to the king and queen and the
duke’s friends and added to the
large collection of films he has
taken of members of the royal fami
ly.