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GEORGIA WEATHER
Fair tonight and Saturday
gentle variage winds.
VOLUME NO. 9
BRITISH AGCCUSE SOVIETS OF EFFORT TO DESTROY GOVERNMENT
C%% FORKhIiINES
" SENT BY SOVIET
SHARP NOTE CHARGES RUSSIAN
INTERFERENCE WITH INTER
NAL AFFAIRS OF GREAT
BRITIN.
LONDON, June 11—The British
governiment has sent a sharp note
to Moscow protesting against the en
deavors of the Soviets to send money
to Great Britain during the recent
general strike. The note sets forth
'\ the belief that this money was intend
ed to foster a movement to bring
about a change in the government in.
Great Britain. |
The note declares that definitc!
proof is now. in the hands of Lhe‘
British government that a share of
the money offered the trades union
congress from Moscow during the
rgeneral strike came from the societ
government itcelf., This action, the‘
note states is regarded as an unjusti-l
fiable interference in the intcrnnl‘
affairs of the country and a violati-m‘
of the Anglo-Russiantrade agreement
The second note dealing with th("
money the soviet arae sending the
- British Mineirs Federation is being
coisidered by the cabinet and prob
ably will be forwarded to Moscow
gsoon. In this case also the British
government claims part of the ‘money
is being contributed by the. soviet
government, itself, and not by Rus
sian miners, as it is claimed. i
ATLANTA FIREMEN CONFINED
BLAZE TO THREE UNOCCUPIED
OFFICES.
ATLANTA, June 11.—(AP)— Fire
early this moring threatened the Ans-'
tell building, an eight story office
structure in the heart of the business
section ot S\tlanta. The blaze was
confined to three unoccupied offive.','l
Jon the fourth floor. No one was
hurt, though the dense smoke drove
the firemen to the :windows for air.
The cause was undetermined. ]
FIRST COTTON BLOOM
OF SEASON
SHOWN
Mr. J. F. McGarity, local mulc
dealer, brought in the first cotton
blossom of the season yesterdaw af
ternoon and exhibited it at the Dis
patch which is so far free from the
weevil. He has 2 larger cotlon
acreage which does not show pres
ence of the weevil up to this time.
Drln i;,
Buy Delicious and Refreshing §
it by
the case!
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tles on ice at
it home. Noth
v ing like it after
houscwork or
play. And for
vour guests a
pleasant sut»
prise,
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Xfl/ Bottling Company
ST Cordele,Ga. Phone 87
b s A.C.Towns, Manager
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MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
PEPPER CAMPAING TOOK ILLOADS OF MONEY
'HEAVY LOANS REPORTED-—
SENATOR REED HAS $300,000
IN LOANS THEN SIGNS NOTE
WASHINGTON, June 11—Joseph
‘sylvania Manufacturers Association
testified before the senate campaign
fund committee today that he' had
contributed tighteen thousand dol--
lars to the support of the Pepper.-
Fisher-Smith-Woodward ticket in tae
recent republican Pennsylvania pri
mary.
He had made various loans to the
fund during the campaign and after
the campaign had loaned one hun
dred and fifty thousand before the
primare and a like amount after
wards, excluding a ninety thousand
dollar note he admitted signing to
gether with W. A. Folwell.
‘LENGTHY DEFINITION IS GIVEN
BY PREPARATORY COMMIS
SION.
GENEVA, June 11— (#)—The
technical subcommittee of the
preparatory disarmament commission
today formulated a lengthy defini--
tion of what constitutes war poten
tials. t includes all the fectors
which permit a country wage anud
carry on war.
The formula is a combination of
French and Swedish duties and Bel
gian theses which have been present
ed during the committee confer
ences. :
DURKINS IS AFRAID
OF FORMER
LOVER
CHICAGO, June 11-—(P)—
Martin Durkin, on trial for the mur
der of Edwin Shannan, federal
agent, does not want his bride, Irma
Sullivan Durkin, in the court roomn
He is said to fear the bride’s pre:-
ence will be displeasing to his former
sweetheart, Better Werner, who is to
be state’s witness against him.
The selection of jurors was re
sumed today. Only four have been
sworn in and three others tentative
ly accepted.
ITALIAN EDITORS
IN BLOODY
DUEL |
MILAN, Italy, June I'—A furiou=
sabre duel in a lonely spot near here’
today ended with both adversarier
seriously wounded. The duelists were:
Guisephe Brunati, director of th-li
weckly newspaper, Sabaudo, and Un
berto Fracchia, director of the Lit-!
erary Fair, another weekly. |
The meeting followed a heated ex
change of political opinion in the
columns of their paper. |
Both declared if they lived the n!'-‘
fair was not finished. e
FOREST FIRES RAGING
ASHEVILLE, N. C., June 11.—(AP)
—More than a hundred men today are
fighting fire raging along the old
Asheville road, near Silver creck less
{han a quarter mile from the houn
daries of Pisgah National Forest,
Reports said the fire had attained
serious proportions, together with an
appeal for help received at the of
fice of the United States forestry ser
vice.
LODGE NOTICE
A call meeting of Cordelia lodge
No. 296 will be held tonight at 8:30
o’clock for work in the fellow craft
degree,
All members are urged to be pres.
ent. Visiting brethren invited.
=W, H. CHAPMAN, W. M
CORDELE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNI 11, 1926
LONG MISSING YALDOSTA
RANKER ARRESTED IN WEST
FUNDS FROM BANK
WAS WORKING AS HOUSE TO,
HOUSE SALESMAN FOR DAIRY
WHEN ARRESTED. ‘
TULSA, Okla., June 11.—(AP)—-A.
. Mizol, former president of the EX
change *National Bank of Valdosta,
Georgin, arrested here last night, de
nied today the charge that he ab
ceonded: with ninetyy thousand dollars
cil tho bank's funds.
Mizell was arresied on charges of
embezzlement. following a two-year
search. ‘When discovered, he was
working for a localq airy as a house
to house canvass salesman,
Although living and employed here
under the name of D. 1.. Bullard,
Mizell admitted his identity when tak
en into custody. Sheriff R. K. Spizzeri
from Georgia, traveling incognito, ar
rived here last week and traced Mi
zell here through relatives,
SCREVEN COUNTY WANTS
NEW ROAD TO STATE LINES
STATESBORO, Ga., June 11—{A"
—Statesboro is erowded today with
representatives who plan to appear
before the state highway commission
in behalf of the proposed new link be.
tween South Carolina and Georgia
over the Savannah river. The proijeel
proposed provides for a road con
neeting Burton’s ferry and Lane’s
bridge by means of a new paved road
through Bulloch and Screven coun
ties,
The Sereven county delegation will
‘stage a parade through Stateshore
upen their arrival in automobiles
carly this afternoon.
Allendale, S. C., is to be repre
sented by 12 delegataes; Evans and
Tattnall counties by 12 aand Lhe
tewn of Claxton and Glenville, by
12.
A fish dinner was tendered the
vizitors this evening at the Lakeview
Country Club. Ogeechee bream was
served and the occasion was ('nliw:t,-‘
ed by timely talks, ‘
GREAT GRANDSON OF DANIEL
BOONE DRY LAW VIOLATOR
NEW ORLEANS, June 10—(/4)—
Daniel Boone, Jr., who said he is o
great-great grandson of the noted
Kentucky pioneer, entered a plea of
guilty in federal courlt here to a
charge of selling and posscssing liqg
uor. He was fined $lOO and given a
suspended gentence of ¢ix months in
jail. Should he again be chrased
with violating the prohibition law ne
would be forced to serve the sen
tence ordered today,
Shortly before the lanky Boon
case was called Judge Louis L
Burns sugpended a three months son-
Ltence for New Orleans’. younge.t
bootiegger, Nicholas Racivich, 13,
TASTY PEACH WILL
BE SENT ACROSS SEAS
MACON, Ga., June 10-—(P)—
Georgia peaches will be exported to
England and other Euvopean coun
tries and to South Americon
markets for the first time this year,
under an agreement approved by (he
exceutive committee of the Georg.a
Peach Growers’ exchange today. The
movement will Le in carlots to sea
rorts, where they will be loaded inte
fast liners,
W. C. Bewley, general manager of
the exchange, carefully investigated
the possibility of developing a big ex
port business for peacies while .n
New York a few days ago. The in
formation was presented to the exe
cutive committee and the committee
approved of the plan,
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TOPPLED FR O ‘
BRIDGE IN WREC§(|
ENGINEER AND FIREMAN |
PERISH IN SMASH UP OF NOR. |
FOLK SOUTHERN PASSENGENR
NORFOLK, June 11 -The loco
motive, mail car, baggace car, and
two passenger coaches of a Norfoik
southern passenger train toppled HH'E
a trectle fourtcen miles west "Yi
Washington, North Carolina carly (o 1
day, killing the engineer wad fireman
and injuring a postal employee and o
porier, ‘
The pullman was the only coach
of the train to remain on the rails
although the passenger conch juct
alicad was only partly derailed,
J. R. Slade, engineer, and William
Harrington, fireman, both of Nor
folk, were killed. The cause was nos
determined and officials ave endeav
} oring to deiermine whether the
Lridge was weakened by e o 2
whether the blaze was started by
l fire from the \'.'l'L'(‘li('ll locomotive
The structure was ab®ut fifteen feot
| high. i
GREAT CATHOLIC WELCOME
GIVEN IRISH CARDINAL
NEW YORK, Jume 11—(P)—
Theusands of spectators lined Broad
way and other streets®from the bat
ter to the Hotel Vanderbilt today to
welecome Cardinal Patriew O’Donnell
primate of llreland, who arrived on
the President Roosevelt on the way
to congress at Chicago. The cardinal
was met by city officials and dele
gations from numerous Catholic and
Irish organizations.
AGED VETIRAN 1S DEAD
AT STATESBORG HOME
STAFTESBORO, Ga., June 11—
Wayne D. Waters, 84, a veteran o}
the War Between the States, died
here Thursday followine a lingerine
illnegs, During the civil strife Mr,
Waters served for the CoNfederacy
under Captain Joseph Thompeon, of
Savannah. Four sons and two daurh
ters survive.
Graduation
Presemnts
You wonld not
know it il we did
not tell you. Look
over our line of
toilet articles,
compacts, station
ery, and eandies,
We have other gifts
ineludine Bibles,
We will he mivhty
glad to show you
?
v Stead’s
Drug Store
PHONE NO. 1
SNELLING MADE ‘
4 ‘
CHANCELLOR OF
" STATE UNMIVERSITY
3§
UNANIMOUS CHOICE OF BOARD
OF TRUSTEES OF INSTITU
TION IN MEETING TDRAY.
ATHENS, June 11—Charles Mer
cor Snelling was unanimously cleeted
chancellor of the ”ll;!\’(" iy Gl
Georein,
| He has been chancellor since Lhe
’ retirement of David C. Barrow ¢
veor 20, ‘ /
BERLENBACH WINS
A v
3
OVER STRIBLING
HEART PUNCH IN FOURTH STOPS
STRIBLING'S SPEED. HIS SKILL
AND EXPERIENCE ALONE PRE
VENTING A KNOCKOUT.
YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORK,
‘Junv 10— Paul Berlenbach easily heat
back the challenge of W. L. (Young)
'Lflnhliu;-, for the world's light heavy
weight title tonight battering the
ly: ung Georgian into decisive defeal
in a Ihround mateh that fell far from
the spectacular heights expected of
it. 2
A crowd of 56,009 saw the bronzed,
rugeed champion give Stribling an un
’m reiful pounding almost from start
to finish, forcing the baltle in every
round and piling up a margin on
'pninl‘: that made the judge’s deeision
lul the finish a mere formality.
l Strib Starts Impressively.
! Stribling, ftlashy and confident by
irnmp:urf»nn with Berlenbach's slow
lmnn'uwrin;: at the start, got egway
i,imm' ssively in the first three rounds
' but a smashing left hook, planted just
over theheart, brought him up short
tin the fourth romud.
! That punch, abeuptly checking a
‘ht'.n“'ll)", rush by the Gedrgian, real
3?.\' was the deciding factor as well ag
illu- turning point. After it Stribling
secmed bhoreft of his usual speed and
agility. He was a mark for Berlen
bach's pile-driving rights and lefis to
the hody mixed with hooks to the
nead that had the Southern youth
grogey in at least four of the closing
rountds--the sixth, tenth, twelfth and
fourtecenth, |
MAJOR REUTY HERE FOR
]
e 1 r "y g
STUDENTS FOR €. M. €.
o !
Major Thomas H, Rentlz, repre
centing Georgin Military Collene o
Milledgeville, was here today looking
for boys who contemplate (H“‘l'lln"i
the cchool next fall, e will be back)
again next Friday and will wish (o]
‘oo any who may be interested in on |
tering his exeellent school, |
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FORTY YEARS EACH FOR
1 1 I’ Y |
WHITTEMORE ROBRERS
1
NIEW YORK, June 11.-(AP) - Leon |
and Jacob Kracmer, “brains®” of the
Wihittemore million dollar jewel roh
bery gang, wets entenced today Lo
forty ycars each in tho state pri on |
for robbery. ‘Three other members u,*
the gang have pleaded guilty (o rob-|
bhery and await sentend ',
3 7 e | ' i W |
PROTHER T. E. JENNINGS |
PTel - '
iSS BURIED AT DAWSON
|
l
Friends throughout the cominuni|
ty will regret to know that a brott r!
of Dr, T K. Jennir fied in b
Orlando home yesterday and wt :
Luried today in Dawson, the ‘:
home, Dr. Jennings and members of|
his family left early this morning [o:|
Dawsgon where they attended the iu.|
neral gervices,
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
130 ARE DROWNED
{, '
4 MILLIONS LOST
CREAT DAMAGE DONE CHIUESE
AREA BY FLOOD WATERS RE.
PORTED,
LONDON, June 11-—(AP)—The
Honekone corvespondent of the
Daily express reports morve than »
hundred versons drowned and four
willion dollavs in property destroy
ed by floods at Canton. Railways in
Lhal region are at a standill,
POTH DROWN WHEN
BOY ASKS FOR AID
MONTGOMERY MAN LOSES LIFE
IN CHATTAHIOCHEE RIVER
TRYING TI SAVE BOY.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 11.
(AL) W. A. McAllister, twenty-three,
of this ecity, and Harry Mills, aged
twelve, were drowned today in the
Chattahoochee river near Forl Gaines,
(u., said word reccived here,
The roports caid both went under
svhen MeAllister went to rescue the
lad who called for aid. The bodies
were not recovered.,
COFFEE COUNTY
MAN SLAY SELF
LOUISVILLE POLICE TRYING 10
IDENTIFY MAN WHO THREW
SELF UNDER TRAIN.
LOUISVILLE, June 11—The po--
lice telegraphed authorities of
Coffee county, Georgia, today te
identify & man who threw himself un
der a freight train here this morn
g
ihey found an administrative
deed in hig pocket made to Warrven
a Henriot from Mrs, Addie H. Wil
cox and executed in Coffee counly.
WSS MARY BALLENGER
COMES SECOND IN MUSIC
A mescare from Superintendent I?‘
11. Standard of the local school sys
tem in Athens this morning hruu';,lnl‘
news that Miss Mary Ballenger had
won second place in the state music
contest this morning in Athens, Billy
Feid of Albany won first place, 'l'h"|
Cordele young lady is daughter ol
Mre Georee Ballenger and won first
nlace in the Third District mu.wu'l
contest in April. This gave her the|
rioht to enter the state contest o
‘,'\Hu'll .
litzeerald won second place in thio
debate. Eatonton won first place
This wave the Third Dictrict Lwe
second place honors in the state con
MELON SEASON NEAR .
IN THOMAS COUNTY
TITOMASVILLE, Ga., June 11—
Thomas county is making great pren !
aration: for a big watermelon season |
Railway cars are being placed "l
eidetracks at Meigs, Boston, Och:|
locknee, Metealf and other points be ;
sides Thomasville, Shippers this year|
will he prohibited from placing pim-;
straw in the cars as a nrv-":m'inn"
awainst the spread of cattle ticks. |
While some sections of the ('nlllu_\.‘j
are free from the tick, yet local ship-|
pers will be required to oblain U;:‘.’,l
from other countics, where the pest|
hits disappeared, !
|
THOMASVILLE SCOUTS TO ,
BEGIN CAMP MONDAY |
THOMASVILLE, Ga.,, Junc 11 '
Boy Scouts of Thomagyille will leave ‘
for their annual outing to the Gulf|
of Mexico next Monday, The |J'v}'=i
will camp near Newport, Fla,, near|
a large lighthouse, and will spend!
much time fishing and boating, [
PLEDGE OF LOYALTY |
1 shall welcome in my com
munity of all methods and
measures that have proven
beneficial in other communi
tios, |
NUMBER 178
COOLIDGE SIGNS .
MAN KILLED BY +POLICE IN
LodArgns SI SINOT LS LSV3A
SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CON.
GRESS
WASHINGTON, June 11—(&)—
President Coolidge today signed a
bill authorizing payment of indemni
ty to Great Britain on account of
the death of Daniel Shaw Williamson
Britich subject, killed in east St
Louis, IL, July 1, 1921.
A coroner's jury found that he
died from gunshot wounds inflicted
by a police officer.
’l‘v,'t‘.(im;nny before the jury wag
that he was peaceably goinz home
~when accosted by the plain clothes
| men and ordered to halt. App-rently
due to an impaired hearing, or be
cauge he was uninformed ac to thewr
idenity, Williamgon, who was twen.
iy two years old, dicregaidod the ov
der. The police fired two zhots from
a riot gun.
The legislature authorized pay
ment of two thousand dollars to the
father of John Wililamson of Alloa,
Seotland. :
The president made the matter the
subjeet of a special message to con?
gress, i
ATHLETICS WON
DOUBLE HEADER FOR THURS.
DAY AFTERNOON AFFORDED
INTEREST FOR LARGE CROWD
OF FANS.
The Athletics won their game over
the giants in a score of fifteen to
seven. In their fourth inning things
blew up and they scored seven rung
before their rivals got back to earth.
The Braves played a slow game
against the top notehers of Lee Espy
in the second contest and it wound
up in o nine to nineleen score. Tne
sk inning netted the victors seven
runs. They got off to a good start
and blanked the Pirates through
three innings, but did not hold it.
TOM MCVER TO RUN
Tom Melver is planning to run
for the legislature from Crisp this
time, He stated yesterday in con--
nection with his propozed race that
he intended to have his announce-«
ment in during the present week.
o
Childers
AND '
Puckett
AGENTS FOR THAT
FAMOUS gp
Hemnry
Clay
* AND THp4
Merry
Widow
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