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VOLUME NO. 9
19 PERISH, 10 INJURED IN REAR-END CRASH OF LIMITED TRAINS
CARSARE DRIVEN
- INTOCARS BY TWO
DEAD ENGINEER SPED PAST
RED SIGNALS OF SPECIAL
TRAIN AHEAD.
PHILDELPHIA, June 17—(/F)—A
éheckup of the Peennsylvania rail
road officials of the casualities in
the wreck of ils crack passenger
train Cincinnati Limited near Blairs
ville intersection carly today showed
fifteen persons dead four traimmen
and eleven passengers and thirteen
injured the company announced.
The statement issued said: “En
ginemen W| 8. Gordon and E. A, Me-
Gonnell of number forty were kilied
Fireman M L Hollinsworth was kill
ed and Fireman McConnell injured
The injured man is in the Latrobe
hospital. Train Baggeman A. M.
Lees of number forty is miscing and
it is :l\ssumod that he was killed.
“At cleven forty five p. m. eastern
standard time, June 16, the Cincin
nati Limited, consisting of two 10--
comotives, a pullman club car and
nine sleeping, cars, collided with the
x&ar of passenger train number fif
fy, the Pittsburg Washington ex
press, conzisting of one locomotive
and nine sleeping cars, which had
..t:'ftéppod on account of a burst air
hose at Gray, fifty miles east of
Pittsburgh. ;
“Both locomotives of number orty‘
were derailed a#d upset, the club
car derailed and partly upset, and
the fourvfb'liowing‘ sleepers derailed
The three rear sleepers of number
fifty were telescoped and derailed
All four tracks were blocked and .bad~
ly damaged " i
Passengers who were slightly hurt‘
told of the wild scenes attending the
wreck. The moans of the dying m::li
terrific screams of the injurc:l‘
pinned beneath the debris added tol‘
the confusion. The dim lanterns of
the trainmen were the only light. '
After the wreckage had been!
cleared away this morning, the train
crews began replacing rails and ties.
and expected the main line to be re.
opened by noon, el ifi'
Cars Driven into Cars
PITTSBURG, June 17.—(AP)-—— At
least fifteen persons were killed \\'nen!
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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
_ MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
Senate Judiciary Committee Votes Adversely On Tilson
HEARS U.S.AIR ACE
ANNUAL CONVENTION OPENS
WITH ALBANY GAILY BE.
DECKED FOR SESSION.
ALBANY, Ga., June 17—Four
hundred members of the Georgia de
partment of the American Legion
opened the annual convention here
this morning. The city was gaily be
decked with muiticolored flags and
turned over to the LL‘Z:‘iOllflil‘l‘O:‘; who
took complete charge. |
State Department Commander
Homer Watkins president at 111013
opening business zession and intro
duced Captain Eddie Ri(-kcnbackori
American aviation ace of the World
Wur. He discussed the future rela-‘
tion of aviation to war.
the Cincinnati Limited train number
.forty crashed into the Washington
Express near Blairsville intersection
Ishortly before last midnight. Ten in
jured were removed to Latrobe hos
pitals.
As daylightd awned, those at the
scene were given the first real view
of the wreck. The four mainline
’tmcks were ripped ang twisted for
about a hundred feet. The two io
!comotives of the limited were reduc
ed to a mass of twisted wreckage.
One sleeper in which most of the
victims were found had been tele
scoped its full length. Inside this
sleeper another pullman car had been
Ipushe(] by o terrific impact. One ap
?pearod constructcd about the other.
Another sleeper was standing on ond,
the rear section high in the air.
Dead Engineer Ran Past Signals
G M. Six-Smith, superintendent of
passenger transportation, said the
smash occurred when the limited
#mashed into the express which had
halted to repair a broken air hose.
He added that W. S. Cordon of Al
toona, Pa., who wag killed, was en
gineer of the first locomotive of the
double headed limited. |
He saig the express flagman \vunt.‘
to the rear of his train to set orf‘
flares which were found burning (m;
the right of way iollowing thewreck.
Special tranis brought the s;lighl.ly%
injured, including Mr. ang Mrs. J. 11.3
Alexander of Nashville, Tenn, to
Pittsburg, where they rcceived mmli-‘
cal attention before continuing to
their destinations. They were sul‘i‘cr-!
ing from bruises and shock. 1
Inspector Is Sent
WASHINGTON, June 17—(/P)—
S 8 N, Mil]:l;, assistant director of the
bureau of the safety of the Inter
state Commerce Commisgion, hasg
been sent to investigate the signal
¢ituation in connection with the
Pennsylvania wreck last night. Two
bhureau inspectors at Pittzburg were
directed to aid in the investigation.
MAY CALL ON HERIOT
TO FORM NEW MINISTRY
PARIS, June 17.—(AP)— Aristide
Briand is having such difficulty in
forming his tenth cabinet that the pos
gibility of failure of a recruit minigs
try is being considaved,
In chamber lobbies today it is
thought likely that former Premier
Herriot will be called upon should
Briand fail,
CORDELE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1926
Reed Tackles Wet And Dry Issue
. In Recent Pennsylvania Primary
WHEELER STANDS
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CHAIRMAN REED
ANTL.SALOON LEAGUE LAWYER
SAID LEAGUE PLAYED ONLY
LEGITIMATE PART IN POLITICS
WASHINGTON, June 17.—(AP)—
il’l‘-dm‘ 2 machine gun fusilade of
‘(ulc:‘z,i:m"wr by James A. Reed, wet,
democraiic senaor from Missouri,
Wayne B. Wheeler of 4he anti-saloon
league maintained today befere the
senate campaign fonds committee,
that the leazuec played only a legiti
mate part in politics, legislation and
litigation arising under the dry lawa.
He said his salary is six hundred
and sixty-six dollars a month. Al
though the league leader wyas called
becauze of statements made about ex
penditures of thewets in the recent
{Pennsylvania republican senatorial
primary, that subject was reached on
ly just before adjournment and will be
gone into more fuily, Reed said, when
the commitiee reconvenes at two
o'clock. .
i FINE PROGRAM
WILL APPEAR AT AUDITORIUM
TONIGHT IN MANY INTEREST.
ING NUMBERS.
Cordele and Albany will be” well
represented in the troupe of little
misges who will appear tonight in the
“Review of 1926” to be presented
by Miss Mildred Ross of Albany, as
cisted by Mrs. Walter C. Hinton at
eight-thirty at the auditorium. More
than a score of little artists will pes
form in all the possible known
dances irom Charleston to Hindu—
and cxcellent music will ke thrown
in both vocal and instrumental.
The program will he presented un
der the auspices of the loeal U. D. C
and part of the proceeds will go to
the chapter house soon to be erected
But the program is worth anybody’s
money. Those who attend will be re
paid in the entertainment which will
be offered,
KIBBEE GARY 15 GIVEN
NASHVILLE CONTRACT
Kibbee Gary, local Piumber and
heatirg engincer, hes i',-f,-",n awavded
the plumbing and heating conslruciion
work in the new Nashville, Georgia
carry with it some cosily work and
high scheol bhuilding, This job will
the local man wins distinction fn
having ceaptured the work over alargn
list of other bidders,
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DRY SEASGN BETTERS
OQUAL'TY OF PEACHES
SPARTA, Ga.,, June 17—Han.
cock county reaches now are begin
ning to ripen in conziderable quan
tieg, and as the seaszon continues
ghpiments will increase, Several va.
rietics are on sale on the local mar
ket, the quality of which is better
than ever on account ol the dry :zeca
son. The early varieties arce generally
tasteless, but they are fine this yea
HALK MILLON IN
M
TOMATOLS FROM
500 GA. ACRES
COFFEE (COUNTY PRESENTS
MARVELLOUS WEALTH IN
ONE PLANTATION TillS SEA.
SON. :
DOUGLAS, June I'6-—5500,000
produced on 500 acres of Coffee
county soil in a period of three
months is the record that is being
made today im the tomato fields ten
miles west of Douglas,
Three months ago, the Seaboard
Farms, a corporation composed of
New Jersey people, with the W. R
Eve, of Beaufort, 8. C., a 3 manager
started planting tomatees in this
county on the big plantation they
own near the town of Ambrose A
week ago they started to harvesting
today they are shipping four cars o
day, and in another week will ‘reach
the crest of their shipments of ten
cars a day.
At present priccs, these cars of
480 crates are bringing somewhat
over $240,500 a car. Conservative
estimates indicate that the five hun
dred acres will produce somewhat
over four hundred ears. Two weeks
ago it was estimated that this com.
paay would seil over a million dol--
lats worth of tomatoes from this five
hundred acres. At present, indica-.
tions arve that this estimate will not
fall short, but allowing for a shrink.
age in prices of less than two thirde
of the present price, the estimate of
one thouszand dollare an acre is going
to be fully realized.
Hon. John R, Slaier, president of
Georgia Association and a number
of other guests from Douglas and
Fitzgerald, attended a luncheon at
the company’s cafcteria at Ambrose
today, and in sunuaing up the occom
plishments of this compry on this
plantation this vear said that this is
the largest sum of money sustained
on an, acrcage of that that size ke
o
Eskimo
lces
We have them in
orange flavor,
orange coated,
fresh and fine.
Our soda Fount is
a fine place for you
on a hot, thirsty
June day. We will
be happy to have
you visit us,
Stead’s
Dirug Store
PHIONE NO. 1
SINGERS COMING
OPENING FRIDAY
LARGE NUMEERS OF VISITORS
COMING TO UNION CONVEN
TION.
I Local plans are being completed to
day for the sessiong of the South
Georgia Union Singers convention
which will bogin tomorrow and last
through Sunday. The visitors will he
gin arriving tonight and there will
be several thousang attending the
Sunday sessions. |
licn. J. B. Clements of Irwinville
is president and M, J. Luke of Pitg
“;l‘l'élltl is secretary and treasurer of
thig convention. It has held ity past
two annual sessions in Cordeleyand
theze have brought great throngs of
people here. Even more people are
v.\])uctn;l to attend this convendion.
Local plans ave all prectically com
pleted for the sessions which “will be
opened at the court house t(;;l;inl'lc)\'.
near the noon hour., Tomorrow night
the Vaughan qguartet will give a con
cert at the auditorinm at eight o'clock
and Saturday nizht the Atlanta quar
tet will give another at the court
house. !
The Sunda sessiong of the conven
tion will be held at the Standard
Stadium where large numbers of peo
ple can he seated.
had ever heard of from the State of
Georgia, or any other Southern
state.
GIANTS TOOK ONE
The Giants tcok their zanie from
the Reds yesterday afterncona scors
of nine to thirtcen., I was g fight for
several innings, very close and yproved
a geod game,
On e day previous the diamond had
heen enlarged and the run getting was
less frequent, In thisz game the
diamond was cut back Eul:,l this ac
counts for the larger sumber of uns
tallied.
The Braves play the Reds this atter
neon in the firdt game beginning at
five o’clock. The Senators play tho
AAthletics in ihe gec imd game of the
afternoon, ;
(EORGIA WOMAN iS ADJUDGED
HEROINE PREVENTS A WRECK
ATLANTA, June 15—Details of how
Mrs. J. W. Griffith, of Cravenwood
Station, Ca., saved the lives of prob
ably hund:eds of perions during the
rain and wind sterm which passed
over Atlauta late Saturday afternoon
were revealedg here tonight,
Mrs. CGriffith is reported to have
beenstanding on hel front porch
watching the progresgs of the storm
when a large oak tree measuring more
than a :.;'m in diameter, was uproot
cd by the winds and fell across the
railway tracks of the N. C. and St. L
and L. and N. lines, only a few miles
from Cravenwood Station.
Mrs, Griffith. rcalizing the danger
to pazsengers on a north hound train
due shortly, heavily loaded with At
lanta, employes returning home, ran
morc than 100 yards and telephonet
officialg of the railroad of the possi
hle danger, who in turn digpatched o
wreeking cerew to the scene to clear
the tracks.
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
’FIVE PERSONS DIE
ONLY ONE RECOVERED BODY IS
IDENTIFIED — FOUR PASSEN
GERS MISSING.
LAS VEGAS, Nev., June 17.—(AP)
separate investigations were started
}iml:l‘\' to fix responsibility for the
Tl'ir»- at dawn yesterday in a Pacific
tourist sleeper near Crystal Siding,
'?\‘vv.. in which five passengers were
burneq to death and seven injured,
one seriously.
Ouly.one recovered body had been
identified this morning, railroad offi
cials lsting four passengers as miss
ing.
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SEABOARD TRAINS
MEETING TOMORROW AT TEN
O'CLOCK IN BOARD OF TRADE
ROOMS WILL BE ATTENDED BY
MANY.
Citizens along the Seabord from
Americus to Cordele and from Helena
to Cordele will meet in the Assembly
looms of the local board of trade at
ten o'clock tomorrow morning for the
purpose of formulating plavs to keep
the Seaboard Air Line Railway com
pany from practically abandoning the
passenger and mail service on the
Alabama Division between Helena
and Americus. he fight will be made
to keep the road officials from remov
ing trains fifteen and sixteen, which
people aleng the line claim have been
run on such schoednles of late as. to
avoid meeting connections at juoction
points for passengers, mail ang ex
press service for the pur]um’e of Lili
ing it so that a report of its earn
ings before the Public Service Com
miszion will justify an order taking
the trains off.
1t is charged that the Seaboard not
only wishes to remorve trains fifteen
and gixteen, but officials desire to cut
off the Savannah-Helena service west
of Vidalia. They wish, it is said, to
make this train a shopping train for
the Savannah district and leave the
other territory to take care of itself
o far as mail, express, and passenger
service is concerned.
Business men of Cordele are urged
to attend the ten o'clock meeting at
ihe board of trade rooms in order to
reicch an agreement ag to what united
front to present when the fight goes
hefore the ‘Pablic Service (‘mnmi:‘:zi-m‘
next Tucsday morning at ten u'('ivwli.‘
The people along the line are thor
oughly aroused over the effort '“;
abandon the service and have a I'i;']:lvi
promised which will be a slrong o ‘
DOTY FACES NO DANGER
OF BEING SHOT BY FRENCH
GENEVA, June 17—(4")—DBennctt
J. Doty of Memphis, Tenn,, who i
now awaiting trial in Syria on a
charge of desrtion from the French
foreipn legion, probably — will he
übjected to disciplinary meagsures
and faces virtually no danger of be
ing shot, Ifenry De Jouvenel, French
high commizzioner in Syria, indicated
today.
The commissioner was here in con
nection with the French mandate
over Syrin, Ie said inquiry into Do
ty’s caze was only pust begun, but
implied that no question of capital
punishment was involved.
PLEDGE OF LOYALTY
I shall welcome in my com
munity of all methods and
meusures that have proven
beneticial in other communi
ties.
NUMBER 184
GEORGIA SENATORS CLAIM
THEY HAVE ENOUGH SENATE
VOTES TO DEFEAT HIS CON
j FIRMATION.
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~ WASHINGTON, June 17—The
senate judiciary committee today
voted adversely on the nomination of
- William J. Tilson for the judgeship
of the United States district court
of the new middle Geeorgia district
Senators George and Harris, demo--
crats of Georgia, who had lead the
fight against the nomination, said to
day that a poll showed a mnjority
of the senate againgt conflirmation.
The nomince, who iz a brother of
John Q. Tilson, of Connecticut, re
puklican houge leadsr, had heen sup
perted by some repular adlininico‘va
tion republicans assailed him as lack
ing proper legal training and as a
non-resident of this district,
BRICKLAYER DIES OF
INJURIES IN LONG FALL
ATLANTA, June 17.—(AP)—J. T.
Watking of Meridian, Miss., a brick:
layer, died last night from injuries re
ceived yesterday when he fell eight
floors at the new Sears Roebuck plant
here. He was laying brick when his
‘ foot slipped.
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CATHOLIC PAPAL LEGATE
AND PRINCES AT CHICAGO
CHICAGO, June 17.--(AP LS
al train ol red puitmans bearving Cax
dinal Bongano, the papal legate, and
cight other princes of the Roman
Cuthoelic chureh, and sixty prelates of
the Catholie hierarchy to the euchar
istic coremonies, arrived here shortly
before ten this morning.
Braving threatening syies a throng
of several thousand greeted the train
at the city limits, whence it moved
slowly to the [llinois Central station
where the official welcoming delega
tion waited to escort the legate to ,t.lle
cethedral of the lioly Name,
Childers
AND
Puckett
AUENTS FOR THAT
IFAMOUS
Henry
Clay
AND
Merry
Widow
IFLOUR
TIHHERE’S NONE
BETTER.
SPECIAL
PRICES BY
THTE BARRELL.
PITONES 170-190
Cor. 6 St, and 8 ‘Ave .
CORDELE, GA. ,