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VOLUME NO. 9
RUSSELL ENTERS U. S. SENATE RACE AGAINST WALTER GEORGE
FOR GOVERNORS
SIX IN RACE FOR J. J. BROWN’E
OFFICE— MILNER RUNSE
AGAINST NAPIER.
ATLANTA, Ga., June 23— (#)—
Wit Chief Justice Richard B. Russel’
of the state supereme court an
nouncing his candidacy to oppose
United States Senator Walter F
George ‘for rgmomination for his
seat, and four candidates announcing
for governor, the time limit placed
on entries of candidates for nomina
tion in the Seplember primaries
closed officially at noon today.
Following is the list of candidates
where opposition is involved:
Governor John N, Holder, George
Carswell, Dr. L. G. Hardman, J. O
Wood.
Attorney General George M. Na
pier, incumbent; and J. Herman Mil
ner, leader of honda opponcms in
the house of the recent extra session
Commissioner of agriculture, J. J
Brown, incumbent; Eugene Tal
madge, J. R. Irwin, J. S. Shettle
worth, J. H. Mills, and Charles E
Stewart.
State School Superintendent, Fort
E. Land, incumbent, and H. M. Bal
lard, former superintendent.
To vacancies in the public scrvice;
commission, A. J. Woeodruff, Gcon‘gt“
W. Lankford, W. R. Frier, and Cal
vin W. Parker of Waycross. |
Pension commissioner, John W |
Clark, incumbent, and W. Samr
Acskew, 1
Supreme court assosiate justice
James K. Hines, incumbent, and R,
Eve, of Tifton.
State court of appeals, Alexander
W. Stephens and Judge J. P. High
smith,
Several Unopposed
The following candidates are un
oproged: State Prison Commissioner
Judge E. L. Rainey; Commissioner of
Commerce and Labor, Hal M. Stan
ley; for supreme court associate jus
tice, H. Warner Hill, incumbent
secretary of state, S. S. McLendon’
state treasurer, W. J. Speer.
Miss Lillian Singer has returned
from Miami, Fla., and will gpend sev.
eral weeks here visiting her parenis
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Singer.
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Drink /”
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People Delicious and R.rn’rv:'.l‘u.r‘ ”:‘
say they \
like it
because ~
It’s “the most
ff refreshing of
) deinks? ...,
. o “delicious” . .
: “delightful with
; food, especially
- sandwiches” ¢4..
; Buyitby thecase
; -keep it on ice
£ at home.
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i Bottling Company
; Cordele, Ga, Phone 57
A, Towns, Manager
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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
Georgia Loses Chance To View Woman In Campaign
Long Missing Woman Evangelist
Tells Story of Mexican Abduction
*OR—— 1
MOTHER MAKES
MISSING WOMAN COMES BACK
FROM BORDER SAYING SHE
WAS FORCIBLY CARRIED.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., June 23—(P)—
Identifications of a woman in a hns“
‘l rital here as' Aimee Semple McPher
¢on, Los Angeles evangelist who wag
‘ropm‘tcd drowned there May 18th |
l last was made over the telephone by
| Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, the evange
lists mother in conversation — with
William F., McCafferty, editor of
the Dispatch.
Identification was based upon de
tails of a long white scar on the sec
ond finger of the woman’s hand and
also by her answering certain qu(-s-l
tions and giving thq name of a pct'
pigeon. The former evangelist from
a cot in the hospital told the story
of her abduction from Ocean Park
Calif., aytrip acress the border to
Mexico and how she escaped about
neon yesterday and rn until she fell
with exhausiion.
She was picked un by some Ameri
cans who brought her to the hospital!
here where se is now in a state of|
collapse. Te police describe her as!
having long, bronze colored hair
while MeCaferty asserts that in cvm'yl
way she answers the description of |
the missing Los Angeles ovzmg.';clist!
Mother is Satisfied
LOS ANGELES, Junc 23 —(P)—
Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of
Aimee Sempie McPherson, whep told!
over the telephone from Douglas
Arizona, of a woman there naming u'
pet pigeon which Mrs. McPherson had
when a little girl, exclaimed: That
settles it, “She’s my daughter.”
" STILL IN WooDs
NEGRO AND TWO WHITE MEN |
ARE PLACED UNDER EOND FOR’
ALLEGED VIOLATION OF PROHI
LAWS. '
Sheriff C. 0. Noble, assisted hy
Deputies Spratling, Perry and h‘lr\."
art,: yesterday raided a place on the
Nelson Clementg plantation near ”il"
Rock House anq arrested win Fenn, |
negro, and lodged a charze of .;4*]!.’ll:’:'
hootleg against him; placed Leo
Clements, white, under hond for al
leged having bootleg liguor in his
car; and arrv‘stt.-rl and later released |
J. H. Shirah under hond for .'ullo::ml‘
making of whiskey. I
The officers found about two ?:Jl’-!
lons of the hootleg product and smnoi
two bundred gallons of heer 1'1::1(1_\'[
for operation, "The accused men willé
bhe reguired to defend themselves iu’
Crisp superior court for the ;x!l(euuli
uffenses, l
MANUFACTURER t
KILLS HIS WIFEI
SYDNEY BREWSTER THEN ENDS |
HIS OWN LIFE WITH GUN. ’
NEW YORK, June 23 »%'l')—--S;ul-|
ney Brewster, manufacturer of au. |
tomobile bodics, shot and killed hi:i
wife tonight and then killed himsclf
in their home at Greenvale, Long I“l
land, s
TWO ROBBERS GAGGED
MESSENGER
GOL CASII
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 23-*
(/P)—Two dobbers hel dup a mes
senger of the American Railway Ex
press Company in an express car in
West Philadelphja carly today and cs
caped with a package and suit case
beth of which were believed to have
contained. valuables.
D. H. Wallace, of Washington, D
C., the messenzer, was beaten, oas.
ged and bound. He was shut in the
car and waz not found for two hour;-‘j
He was discovered and released \\'hcnj
the train enroute to Washin;z‘tm"
l stopped here. ‘
’PIRATES GOT HARD
- JOLT FROM RIVALS
'SENATORS WENT TO SEVENTH
WITH POOR SHOW, BUT CAME
OUT ONLY ONE RUN BEHIND.
he Senators pusheq the Pirates for
the game yesterday afternoopgin the
city league and ended the -lflté'l’g‘nnly
one run behind. The score ‘was fif
i teen, and sixteen, the Pirates winning,
|At the seventh the game stood five
'un.(l fiftcen, the Pirates ]lJlVil];(’il
large lead. It was in the last three
linnings all for the Senators, hut they
il'ui]ml by one run to hold the victory
| cven to a tie.
| The Athletics pla the Reds this af
| ternoon,
MCDONALD TO RUN
-
WALL WILL STAY 00T
FITZGERALD, Ga., June 25—/
—A, J. McDonald of this city wil
be a candidate for solicitor genera’
of the Cordele eircuit according te
announcement made from his office
this morning.
Soliicitor General J, B. Wall an.
nounces that he will not he a candi
date for reclection.
MERCHANT ASSOCIATION
WILL HOLD WMEETING
v |
The Retail Merchunts’ Asflm'iulmn:
of Cordele will have a special meet- |
ing of all members in the Cyrisy
County Board of Trade office Friday |
evening June 25th at 6:30, All mer.
chants in Cordele are invited to thi:
meeting. Come and bring a fellow
merchant. ;
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COTTON MILL WORKERS i
STRIKE N MASSACHUSETTS
ADAMS, Mass, June 22.-—(AP)- ‘
Half of this town’s working population |
was without employment ag a result
of a strike of 1,800 employes of the!
Berkshire Cotton company, the town's
largest industry. After operating
through the forenoon with 10 per cent !
of the normal working force, the com
pan suspended operations,
The strike grew out of an attempf
’hf the mill to increcase the number
of frames operated by specder tonder
=l'l4lvl| two to three. TForty worker
went on strike a week ago and were
}inl'ul'mml that they were digcharged
l'."}w Polish weavers’ union declared
the strike today in gympathy,
CORDELE, GEORGTA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1926
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE ACTIVI
TIES AGAIN MATTER OF CON
CERN
WSHINGON, June 23—(D)—
Taking the withess stand after pri.
vate concultation Avith committee
rmembers, Fayne Ba Wheeler resumed
the story of Anti-§anoen League ac
tivities today at the open session of
the scnate ('nnmai'in funds committee
Agan he was questioned about
league finances and policies to ans
weir these questions he took to the
cland with him a mass of informa--
tion brought from lcague headquar
ters at Westerville, Ohio, at the re
quest of the commiitee. A private
secsion was ‘held at the request of
Wheeler himself who said he had “a
certain matter” hé wanted to dis
cuss with the senatérs,
POULTRY CAR HERE |
2
ON JUNE THIRTIET.HI
The lztsl‘;wpnultr_v gale to be held
this year in Cordele will be helc
Wednesday, June 30th.
Scleet your chickens and feed
them for this sale. All the chickens
will be neceded for this sale to make
it a zuccess, Bring your surplus
chickens. Prices will be announced
Monday. I
VALBOSTA BANK FUGITIVE
FIGHTS RETURN TO STATE
TULSA, Ovla, June .2.—(AP)
'l‘l;x'(<- deputy sherifts from Valdosta,
Ga., were here today waaiting the de
cision of District Judge Charles 8.
Walker on a writ of habeas corpu
tiled by A. C. Mizell, former \".!lll'r;U,
banker wanted there for alleged vio
lation of the state banking lows, l
The decigion of Judge Walker wa
expected Saturday,
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Eslkinno
lces
We have them in
orange flavor,
orange coated,
fresh and Tine,
Our Soda Fount s
a fine place for you
on a hot, thirsty
June day., We wili
he happy to have
you visit us.
Stead’s
Drug Store
PHONE NO. 1
J. J. Brown “Fires” Jackson For
Alleged Aid In Mills Campaign
TOO YCUNG AND INEXPER-?
- lENCED IN POLITICS TO UN.
1 DERTAKE CAMPAIGN.
| RN
AUGUSTA, Ga., June 23—()—
Miss Lavonia Secals announced herc
!tm];\y that she bas decided not to
;qu:t}if_\,' as a candidate for governor
: in the demoeratie primary.
f Miss Scals’ announcement of
withdrawal, made through the Au--
gusta /Herald, said: “Just threc
weeks ago 1 made my announcent
as a candidate for governor of Geor
gia. I am tgday withdrawing from
the race nn(f because I haven’t had
the proper endorsements, 1 certainly
have had all kinds of encourage
men, even letters from otehr citie:
endorsing my platform, T feel that ¥
am too young in the political realm
to try this race. T will let the cur
tain drop for another political per
formance. With love and best wishes
for everybody. especially to the good
looking gentlemen in the race fo
governor of Georgia, I am
“Yours truly,
“Miss Lavonia Seals.”
ASHBURN PLANS l
ANNUAL EVENT TO START THIS‘
YEAR ON JULY 1, ANNOUNCEL‘[
ASHBURN,June 2.“;—-—l’rnfcs:-'m'i
Walter I, Thompson, former p)'«-r-i-'
dent of Central Wesleyan Methodist
College, Central 8. C., and now |n'vi'
dent of the Indiana Wesleyan Con
ference will preach during the W(::f,-l
Jevan Methodist Camp Meeting to be |
peld here at the camp grounds July 1 3
to 11, it was announced today.
The L'.l'll‘l will be the annual fioli
nes=s camp, Other speakers will a sigt
Profcssor Thompson in the preach-:
ing '
Sinvine will be a feature of Lln|
meetine, it was announced. Rev. and
Mic. Rob French, of Alabama, \'f.l"
bhe in charge.
All day meetines will be held l-‘.'('l'_vi
day at the camp. A new dormitory |
is justhein g complted to care l'u!l
the erowds.
J. M. Willis, of Alma, an officia'
of the Wesleyan Conference, said the l
preachers will lay special stress o
dangerous Limes, when the founda- '
tions of the old time religion of the
fathers are being attacked by modert
and skeptical ideas”
WOMEN FAINT AS MEN |
FiGHT AT MIJPTIAL BALL
NEW YORK, Junc 23-—(/P)—Al
records for hymenal flops were de
molished when 40 women were re
ported to have swooned in exeite
mont attendant to breaking up ¢ |
wodding reception at the Central op ‘
era here, l
A dozen men iniedentally Wer ’
stabbed. Mike Albano, of Greenw il'l-%
Village, had invited nearly cvery :
Lody to colehrabe the marriace of hi l
daughter, Rozic to Philip Lamana !
and_ evergthing was sweet and protty |
unti! omebody started a frece-for nl'i
fight.
ALL DAY DANCE-—Daphne, M n-|
day Fifth July. Orchestra from Ma l
con, Everyhody come, 6-27,
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
‘ ED 3 HURT IN
VAUDEVILLE PERFORMERS
PERISH WHEN CAR SKIDS AND
TURNS OVER,
MODESTO, Calif., June 23—(P)—
Three vaudeville performers werg
| killed and three others serionsly in
’_imul when the automobile in whick
s““._\- were driving from Stockton te
I'reono te fill an engagzement, tuen
cd turtle on the highway one mile
south of her carly today.
" The deady Mrs. B. K. Kincaid, wife
lnt' the drive#, of the machine; Bert
Brown, seventeen, and Harry Dod
|:~'uu of Springlicld, Mo., who died in
a hospital here. The dead and injured
were brought to Modesto by passing
| motorists. B. I". Kincaid, driver of
’ the car, who is suffering from a frae
tured skull. believes that a blow out
caused the car to turn over, |
DATE IS SET FOR
LOCAL KIWANIS PLANS FOR
PROGRAM TO WHICH FIVE
CLUBS WILL BE INVITED ON
JULY BTH.
The local Kiwanis elub today sel
July Bth—Thursday cvening and
iight—for o five-club interrelations
meeling for Kiwanis in this city and
will work to that date for a most
important gathering of Kiwanians in
this territory. tt is the hope of the
local club to make this a most prulll‘
izing event for the people who ;ll,Lcml‘
Kiwanis will be the central theme
in making the program,.
Reports were made on the hear |
ine before the Publie Service Com
mission gegarding the removal of
trains fitteen and sixteen, this indi.
cating that Savannah service in lu:é,li‘
mails, express and passenger ac
comodations will be given hy the Sea
board in licu of the present traine
fitftcen and sixfeen, A report was al
-50 made on the unjon singing con
vention and the plang for a perma
nent, home for thig hody here,
Visitors were Mrs, J. C. Cook of
Atlanta, with Mrs, 1. A Parker, Mrs
Bennett, Mrs, Durrett, Mrs, Lee By
Py, members of the Morris & Hen.
on quartet, and Mr W. B. Johnson
representing: the Copdele .]:urim‘ ‘
Collegre,
The quartet sne o nunihey of fine
iclections and yleased the audience
no little in the musi cthiey contribut !
ed to the hour, The duet 5, one by
Mrs. Durrett and Mpe. Lennett, the
other by Mr, and Mys, Durrett, wvru'
greatly enjoyed, Mrs. lispy accompa
nied at the piano. The al,tmnrl:mm‘
prize was a melon which was served
during the hour,
AR MAIL PILOT l
i
SETS SPEED MARK
CHICAGO, Juno 23—(4?)—Shir
ley Short, pilot of the Chicago
Cleevland air mail cireuit, establish
ed a new gpeed record for the air
mail last night when they flew H'.‘M'i
Lig route at an averave of three
miles per minute, Short made Hu't
trip from here to Cleveland, 827
miles in 109 minutesi % » & ™ & |
PLEDGE OF LOYALTY
I shall welcome in my com
munity of all methods and
measures that have proven
beneficial in other communi
ties.
NUMBER 188
ACCUSES JACKSON *
JENKINSBURG MAN IN RACE TO
SUCCEED J. J. BROWN AS COM.
MISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE.
ATLANTA, Ga., June 23—(P)—L
B. Jackson, director of the Bureau
of Markets of the Department of Ag
viculture, resigned from the depart
ment at the request of Commissionar
J. J. Brown today.
Jackson’s resignation was request
ed personally by Brown after he had
been informed *that James H., Mills
of Jenkinsburgy had heen advised te
enter the race for commissioner by
Mr. Jackson.
PRINCE OF WALES IS
CELEBRATING
TODAY \
LONDON, June 23—(#)—Today
was the Prince of Wales thirty-see
ond bhirthday and flags were flying
throughout the country inhishonor.
Bunting displays were particularly
brilliant in the west end of Londan.
IFor days the heir apparent hag
been inundated with messages of
congratulations from all parts of the
world. He had luncheon with other
members of the royal family at Buck
ingham Palace today and planned a
private dinner party tonight for
close fricids at his own home, York
House, St. James Palace.
ROBBERS GET JEWELS
IN EARLY RALD
ON CLUB
FRENCH LICK, Ind., June 23—
(/P)—Approximately seven thousand
dollars in -jewels and cash swas ob
tained by robbers in an early morn
ing holdup of the Indiana club here
Mrs. 8. C. Drake ofYouisville, Ky.
wits the heaviest looser, five thous--
and dollars in jewels being taken
from her,
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Childers
AND
Puclkett
AGENTS FOR ']‘IIAT_
FAMOUS
Henry
Clay
AND
Merry
Widow
FLOUR
THERE’S NONE
BETTER.
SPECIAL
PRICES BY
THE BARRELL,
PIHHONES 170-190
Cor. 6 St. and 8 Ave
CORDELE, GA, i