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VOLUME NO. 9
JO---DAY TRAFFIC, TOLL 157 LIVES IN ELEVEN SOUTHERN STATES
MOODY SHOWS LEAD OVER ALLOPPONENTS INTEXAS PRIMARY
AUGUST NINE
IS DATE SET FOR
MA FLRGUSON, IS RUNNING BE
HIND HER BETTER POLITICAL
FOE IN PRIMARY.
DALLAS, Texa., July 26-—(/P)—
Attorney Geneiral Dan Moody's ma
jority in Saturday‘s Jemocratic gu
bernatorial primary suddenly jumped
to three thousand five hunpdred fif
ty aver all his ooponcnts when the
noon iabulatioa of reutrns was an
nounced.
On previous eourl hie had only four
hundred filty J»ar majerity. Figures
from two hundied and forty one
countios of the fwo hundred and fif
ty two, with fifty rine complete
give Moody 349,502; ¥Ferguson 236.-
564; Davidson 104,040.
- *Lynch Davidson, one of the “big
‘threeb” in the demociatir governor
ship raie sent 2 wicssage of congratu
lation to Moody and of’ered support
of himself and friends in case of a
run cff,
The Moody :ead has fluctuated
between six thousaid majority to sev
eral thousand below a snajority. The
vote will be canvassed by the state
executive committzes of the re
spective parties August nine to de
texmine if a run off primary will
be necessary to sciect a democratic
“mbernatorial nominee.
BATTLED VERY LARGE
RATTLESNAKI
TO DEATH
Johnnie Harris, son of Mr. I. 1L
Har:sis, farmer vesiding near Willi--
ford. returning home from Cordele
Saturday afternoon, n-ticed some
<hing unusual uader the roots of an
uprooted tree cicse to Williford.
Goniz home, he <ecured his gun and
som2 friends. On their return they
succeeded in slaying a large rattler
five and ‘a hal! feet long and weigh
ing 22 pounds lis bodv was 11 and
a half inches in diameter in the
Izilfies';:“bl:z‘llcde.h"_l_]m.rattlc;s were all
torn zway in the fioht with the snake
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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
Macon Pastors Open on Bootlegger in Ten Pulpits
GRAVE CRISIS ATTENDS IN COMMUNIST
ORGANZIATION CIRCLES IN SOVIEB RUSSIA
HIGH OFFICIALS
REMOVED UPON
TWO LEADERS ARE OUT BECAUSE
OF ATTEMPTS TO OVERTHROW
CENRAL EXECUTIVE COMMIT.
TEE
MOSCOW, July 26— (AP)— Grave
gtlyffercnces have arisen in the inner
!(mm('ils of the communist party
‘which threaten to shake the whole
;'m';;unizatiun to its foundations,
Scarcely had government circles
recovered from the sudden death of
I'elix E. Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the
supreme council for naticnal economy,
when another hombshell fell over the
week-end in the form of the expul
sion of Gregory Zinovieff, once close
associate of Nikolai Lenin, from the
political bureau, the commnuist su
rreme seat of power, and the dis
missal of M. Lashevitch as assistant
commissar of war and alternate mem-
Ler of the political bureau.
They .am accused of aitempting to
overthrow the central oxccutive com
nrittee,
TWO LITTLE GIRLS T 0
- DANCE FOR PRIZE AGAIN
I O
| Little Misses Jeanette Dekle and
| Beula Elliott will dance the Charles
ton asgain Tuesday nigit at eight
thirty at the loeal swiraming pool
for the cash prize which Mr. F. E.
Williams doubled whea he found
these two tied in the Friday contest
This will be five dollars, Plans have
been made to have tie dancers
were they wll be seen from an im
provised staze. Both zre good and
they will offer & most:entertaining
contest.
MRS. CLARENCE ARNOLD
IS DEAD IN EUFAULA
Friends here will te grieved to
leara of the dea'h of Mrs. Clarence
Arnold which oceraarad Saturday in
an Atlanta sanitarium where she
was taken for an operation for ap
pendigitiz. The remains were car--
ried Lack to Eufaula 2:d the funrela
and interment oczurrcd yesterday.
Mrs, Arnold was Miss Lessie Var
nadoe of Cordele before her mar
riage. Her husband died a year and
a half ago. He was at ¢ne time with
the I'mpire Cotton Oil Compny here
and Mrs. 9rno:d spent the larger
portion of her “.fe in Cordele. Two
children, a zister, Mrs Marvin Baker
of Helena, ard a brother, Moody
Varnadoe, of Norik Carolina, sur
vive., She was a niece of Mrs, I. L.
Bartholmew and Mrs 3. A, Vinson
of Ccrdele Her ceatr. has brought
sadness to a large number of people
here where she was beloved through
out the entire cemmunity
Misses Bonnie and Mculah Elliott
of Atlanta ars visiting their aunt,
Mrs. A. J. Hoebn lcre this week.
A small baby carriage has been de
signed that can be fastened to a
walking stick, L
CORDELE,; GEORGIA, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1926
GUNSHOT WOENDS
UNKNOWN PARTY
CORONER AMD JURY HELD IN
QUEST SUNDAY—NO TRACE
OF PERSONS WHO SLEW MILL
HAND. X
Coroner T . U. Conner conducted
an inquest yesterday into the death
of Uzeffer Dickerson, wiite, mill em
ployze, 48 ‘years of aze, whose body
was found near the tracks of the
Seaboard in west Cordele early Sun
day morning and aflter examining
all the witnesses the jury returned
a verdiet of death Hy gunshot wound’
at thc hands o! unknow party or‘
parties. e
According to tectimrny of a phy-;
sician who examined the body,
there was but one wound. this a shot’
which penetraied te collar bone in
the upper chest, iis causing almost
instant death, In the evidence
brought it was shown ‘hat a negro
whose name was piven as Ed Dean
had some montis ago made threts
against Dickersor. 7t was Iso,
brought out that Dicl:erson was at
the union passengler station in the
carly hours of the nisht and to a
frienl expressed the rurpose of go
ing into the negio sceetion to collect
some money dae him. Nothing, how
ever, revealed any of the evidence
needd to plac the blame for the
dath.
Dickrson werked =zt the Cordele
Sash Door aad Lumber Company.
He rcsided with his family in North
ern Heghts. His widov and six chil
dren survive, besides three brothers
Elias, Jeff and John Dickerson, and
two sisters, Mrz, Staincs and Mrs.
Dukes. The funeral was conducted
this aftcrnoon and the remains
were laid to rost in Slloh cemetery
POUND PARTY AT
BAPTIST PASTORIUM.
The Junior department of the
Baptist Sunday Schoo! will hold a
pound party in the Baptist Pas
toriun tomorrow evening at six
‘clek. Each member is asked to e
presant and bring a pound of some
thinz to eat.
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NEW YORK COTTON
OPEN CLOSHE P. C.
QOL diininas LDI 1748 1737
00, womnaa 1180 1740 1726
Nan 1796 1746 1731
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CORDELE COTTON
Cloraele ootton ... i 16480
LOCAL CREAM MARKET
prandard huttevtat ......uciiaii 80100
NEW VORK MARKETS
NEW YORK, July 26—(#P)—
Stock, higher; bYondg, fivmer; foreign
exchanges, steady; cotton, higher;
sugar, easy; coffce, weak,
CHICAGO MARKETS
CHICAGO, J:ly 26—-(4)—Chicago
wheat higher: cotton, ‘irm; cattle,
steady; hogs, firm to kigher,
SMITH SAYS HIS
- PRIMARY RACE
COST $250,000
VICTOR OVER McKINLEY SAYS
TRACTION MAGNATE GAVE
HUNDRED THOUSAND.
~ CHICAGO, July 26—(AP)—— Frank
T.. Smith testified today before the
Secnate Campaign committee that his
sdceessful fight for the Illinois repub-
I'can senatorial nomination cost ap
proximately two hundred and fifty
thiousand, of which Samuel Insull,
Chicago traction magnafe, gave a hun
cred thousand.
Charges reporteq to the senate by
SGenator (araway, democrat of Ar
‘kansas, were that Smith’s campaign
lLad cost two million dollars and that
more than a million was spent on be
-1 alf of Senator William B. McKinley,
“defeated candidate.
COURT TAKEN UP
AUGUST SESSION
ROBUCK 1S FOREMAN AND WEST
BRGOK SECRETARY OF GRAND
JURY FOR TiZRM.
When the August teire of superior
cour; was opencl this morning
Judze D. A. Ry Cru:n charged the
granl jury to go into and ferret
out the guilty in connection with
the death of T T.. Dicherson, white
citizei who was found Sunday morn
ing dead on the side ¢f the Seabord
tracks in west Cordele.
Mr, W. L. Rebuck was made fore
man of the grand jury and Mr, W.
H. Westhrook secretary, The jury
went iramedia‘eiy into the business
before it for ithe session
The court Lok up the civil busi
ness docketed for the day and fin
ished for the day. A iand line case,
that of John Lewis and others
against De Antignace, went over for
the term by consent of both sides.
MRS. WOOD DEAD -
CHICAGO, July 26-—(AP)—Mrs. A.
Montgomery Ward, widow of the pio
reer Chicago mail order merchant,
died here today.
IFIT’S YOUR KIDNEYS
DO NOT DELAY A MOMENT
Kidney troubles are dangerous, That weak
or aching back, those rheumatic pains, that
scaldiag, scanty or too frequent urination,
means deadly URIC ACID in the system.
Heal the kidneys so they can resume their
dutics and filter out this insiduous poison,
DeWITT’S
KIDNEY & BLADDER PILLS
are recommended as the best remedy in the
world for kidney discases. ‘They are heal
ing, antiseptic and wonderfully effective,
Many base imitatiors of these wonderful
Pills are placed on thie market by unscrup
ulous manufacturers, whoeventry to imitate
the biue effect. Avoid such worthless imita
tions. Be sure that you get the genuine. Sold
everywhere at 50c and $l.OO per pottic, Accept
no substitute, .
’
IF IT’S YOUR STOMACH
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TG NEGLECT IT.
Stomach troubles, such as Dyspepsia, Indi
gestion, Heartburn, ete., cause infinitesufter
ing and mar many thousands of lives. Give
Nature a chance and your Stomach a vaca
tion. Let
KODOL DYSPEPSIA TABLETS
do the work, ‘They are of the highest diges
tive power; one of their principal ingredients
will digest 3,000 times inweightof albuminous
matter. Get Kodol Dyspepsialablets-NO'}
something clse==at any drug store=ooc and
ALOO per box.
STEAD'S DRUG STORE
™ T AT
PHONE NO. 1 .~
= ae
WILL ARREST MCRE HIGH
OFFICIALS IF LAW IS FOUND
VOLATED. o
MEXICO CITY July 26—(/P)—The
department of the interior ‘has or
dered an investigation oi the pastor
al letter issued yesterday under the
signature of arck bishops and bishops
The letter anncunced that begin
ning next Sunday no priests would
officiate at reiigioug ceremonies at
Catholic churches thraughout Mexico
in view of the goveraiment’s inten
tion to put into effect the new regu
lation of religious institutions.
If the departmont ceiermines the
letter violates the corsiitution, hhe
attorney general will he qotifiod and
he can cite the signers for (-'xaminu
tion or order their arvest. :
DISPATCH GOES OUT TWO
HOURS LATE THIS EVENING
DUL TO TRANSFGRMER TROU
BLE.
Due to troubiz wtin loeal trans
former in the power lires from Amei
cus, the local power sunply was cut
off at tw o’clociz today and remain
ed off till four. he Dizpatch plant
works a batter; of electrie pots and
these were stone cold when the cur
rent came back, It took another
hour to put them to going.
The local power emuloyees work
ed fats in their effort to get the
supnly- goin gagain, but it was not
till tke local nlent was steamed up.
and the gencrators in Cordele |
started that th» normsl supply ofi
current, came on. The Dispatch r(a-‘
grels that it was lae—-so long delay
c¢d—bu nothing hotter eould be done. l
LAW ENFORCEMENT
PENN GOVERNOR ALSO HITS MO
NOPLIES AND TALKS CONSER
VATION.
CHEYENN, Wyorming, July 26—
(/P)—The Unitcd States ic faced with
three outstand'ng nroblems: law en
forcement, conscrvaticn of natural
resources, and the control of nation
wide corporale monovolics, Govern
or Pinchot of Pennsylvania told the
twelfth annual coaference of gov
ernoss today,
He classed low enforcement en
forecement as a “moral problem of
the nation” an! conservation of|
cconomic problem of vhe country. 1
Woman Cevernor Speaks
CALEYENNE, JSuly :.‘G~--I’rurnu(imn‘
of the solidarit 7 «f stutes upon which
“the zreatness of the notion depends
is the cief purpeze of le twelfth an
nual governor; conference, Nelllie
Taylor Ross, governor of Wyoming
told assembled state excecutives at
the opening of the theee day meeting
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
SLAYING YOUNG
RESOLUTIONS PASS,D D9MAND
OFFICERS WHO ARE PERSON.-
ALLY AS WELL AS POLITICAL
LY DRY.
MACON, Ga., July 26—(#)—Ten
Macon pastors bitterly assailed liquor
and the bootlegger from the pulpits‘
Sundeay as the opening salvo of “war{
without quarter” on both in which
ministers of all Protestant churches
presented a united front.
The principal gacthering was Mul
berry Street Mcthodist church where
the congregatims of the First Bap
tist »nd First Christian 2athred with
the Mehodists.
Rasolutions calling for te election
of officers who ‘*‘aer personally as
well as politieally dry,” who will
place dry deputizs under themselves
with a union of all citizens to com-
Tat the bootlegzer and fmppsing
straight jail or chaingang sentences
on all the convicted of violating the
prohibition laws, were adopted with
oul dissent.
This concerted attack follows the
slaying July tenth of the young cou
ple at a liquor teansfer point near
Camp Wheeler.
GREAT CAVE IN
RIVER FRONTAGE GOES DOWX
HUNDRED FEET ON #ROPERTY
LINE. |
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MEMPHILS, Jaly .:Z'Y—(/T’)l\lajl)l'
Donala H. Connolly, chief of a de
tachment of Unitea States army en
gincers stationed here, after in
gpection today of the ground about
the cavein near the Mississippi river
front yesterday, predicted that an
other cave in is likely to occur with
in a few hours.
As urvey today showed approau--
mateiy fifteen million f2et of carth
had zlready sunicen to a depth of
about a hundred feet, carrying witil
it th buildings and equipments of the |
West Kentucky Coal Company and
other property valued at founr hun-l
dred thousand doilars,
BISHOP R. A. CARTER
; . .
- AT BETHEL CHURCH HERE
Tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock‘
I'ishop R. A, Carter of the C. M. E.
church will preach at Bethel C. M.
15. ¢hurch on Ninth avenue. Bishop
Carter who was appointed by the
Coeneral Conference of last May is!
making a tour through his new dis
trict, preaching and lecturing at va
rious points, and Bethel chureh of
thig city is extending an invitation
to its many friends to hear him to
morrow night, July 27th, special
rrovisions will be made for the white
frends, This announcement is made
hy —itav, B, Dyer, Pastor, \
oe b ks
today. i
Through interenangc of views and
experiences mugt bhe evolved Le solu
tion of many difficult proolems,
particularly whe:ie there way be a
conflict of intercet and at the same
time develope! a more sympathetic
understand among the states \‘.‘hlrh‘
soh Haulne s iR ey 5
is s 0 cesirable, che ‘..ud.‘_‘ \ I
' PLEDGE OF LOVALTY -
I shall welcome in my com
mnuity of all methods and
measures that have proven
beneficial in other communi.
ties, M
NUMBER 216
GEORGIA SHOWS -**
PERIOD OF TIME
NORTH CAROLINA TOOK, MORE
LIVES THAN ANY OT“.
SOUTHERN STATE. g
Traffic exactes a toli ot a hundred
and fifty seven lives and injured s
thousand and th.rty one persons im
elevent southern states during the
perind June twonty-eigat to “]gly
twenty-fifth inclusive, it was reveal
ed today in a sarvev by the Asso.
ciated Press. ;
North Carolian lead in the number
killed wtih twenty-two. followed by
Florida with twentqone; Géorgia,
third, with twenty. G-.»m-gh lead the
injured column with hundred and
eighty three.
WORK IS BEGINON
MIDWAY CHURCH :
MODERN LITTLE EDIFICE W', :
BE READY FOR OCCUPANCY |
WITHIN A SHORT TIME. |
Friends throvghout thie county will i
be interested ir. the nnnouncemmt.
that the congregaion as made ready
for e new churck edifice at Mid\fl":'l”;; i
and the foundation have - alregdy *
been laid. Within a shoti time the
- building wii} be ready for océu
paney. It has four Sunday Schoal
lrooms and is in every way a m(;d- :
ern structure, 1 ;
! As soon as it is ready Clerk Palm:r
Greene of the superior court an- .
nounces that thetn wil! be a Sun'd}.v
- program to whick all friends will be
invited and a day of thanksziving .
- a.d i¢joicing wil be cifered. |
HAMMOCK BRINGS IR
FIRST OPFEN - =4,
COTTON :| ;
Mr. J. T. Hammock on the J. ‘;H.
Pitts farm near Hatley came to town
with the first open cotton this
morning from a i rty-five acre farm
whien promis2s a f{air yiq'l('i,'dgsme
thing like 25 bales this seasofi. “The
crop is late, but Mr.. Hammogk re
picls that a 10l hire and L.';%;1l
overs the farm is now (pening up.
\ FRESH MEATS .
The best that ean h(i‘»
had at vrices vour mn
well aff »rd. \:
! Qur Clietl Aim ~
7 Quality and Service
~ We Deliver i
Childers
AND .~
Puclkett
Loy (St dnd R Ave ,
PHONES 170-190.
CORDELE. N