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VOLUME NO. 9
67 LIVES AND MILLIANS IN PROPERTY LOST IN TROPICAL STURM
Widow is Held for Murder
Yinsband and Choir Singer
JERSEY GOVERNOR
!
- CHARGES MADE
WOMAN WHO OWNED PIG FARM
IS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY
TROOPERS.
TRENTON, New Jersey, July 29—
(AP)—Governor Moore today declar
ed hisg intention of going through
“4o a finish,” with the prosecution of
Mrg. Florence Stevens Hall, who was
arrested at Somerville last night
charged with the murder of her hus
band, the Reverend Dr. Edward
Wheeler Hall, and Mrs. Eleanor Miils,
choir singer in his church.
Woman is Arrested
SOMERVILLE, N. J., July 29—(AP)
Mas. Jane Gibson, owner of the pig
farm near the scene of the Hall-Mills
murder four vears ago, was token in
to custody thig afternoon by state
trocopers for questioning. Se figured
preminently in the investigation at
the time of the murder.
COURT GOES AGAIN
WORKOF CIViIL BRONCH. _ _WAS
OVER WEDNESDAY—GRAND
JURY BACK AGAIN MONDAY.
The superior courl is in a brief
recess for the.remaindcr of the
wy‘,&jfihc busiress in the civil
bra;xc"c,é @s been finisted and the
court will not be back at the grind
until Monday mcrnirz when the
criminal business will te heard.
The grand jury iz also in brief
recevs for the remainder - of the
weei, but will be back mn session
Monday morning.
Food can be cooked ovez; a new
stove to be fited to the exhaust mani.
fold of an automobile that burns
the emitted gas. RN
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Bu y Ddic and Rereshing
it by,
the case!
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: i tles on ice at
i ¢ /| home. Noth
o i ing like it after
f housework or
i play. And for
i ." your guests 2
e pleasant sure
prise,
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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
REFRIGERATION
CAR RATE RAISE
COAST LINE AND SEABOARD PRO
POSALS ON LESsS THAN CAR
LOTS FOUND JUJSTIFIED.
WASHINGTON, July 29— (AP)—
I':oposed charges for use of refrigera
tor cars in transporiation of fruits,
vegetables, and other perishable
ficight in less than carloads between
points in the southeast were found
justified today by the interstate com
r cree commission.
The proposed charges are to be ap
plied over the lines of the Atlantic
(‘.ast Line and Seahoard Air Line
and certain of their connections, but
will not apply over the lines of the
Dlinois Central, Louisville and Nash
ville, Mobile and Ohio, or Southern
Railway.
DEATH CALLS TO
PIONEER PREACHER
REV. G. W. M'CRANLY BURIED
MONDAY AFTERNOON AT EBE
NEZER CEMETERY.
After a battle of six weeks against
the infirmities of old a_zc-:&flm'cfi w.
McCriney passed away at the local
sanitorium Sunduy afternoon last at
three o’clock. The remains were
takea to Ebenezer cimirch, where
many times in “he past nalf century
he nas preached, and there at five
o’clock Monday afternoon the {fu
ncral services were held. Rev. J. N.
Crozsby of Pitts condaectled the ser
vices, They were largely attended.
He was boranin Worlh county on
March fourth! 1859. e was in his
eighty-seventh year and had been a
Baptist minister half a century, al
most all the time in ‘lLie immediate
community, His wife. who was a
great christian workicr herself, pass
ed in death ore thafi 2 year agg. His
death brings sorw\vl{to many who
loved him for the fai&jh’ful service Ich
had rendered in Ilis?:lvqn{.? years ofj
usefulness, Only ;:rm.c?fghildren sur
vive, a son having died?iyears ago, I
THIS PROBE WITNESS
FLATLY REFUSED
TO ANSWER
CHICAGO, July 29,—(AP)—Flatly
refusing to answer questions today he
fere the senate campaign funds com
mittee, Thomas W. Cunningham of
I hiladelphia, was advised that he
would be cited to the sgenate for
contempt,
FLECTRICIAN DIES IN
CALHOUN HOME
CALHOUN, Ga., Julx 29—(&)—
Fraak Hulsey, 45, city electrician,
was clectrocuted here today while
disconneeting an electric iron at the
hom2 of Mrs. A. L. lenson, Cross
ing of the wire with a high voltage
wire was believed re-pensible for
the saecident.
Hulsey is survived by his widow
and cne child.
Carey Pound, of <he Digputch
fore 2 accompanied by his family, is
enjoying a vacation vizit to his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs J. E. Pound, at
Mayo, Fla.
CORDELE, GEORGIA, TIIUURSDAY, JULY 29, 1926
COURT MARTIAL
COAST CUARDSMEN
PROCESS ORDERED AS RESULT
OF RUM SMUGGLING CHARGE
ON JERSEY COAST.
WAHINGTON, July 29—(P)—
Cour: martial of twelve ¢nlisted men
coast guardsmen and ¢ne non-com
miszioned officer on charge of mis
conduct was ordercd today by Cap
tain D. F. Deotie, acting command
ant of the guard
The order is the ouirrowth of an
investigation of charges of rum
smuegling by gusrdszaen along the
New Jersey coas!.
SOLDIERS SAFE
NOW AT SCRIVEN
v :
MESSAGE FROM CAPTAIN FLEM
ING INDICATES CORDELE
COMPANY IN COMFORTABLE
QUARTERS.
The Cordele Company of the hun
dred and twenty-first infantry, Na
tional Guard, is safcly quartered at
Fort Screven Barracks, according to
a message which came this morning
from Captain Gladstone Fleming and
from Colonel Eph Mattnews:
Tho message irtora Captain Flem
mg was as follows:
“False report out Tynce Island un
der water. We have had heavy rains
but nothing sevious., Soidiers safe in
barracks at Fort Sereven.”
The message irom Celonel Mat
thews said: “Storm has passed. Ev
erything all rizht.””
WOMEN INDICTED IN
« TLLINOIS
: FRAUD
CHICAGO, July 29—(P)—True
bills naming forty-two persm:s,l
raising the numbcr of r.ersons chur;:-}
ed with vote fravds and various jr-|
regularitics in the April primarics to |
a hundred and fitiy ote were voI‘c(II
today by a speecialgrand jury. }
A pumber of thosc named were
women I
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| NEW YORK, July 29—(P)—
Stocks, higher; bonds, irregular;
foreign exchangas steady: cotton,
'stvady: sugar, fcatureless; coffee,
lowear,
I CHICAGO MARKETS
% CHICAGO, July &o=-(/P)—Wheat,
| strong; corn, stcady; cattle, easy;
I hogs, lower.
GEORGIAN KTLLED
UNDER ENGINE IN
r
BROOKLET CRASH
THREE SCHOONLRS SIUNK AND
MANY PASSENGERS] LOST—
BRUNSWICK BOAT REACHES
MIAMI SAFE. |
By the Associated Press
Sixty-seven lives and property
damage estimated at several millions
dollars was attributea today to the
westn Indian hvrricane which swept
across Nassau, tore up the Florida
East Coast and turned into Georgia,
where today it 13 reported diminish
ing in wind force.
Fiity-four bodies were washed
ashore from three schooners sunk off
Sancs Island, eight persons were
killed at Nassau; faur in Florida and
one in Georgia.
Georgia Is Killea
A Geosgigudeath credited to the
storm WII’S J. N. Shearouze, of States
boro, president of the Sherwood rail
road, killed when tre locomotive
he was driving 'was overturned near
\Brooklet last night.
The accident in which Shearouse,
was killed was attributed to the
weakening of the roadbed by heavy
rains. Several other. wpersons, in
cluding his son, Fred Shearouse and
several trainm~n, werc injured. In
additicn to being president and own
er of the railroad, Shearouse was
and operator of several saw mills
president of the Bank of Brooklet
and planing mills. "
“Fifty-Four Bodies Wask#d Ashore
~ SANTA DOMINGG, Dominican
Repablie, July 20 —Many passengers
were lost when the schooners Fran
scimy, Peaceful, and Macrosis, bound
for the Windwaid Islands, were sunk
off Saona Island ‘n the storm. Fifty
four Fodies have been washed ashore
at Saona.
Brunswick Boat Safe
MIAMI, Fla., July 29—(#)—The
Miami Daily News today is publish
ing the first authentic news of the
havoz wrought by the tropical hur
ricane at Bimini upea arrival here
of the storm baticred yacht, Zu
leita 11, formerly of Brunswick, Ga.,
whose commander, Captain G. I, El
lis, and Captain R. M. Hulchins
stated that practically all structures
GARDEN SEEDS
Now is the time to
plan the fall garden
—We have the fall
Garden Seed — All
vou will need in the
most dependable
kinds. Let us fill
your orders,
Stead’s
Drug Store
. PHONE NO. 1 «#
Texas Baptist Pastor Is
Indicted, Murder of Chipps
HEAVY FEDERAL
TOOK SIXTY - FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS FROM BAGGAGE MAN
ON BOSTON AND MAINE RAIL
ROAD.
SALISBURY, Mass., July 20.—(ADP)
-~ Train robbers obtained sixty-five
thousand dollars in cash from ‘the
beggage master of the ' Boston and
Maine train at Salishurg Point station
today. ’
The money had been sent by'the
I'cderal Reserve bank in Boston to
the Powow River National bank of
Awm.eshury.
CORDELE AUTO SUPPLY COM.
PANY HAS RADIO EXPERT TO
MOVE UP ON SUMMER BUSI
NESS.
| The Cordele Auto Supply Company
is celebrating its sixth anniversary in
August and is making the event felt
i+ the form of a radio advertising
gtont which is intended to reveal to
customers that the Atwater-Kent ra
dic outfit will do business in summer
a: well as in any other season,
There is an expert at the store, a
representative of Radio News, the
leading radio newspaper, and Science
and Invention. One complete radio
got for adnlts and one for boys and
girls will be given away free at this
store in a contest which is now be
ing launched and those who wish to
have part should find out right away.
DOTY IS DENTED NEW
TRIAL BY
. FRENCH
BEIRUT, Syria, Juiy 29—(#)—The
appeal of Bennett J. Doty of Mem
phis from the sertencs of eight years
impriconment at hard abor for de
sertion from tha I'rench foreign
Legion today was rcjected unani
mously by the mgher military court.
M — ——————
on the island had been demolished.
The Zuleita limyed into port carly
this morning with scventeen pas
sengors, none of them reported badly
injured from being puifeted by the
hundred mile an hour wind.
Many of them were hruised by fly
ing cocoanuts which “fcll like rain
from the trees into the small harbor
tearing holes into the eraft’s super
structure,” tey said.
“It was the werst storm T have
experienced during my thirty-cseven
years on the sea,” was the comment
of Captain Ellis, Bimiri is demolish
ed as much as anything can be.
Churches were hicewn down, a le-I
loon was lifted from its fnuqutlunl
and taken several feet and then
sef, down again, conciete banisters on
the hotel were literauiy torn away
from the buildinz and every cocoa
nut tree in the hotel yard stripped
of its fruit.”
Eight Killed at Nassau
MIAMI, Fla., Juiy 29-—(P)—Eight
pergons are known to have heen
killed by the trapical hurricane that
struck Nassau Monday, according to
first direet reports on the storm
fatalities received hy the Miami
Daily News from Captain MeDonald
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
LIQUOR DEATHS
NATION-WIDE SEARCH IS BEING
MADE FOR BOOTLEGGER GANG
SELLING POISON.
BUFFALO, N. Y., July 29.—(AP)—
While the nation-wide search was in
stituted today for three men said to
be members of a higher up bootlegger
gang, were sought by the authorities
in connection with the sale of wood
aicohol in liquor, the death list had
increased to forty-four.
Jamestown reported four fatalities
during the night. The men sought
are alleged by the police to have
known the liquor was poisonous when
they sold it.
GEORGE WRIGHT GETS “JUICE”
FRCM 2300 VOLT LINE IN RE
PAIR WORK TODAY.
Friends of George Wright, Cor
dele lineman for the South Georgia
Power Company, will be pleased to
learn that late cnis afiernoon he is
steadily improving from a shock
which he sustained this morning on
Fourth Avenue in Northern Heights
where he was ma%ing repairs on lines
blown down by last mght’s terrific
winds.
He was knocked unconscious for a
briei period, but walked to the of
fice down town and was later put
to bed by a physician. Ie is not in
immediate danger, The lines were so
impaired in Cordele that a great
deal of work will be necessary before
they are going regulasiy again. |
LIQUOR KILLS
FLORIDA MAN THOUGHT TO BE
POISON VICTIM.
JACKSONVILLE, la., July ZU—I
Lonnie A. Hugeins, 42, Jied from the
cffects of what police said they be
lieved to have been poisoned liquor.
Two negroes, J. R. Reynolds and
Fred Law, froia whom MHigging was
sald to have purchasad the intnxi-I
cant, were beine held pending analy
sis of the liquor and continued in
vestization. I
ORDERS STIFY INCREASE
IN COMPENSATION RATE
ATLANTA, July 29.—(AP)——An in
ccase of 229 percent in the Georgia
vorkmen's compensation rates was
ordered today by Comptroller General
V. A, Wright, .
The increase is to become effective
from May tenth, this year,
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of the steamshin, Munainar,
Property damage will zeach four or
five million dollcrs, McDonald esti
mat 2s.
Coast Guard Ruches Aid i
MIAMI, Fla., July 29—A1l avail
able coast guard hoats ot Miami were
ordered today to Nassau, Bahamas,
where the tropizal- hurticance did !
great damage. Orders were issued
on zn appeal from L, A. Oates, Brit- |
ish viece consul at Miami, and II“'I
vessels will render aid where possi- |
bhle, I
PLEDGE OF LOVALTY
I shall welecome in mv com
mnuity of all meothods and
measures tht, have proven
beneficial in other communi
ties. ,‘
NUMBER 219
FORTY WITNESSES
PASTOR FIRST BAPT.ST CHURCH
IN FOR WORTH MUST BE
TRIED FOR SLAYING MAN.
I i
* FORT WORTH, Tex-u July 29—
(/P)—Dr. J. Frank Nori's, pastor of
the First Baptict church, and na
tionally known fandamentalist, was
indicted today by tho Tairant county
grand jury for t:'e murder of D. E,"
Chipps, lumber man, in the church”
office July seven’eenth
Mayor M. <, Meachany, & Chipys
friends was called as o witness just.
before the indictment was returncd
after two weeke of investigation,
Nearly two acore witnesses appesr .
ed Eefore the grand jury.,
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* FOUND INRIVER '™
MAN’S FACE TIED, : SUITCASE®
LOADED, ; o 4
RIVERSIDE, Aia), July 29— ()~
With the face <mgthered in a heawy'
bath towel and a suitcage countain
ing several pounds of ivan tied ahont
his neck, the bady of an nnidenti
fled white raan was ‘washed nshovs
here today,
There were no ciues io the man's
idenity. The hoXy was found canght
in underbrush ‘en the hanks of Conga’
river. A coroner’: jury waid deatly
was from “t’lrowning 31 other un
known ca 35¢8.’
Thz #rft case in addtion to the
iron weights container n practically
new kuit, without a tyodemari 'Ths;
bath towel had lLeen wrayped about
the Tace and fasiened wilh a salety
pio. -
The body is that of p mnn about 7%
years old, red-haired ;n( stout, The
man bad no teat] | If the bady is nat,
claimed it will 1. Luricd by the eity
here. County avthoriiies are invag.
tigating the cay,
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