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VOLUME NO. 9
SLAYER CANTON PUBLISHER
Widespread Downward Cut
In Fertilizer Freight Rates
REDUCTIONS ARE ORDERED TO
BE IN EFFECT NOT LATER
THAN JANUARY FIRST NEXT
YEAR.
WASHINGTON, August 17—(P)—
Widespread: downward revision of
freight rates on fertilizer and fer
tilzer materials in the south were
decided upon today by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, The. rail
roads were ordered to rut the new
scale of rates into cffect by January
19, 1927,
Undue prejudice was foun to ex
ist against persons and localities in
Inter State Commerce and unjdst‘
discrimination against interstate
commerce by reason of intrastate
rates in Alabama and cffective intra
state rates. Georgia and South Caro
lina were found not to be nnlawful!
for the future, except in individuai |
instances. '
UNKNOWN MAN DIES IN |
NEW ORLEANS GUN BATTLE
NEW ORLEANS, La., August 17—!
()—An »nidentified man be]ievedl
to be.” . ' Houston, Texas, was shott
and t.e.?,;c_.?' wounded in a gun battle |
with an officer early today. Thc%
man died in a hospital shortly after- |
ward. |
CHESTER WILSON IS l
BEING RETURNED HERE
Chester Wilson, serving a life son-g
tence for slaying KErnest Sappington
in a Seville bank several years ago,
and who escaped from the Colquit
county chain gang more than a year
ago, is being returned to Abbeville
by the sheriff of Wilcox county. He
was recaptured while serving at a
gas filling station in Jecksonville. |
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ural flavors—
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spotless plant—
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ness sealed in.
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COURT DISSOLVED BOYKINS
WRIT OF PROHIBITION IN
CASE ON ORDER TODAY.
ATLANTA, Ga., August 17—(®)—
The temporary writ of prohibition‘
restraining Ordinary Thomas H.
' Jeffries from conducting the hearing
| on the petition for a guardian for
' W. D. Manley, said to be mentally
{ incapacitated, was dissolved today by%
- Judge John D. Humphries in Fulton
1 superior court and the hearing bc-}
fore Ordinary Jeffries has been sct
for Monday, August twenty-third. ‘
s o st
FISHING VENTURE
BODY WASHED ASHORE LEADS
TO BELIEF THAT MEN WERE
DROWNED. :
MIAMI, Fila, Aue.' 17— (ADP) -
Elmer Collins, forty, and “Rosy” La|
White, thirty-five, both of Miami,
were believed to have been dmwnvd}
in the ocean off New Smyrna last |
week in a possible accident to al
specd cruiser in which they left (‘O-'
conut Grove for a one day fishing
trip last Tuesday. ‘
The disappearance of the pair was
made known here today following I'(9-|
poi:s frém New Smyrna that thel
body of an unidentificd man had buen‘
washed ashore there yesterday, l
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MOVETO CHECK |
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LABOR AGENTS
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WALKER ISSUES REQUISITION |
FOR TWO MEN IN FLORIDA. 1
ATLANTA, Ga., August 17—(P)— |
In connection with a campaign in-’
augurated by the state commerce and |
labor department to break up in-'
roads on South Georgia labor Lyi
Florida developers, Governor Clif- |
ford Walker today issued reequi»:i-'
tion to return to Georgia two a]]cg-'
ed labor agents said to be fugitives
in Florida.
The men whose names given as
Brit Williams and Alex Holmes arel
wanted in Clinch county on charges
of recruiting laborers,
A B e e s
ATLANTA FIRE GIVES
LONG B)I—JGH BATTLE{
ATLANTA, Aug. 17.—(AP)— Dam
ages estimated at fifty {housand dol
lars were caused by fire here early
today to the building and stock of the
Glidden Stores Company.
It required the work of seven fire
fighting companies more than an hour
Lefore it was extinguished,
TWO ENSIGNS KILLED
CHICAGO, 111,, August 17—(P)—
Two naval ensigns plunged to their
deaths today when the seaplane
they were flying above Lake Michi
gan ncar tthe Great Lakes Naval
Training station suddenly dived into
the water,
The dead are Ensign George Ham
mer, Texas, and Edgar T. Stone, of
Howard, South Dakota, @
CORDELE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1926
' 12 YEAR OLD GIRE
WOMAN ADMITS SHE SLEW
GIRL FIRST FOR JEALOUSY
THEN FOR THRILL.
GREENVILLE, Tenn., August, 17
—(#P)—A coroner’s jury today found
that twelve year old Novella Winkle, |
whose body was discovered in t'nc;
cellar of the Tipton home, had been
murdered, and directed that Bob
Tipton, forty three, and wife, A]mn}
Tipton, forty be held without bail.l‘
| The woman told the nuthoriticqi
first that she killed the child Thurs-x
’ day morning while her husband was
‘at a store and later gave joa]ousy!
as the cause. She later s=aid she hndi
always wanted to kiill just for the
thrill. ’
The child’s body was found a‘.tor
four days search. She had been
visiting in the Tipton home for two
weews before her disappearance.
Theslaying has aroused ' dcep
feeling in the mountain community,
the scene of the crime.
KELLOGG DENIES
HE IS TO RETIRE
STATEMENT OF NATIONAL !
CAPITAL SAID HE WAS UP TO
RETIRE.
PAUL SMITHS, N. Y., August 17 |
—(/P)—Secretary of State Kellogg to |
day flatly denied that he contcm-{
plated resigning. A dispatch emanat‘
ing from Washington said the pur-!
pose of the secretary was to visit |
President Coolidge, at White I’inc}
.Camp to clear up pending depart
mental business prioir to his retire
ment.
DAZZLING LOVELINESS
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IN COLLEEN’S IRENE
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MISS MCCRE’S NEWEST FEA-i
TURE SAID TO ~ CONTAIN |
FINEST WORK OF HER CA. |
REER. \ :
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Winter, with its ice and snow——f
with sleighs carrying warm]y‘;
wrapped maidens—with snow’ballsé
flying from the hands of beautiful |
lassies clad in gorgeous furs-——wi!,hi
skaters lightly gliding over lakes 01",
| ice. With dozens of huge are lumpsi
and spotlights playing on the scene
described. |
That marks the finale of the be:lu-l
|‘ tiful fashion episode of Collooni
| Moore’s “Irene” production, per-.
chance the biggest thing this First |
National star has ever created for:
the silver sheet. 1
Not in many months has a scene
lof such splendor been recorded by}
]the clicking cameras, The four
seasons are depicted in like manner
—cach one surpassing the other in
magnificence—each showing the
beautiful girls in richer gowns and
| wraps,
Colleen Moore, herself always
careful of making broad statementst
regarding her own pictures, is free
to admit and does broadcast the
fact that in “Irenc” she is giving
the finest story and picture of her
entire screen carecer,
Here Wednesday at the Circle
Theatre, - B WRE;
BEHIND GLOSED DOORS TELLS STORY
"IN COLLAPSE WHEN
!JOSEPH ROACH OF CHICAGO
SAID TO BE MAN WHO
BROUGHT GUILTY TO BREAK
DOWN.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 17—(A)
—Louis Mazer, of Canton, flatly ac
cused in the presence of his aged
parents of having murdered Don R.
| Mellett, vice crusading publisher of
the Canton Daily News, collapsed
today and was taken into an office
away from the nerve wrecking eyes
' of his accusers, where it was report
led that “he was telling all” to
Unitde States District Attorney A.
. Bernsteen.
The accusation that brought the
collapse was the first time Mazer
was directly told that he was wanted
for the slaying.
Mazer was nervous when taken
into face his accusers. The shock of
the words “you are charged with the
murder of Don R. Mellettt,” was de
clared by Joseph Roach of Chicago,
“clean up” man who has directed
the investigation that lead to the ac
cusation against Mazer and has been
the immediate cause of Mazer’s col
lapse. :
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MORE EVIDENCE AGAINST
HALL MILLS SLAYERS
SOMERVILLE, N. J., August 17—
(P)—The state today continued to
call witnesses to sustain the charge
that Henry Carpenter and Willie
Stevents are guilty of the murder of
Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs.
Eleanor Mills.
Mrs. Frances tevens Hall, the ree
tor’s widow, also charged with the
crime, is at liberty on bail while the
men are held without bail.
TEN PERSONS INJURED
JERSEY CITY, August 17—(/)
—Ten persons are reported to have
been injured and a score thrown in
to a panic Sunday night, when a
fuse on a Hudson & Manhattan
“tube’” train blew out just as the
train was about to pull out of the
station here.
KINDERGARTEN
m——
Mre. A. M, Stead and Miss
Laura Lula Stead are spare
ing no paing in preparing for
the 1926-27 class, which will
open Sept. 13th, 1926, Those
desiring enrollment should
arrange for same at once.
This is important, as each in
dividual child hag it's par
ticular equipment;also there
is a limit to the number that
can be accomodated in thig
gchool,
Phone 423 205 14th Ave. East
PHONE—CALL—OR WRITE
Stead’s
Drug Store
PHONE NO.I _
Mexican Police Charge Catholics
With Fomenting Revolution
UKLUX
PLANK IS PROMISE
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OF ALABAMA G.O.P.
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RESOLUTION WILL BE OFFER
ED AT STATE CONVENTION?
WHICH MEETS IN BIRMING-‘
HAM.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., August 17——‘
(/P)—An anti- Ku Klux Klan plank
will be written into the Alabama re
publican platform tomorrow if the
probate judge of Chilton county is
successful in getting through a reso-
Ition he says he will introduce.
Judge Reynolds declared today he
intended to insist at the Birminge
ham state convention that his party
“make he invisible government” an
issue in the forthcoming gubernator
ial election.
GROUP WILL TRAVEL IN AUTO
MOBILES AND VISIT VOTERS
IN MANY COMMUNITIES.
A group of ‘George Carswell‘s
friends from Wilkinson county,
travelling in automobiles ,will be in
Cordele simetime early Wednesday |
for the purpose of campaigning for |
their man for governor. Mr. Hem
ming Bland Senior, has a letter from
this party asking that plans be made
for the party and that as much as
possible to aid the eampaign be done
here.
FRIENDS GAVE CANDIDATE COR
DIAL RECEPTION IN CORDELE
TODAY.
John N. Holder, chairman of the
state highway commission and can
didate for governor, was in Cordele
today for a short time shaking hands
with friends. llle was here till near
noon when he proceeded to Vienna,
e shook hands with a number of
1”11: voters while in the city.
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NEW YORK COTTON
OPEN CLOSE P. C.
ot ... 1690 1675 1692
I]Jm-, . 1694 1676 1689
| Jan. 1695 1679 1694
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CORDELE COTTON.
Middling closeq ] 15:85
l LOCAL CREAM MARKET
Standard butterfat .. i .. 40:60
| NEW YORK MARKETS
NEW YORK, August 17—(P)—
Stocks, weak; bonds, irregular: for
cion exchanges, steady; cotton, bare
! ly steady; sugar, featureless; coffee,
[ lower.
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‘ CHICAGO MARKETS
CHICAGO, August 17——(P)—
Wheat, lower; corn, casy: cattle,
slow and weak; hogs, irregular.
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
WITH N.Y. BANKER
' BIG PARTY BOSSES WILL TELL
PRESIDENT WHAT TO DO FOR
‘ HIS FORMER FRIENDS.
NEW YORK, August 17—(P)—
A hundredmillio n dollar farm
credit that would afford relief to
i farmers is the plan soon to be unde
consideration of President Coo]idge‘
and, several New York bankers, it is
reported today.
Members of the firm of J. P.
Morgan Company and Kuhn Loeb
company would not talk the propos
ed plan in advance of an official in
vitation for a conference with
Pregident Coolidge.
CANDIDATE FOR COMMISSIONER
AGRICULTURE WILL SPEAK IN
CORDELE SATURDAY.
: . ik
Eugene 'l'ulnuu]gol,‘. candidate for
‘cnmmissimwr of :l;:r'j'(:ulture to sue
ceed J. J. Brown, will be in“Cordele
ang will speak at the court house on
Saturday next at vle.vnn o'clock.
~ He has spoken in _r'n:m_y counties in‘
Georgia and is said to be one of the
livest campaigners llfif,flm whole group
asking for office at’this time. Tle
h;:t; many I‘|‘iu}l(ls'l|{-ru who will ask
tfi;; voters to atterd &nd hear him.
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VALENTINO-HAS
" SLIGHTEST CHANCE
.
SHEIK OF SILVER SCREEN SHOWS
'PERITONITIS IN LOCAL FORM.
:'Nl“,w YORK, Aug. 17.—(AP)—Ru
dglph Valentino ‘.’slinik" of the silver
séreen is fighting «hfsp«'rutuly for his
mi‘llinn dollar life today in a bower
of roses in the Polyclinic hospital.
Physicians revealed that local pe
ritonitis had already developed when
the film star was operated on Sun
day night for appendicitis and gastric
ulcer.
Peritoneal poisoning, doctors say,
usually becomes general and when it
does the patient dies,
DADE CITY SHERIFF IDENTI
FIES TWO MEN AND TWO
WOMEN WANTED.
DADE CITY, Fla., August 17—(/P)
—Two men said by Sheriff 1, W.
IMudson to be Louis Curtis, twenty
nine, and Arthur Davenport, twenty
fivie, and two women said to be their
wives were identified here today as
the four persons who early yesterday
morning slew a policeman in making
their escape.
GERTRUDE EDERLE IS
READY TO RACE
' SWIMMERS
BISSNGEN,, Germany, August 17
—Gertrude Ederle today told the As.
sociated Press she was prepared to
take on an all male and female chal
lengers in a channel swim for a
purze of twenty thougand dollars be
fore starting for the United States.
- PLEDGE OF LOYALTY |
1 shall welcome in my com
mnuity of all méthods and
measures that have proven
beneficial in other communis
ties,
NUMBER 235
FIFTY ARRESTS =~
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# BUDDING REVOLT
:eO N T
GOVERNMENT BELIEVES TROU.
BLE HAS BEEN ROOTED OUT—
CATHOLICS DENY ANY VIO.
LENCE. : :
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 17. —(AP)—
‘Wllh two alleged revolutionary Jpro
'jects announced nboutl\}e ahq.\o;t sim.
ultaneously, Mexican otticla'ls"— téday
began an investigation to determine
whether any connection éxi'ste'd 'be.
tween the movement heu'de'd;‘)}%\__.’@en.
eral Enrique Estrada, near tji? Mexi
can border in California and the pro
jected wuprising in M(‘xi‘go; "
News of the bhreak vp of the Detrada
movement by [Tnited Smla;,’,gtjl‘o:i.
ties occasioned a great sgnsagion st
the capital, although la&gra fy:ag!gl‘en;.
Calles stated that he knew''of the
project the last two. &ndmfhg and
measures had been taken'to éfiltmte
it. 8 Ry
Mexico City police reported about
fifty persons, mostly molix.inew?)a'!h
olics, had been al'l‘ést'(aq:lfi t?le,,“last
two days in Mexico (‘i*y:vh‘nd;.dq(l‘by
towns. i ~-;‘;.
Fourteen were diccharged: lagt nigh’t.
The police assert that.those aprested
had plotted armed upr,isidgg}n various
parts of the republic Sun.dpy.‘:;'l?)‘fld
mite, fire arms, and rg*yul‘utiuplry
propoganda and plans were confibéat
ed in the homes of sodae‘p{ (fi3sB ar
rested. ' r ;
B s ol
Catholics Deny, ,Chirae :
The Roman Catholf! E&séomgo,
which has (:nnrluntl}"'iyfi"x’xé:l"| 1
violenco in connection @iy’ the prev.
ent religious <-nnlr()vur1!)( &"ptéc'!flcal'ly
aeclared that only p(‘.'l'(!,;rul'z“uq:isures
were authorijed by U 3 clr.l and
declares it has no lilfikrfijfiiop,lhit
Catholics are plntling*rfihéwfm.“
Government official ,?;n‘ sdy 4r
rests have been made in other, pgrts
of the country #anq, a ifuml}m '@‘-"the
affairs have not heen l‘@)’efil'dtl. Thcy
ldorcl.n'u the all ged rttin:'pifficyi; Y}
beencompletely nipped in the bud.
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