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GEORGIA WEATHER
Fair tonight; Iriday thun.
dershowers, moderate south
west winds.,
VOLUME NO. 9
GEORGIA TAX DIGEST SHOWS SEVEN MILLIONS IN YEAR'S GAINS
AX PAYERS TURN
TA
. “SILLION DOLLARS
STATE TAX RATE WILL BE FULL
FIVE MILLC ON REPORT OF
COMPTROLLER GENERAL.
ATLANTA, Aug. 19.—(AP)— Ass
egsed value of property on the ‘state
tax digests in Georgia for the year
1926 ig a billion sixty one million sev
en hundred forty-five thousand five
hundred and seventy dollars or an in
crease of seven million thrce hun
dreq and seventy thousand nineh hun
dred and fifty, over nineteen twenty
tive valuations, it was announced to
day by General W‘z;]inm A. Wrizght,
comptroller general,
Comptroller General Wright recom
mended the state tax rate be fixed at
five mills maximum for. 1926.
This will bring into the treasury
five million three hundred and eight
thousand scven hundred and eighty
seven hundred and eighty two dol
lars, out of which aaf»proximately‘
ten perecent must be paid for collec
tion. This would leave the state four
million seven hundred and sevtnty
sen thousand eight hundred and fifty
six net from ad valorem taxes on
property, to be added to nine hun
dred and forty seven thousand three
hundred and forty-two to be col--
lected by public utility taxes.
MAMMY JOE HOSTESS
GROUP OF HER
: BABIES
Josephine Daniel, known to scores
of her white friends in the commu
nity as “Mammy Joe,” was hostess
t.oda:"-t!‘% ten of the children who were
her “babies” when she was a nurse
in days that are gone. The dinner
was given at her home on Sixth Ave
nue and Tenth Street, Ward D. Shep
pard being the guest of honor.
With Mr. B. F. Sheppard, Sr., the
following children were her guests at
a delightful dinner which she pre
pared with her own hands: W. D.
Sheppard, Little Elizabeth Sheppard,
Mary Lee Sheppard, Jackie Richard
son, of Savannah, Vivian Freeman,
Eloise Shipp, Elsie Quay Herrington,
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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bad Gunman Wanted For Six Murders Gives Up To Woman Sheritf
German Press Says Kellogg
Speech Is Bitter Criticism
COOLIDGE LOOKS:
EAGERLY FOR WHAY
FRENCH DISAPPOINTED BE
CAUSE NOTHING WAS SAID
ABOUT ALLIED WAR DEBT.
WASHINGTON, August 19—(P)—
{Europe’s reaction to Secretary Kel
logg’s Plattsburg speech dealing
with the general preliminary arms
limitation will be watched here with
congiderable interest. :
Nothing Of Debts
PARIS, August 19—(P)—The
better known French papers today
print prominently Secretary of State
Kellogg’s speech yesterday at Platts
burg, N. Y. Extracts from the sec
retary’s speech were printed in the
late news columns of most of the
papers without comment. Excerpts
and remarks in ene or two said that
he did not mention the question of
interallied debts.
Bitter Criticicm
BERLIN, August 19— (P)—Ger
man newspapers are printing copious
extracts from ecretary of State Kel
logg’s address yesterday at Platts
burg on the reduction of armaments.
Berlinger Tageblatt says “The
specch was polite, but relentless in
criticism of the work of the pre
paratory conference on disarmament.
Suer eriticism, especially from
America, is bitter but not unde
cerved.”
STATISBURG AND DODGE FAMI
LIES WILL PUT UP FUNDS GN
PROJECT.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.,
‘August 19—(P)—All contract'
iih]rlo;'s for p'roporty of the bank
"lulpt' American British Improvement
Corporation will be paid in full, ac
«cording to a statement here today
by W. W. Burgess, trustee, who re
turned today from a conference with
the Statisbury and Dodge families in
New York and Detroit.
The amount involved which will he
paid out of the private funds of the
two families is a million two hundred
fifty thousand and practically
doubles the assets for the remaining
creditors, Burgess said.
pard. .
The event wag one of the happiest
in the lives of the little filks and it
gave “Mammy Joe"” a world of pleas
ure to have them,
WOMAN IS KILLED
SHE LEAPS OR FALLS TWELVE
STORIES TO SIDEWALK.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., August 19—(/P)
—Mrs. 0. T. Conrey, 35, leaped or
fell to her death from the twelfth
{floor of the Columbian Mutual tow
er, opposite the courthouse square
in the center of the downtown shop
ping district shortly after noon to
day in view of several hundred per
song, many of them women shoppers
The woman’s body struck a stonc
Ipavement and was badly crushed.
CORDELE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1926
- STEVENS ORDERED
COURT SAYS PRIMA FACIE CASE
IS MADE OUT IN HALL MILLS
MURDER.
SOMERVILLE, N. J, Aug 19.—(AP)
—Henry de la Bruyere Carpender
and Willie Stevens were lield by the
jgrand jury today on charges of hav.
ing murdered Rev. Edward Wheeler
Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills. .
County Judge Cleary, before whom
the hearing began last Friday, said
the state had established a prime
facie case and ome that warranted
attention of the grand jury. |
Carpender and Stevens were re
manded to j(lil: State Senator Simp
son, who ordereq their arrest said he
rlanned to call a special greiml jury
and present as soon as possible the
evidence under which the two were
held.
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SAVANNAH PARENTS GET NOTE
t SAYING BOY IS NOW DEAD.
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SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug. 19.—(AP)—
County police are combing the county
lpoking for the body of James IHen
drix, Jr., nine-year-old bhoy who left
home last Saturday and failed to re
turn.
Parents of the hoy, Mr. and Mrs,
James Hendrix, focund a note under
the door this morning which reads:
“Your boy is dead. You will find his
body five miles from Savannah.”
Although little faith is placed in the
note, the county police are investigat
ing. Young Hendrix left Saturday
morning with Jameg Hester, neigh
bor’'s gon, but did not return with him.
If it is a hoax, everybody agrees it
'is a cruel one. g
'SALARY FOR “UNDER COVER
! MAN” WAS HELD UP.
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1 NEW YORK, August 19—(F)—
Credits for payments made to A.
IBrucc Bielaski, named in a recent
prohibition trial as an “under cover
"man” for the government, are being
i held up at Washington by Comptrol
-3 ler McCard.
| A letter from McCard to Repre
sentative Emmanuel Celler, given
~oul by the ?oprcsnntative sayss
; “I have to advise that the records
of his office disclose no payments
‘to him (Bielaski) for salary as an
‘of‘ficer or employe in the prohibi
; tion service.
i “t does apppar, }mwo\"-r, from
; vouchers in the Treasury office that
Walter Green, chief prohiblition -in
i vestigator, has during the past fiscal
i year mare numerous payments to Mr
Bielaski aggregating more than $15,-
000 for confidential information and
assistance.
“I may state that credit has not
been allowed for any of these
!it(rms, finalaction thereon having
ll)('cn suspended pending further in
vestigation,”
NINETEEN PERISH
|GERMAN REPORT IS THAT
' SOMEBODY LOOSENED FISH
. PATES AND CAUSED TRAGE-
L By,
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LEHRTE, Germany, August 19-—
(P)—Nineteen persons were killed
and five seriously injured early to
day when the Berlin-Cologne express
was derailed near here.
The tragedy was attributed to the
loosening of the fishplates oy uni
dentified persons.
HUNDRED JURY MEN SUMMONED
FOR SERVICE IN BUTLER COUN
1Y
MORGANTON, Ky., Aug. 19.—(AP)
—A special venire of a hundred per
sons is being summoned today by
officers in Butler county for jury ser
vice in the trial of three men charged
with the murder of Rev. A. W. Moss,
evangelist, and Mrs, Nora Johnson,
choir singer, ‘
The trial is set for tomorrow with
(Yircuit Judge John I. Gilliam pre
siding. e
SENATOR SMITH HERE
ON SHORT
VISIT
Former Senator Hoke Smith and
Mis. Smith have been here for the day
on a sort visit to friends and rela
tives. They came up from Tampa ac
companied by Mrs. Smith’s mother,
Mrs. W. D. Wilson who had been on
a visit to another daughter, Mrs.
Walter Edwards.
- Former Senator Smith has been
Qh:xkiug’ hands among old time friends
down town during the day.
J. ¥. Champion, formerly of Arabi,
but now of Charleston, S. C,, is here
on a short visit to home folks. He
will return to Charleston within a few
days.
KINDERGARTEN
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Mrs. A. M, Stead and Missg
Laura Lula Stead are spare
ing no pains 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, ag each in
dividual child has it's par.
ticular equipment;also there
is a limii, to the number that
can be accomodated in this
school.
Phone 423 305 14th Ave.llast
PHONE—CALL—OR WRITE
Stead’s
Drug Store
PUONE NO. 1
CIRCUS EXPERT ?
TIRES OF BEING
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CARL WAGNER HAD SLAIN TWO
MEN AND NEARLY GOT THIRL
IN PAST WEEK.
TEXARKANA, Ark.,, August 19—
(#)—Carl “Kinnie” Wagner, twenty
three, alleged slayer of six men, is
is in custody today after quielly
currendering yesterday to Sherif?
Lillie Barber, woman executive of
Miller ecountly.
“I'm tired of being hunted,” Wag
ner said. “I don’t want to dodge
people any more.” 1
Posses have been searching for the
notorious gunman since Tuesday as
a result of his latest shooting esca- .
pade. That day he was allebed to]
have fatally shot Sam and Will
Carper and wounded Bob Carper
near Texarkana.
Wagner is a former expert rifie
and pistol performer with a circus.
He declared “I would have p;nttvn‘
Bob, but it was so dark I couldn‘t
see to shoot straight.” '
He is wanted in Kingsport, Tenn.,
for slaying two officers and wound
ing the third in April, 1925. He is
wanted in Mississippi in connection
with the death of two officers who
attempted to preventhimfrombreak
ingjail.
U. S. ARMY ARMS
MAGAZINE OF BILLION ROUNDS
OF AMMUNITION GOES UP.
NORFOLK, Va., August 19—(P)—
A magazine said to contain a billion
rounds of small arms aminunition
exploded at the army ammunition
depot at Pig Point, on the James
River, 15 miles from Portsmouth,
tonight at 7:19 o‘clock. Nobody was
killed or injured, a hasty check was
said to have shown, and the chief
damage was to the building huos
ing the magazine which was de
stroyed. Fire apparatus from Ports
mouth was sent to the scene and
aided the depot garrison in fight
ing the flames with chemicals.
BIGU. S. ARSENAL
POWDER MAGAZINE BURNED
BUT NO EXPLOSION AT
PLANT.
WASHINGTON, August 19—(#)
—The War Department has suffer
ed another loss from fire, ths time
at Pig Point, Virginia, but army of
ficors have not yet decided wheth
er the flames were started py light
ning, as in the case of the recent
explosion at Lake Denmark, N. J.,
The first dispatches last night in
dicated that there had yeen an ex.
plosion and a quantity of small arms
and cartridges set off, but an offi
cial report today from Major l'](l"\'i'll
. Case, commanding officer :lti
Pig Point depot said only the pow-|
der magazine was burned and no n\'—‘
plosion occurred. !
VALENTINO IMPROVES
NEW YORK, August 19—(D)
Rudolph Valentino, movie actor, has
passed the most ciriteal period of his
illness, physicians announced today.
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
Special Grand Jury Wi |
Pass on Hall-Mills Evidence
WARRANTS FOR
- CANTON ATTORNEY
' “AND MCDERMOTT
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' LATEST DEVELOPMENS IN EF
' FORT TO UNCOVER MURDER
; CANTON PUBLSSHER.
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~ CANTON, Ohio, August 19—(#)—
Following the grilling in Cleveland
of Louis Mazer, charged with first
degree murder of Don R. Mellett,
and the arrest of Norman Cyark,
Canton attorney, under charges of
conspiracy to violate the federal pro
hibition act, the next link in the
~murder investigation will be the is
suance of warrants against Ben Rud
ner of Massilon, Ohio, and Patrick
Fugene MeDermott, of Nanty, Glo,
Pa. }
The investigators did not reveal
specifically what the warrants would
charge, but it is learned they both
will constitute tactical moves to un
cover the murder plot and liquor
conspiracy which the evidence shows
~are intricately interwoven.
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- CROSSING CRASH
BOY AND MAN SERIOUSLY HURT
ATGEORGIA RAILROAD CROSS.
ING. ‘
THOMASTON, Aug. 19— (AP) —
Jeannette Posse, eight-year-old daugh
"tur of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Posse, was
instantly killed, and George Padgett,
’twdvn, suffered a fractured skull and
EZi(:k Luke, forty-four, was painfully
iinjurm] in a collision between an auto
mobile and a Georgia Railroad train
at Lullawater Cotton Mill crossing,
near here this morning.
‘BRILLIANT CAST FOR
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~ SONG AND DANCE MAN
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TOM MOORE, BESSIE LOVE
‘ HEAD GALAXY OF FILM ANDj
STAGE STARS IN NEW PHOTO
PLAY. ‘
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- If the term “all star” were not
! s 0 often misused and abused, so that
iit has practically lost its pristin"}
T;:lnry, it would be a temptation to
Capply it to the notable cast of scereen
and stage players Director Herbert
Brenon has assembled for the proper
interpretation of “The Song amll
| Dance Man,” the cinema version of
George M. Cohan’s distingushed
Broadway comedy success.
Tom Moore, whoge Irish smile and
finished acting have won him an en
viable following, portrays the titlt"
role of “Happy’” Farrell, the ;.':on('r-‘l
ous cgotistical vaudevillian, whum-I
trials, tribulations and triumphs pro- |
vide most, of the pathos and humor |
in this sentimental story of back |
stage life. This is the role made fa
mous by Mr. Cohan in the stage ver
sion,
Beszie Love, the diminuitive film |
favorite and the screen’s foremost '
cxponent of the “Charleston,” is |
happily cast as the small time |u-r—;
former who eventually wins fame |
and forune in the musical comedy
field. |
This is the attraction at the Cir-|
cle for I'riday. l
PLEDGE OF LOYALTY -
1 shall welcome in my com
mnuity of all methods and
measures that have proven
beneficial in other communl
ties,
NUMBER 237
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HALL MILLS GUN- ¢
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¥ IN MURDER - |
BELIEVED FOUND
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QUAKER CITY POLICE LIEUTEN.
ANT SAYS ARREST IN oan
MAY COME TONIGHT. 3
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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 19.~(AP)—
The pistol believed to have been usecé
in the murder of Rev. Edward Wheel.
er Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills was re.
covered here today by Lieutenant
William Belshaw of the police murder
squad. '
The weapon is a twenty-five calibre
Spanish make said to have been wrap
ped in a Brunswick newspaper of 3
date a few days after the doubla slss’i
ing. . : |
Lieutenant Belshaw said it had beon
recovered at u house in west Phila:
delphia. He saild there probably
would be an arrest here in the c¢age
tonight. ;
Bullets taken from Eleanor Mill“g
heag were thirty-two (-,altbi'q it w;i
‘testitied at the hearing of Henry Carg
pender and Willie- Stevens, * charged,
with the murder of " Rev, v‘Edwu;%
Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor MHI».\;
Gunsmiths today said the ditferency
between the twenty-five and tflh‘tfl”
two calibre wag very slight ang t;xe
calibration of Spanish arms might g&r;‘
mit the thirty-two calibre car&ridglo"
to be tired in a twenty-five éallb're.'
Spanish pistol. ‘ )
FATHER, SON BATTLE
TO DEATH OVER
MULE RIDE
PINEVILLE, Ky., Aug. 19.»--(.-\]")‘—‘,
Jeft Fuson, forty-tive, sliyer 6f h'fl‘
own son, lay in a hospital hire today
hovering between lifé and doath. .
An operotion was performed to ro.
move a bullet Inflicted by his son
in a battle over who wokulld rlflgz:n
mule. i "
Fuson was nn' ware t‘i?t ‘l\.l€:h,a‘l
killed hig son, Jaff, (wvnty.f.t'}iar,:-""’-14
fight which took place Tuesday i’fl?hl
at the home near here. :
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