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VOLUME NO. 9
EORTY-FOUR MEN PERISHED IN TERRIFIC MINE EXPLOSION
RECOVERED FROM
BADLY BURNED AND MUTILIAT.-
ED BODIES SHOW FORCE OF
EXPLOSION.
CLYMER, Pa., August 27—(/)—
The explosion which occurred in
Clymer mine of the Clearfield Bi
tuminous Coal Corporation yester--
day apparently crushed out the lives
of forty four men.
With tuirty-four bodies recovered
from the blasted = workings this
morning, mine officials expressed
the belicf that three others unac
counted for were dead in the debris
swept ruins of the mine.
The bodies of nine miners, badly
burned and mutiliated were recov
ered at noon today. Rescuers con
tinued to searchy for three minegp
who are belieevd buried under
heavy falls of rock and earth.
The bodies were removed to a
temporary morgue establishment in
a tool shed a mile from the mine
mouth. Here they were placed be
side the bodies of thirty-two fellow
workmen whose lives were snuffed
out by the terrific Llast yesterday
aiternoon.
The condition of the bodies lead
the rescuers to believe these men
were trapped in the very midst of
the explosion.
Of the forty one bodies only four
~_ade without marks of violence.
‘These four fell victims of afteraamp
which followed the blast.
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ATLANTA, Aug. 27. — (AP)— A
true bill of indictment charging W.
F, Merrick of Miami with larceny of
an automobile was returned today by
the grand jqury. Merrick is being
held in jail here after being arrested
on a charge of posing as the son of
George E Merrick, wealthy Florida
land owner.
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"THE CORDELE DISPA'T'CH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ku Klux And Fergusonism Issues In Run Over Texas Primary
BALLOTING OCCURS IN TEXAS
SATURDAY WITH MOODY AND
MRS. FERGUSON IN RUN OVER.
DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 27.-—(AP)—
The second Texag primary campaign
for the democratic gubernatorial nom.-
ination closed today with Governor
Miriam A. Ferguson ang Attorney
}Genéral Dan Moody using the Ku
Klux Klan and “Fergusonism” as the
‘whip to keep their supporters in line
for the run off in the balloting to
‘morrow,
They will face the barrister with
‘Moody’s backers claiming the inside
track by virtue of his hundred and
twenty thousand vote lead ,in the
five-cornered July priniary race.
The attorney general, however,
lacked about seventeen ' hundred
votes of a majority in the first pri
mary, necessitating a run off.
ICANDIDATE FOR COVERNOR
. WILL BE AT COURT HOUSE
AT ELEVEN O’CLOCK IN MORN
ING.
~F'riends of Ceorge H. Carswell,
candidate for governor, _ announce
that he will spéfilé here on Mofiday
morning at c’icyq'p o%bcl/;}i(t the
court house. He has been making a
fast campaign tour of South Geor
gia the last week and will find it
;'oséiiblc to make an address hcre‘\on
Monday. : ‘
He has not only numerous friends
bere, but hic likewise has relatives in
several communities in the county.
They expect to have a large crowd
to hear him discuss the iscues of the
campaign.
“KILLED IN ACTION”
: IS HOME FROM
L WORLD WAR,,,
“"PITTSBURGH, Pa., August 27—
?H’)l—Ll‘ted as killed in action prior
%' the signing of the armisiice in
1918, Fred Hoffman, forty-two, has
‘returned home. Yesterday he arrived
in Pittsburg and called his sister on
‘the telephone. She fainted when he
told her who he was.
Later a reunion of brother anl!
sister with an eighty-five year old
mother was held.
Hof{man was wounded and gassed
while with the Twenty-eighth Di
vision. He said he went to Australia
~after the armistice and later return
ed to America locaing in Chicago.
Letters he wrote home were return
‘ ed with notation that he addressee
was no located.
ELDER CROUSE PREACHES
t AT PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
| Elder Wm. H. Crouse, of States
boro, will preach at ‘the local
Primitive Baptist church Sunday
morning and night. Elder Crouse
was pastor here several yearz ago,
has lived here and hag many friends
who will be glad of the opportunity
to hear him again.
CITY TAX NOTICE
The books are now open for the
payment of 1926 city taxes. Pay now
and 'save worry and furtiler costs.
S. J. HILL, City Manager ‘.)-1.2
CORDELE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1926
W. D. Manley Is Found Sane In Unanimous Decision
STANDS IN LINE
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- FOR PROSECUTION
HEAD OF DEFUNCT BANKING
SYSTEM IS HELD RESPONSI
BLE FOR HIS ACTS.
ATLANTA, Ga., August 27—(P)-~
W. D. Manley, president of the de
funct Bankers’ Trust Company of
Atlanta is sane, the commission ap
pointd te inquire into his sanity re
ported today. ;
The commission in 2 unanimous.
verdict, found that Manley was re
sponsible for his acts. He was head‘
of the Bankers Trust Company of}
Atlanta, which was the fiscal agent
for a chain of small banks through
out Georgia and a few in Florida.;
When the Bankers Trust Companyi
failed, it forced several scores of the
small banks to close their doors. ‘
Manley is under indictment in con
nection with the failure of the
Farmers and Traders Bank of which
he also was head, and which was a
member of the trust company, fiscal
agent for 83 small Georgia institu--
tions that failed with the crash of
the parent concern.
All testimony was completed this
afternoon, following which peti
tioners counsel and attorneys repre
senting cerditors opposed to guar--
dianship were zllowed one hour in]
which to make arguments. i
Former Governor Hugh M. Dor-‘
sey, chief of counsel for those op
posing the petition for guardianshipi
told members of the commission that
the only thing to be accomplished
by declaring Manley insane would
be to prevent him from being ad
judged bankrupt. In the event of the
commission adjudged him insane and
and appointed a guardian, Mr. Dor
gey declared Manley’s creditors
would have to come into court indi
vidually and sue the guardian,
“which” he said, “would take years
and cost more money than some ofl
ey progle hg 1o jlest, thelr
money in the bank failures.” g!
C. N. Davis, of the State Bank- |
ing dopa}tmcnt, representing cro«l-l
itors, told the commission that there |
are 110,00,0 dcpositors who were af-.
fccted by,_lthc crash of the Banker’
Trust Company, and that it arpezir"-l’
ed to him a greater duty to protec:f
those depositors than to “pi-ovidel
luxuries for Mr. Manley and the
members of his family.”
Prior to giving the case to the
commission, Dr. Newigate Owen by,
well known alienist, testified that he
believed Manley was and is sane.
The Fulton county grand jury,
which for two days has been invcs-i
tigating the affairs of the Banker |
Trust Company of Atlanta, adjoinew
late today with no announcemtns ex
cepting that it would resume its in
vestigation tomorrow.
COLLEGE STUDENT HELD
FOR DEATH YOUNG WOMAN
CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 27—
()—FErmil Balanescu, youthful coi
lege siudent and former Parisan,
was charged with manslaughter to
day in connection with the myster
ious death of his friend, Dorothy
Elizabeth Kirk, twenty-one year old
stenographer.
Presidents Jackson, Grant and
McKinley were excessive users of
tobacco.
MYSTERY DEATH
TWO YOUNG MEN HELD WHEN
DEAD BODY AND PISTOL ARE
FOUND IN HOTEL ROOM.
CHILDRESS, Texas, Aug. 27—(AP)
A mysterious automobile ride of a
woman lawyer and two yon‘ng' men
companions ended in n'u};e(]_‘" here, to-
Tda}'. Miss Lila Clark Franklin, tw‘en
ty-two, recent graduate of Columbia
Law School of Lebanan, Tenn., was
found dead in a hotel room early to
day with a bullet wound through the
heart. A pistol was near the body.
Migs Franklin arrived here after mid
night last night with two young men
in an automobile. The object of the
visit and the automobile have not
been ascertained.
The young men were detained by
the seriff.
TWO DEPUTIES 'WOUNDED IN
RUNNING ATTLE' WITH OUT.-
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MUSKOGEE, Okla., Aug. 27.—(AP)
Two deputy sheriffs of Sequoyah
county were wounded and Chief of
Police J. C. Wall o Talequah taken
captive by two bandits after a gun
fight west of Sallisaw today.
The wounded men are Bert Cotton
and Perry Chunkulate. With Wall
they we:e pursuing the two bandits in
an automobile following a tip that
the pair participated in the bank rob
bery near here, They overtook the
men two miles out of Sallisaw and
a running fight ensued.
LONG GRIND NOW FOR ‘
MELLETT INVESTIGATION
CANTON, Ohio, August 27‘»—(5’)!
—lnvestigation of the murder = of
Huyler’s
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PPHONE NO. 1
94 PASSENGERS PERISH IN .
- SINKING RIVER FERRY BOAT"
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STATE OF GEORGIA
'ACCUSES “MACHINE 'PoLITICS |
OF KEEPING FOREIGN CAPI-'
"'TAL'OUT OF THIS STATE."
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BUCHANAN, Ga., August 27— ¢p)
—Dr. L. G. Hardman, eandidate for
governor spoke in the interest of
his candidacy here today. He de
clared hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of fruit and vegetziblc rot
in Georgia every year beeause there
are no adequate facilities for can
ning. He said machine politicians
have been keeping foreign capital
out of Georgia and throttling the de
velopment of the state. He declaerd
he favored a better system of pay
ing the county school teacher,
- “In the administration of the
state’s aifairs every effort should he
made to eliminate gross extrava
{gance and graft. The State Auditor
has made certain suggestions in ref
erence to imyproving exisiting con
ditions in both the State Highway
and Agricultural Departments. These
suggestions were not heeded by the
Brown-Holder machine. Are you
going to permit this machine to con
trol Georgia? Or do you want a
governor that will ingist on conduct
ing the business of this state on a
safe, sound and conservative bagis?”
Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher,
slain bceause of hi sstand against
the underworld and its traffic, to
day settled down to a steady grind
of the grand jury room from which
there appeared to be no let up for
approximately ten days.
BANKRUPTCY SLAIMS
FOR FLORIDA CONCERN
JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 27. (AP)—
A petition in invnlunm‘ry bankruptey
was filed in Uniteq States district
conrt here today against Beach Prop
ertics, Inc., of Miami., Three peti4
tioners united in filing the action, al
leging their claims totdlled more than
four hundred thousand dollars,
MARKETS AT GLANCE
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CORDELE COTTON
Midding cloned iiinan YOlB
LOCAL CREAM MARKET l
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NEW YORK MARKETS |
NEW YORK, August 27-—(&)—
Stocks, firm; bonds, steady; foreign
exchanges, irregular; cotion, higher;
sugar, featureless: coffee, firm.
CHICAGO MARKETS
CHICAGO, August 27—(P)—Wheat,
lower; corn, casy; cattle, steady:
hogs, higher.
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
FIVE DEAD, MANY
- MISSING, STORM
T ’
LOSSES ARF HEAVY
LATE REPORTS DAMAGE IN.
FLICTED BY HURRICANEI
'WILL RUN 5 TO 10 MILLIONS
NEW ORLEANS, La., August 27—‘
()—TFive persons are known to be
dead and several other missing and
estimates of damage wrought by the
tropical hurricane which swept
through southern Louisiana Wed
nesday night ranged between five
~and ten million dollars, as new re
‘ ports of storm damage reached here
‘[ today.
~ Widespread search was renewed
‘for thirteen fishermen who have
been missing more than thirty-six
hours. They made their way out in
to Baritaria Bay in three gasoline
launchies a short time before the
storm struck the body of the water.
,SASSIETY SWELLS
| TAKE MOVIE FLING
'SMART SET PARADE BOILED
SHIRT FRONTS IN NEW JOHN
NY HINES COMEDY. ‘
l I’rctty‘ New York debutantees
along with their popahs and Momahs
all fazhipnable members of Man
hattan’s social set, ha dan unex
pected fling al the movies when
Jahnny Hines decided to film some
interior scenes for his First National
picture, “The Brown Derby,” at the
aristocratic Hotel Marie Antoniette
on upper Broadway.
Shorly before midnight guests of
the residential hostelry were aston
ished to see the staff from the stu
dio ener bearing the huge lighting
paraphernalia, which was brought
down from the studio on big trucks.
When the motion picture cameras
made their appearance they knew
what was up. Finally when prepara
tions for the filming was completed
Johnny Hines invited all of the]
guests that so desired to take part
in the filming.
Tha an enjoyable time was had,
in spite of the late hours, was evi
denced by the different members
of the cast who remained for the
dancing, including Johnny Hines,
Diana Kane, Ruth Dwyer, Bradley
Barker, Harold Foshay and others.
Movie fans of this city will be able
to view all of the fun in “The
Brown Derby” when it comes to the
Circle Theatre here tomorrow, Sat
urday.
JEALOUS HUSBAND
SLAYS WIFE AND
HIMSELR
TAMPA, Fya.,, August 27—(P)—
Mrs. Ada louise Robina, twenty
cight, was shot to death here today
by her husband, Robert, thirty-eight,
who fired a shot into his own body
and was said by the police to be dy
ing in a local hospital.
Jealousy was said to be the mo
tive,
Mr. G. B. Wilkes, of Miami, a
former Cordele citizen, is spending
u few days here on business.
PLLDUS OF LOYALTES
I shall welcome in my com
mnuity of all mqquq,»pm
measures that have prowi
beneficial in other communi
ties, i
NUMBER 244+
!SW[RLING WATER %
GETS ALL BUT SIX '
MEN IN TRAGEDY,
CRAFT ' CAPSIZED "IN *MiDs |
STREAM AND BRKE IN' TWO
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NOAKHALL, BENGAL, ludia, }
Nninety-four passengers on.a Mem= |
gar river ferry boat were: helfeved
to have been drowned when the craft
capsized in mid-stream and brake
in tow. %
A hundred possengers yeres, ca '
\ Vool A
board and only six men ate known to
have been saved. Many WQre.cgrticdl
away by the swiftly rushing watér. §
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HOME TOWN PLANN ING*
TRUDY’S HOME . |
COMING i}
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NEW YORK, Aug. 27,—(AP)—Qer.
trude Ederle’s home town'took on'a
festive air today in honor of her
home coming from Europe. “It took
Washington to cross the Delaware
and Trudy to cross the channel,” was
the welcome of the streamer w'"hll
over a little dry goods store on Am.
sterdam avenue, near her dad's
butcher shop. 'y
DR MCARTHUR RETURNED.
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Dr. T. J. MeArthur is back from
a conference of Primitive Baptists
keld the past week in Dallas Texas.
Elder William H. Crouse accompa
nied him on the trip. “akA
The conference was national gjn
scope and was hel dfor the pfin‘tpo
of sounding out the posdibilit]ei,fiébt
unification for all Primitive Baptikts
n the country. There is promise of
the success of such a movement. !
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