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Showers tonight and Wed
nesday moderate southeast
winds.
VOLUME NO. 9
400 DEAD, 5,000 INJURED, IN LATEST FLORIDA STORM ESTIMATE
; INGR "_‘s:‘&ls ;
—ie Afi’z‘ oo
MUCH LESS DEEREE N DONE
THAN WAS AJEIRS p ROPORT
ED AT THAT POOINT.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.,, September
21— (A)-—Coral Gables came
through the hurricane with much less
damage than was first reported, J.
P. Yoder, secretary of Coral Gabels
éfiambm' of c;)mz.;:‘rm‘, declared to
dey upoa Lis arrival here {rom that
place. ;
“It was the outlying districts
chiefly swhere homeseckers put up
their own houses of wood that the
loss of life was worse,” Mr. Yoder
said in a formal statement issued in
the llame"f. Mayor Dammera.
There -wez not a single life Jost in
Coral Gables.” :
LEFT FOR MIAMI TODAY GREAT
LY CCNCERNED ABOUT SON
IN STORM AREA.
Senator and Mrs. W. F. George
left today for Miami wherc they oo
to search for their son, Heard George
who is reported micsing in the storm.
A card today to Mr. . M. Heard
here from Mrs. Julius Heard at Mi
ami, mailed at neon yesterday, and
probably coming through by air mail
said that she and her husband were
safe, but told of the: terrible damage
which hid been wrought. She said
she had heard noting of te msising
son of Senator George and ad been
delayed in the search due to martial
law, but the couple weer making a
desperai: cffort to find the missing
young aan. He was connected with a
Miami law firm. This is the first re
port of «nybody in this section o'ut
of place in the storm. Many letters
have come from Cordele and Crisp
county i« ople, all of them reporting
safe
It requires some courage to re
fuse to mike an after-dinner speech,
but the gratitude of the diners is
compensitory.
Drink - 4 !
b, 0 ~ g/
to Delicious andßpl’mshiné !
atthe| @& i
redsighand /. 5
refresh yourself!
Just keep right
on the way
. you’re going
and soon a red
sign will show
~ you where to
stop—and re
fresh yourself,
Cordele Coca-Cola
Bottling Company
Cordele, Ga. Phone 87
A.C, Towns, Manager
/ &
/ \/ 7 million
a day
g'
w 8 f 4
LE DISPATCH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
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IS NOW ESTIMATED |
5 AT FIFTY MILLIONS
RELIEF WORK WELL ORGANIZ--‘
ED AND UNDER WAY IN
STORM AREA.
MIAMI, September 21-—-(/P)——Fo\}r
hundred d-ad and five thousand in
jure was the estimate placed today
as a rexull of Saturday’s hurricane
which laid waste a sixty-mile
stretch ~f the Florida east coast.
Halifa Tundred still were missing.
As the ott-of-way places became ac
cessable, more injured refugees were
found aad more bodies located.
Actual iamage tohomes «nd busi
ness buildings was estimated at near
ly fitty million. Relief work is under
way evocvwhere and at Miami and
West Palm Beach active headquare
sers wern cetablished to collect oncy
and othee donations. -
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Known Dead 369 |
MIAMI. September 21-—-:l!’)——‘
While .he first relief contingents
weer arviving thizs morning, rescue
workers continued their cfforts at
identifizaticn and burial of the dead,
relief o fthe injured, and the greater
task of supplying {ood, clothing, and
shelter to the thousands made home
less by Florida’s latest storm.
The Lnown death toll stood at
three handred and sixty nine and
was steadily increzsing. The known
injured ccunted fiftcen hundred &nd
thirty two, while property damage
was cstimzted at between fifty and
one hund:ed million dollars.
Miami Wires Lost Again
ATLANTA, Ga., September 21—
(P)-——Minmi again today was cut off
from all wire communication with
the outside world, after having had
a conneztion for a few hours yester
day, after one slow, shaky telegraph
wire.
Wesetern Union officials announced
this morning that one wire bad failed
temporacly and that they f‘hld heen
unable as yet to establish any com--
munication at all with either Mobile
or Pensacola, the two latest centers
to feel the blow of the Florida storm.
Mobile Has No Lives I.ost
NEW ORLEANS. September 21—
(Py—No lives were lost at Mobile. in
the storm rvlvichslashed the coast city
vesterday ?:md last night; it was, ree-,
1o dat ‘llcfofl‘icc of the chief dis,.
L;f?l{.cr of the Louisyille and Nash
yille raih't‘iad here today! )
Qpening Up Miami
MIAMI, September 21—(/)—Miii
tary pazscs are no longer necessary
here for those already in Miami to
walk the streets or make purchasecs
at stores. The mariial law decrze
wis molified la:t night and the po
licing of the city has returned to the
regular city police force. Militiamen
and volarteers still stand guard over
the wresked property to prevent
looting and they continue, assisted
by local Boy Scouts, to direct trafs
fic and warn against noise in sec
tions wherce the injured are being
treated.
Florida Governer at Work
WEST PALM BEACH, September
21—(#)~- Governcr John W, Martin
of Floride today was in tihe midst
of the lmrricane stricken area of the
Florida eust coast, The governor ar
rived here last night and went into
conferenze with relief committece
and militin ‘officers who reported to
him tha: the situation was well in
hand throughout most of the area
and relief work iz being placed on
an efficient basis.
CORDELE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1926
FONCTK’S TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR
LINER CRASHES; TWO MEN DEAD
GIANT PLANE DROPPED AND
BURIED AS IT MADE AT
TEMPTS TO GET AWAY TO-,
DAY.
WESBIIRY, September 21-—(P)—
Charles Ciavier, French radio op-|
crator, end Jacob Islanoff, Russian
mechanie. were killed early this‘
morninz when the trims-Atlantic|
airplane of Captain Rene Fonck‘
('ra;s'llod in taking off on its f]ip;htbl
across the Atlantic for the United
States pavy. The American alter
nate pi'ot leaped to safety gs the
plane Birest into flamed," © ‘
Loaded with twenty cight thous
and pounds, the giant plane, after
several delays because of unfavora
ble weauher conditions and once bc-‘
cause of a leakage in a gas line, was
scheduled to hop off on its thirty
gix hundred mile non-stop flight at
day break ‘
Racing to the end of its runaway
it leaped into the air and imneliate-
Iy plunged nose downward back to
earth, burtsing into flames as it
struck.
Clavier and Islanoff, trapped in
the closed cabin of the huge three
motored Fiplane, were unable to es
cape. |
WILL ENTERTAIN KiWANIS
Miss Mamie Laurie Harris, who is
just back from Paris where she spent
the summer studving music, will en.
tertain for Kiwanis at the noon
luncheon tomorrow. She will offer
several numbers in smusic ang then
tell of her cxperiences while a stu.
dent in Paris. Dr. A. J, Whelchel
will also have a s=hoit address on
some health topic.
TWISTER TURNED OFF
HHOUSE ROOFS
AN ey
_Av t\:'."i«‘or ‘of real tornado propor
tions hit five to six miies northwest
of Corde's in Crisp vesterday aiter
noon and did slight damage tc‘“‘s'.-v
-) il
eral honzes, but injured no ons so
far as has been reported. It “fook
whole trees from their stumps and
burled them a distance. It was a hun
dred yards or more in width. Sev
eral cottun fields in its path were
laid waste, the cotton beine beaten
out,
MARKETS AT GLANCE
NEW YORK COTTON
OPEN CLOSRER P. C.
00k “Giiviininie. IBBS 1579 1587
0 S 1604 1588 1605
JBI Caii ihes 1012 1608 1612
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CORDELE COTTON
Middling closed . W a 1 8h
e o e e e, =+ It iR
LOCAL CREAM MARKET
Standard bhutterfat i 40:75
ol 4 i ot S v |
LOST—One $20.00 biil at Primitive
Baptist church Sunday. Finder please
notify W, P. Fountain at Dispatch, ‘
WALKER EXTENDS
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MERCY TO NAPIER
ON EVE OF DEATH
COMMUTATION TO !_IFE SEN-{
TENCE ORDERED BY GOVERN
OR iMN CASE OF CRISP COUNTY‘
MAN. : |
ATLANTA, Ga., Scptember 21—
Acting on statements of the trial
judge and solicitor in the case of‘
Bunce Napier, Crisp county white
man sentonced to be electrocuted
teday, Covernor Clifford Walker
Monday commuted the death ‘sen
tence .o life impriconment. Na;‘)icr‘
was convicted of criminal .Ik.\.§dls
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The governor, in a statement’ made
pabliec with his order, said he com
muted the sentence on the ground
that examination of the evidence
lead him to doubt if the verdict of
capital punishment in the case was
justifiap’e,
When tiie application for commu
tation was presented to the governor
recently he granteé Napier a 60-day
respite. Napier was convicted of an
attack on a 13-yecar-old white girl
' and was given the dcath penalty. The
supreme court upheld the verdict and
the prison commission declined to
recommend clemency.
Text cf Statement
Following is the statement of the
governor in the case:
“The i{wial judme certifies personals
ly tha§ upon mature consideration of
the evidence, he is not entirely satf
isfied with the punishment fixed by
the verlict: that there is great
doubt in lis mind that the facts in
the case justify capital punishment;
the solicitor general who represented
the state in the trial certifies in
writing that on account of the pe
culiar natvre of the evidenee which
is reveaied by the record in the ®se.
I am constrained to recommend that
the sentence be commuted to life im
prisonment and writes further as fol
lows: “The recommendation is un
cquivocal. My con-wcience will not
permit me to do otherwise.” Nine of
the trial jurors recommend that the
sentence be commuted. Twoe other
Jjurors ceould not be located. Many
good cibizens of the community wlty
are famitiar with the facts also
strongly urge clemency. Competent
and conscientious physicians certify
that the facts demand a reduction
of the ponalty.
“This ‘uppeal for clemency is not
based upon any palliation of the re
volving erime against society or any
sympatily for the criminal. It is
based upen the conclusion, after ma
ture deliberation that the peculiar
facts testilied to by the proscerutrix
herself demonstraie that there was
an absence of that immature physi
cal and mental development and that
youthful innocence contemplated by
the law [n the rule of the age of
consent which justified the death
penalty. "nfortunately, the very na
ture of this evidence iz such that
it cannot be published. The record
is open Lo the inspection of anvone
interested It is sufficient to record
here that after an exhaustive study
of the cvidence no impartial mind
can escape the conviction that the
conclusion reached by the trial jury
and solicitor and practically all of |
the trial jurors is justified if not
demandad, Lest there he no miscon
struction o the import of this]|
Judgment, let it he exnressly nnruli
that the charcter of the procccru-|
GREAT FIRE LICKS |
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~UP 22 BUSINESS
HOUSES IN OIL CITY
‘ THREE QUARTER MILLION lN!
LOSS:3 SUSTAINED FROM
FIRE ' STARTING IN POOL
~ RCOM. j
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- OIL CLYY, La,, September 21—(P)
- —Tl%ire hroke out carly today in a’
i pool room and destroyed two and a
‘hulf\bl!‘ul:s of the business districe,
‘ causing damage’ estimatea at :‘-u-n1
‘“hundred and fifty thousand.. . ‘
' Tweunty two business houses hurn-!
and fifieen vesidences. A call for
W' by agdSwiegdds by Shreveport
Exg‘élg}éghmj&l&[fl were | litLlc;
help ag {f flanids’ puds geine yurvutl
} hca(lwu_\'.’i P! 'WT,
REPORTS OF STORM
‘ PEOPLE OF FLORIDA ARE
GOINC BRAVELY TO THE
TASK OF RESCUE AND RE.
BUILDING.
MACON, Secptember 2!—(P)—
The first survivors of the Florida
l disaster te arrive in Macon are bring
ing back from the stricken area two
' vivid impresisons, cne of the horror
l and utter desolation that now exists
«there, and the other of the indomia
z ble spiri »7 Floridians who are going
' bravely forward with the work of res
l cue and rchuilding,
. They arc unanimous in declaring
i the newspaper accounts of the sorm
and damare conditions not exagger
‘ ated.
trix is not questioned. It cannot he
doubled that she told truth. There
can ke no justification for the erime
actually committed by the defend
ant. The circumstances of the cusc‘
clearly indicate that he is of .~'uchi
itlnmoral and eriminal character fl.\"
to deman that he he separated from
society fov the full term of his‘
naturai 'ife. The only matter in-!
volved ‘ana the only question hcrc!
determined is that under {he ‘flx'_\':«fiik‘“l%
facts and peculiar evidence disclosed
thore ix w 0 escape froi real ;lf\tl sub-i
stantial coubt that capital punish
ment is justified in this case. In ac
cordance with tI’iI:; conviction con--
firming tke conclusion of tae judge,
the prosccuting attorney, the jury
and the physicians hereintofore re
forred to, it is.
Sentenced Commutted
“Ordered, that the sentence of
vd(‘uth be and the same is herchy
commuicd to li‘e imprisonment and
the prizea authorities are directed to
receive the said Bunce Napier in the
penitenti: vy of the state, there to
serve the full term r..f his natural
life,
“Thers i a mass of certificates and
statement: indicating that the de
fendant i: defective in mind. This
clemeny has little appeal as it du(-s'
not meszure up to the standard fixed |
by law #5 so defeetive that he does
not know the difference between
right and wrong.”
Bl |
CARD OF THANKS |
Mrs. . C. MeKenzie and "nflll.’jy’i
wish to ‘Fank their fricnds for Hu-'
many hoavtiful floral offerings and !
exprezzions of love and sympath, inJ
their receat bercavement.
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
NANNIE BENSON
FATHER GETS ACCOUNT OF‘
DAMAGE DONE INWORST OF!
STORM AREA. 3
Miss MNannine Benson sent the fol-
Hwing letter to her father here to
day froin Miami, It tells the story
of her v¥perience in the recent
storm. It follows:
Dear Pappa:
I can’ teil you how 1 feel, neith
er can words bezin to express how
awful the aestruction and tragedy of
the 16 ncurs of the terrible fury of
the huir;cane. My house, garage, and
new car also furniture are badly
damazed. [ haven's been able to get
the roof it my car and don’t know
just how bad it iz damaged. An aw
ful downpour of rain and lightning
Ceome After the wind and rain. 1 was
1 afraid 1y house would crash every
second. My roof wag badly damaged
:un(l my house all over looked like
a pond. Kverything soaked and not
a dry vlece to sit hardly, no gas,
lights or water. You wouldn’t know
it was Miami. Have slept a little since
I left Cowldele but not much. It came
| the night I wired you. I wouldn’t tell
: vou of the warning in the Friday
l(-vcning’s paper ftor I hoped it
would not come, but it started at
I twelve o'clock.. I was very sick Thurs
day nizbt at Delray where we spent
the nigst, but drove home O. K. I
will neve,s need you any worse than
I do now. but don’t make too much
of a saecrifice to come. I took an ice
pick, or got one of the men to punch
hole: in the plastering in all the
mooms s> the plastering wouldn't
fall and the water just poured
through. 1t took the roof off large
buildines and off these large con
erete how:es near here. Walls to build
ines collapsed and the 15-story Mey
or Kiser Lank bailding is vockis,z and
ready to collapse. Hollywood, Hia--
leah, an.d Kevwest are nearly off the
map. The big tree in my back yard
had the iimbs broken off like straws
No one ¢on stay on the streets after
cix o’clock and the city has taken
over ail food. You can get just so
much. Plense express me some ham
and crackers, We have jjust eaten
one meal o day for the last two days.
Large ‘our masted schooners an(l;
boats of various sizes are washed up
on Bayshore Drive. The bay on this
street carne up nearly or did half
way to Third avenue right here at
me. It fonked as terrific as the!
ocean. On the beach they had a tidul}
wave., Thousands of lives T am afraid 1
are lost. Forty-five men were on ul
barge near the Mirawar scetion und{
all were lost but 5 men, The old
cause way ic so bad no one is allow
ed to eross on it. People come in'
boats, 1 heard over three humlrud‘
were Killed at Hialeah. T am just
about spent but when the other wom
en were crying and taking on your
little oli girl braced up and I put‘
mysell in the position of a goldier
in battle. The house rocked, crack
ced and did everything it seemed and
the other women had their men folks|
to console them and I didn’t have a
soul but I felt God would do \\'il‘ill[
was best wnd T was not so afraid tui
meet the conflict. I feel so tllunkful:
that none of us were hurt I got nff!
g 0 much lighter than thousands (,t‘}
others, Well as soon as I can 1 \\'HII
wire you, Mr. Calloway from At-l
NEW INDUSTR.ES
Crisp County 18 developing
14,000 horse power electric
plant on Flint River. New
industries are tax free b
years, i
NUMBER 265
REACH PENSACOLA
ALIL. MEANS OF COMMUNICA
TION DESTROYED YESTERDAY
AT NOON WHEN STORM HIT.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Septembet
i 21—(/P)-—leverish cfforts to reach
Pensaco’a by means of telegraph,
wircless, rail and telephone and mo
tor car during the past twelve-hours
are fruitless.
Early roday staff men of the Asso
ciated Press and reporters are buck
ing the storm in high powered cars,
heading «traight into the area as fast
as tey can make it but n oword has
come ouv of the silent area,
The last word was by wireless yes
terday lefore the storm hit fully.
l WILL SEND HELP
THOSE WHO WANT TO CON
TRIBUTE WILL HAVE OPPOR.
TUNIY TD DO SO AT ONCE
Through orders from National
Red Cross headquarters, Dr, T. J.
McArthur, president of the local
chapter, Mrs. W. P. Fleming, vice
president, and E. A. Vinson, secre
tary and treasurer have made plans
for local contributions to the Flori
da storm sufferers,
Boxes have been provided at all
the local arug stores and the banks
for that purpose. People who want
to h¢lp siiculd act promptly that the
local fund may be gathered and sent
wiile it is needed.
I PARACHUTIE FAILED
IN AIRPLANE
| JUMP
’ MITCHELL FIELD, Sept. 21—(AP)
|—Private Charles ~ Turner of Au.
lhulu. New York, was killed today
leu:n his parachute failed to open
after making a prectice jump from
{nn airplane at a height of fifteen
hundred feet.
! lanta is woing to mail‘Zhis f;)l‘_!-n-e.-
!Luls of love and tell Sweething if
| my hair wasn't 2lready white it
| would be.
| NANNIE. ‘
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