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GEORGIA WEATHER
Fair tonight and Sunday
moderate to northeast and
east winds,
voLUME NO. 9
CARDS POUNDED OUT 10 TO 2 VICTORY OVER YANKS
Dfinclll?s%g m:m
CARDINALS GRAB THREE IN
ONE INNING AND FIVE IN AN
OTHER OF SATURDAY’S GAME,
YANKEE STADIUM, October 9—
(/P)—~The St. Louis (‘;r:linals defeat
ed the New York Yankeces 10 to 2
here today in the sixth game of the
world series, tying the series at three
games each and necessitating
geventh game here tomorrow.
! First Inning
Cardinals—Alexander and Shawkey
pitching. Holm singled Southworth
forced Holm Hornshy walked South
worth' scores on Bottomley’s double
to left Hornsby and Bottomley scored
on Bell's sharp hit left Hafey fan
ned O'Farrell fanned. Three runs,
three hits, no errors.
Yankees— Combs out irst Koenig
struck out Ruth flew out. No runs,
no hits, no errors.
Second Inning
Cardinalg — Thevenow flied out
Alexander flied out Holm flied out.
No runs, no hits, no errors.
Yanfees— Meusel doubled ' Gehrig
out first Lazzari and Dugan out first
No runms, no hits, no errors,
Third Inning .
Cardinals — Southworth flied out‘
Hornshy out first Bottomley out first
on fly. No runs, no hits, no errors.l
Yankees—Severeid singled Theve
now erreored Shawkey’s grounder‘
Combs forced Severeid at third Koe
nig sent out high fly Ruth flied out.
No rung, one hit, one error,
Fourth Innind
: Caréinals.—Bell walked Hafey sac-
S il i e ol
rificed O'Farrel flied out Bell out’
stéa‘l'lng.‘ No runs, ng hits, no errors.
7 Fifth Inning ‘
Car dinetls—’i‘lxevénow singled Alex-‘
ander sacrificed Théyeliaw scored ohl
Holmes.'single Southworth out first
Hornsby out first. One I‘l‘ll, two hit_s!
no errors, : |
Yankees — Shawkey struck out!
Combs and Koenig fliedont.l\'oruns,%
no hits n‘o errors. ’
Sixth Inning |
Yankees — Rutth walked Mcusel?
" flied out Gehrig struck out Lazzaril
flied out. No rumns, no hits, no er.l
rors, : ‘
Cardinals—Bottomley doubled Bell!
struck out Hafey fanned O'Farrell
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THE CORDELE DISPA'ITCH
MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tennessee Mob Takes Accused Negro From Jail And Slays Him
Coolidge And His Cabinet
Busy With Cotton Marketing
MEYER, MELLON, JARDINE AND
HOOVER EXPECTED TO WORK
OUT RELIEF.
WASHINGTON, October 9—(&P)
—A special committee of govern
ment officials appointed by the
be done, to relieve the situation
market condiions and zZe< what can
president today to investigate cotton
coused by the slump in price. \
The committee consists of Eug‘ene‘
Meyer, managing director of the war!
finance corporation,- Secretaries Mel ‘
lon, Jardine and Hoover. "
Can Finance Crop ‘
WASHINGTON, October 9—(#)—
A symposium of official views and!
proposed solutions for the problem
presented by the reported surplus
production of cotton and the conse
cuent decline in prices was before
President Coolidge today for con
sideration.
Belief that the federal reserve
system was able to finance the
present crop on whatever sound plan
may be devised, was expressed to the
chief executive by Secretary Meilon,
while Secretary Jardine added that
the crop lends it self easily to
credit, as-itis not injm’
fouled out. -No runs, one hit, no
error.
; .1 Seventh Inning
l Cardinals—TlLevenow singled Alex
iander sacrificed and Lazzari dropped
'throw to first Holm forced Theve. |
lnow at third Alexander scored on
iSouthworth’s two base hit to left;
iShawley taken out and Shockeri
pitching for New York—Hornsby sin.
iglcd scoring Holm and Southworth,i
ißottomley forced Hornsby at secondl
IBell Ihit a home run into left scoring,
IBottomley ahead of him Hafey doub-}
led but O’Farrell struck out. Five]
iruns. five hits, one error, 2 :
~ Yankees—Dugan singled Bell ovgr-!
‘thje\_»g','fi‘r;a@‘.gt{ ‘Sevgreid’s hot ground !
erfDugan going third Paschal butte(l‘
for Shocker and struck out Combs‘
Lsin\‘glg s'(;é)ring, ,Dugan Koenig out
firist ,I_iutp ‘.out” first. One rum, two
hits, one error.
¢ lE'ighth‘ Inning ;
Cardinals— Thomas f)itéhing New
York— Collins catching. Thevenow
hit by pitched ball Alexander forced
Thevenow Holm hit into double play,
No runs, no hits, no errors.
Yankees — Meusel walked Gehrig|
singled Lazzari flicd out4Southworth
made shoestrin‘gfl(; Dugan’s liner
and doubled | a,“"'w ‘i- second. No
yuns, one hit, q’_.e' r!‘s.
Ninth Inning
Cardinals — Southworth tripled -—1
Hornsby out first Southworth scoring?
Bottomley out first Bell snigled but
was out trying for second, One run,
two hits, no errors. |
‘Yankees—Collins struck out Reuth.
er batted for them as and went at
first Combs doubled Koenig flied out
No runs, one hit, no errors. Final
score: New York 2; St. Louis 10,
SHORTER LABOR WEEK
DETROIT, October 9(#)The
American Federation of Labor today
voted unanimous to begin.a nation
wide campaign for "‘progessi\'e short
' ening of the hours of albor and the
days per week.”
CORDELE, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1926
QUEEN MARIE NOT TO‘
STAND FOR
MOVIES l
PARIS, October 9—(#)—Queen
Marie has given notice that shei
must not be filmed i nthe United
States, even in her daily comings and !
‘goings. She will see inside the
cinema world, at Hollywood as the
cuest of Douglas Fairbanks and
Mary Pickford. |
IRATE SPOUSES CLOG
COURTS Ol
CHICAGO
CHICAGO, October 9—(P)—
Wives who have gpouses arrested and
{fail to appear against them are clog;
ging Chicago’s machinery of justice
in the opinion of Judge Francis Mor
relli. He said he believes they mete
ly seek to humiliate their husbhands.
In October one, he related, éever};‘
teen husbands were ordered .arrestgfi
by irate wives, bu.t they were r‘i
leased for want of prosecution, _‘.‘
TEX RICKARD HAS
BRIDE NEXT ATTRACTION
LEWISBURG, October 9—(#)—
George L. (Tex) Rickard, fight pro
moter, and Miss Maxine Hodges, of
New York, were married here Thurs
“day, it was lcarned today.
Rickard and Miss Héd;rcs motored
here from White*Sulphur Springs.
MOTHER, AGED 104
COLLECTS SON’S
INSURANCE
‘WISCONSIN = RAPIDS, Mich,
October 9—(P)—Mrs. Hester Ann
Hardman, at the age of one hundred
and four, has lived to collect her
son‘s insurance. Her son, Edward T.
Harmon, seventy-four, retired bank
er died and the policy for two
thousand taken out in 1892 naming
his mother a beneficiary, was paid.
ALEX RESIGNS
ATLANTA. Ga., October 9—(4)—
Anmflmcemcnt of the resignation ef
fective immediately of W. A. Alex
ander, head coach of the- Georgia
Tech as official arbiter of the G. I.
A. A. an organization composed of
prep and high schools thmughbut thc:{
ctate, was. 'ma,de here today by R, K.i
White, pregident of the body. |
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
“The Joy of Service and the Ser
vice of Joy,” is the theme which the
pastor, Ret' Car! Barth, is expecting
to preach \. 1 at the time of morning
worship, eleven o’clock. He is to
preach also at the evening service
cight o’clock. Sunday School at 10:15
Charlie Mize, superintendent.
METHODIST CHURCH
J. B. JOHNSTONE, Pastor
Preaching at 11:30 a. m. and 8 p.
m. by the pastor. A full attendance
of the membership iz earnestly
urged.
Sunday School at 10 a. m. sharp.
Intermediate League at 7:15 p, m.
Praver meeting Wednesday 8 p. m.
Senior League Thursday 8 p, m.
AFTER ELECTION
FORMER CHIEF AND POLICE OF
FICERS ARE INDICTED.
KANSAS CITY, October 9—(#)—
Two city commissioners, a formcrl
chief of police, and three police of
ficers, were indicted by the countyl
grand jury last night following in~i
vestigation of alleged vice comli-}
tions here. |
Commissioner Darnall was chargcd;
with misuse of city funds in the‘rc-:
cent election, while Commissioner
Cooke was charged with viédlations of
the state corrupt practice act hy of
fering appointments in ‘return for
political favor, )
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BUY YOUR AUSTRIAN
PEAS AND HAIRY VETCH
By J. K. Luclg: Cfity- '&&nt ‘
1 _have bought and delivered 4000
ra‘uf:gl: of Austrian winter peas and
11009 pounds of hairy vetch within
the last ten days. These seed will be
";usod for hi;.y, Vbeing sown with oats.
E"_S"ome wili be used for pasture pur
- pose, some for soil building purpose
and some will grow tlu;m for seed.
We liad one farmer to make three
tons o'f' hay per acre with Austrian
I€as and oats and hairy vetch and
cats last year. This hay comes at a
time when hay is_ :‘badh' needed on
the farm. & 5
N-chrop of either one of these
legumes, if allowed to grow one foot
ligh and turned under in April will
add as much nitrogen to your land
as would 400 pounds of nitrate of
Soda. “This is worth $l2 on the
market.
You can grow your own seed here,
We had one farmer to save 400
round of seeds from three acres and
| he did not save all of the seed he
could. (These were Austrian winter
’ peas)
These seed will cost you $2.65 per
acre delivered here. Now is the time
to start growing more hay, to build
ing ;f‘our land and reducing your fer
tilizer bill and the time to start to
growing your own seed.
~ You must act at once if you want
‘some of these sced and want 4o et
the maximum resul from what you
SOW, ;
JURY NOW WRESTLES
WITH DAUGHERTY CASE
NEW YORK, October 9—(#)—
The twelve jurors who will decide
the fate of Harry M. Daughtery and
Thomas W. Miller reassembled in fed
eral court this morning to continue
the deliberations suspended last
night.
The trial which lasted, five weeks
reached the jury stage shortly be
fore ten last night. At eleven the
judge went hime and the jury was
locked up. |
LEGION MEETING
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., October 9
—(#)—Philadelphia, ~ which hag :
played host to a hundred organiza
tions this year representing all man-}
ners of activities, opened her ,‘ratesi
today to the American Legion, whose{
delegates and guests numbering over‘
one hundred thousand, were arriving
for the oightl‘n-flhnnnnl convention, ‘
FOUK MASKED MEN TOOK SHER
IFF AND PRISONER ACROSSi
CUMBERLAND RIVER.
CLARKESVILLE, Tenn,, October
9 —(#P)—Officers today found the
body of Herbert Bell, negro, about
thirty, who was taken from jail at
Dover last night and lynched, hang
ing from a tree near the scene where
Rufus Joyner, farmer, was slain last
Sunday. The body was riddled with
bullets:
A mob of four unmasked and arm
e¢d men last night gained entrance
to the county jail at Dover where
Eell was overpowered Sheriff Ellisl
iand forced the negro and the sher
iff across the river on a ferry where
!tllcy joined an unmasked mob esti
t'lfltml at seventy-five men and left
the sheriff there. The negro was
} carried ten miles and hung.
Took Negro and Sheriff
’ DOVER, Tenn., October 9-—(‘4’)—;
Nip Bell, ‘wegro held for circuit
. court Thursday on charge of first
‘degreefl murder in connection with
the death of Rufus Joiner, well-
Inown farmer of Parkertown, was
’takcn from jail here at eleven o’clock
last night. by armed mob who also
I tcok Sheriff L. L. Ellis along. .
The sheriff was carried across
Cumberland river where fie was re
leased, the mob" going on with the
negro “who is supposed to have been
Iynched. The sheriff now is investi
gating. The sheriff said about seven
lt_v-five unmasked men wore in the
({ mob.
’SMITH AND WAGNER
NEW YORK, October 9(#)Govern
or Alfred Smith, with denial of the
charges of extravagance in state gov
m‘nmc.nt, and Supreme Court Justice
‘ Robert F. Wagner, with a declara
tion against the Volstead act, have
formally accepted the democratic
party’s nominations for governor
and senator, :
WORLD SERIES PUTS
APPLES TO
DISCARD ‘
WENTACHEE, Washington, Oct.
G——(P)—The world series returns to
delay the apple harest in this sec
tion to such a nextent that an ap
peal had been made to turn the fans
away from the score bhoard to or
chards.
With the harvest rush and the
world series the cihef topies of con
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versation, the orchardists declare the |
labor shortage is becoming acute, l
MARKETS AT GLANCE
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NEW YORK COTTON ,
OPEN CLOSH P. C.I
QOL i - 1280 1207 1293 |
DBok .. 11309 1081 1267 |
AN, - siana TRO 1290 1274 |
CORDELE COTTON ]
Minanne olosed .n H::.‘.i
e e e '
LOCAL CREAM MARKET l
Standard butterfat .. aoin Ferhi)t
ESTABLISHED IN 1908
120 Men Are Entombed In |
South African Coal Mine
GRAND JURY AND CORONER
BOTH INVESTIGATING DEATH
THREE NEGROES.
AIKEN, S. C.. October 9—(P)—
Double investigation of yesterday’s‘
lynching of three negroes here cnn-‘
tinued today resuming separate in- ‘
yiuries launched yesterday, the coun
ty grand jury and the coroner’s jury ‘
met this morning to seek further in ‘
formation concerning the shooting of
Clarence and Demon Lowman and
the latters’ sister, Bertha, by an un- i
maswed mob yes§(-I‘<lay.
BOARD OF TRADE WILL PUSH
PLANS FOR ELECTION
THROUGH FAIR AND OVEh
~ COUNY AND STATE, lmn
The board of trade directors were
in a busy and enthusiastic and inter
l esting meeting last night relative toi
the work in the power plant ~ cam-«
paign. The mecting was well attend
od and one revealing deep interest.
| President Fitzgibbons named E“
'A. Vingon, W. E. Pridgen and M.
H. Milkey as a committee on the
l\'\'at(‘-r power preiect to plan for a
booth at the fair. Miss Orba Cobb,
l secretary, will occupy this during the
fair and work for the power propect
' will be done there. '
I Special meetings will be held cach |
| Friday night till after the clcct,i(m‘
is oer in the interest of the 7puwer’
§entcrprise. All thoge present last|
night showed a marked interest inl
the cause and are giving much time
to cause. ’
COLUMBIA MAN DOWN
- ON MODERN TEACHING
! TAMPA, October 9—(P)—Saying
| that the schools are teaching failure
and’ that children are being cheated,
Dr. H. J. Bruner of Columbia Uni
versity told the West Coast Insti
ituto “we are using the methods of
| cigheen seventy and giving the chil
dren less than seventy-five percent
Eof what we know.
HON. ISAIAH WILLIAMS
. IS NOW VERY SICK
| e
Friends all over this section will
')'l'gl'(ft to learn that Hon. Isaiah
- Williams ig severely ill at the family
i‘hmn(: near Raines. He is 84 years
‘ of age and is a greatiy beloved citi
zen. He has suffered through the
j(‘ntirv summer and during the past
“day or so has been considered so ill
that there is considerable um-asincss*‘
s iit |
NOTICE DEPOSITORS
The depositors of the (,‘ilizuns!
Bank are requested to meet at tlmi
court house Tuesday morning at ten|
o'clock, : ‘
J. M. HUNT,
g 101052 t |
NEW INDUSTRES .
Crisp County lis develop!nf
14,000 horse power electri¢
plant on Flint River. New
industries are tax free 6
years,
NUMBER 281
ELEVEN BODIES
’
RECOVERED BUT
OTHER MINERS ARE NOT LIKE.
LY TO BE REACHED AND RES.
CUED ALIVE. :
CAPETOWN, South Africa, Octi
9—(#)—Four white men and one
hundred and sixteen natives were en;-
tombed by a gas explosion yesterday
at the Durban navigation company's
coal niine north of here. 3
Rescuers were working through
the night succeeding only in bringing
out eleven bodies. This morning
smoke and flames from the shafg
were visible two miles. There is lits
tle hope of reaching the entimM
men. :
e ;
DEATH CLAIMS SPARTA
OLDEST RESIDENT AT 86
SPARTA, Ga., October 9—Mrs.
Claude Pierce Middlebrooks, 86, the
oldest citizen in Sparta and one of
the most prominent women in the
state died at her home here this
morning. Mrs. Middlebrooks had
Leen in very good health consider
ing her advanced age and her death
came as a shock to the city and coun
ty where she had lived practically
all of her life. She is the last sur
viving daughter of the late Bishop
George F. Pierce and has been
prominently connected with the
Methodist denomination since early
‘gil'llll)od. ;
She is survived by one brother,
Col. Lovie Pierce, who is only two
years younger and one of the noted
citizens of this city and Dr. Flour--
roy Middlebrooks of Eatonton; three
daughters, Mrs. L. M. Twiggs, of At
lanta, Misses Claude and Blanch
Middlebrooks, of this city.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made but will probably be held
in the Sparta cemetery Saturday,
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Thig advertisement clipped from
the paper and prescfited at our
store together with a 2b6c cash
purchase will entitle the holder
to one of our NEW CHOCO.
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KISSES, made in the store from
KINNETTS VELVET ICE
CREAM & Chocolate coating,
RETAIL PRICE 6¢ i
TRY THEM AND YOU'LL
. BUY THEM 15
New Today
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Drug Store:.
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