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GEORGIA WEATHER
Rain tonight, probably clearing
Tuesday morning; colder; fresh
southeast and south winds,
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VOLUME NO. 10
TWELVE MEN GO T 0 TRIAL TUESDAY FOR COFFEE LYNCHING
FOUR'ARE S¥:AL
MEN ARE HELD IN JAILS WAIT
ING SPECIAL TRAIN OF
‘COURT TUESDAY.
DOUGLAS, November 15—(&)—
with lynching Dave Wright here in
September will be gtarted tomorrow
morning at a special term of court
here. The defendonts will not be
brought, to Douglas until tomorrow.
They are being held in various near
by jails. = ,
Sixteen were indicted for lynch:
ing Wright who was being held for
the murder of a woman, Four have
not yet been arrested. The twelfth
was arrested Saturday.
CAROLINA MINISTER
FREED MURDER
CHARGE
RALEIGH, N. C.,Novembe r 15—
(®P)—Rev. George Wood, Kinston
" minister, was free today, having
been acquitted by a jury in superior
.court here of the murder of J. B.
‘Vickers, state .conviet. The verdict
was returned yesterday after
eighteen hours of deliberation.
LATE FALL PEACHES
AS GIFT TO i
DISPATCH
_Dr. ‘L. G. Hardman has: just sent.
the Dispatch a fine crate of late fall
peaches from his farm at Commerce.
This is a noyelty and a record, so
. far.as ir}fo'él%‘ goes here, as to
late peaches. They barely beat the
frost, but were sweet and delicious.
The g”i'ltf"}s"“‘g’reatly appreciated. "
FLORIDA RADIO GETS A
MESSAGE FROM AUSTRALIA
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—8 y hold
ing a)radio telephone conversation be
tween Winter Park, Fla.,, anq Sydney,
Australia, William Justice Lee is be
lieved to have established a world’s
record. l
Lee, an electrica} engineer, inform-(
ed the commerce . department today‘
‘that the message;from Australia came.
in clear amnd;digtinet, "‘lekm_)wle.dgipgll
reception -of - his - hroadecasting. - q'
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howclean it is.
; See the many
operations ,
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the bottles and
seal in the
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CORDELE DISPATCH
Eleven Witnesses in the Hall-Mills Case Are Dead
[STATE PLANS TO USE HER
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SOMERRVILLE, N. J., November
i 15-—The‘prosecution in the Hall
- Mills gyfiqj@r trial plans to have Mrs.
: Jane Glbsgn, its key witness, brought
into court wednesday on a stretcher
to give what may be teh deatbed tes
timon, - ~
' The, 'phns, however, are endan
jgered by: iossible necessity for an
‘ emergency operation to prolong for
'a short time the life of the only per
son known to claim to have seen
the slaying four years ofo of Rev.
' Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs.
Eleanor Mills.
Eleven persons, more or less con
i nected with the case, have died since
" the first investigation in 1922, three
% of them since the trial began.
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RESCUED AFTER 65
* HOURS UPON .
... HIGHSEA
; GULFPORT, Miss.,, November 15
' —(®)—Rescued by officers and crew
' of the Waterman freighted, Hastings
after drifting sixty-five hours in a
"disabled motorboat between Miami;
Fla., and “Biminii Bahama sland,
‘Neil ‘Andrews, thirty-one of Miami
Beach ( and'Charles ‘Key, - thirty
t})‘x;ee, of ' Key Wést, were :brdught
here 'yesterday on:the Hastings with
, th,éli_r, sadvaged thirty five foot motor
boat parked on'the steamet’s deck.
BOX SUPPER MOUNT
CARMEL THIS
WEEK .
The box supper at Mount Carmel
will occur this week on Thursday
night. The teachers, Misses Florrie
Powers and Ella Wehlitz, with the
pupils, hope to make the evening a
most enjoyable one for ‘all those who
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ARKANSAS BANKERS COME'
...,....['O STUDY TEXTILE PLANTS
A TLANTA; Ga.,'November' 15
(P)—+A party of South ' Arkansad’
bankers'‘atd business men dropped
off & special train at ~Greenville,
South Carolina today and armed
with notebooks and pencils, began
a study of the textile and furniture
industries of the countryside.
The tour will ‘embrace important
industrial cities of Georgia and the
Carolinas and a study of the hydro
electric development of this section
The party plans to return to Ar:
kansas in about two weeks.
ONE MAN SLAIN WHILE
GOVERNOR AND MAYOR BICKER
HERRIN, November 15—(P)—At
tempts to detérmine idenity of the
gunmen who claimed another victim
Saturday night occupied the time of
Williamgon county officials today,
'w'nilé Mayor Marshal McCormick and
Governor Len Small continued at va
riance as to the best method of of
curbing the gang situation in this
territory.
The latest victim was Claude
Craig, thirty-five whose body was
found pierced with buckshot and re
volver pullets early yesterday morn
ing near the road house on the out
skirts o fthe towi.
CORDELE, GEORGIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1926
THREE MINERS KILLED, FOUR
ENTOMBED IN BIG EXPLOSION
- BEGIN AT ONCE
SOME HOPES HELD OUT FOR
FINDING TRAPPED MEN ‘ALIVE
WHEELING, West ' Virginia, Nov.
{5.—'(AP)-—Three miners killed and
two otherg injured in an explosion
early today in the First Street Mine
of the Glendale Gas and Coal com
pany at Moundsville, near here.
Four workmen in the mine at the
time were unaccounted for several
hours after the blast occurred. Some
hopes were entertianéd that the miss
ing workmen, may be found alive,
said reports from the mine where the
plast occurred in the south entry.
The force was so great that it was
felt in al} sections of workings.
Rescue crews from nearby mines
were summoned immediately after
the blast and began the task of dig
ging their way towarq the entombed
men.
"MONEY AVAILABLE FOR ILOANS
" AFTER COMMITTEE MEETING
~ TOMORROW.
BIRMINGHAM, November 15—(#)
—The entire million dollars needed
in Alabama to augment the ten mil
lion available. from the federal farm
loans board to carry three hundred
thousand bales of Alabama cotton
is now in sight and will be availablg
within a few days as needed, it was
announced here today.
A meeting of the Alabama c otton
finance corporation, a committee of
whose membership was announced
today, will be called tomorrow.
. Immediately after'this meeting the
‘committee will be ready to receive
.applications for loans, it was said.
QUEEN CANCELS TRIP"
'O FLORIDA TO
GO HOME }
CHICAGO, Nov. 15.——(AP)—Christ-1
mas day will find Queen Marie under
her own rooftree in Bucharest instead
of on the bleak Atlantic.
At the request of King Ferdinand
of Rumania his royal consort has
cancelled a portion of her American
trip, so that she and the children,
Princess Ilenana and Prince Nicholas
may be with their own people De
cember twenty-fifth. 5
They -sai] from New York Decem-‘
ber eleventh instead of December
twenty-fourth as origainlly was plan-?
ned. The revised itinerary cancels
the ‘Florida trip. |
HERR'N MAN FOUND SLA'N
HERRIN, 111, Nov, 14—(AP) —
The body of Claude Craig, 35, shot
through the heart with a revolver
bullet and through the right side with
buckshot, was found early today just
north of the Herrin city limits near
a road house operated by a man
known only as “Big Swede.” Author
jties ‘believe that the slaying has no
;connecllon with the recent gang war
‘fare here, as Craig was nol known
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SLIGHT INTENSiTY« MARKS AP
PROA‘CHING DISTURBANCE
SAYS WEATHER BUREA.
MIAMI, Fla.,, November 15—(&)
—Movement of a tropical disTurb
ance in the Caribbean sea apparently.
north and northeastward i;oday,
placed Miami and South Florida in
r its path, according to weather ob
‘servations here. »
The storm was charted at ten thir
tk about sixty five miles southwest
of Cape San Antonio, on the west
ern tip of Cuba and veering into
the 'same coudse followed by the
recent hurricane with slight and
moderate intensity, e ',“'7'l"‘
IMPORTANT MEETING :
} «CIVIC CLUB TUESDA'{‘
Every member of the Wom:m’.~;l
Civie Club is rged to be omhand for
the meeting Tuesaay afternoon, andl
to bring a new member with th(-m.l
Don’t forget the hour—for o'clock in ]
the Library assembly room.
WILD HOG S BITE RESULTS
RESULTS IN DEATH OF MAN
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| BIRMINGHAM, November 15—
(P)—The bite of a wild hog, to
night lead to the death of Lee
Marsh, farmer of Coalburg, Ala. ‘
Marsh was attacked by the hog
two weeks ago when he attempted
to drive the strange.porker out of
his barnyard. The hog attacked him
"and bit him so severely that he was
brought to a hospital here. One leg
was amputated, but complications
{set in, causingdeath tonight.
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to be affiliated with any faction.
l No witnesses have been found who
’can' throw any light on the identity
of Craig’s assailants, although per
gons living in the vicinity report hear
\in}: shots. The shooting apparently
occurreq outside the roadhouse, s
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' SAYS HE WILL TAKE CARE OF
" FOUNDATION FOR SCHOOL AT
RIGHT TIME. "
’ ROME, Ga., November 15—{P)-—
Mountain children, orAßerry school,
entertained one of the world’s rich
est fmen today, perhaps not knowing
he was among them to asccrtaini
their needs. l
Henry Ford, automobile manufnc-‘
turer and party, including Mrz. ord
came here for an. inspoction of t'ne‘!
school and a vigit with. Miss Martha
Berry, its founder. Mr, Ford did not
issue a statement, but was quoted as
saying he was “very much interested
and that he would assist the s@hjpo!l
with a fondation “at the p;opcr
time”’ ' ' Pt '
After several (]ziys-lll:x'e hé prob
ably will go to Atlanta.
FORGED HIS OWN PAROLE
FOR ESCAPE FROM PRISON
OKLAHOMA CITY, November 15
(P)-—Admitting that he forged ]\ls
parole, L. M. Carson former Creek
county school superintendent, con
victed of raising a warrant, was
again in jail here today. Although
he told the officers he prepared thc!
parole, he refused to,peveal how hc-‘
secured the blank and had it mailed
from the capital. g
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WALSH CONDEMNS MEXICAN
POLICY IN. CHURCH FIGHT
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 14—(AP)—
The l'niu.'(l States government should
indicatd®Positively that it does not,l
approve = Mexico's present ]mli(-,y‘
n,\\;;_,,_,l-g.»lhu Catholic church, uccording‘
to Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Mon-‘
tuna, e denounced the Calleg gov.
e'rmn(nl, in an address tonight at Ihe‘
annual banguet of the National Cath
‘L'!)”(‘ Alumni federation, |
REV. ANDREW CARAKER
PREACHED TO WELL FILLED
'~ HOUSE BOTH MORNING AND
" NIGHT.
The First Baptist church yesterday
presented at both services a most
impressive program -with the new
pastor, Rev. Andrew Caraker,. in
charge, “When the Pastor Comes to
Town” was his morning topic. At
night “Cordele for Christ” and sev
“eral different phases of a message
which he brought to his new con
‘gregfntion with respect to his own
aims as preacher and servant and
pastor, were presented in excellent
and forceful manner.
The house was crowded at both the
morning and night services. It has
been many months since so many
people came to hear the sermons at
a Sunday service in this church. It
was a day of marked interest and
one wich ushered the new pastor
into his activies in the community
- with a marked degree of enthusjasm'
i and earnestness on his part. His con
- gregation manifested a keen interest
in him and wished him a future
‘of great service as pastor. ’
GOVERNMENT ASKS $34,077,324
[ TAXES ON FORD STOCK
DETROIT, Nov. 14.—(AP)—A legal
action involying $34,077,324.72 in back
income taxes will begin in Detroit
January, 11 when the United States
court of tax avpeals moves here to
hear testimony and nrz';uments in the
government’s suit to collect from the
nine original stockholders of the Ford
Motor company. |
~ The stockholders all sold their in
terests in the company in 1919 for
$12,500 a share in most instances and
for $13,000 a share in others. At
that time the government was paid
approximately $20,000,000 in taxes.
The tax paid then was on an ap
praised value of $9,489.34 per share,
to the treasury department in 1913,
THe government contended this . ap
praisal was too Jow. p g
United States Senator James Couz
end, 'formenly, general manager of the
Ford Motor company, would be the!
hardest hit if the government should
win the impending suit. The claim
against him is for $9,455,274.08. The
estates of John F. and Horace Dodge
also are involved,
NEW YORK COTTON
OPEN CLOSH P. C
JAB: i AR 1261 12567
NI s L 1321 1320
PBO. A 11NeD 1256 1248
CORDELE COTTON
Middling aloged ... 11188
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LOCAL CREAM MARKET
Standard l)fxtt(.»:'t‘ut Eindiassinmmninse 20500
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COTTON SEED MARKET
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Cotton seed ........... $20.00 & $23.00
PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS
Established in 1908
MEMBEBRS ASSOCIATED PRESS
STATESEEKSTO
SHOW MANLEY IS
NOT INSANE NOW:
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;MORE EVIDENCE OFFERED ?O-!
DAY IN EFFORT TO DOWN@N|
SANITY PLEA. i 8
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ATLANTA, Nov. 15.—(AP) — The
state today reopened its case .im ‘the}
hearing on W. D, Manmmp
iFulton superior MWWE
rested Friday, J. H, GFee, Db r!
Georgla, Haynes McFadden otary |
of the Georgia Bankers¥Association, |
and R. E. Haryey were calteg to the '
stand and testified that . théy, had '
known Manley many . years, sudiigl
ways thought him “;pertoéfiy"l,jjd‘w.?%j
The entering of the inganily ples
last Monday set aside all other issues
and Manley’s sanity must be proven
ibefore he can be brought to trial fi,
any criminal indictment. e
. Should he be found insane, hc._‘_fll?
be confined to the state hospital for
the insane. ; !
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ST. PAUL, Minnesota, Nov. 15, —
(AP)— A pnrty, ahoard. a hoh{éfiéfltfl
on the Mississippi river here ended
in tragedy last' night when six ot
the merrymakers attempting to es
cape from the law were - drowned
when a small duck boat - sank. ’, '
The tragedy occurred when those
on the houseboat tried to flee as
two policemen appeared in reqfioflso
to a call from. a neighboring , boat
which reported that 4 drunken fight
was in progress on the other craft. .
(CHRYSANTHEMUMS: AS
GIFT FROM :
FRIEND .
~ Some very beautiful chrysanthe
‘mums came to the Dispatch today
‘ahead of the heavy rains as a gift
from Mrs. W. H. Culpepper, They
were rare beauties and ‘were ‘’a
splendid example of the gardening
of this good friend. Her garden i 3 &
bower of beauty in these flowers,
?g’m"’m‘“’m‘w‘_‘_ i 7
TO {NTRODICE ICE
CREAM KISSES
This advertisement clipped trogj
the paper and presented at our
store together with a 25¢ cash
purchase will entitle the holder
to ona of our NEW CHOCO.
LATE COVERED ICE CREAM
KISSES, made in the store from
KINNETTS VELVET !Cfi-
CREAM & Chocolate coating. -
RETAIL PRICE 6o :
TRY THEM AND YOU'LL
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