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. Probably rain tonight and Wednes: =
; day, warmer in southeast portion'’
& and colder in extreme northwest.
VOLUME NO. 10
U. S. PAN-AMERICAN AIR ARGOSY' BLAZING TRAIL SOUTHWARD
‘PIONEERS LEAVE
EXPECTED TO REACH MEXICAN
BORDER BY EARLY AFTER
3 Y TR
SAN ANTONIO,, Texas, Decembe.
21—(A)—The arm)?’s Pan-Americaa
air argosy, cinsisting of five great
planes, left Kelly Field today to
blaze a trail of friendship into the
hearts of twenty nationalities o!
iatin,-Arfl,&riu& P e N 0
The first mile of the many thous
and mile journey cver tortous moun
tains, across desert wastes, and bond
less seas, was perhaps an Augury
of smooth and happy sailing to the
Joureny’s end.
The great yellow-winged, birdlike
flying boats skimmed along the mile
stretch of the field concrete run
.wuy with What officers called “sweep
speed,” their glistening bodies giving
something of gleeful adieu to the
Texas mud which yesterday held:
them fast.
The reserve plane with General
wPatrick was the first to get away,
taking the air at ten fifty. Major
Herbert A. Dargue, flight command
er, followed a’'minute later and.the
other planes ,went up at minute in
tervals. After circling over San An
“tonio, they headed south towards the
L{exican border which they expected
to reach before 2 p. m. |
COLUMBIA DRAWING .
- PRAISE FROM
BRITIS |
—— 4
LONDON, Dec. 21‘-‘%) — The,
statement by the political science:fag::
ulty of :Columbia university favering
revision of the war debts settlement
hailed by the Times today ac “ewi-,
rence that a section of the educated(‘
opinion of the eastern states accepts
the views and arguments which have
been continuously pressed upon Amer-:
ica by her European debtors.”
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CORDELE DISPATCH
Sinclair’s Lawyer Strikes at So - Called Senatorial Vesuvius
GOVER PULLED FROM HIGH UP
BETTING IN BIG LEAGUE BASEBAIL
TY }oss AND SPEAKER MEN
_ TIONED IN GAME PROBE
WHEN BETTING HAD OCCUR
RED. |
CHICAGO, December 21—(/P)—Ty
Cobb and Tris Speaker were linked
‘today in an investigation conducted
’by Commissioner Landis involving
! alleged irrcgularity of game between
Detrcit and Cleveland, played in De
troit in 1919. : ‘
Landis, without making any de-‘
cision, made public morg. than a hun-l
dred pages of testimony taken in |
connection with the case; Cobb and“
Speaker reeently resigned as man-1
-ager of the Detroit and Cleveland
Clubs respectively. o .
Dutch Leonard, once pitcher with‘
Petroit, and Joe Wood, another
American league pitcher a}so werel
named in the investigation; which
Landis indicated involved Betting on
the result of the game. v b e l
+» When asked about the status "¢
Cobb and Speaker, Landis repliedl
“these men being out of basehall; no
‘conditicns in futre require it | .
decision Wwill be made unless changed
NEPROGRAM
KIWANIS LUNCHEON!
MEETING TOMORROW AT THE]
ROSAMOND CAFE FOR NOON]
LUNCHEON,
All Kiwanians and friends will
take notice that the regular weekly
meeting and luncheon will be held
tomorrcw' (Wednesday) from 1 to 2
‘o’clock 'at the ‘4"'Rosér‘nond__' Cafe—
Jim’si:plaed’ ih ‘th‘é'; !S'u)i,v.a‘nee H-‘)i;iei_
bmiddingy i ent! oH ki
This chafigd tas méfig: }n or:(‘l’er_.t,o
give-the-ladiesof-Civic Club a two.
“weeles—vaeation“diring the holidays. .
During the lunc pn houra §ifilén:
did gprogramy will ef'.fgndefgd,‘. nQis.l
mmTfi&%.a Vior'\ of a number
4 Bus niftters, and committee
reports, but also a most excellent
musical entertainment feature will
be presented. Thsi portion of the
program will be in charge of Misses
Mary McCoy and Emma Maddox, the
twins. These artists have entertained
the club on several previous occa
sions, and it has always bee a great
treat to be present and hear these
young ladies. Then too, Jim says he
is ‘going to give the club a feast in
'26od things to eat sa 100 percent at
tendance ; is earnestly requested.
STILL SEARCHING HUDSON
FOR MISSING DEAD MEN
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—(AP)—~ Po
lice and firemen today continued
grappling among the ice floes of the
Hudson river for the bodies of ten
men believed missing from among the
more than two score workmen in
search of jobs who were drownled
yesterday when a launch, the Linseed
King, was capsized.
Thirty bodies had beenrecovered,
but relatives who visited the morgue
failed to find at least ten other they
sought. :
CORDELE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1926
MASKED BANDITS
sbct b A ;
AT POINT OF PISTOL ROBBERS
GET AWAY WITH $5,000 IN CASH
ATLANTA, Dec, 21.—(AP)— Four
masked men entered KEast Atlanta
bank this afternoon, held up Cashier
W. I. John' at pistol point and escaped
with approximately five thousand dol
larg in ‘cash. !
EXPECTS TO SHOW UP IN SEN
ATE AROUND NEW YEAR’S
DAY FOR WORK.
CHICAGO, December 21—(P)—
Colcnel Frank L. Smith has accepted
sanatorial appointment of Governor
Len Smiall to the seat made vacant
by the death of Senator William. B..
McKinley and will go to Washing
ton soon after New Year’s day to
‘present 'hi_s credentials to the senate
the governor announced today.
WILL HONOR DEBS IN
< NAME OF RADIO
STATION
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—(AP)— The
name of Eugene V. Debs, socialist
leader, will be perpetuated in the air
insteaq of stone, the national execu
tive committee of the socialist party
has rejected porposals to erect a mon
ument to their dead leader and de
cided to open a radio broadcasting
station in his honor, it was announc
ed today. :
The station'is to be named WDEBS,
NEGRO BROODING OVER T
| CONVICTION COMMITS SUICIDE
...\ WAYNESBORO, Ga,, = December
21—(#)—Unmindful of the fact that
a parole awaited his call at the post
! office, Marion Crevelaier, negro
merchant of this city, shot himself
at his home here this morning, dying
a few minutes later from the wound.
Crevelair had been convicted on a
‘prohibition charge in city court re
cently and received a sentence of 3
months on the Burke county chain
|gang, the judge granting him until
the first of January to straighten
out his business affairs before be
ginning serving his sentence. He is
‘said to have been worrying consid
erably over his imminent incarcera
l tion and to have told his wife at the
“breakfast table that he coldn’t
' stand it any longer and was going to
kill himself. Before the woman could
Istop him he procured his pistol and
| fired into his chest.
| Had he waited anhou rhe would
have secured his parole which held
l freedom.
! Mr. John H. Warren, son of Mr.
!’and Mrs. C. B. Warren, who is at
“ tending Bible Park Traing School in
' New York, is spending the Christmas
lholidays with friends in Buffalo, N.
LY.
DEFENSE LAWYER RE?LIES TC
SENATE ATTACKS MADE IN
TRIAL OF CASES.
WASHINGTON, December = 21—
() —Motion todismisz the Fall-Sin
clair Teapot: Dome: conspirpcy"_ in
.dictments was taken under| advise
ment today by Justice Jennings
Bailey after conclusion of the argu
mentsi n the District of ‘bovlumbia
supreme court. Justice Bailjey will
rule on the motion Thursdaj.
Meantime arraignment of the de
fendants and the fixing of the trial
date be delayed. Arging the dismissal
proposal €,day Attorneys for 'Al
bert B. Fall and Harry F. Sinclair
declared the whole proceeding should
be invalided as not constituting
“uue process c¢f law” and Owen J.
Roberts of government éphnsel re
plied that the move was ‘unques
tionable and dilatory” :
Martin W. Littleton, chief counsel
for Sinclair, said the prosecution
had been characterized by unusal
and unccnstitutional steps all along,
including repeated attacks on the de
fendants from the senate floor.
Littleton alluded to the senate
speech by Heflin of Alal;aina de
nouncing last week’s jury Verdict of
acquittal in the Fall-Doheny' trial,
‘“even unto this very day, even unto
last night and in the newspapers of
the country this morning there is to
be found continued evidence of this
thing' I have in mind. It smirches
everything it touches like a senator
ial Vesuvius in constant eruption.”
The senate and not the legal de
partment of the exective branch ofi
the government, he said, is in reality‘
conducting the prosecution. |
Heflin Hits at Mellon : l
WASHINGTON, December 21—]
(#)—Unlimbering another attack oni
the Harding administration, Senator‘
Thomas J. Heflin, democrat, A]a-‘
bama, told the senate .today = that!
former Attorney General Harry M|
Daugherty’s friend, 'Jess Smith, was
murdered “because he = knew tco
much” and that it would “open the
eyes of the nation” if < the inside
story of the recent Fall-Doheny oilf
congpiracy acquital here ever‘werei
told. |
PURCHASES SHCE SHOP
Mr. Lester Patterson recently
purchased the Taylor Shoe Shop and
has mcved this establishment to Vi
enna where he wil loperate same.
NEW YORK COTTON
OPEN CLOSH P. C.
AN e 108 1222 1220
MON: s 240 1247 1242
oBe s 3005 1277 1253
: CORDELE COTTON
Middling ‘closel’ s ... 10:65
LOCAL CREAM MARKET
Standard butterfat. ......uie........d 49500
PEANUT MARKET
SPeßte T o al ROD 0
~ COTTON SEED MARKET
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‘Cotton Seed, car lots ............ $23.00
POPE PIUS BLOGKS RECONCILIATION
GHURGH AND STATE IN ITALY
’cnens&r RETICENCE OBSERV-
I- ED 'ON CRITICISM' OF FACIST
[ RELIGIOUS' POLICIES]: + &
ROME, Dec. 21.-4-(AP)—The Italian
'government:' considers “strange, sur
prising, and umncalled for” Pope’ Pius
pointed ‘criticism of the fascist's re
ligious policies contained in yester
day’s allocution, the Associated Press
today was informed by a government
spokesman. The papal declaration
was felt to have eliminated any hope
lof speedy reconciliation between
church and state.
The allocution came as such 4
shock to political circles generally
that the greatest reticence is heing
observed, ‘while newspapers have not
printed a single word ‘of ‘cofiment.
incidents of violence' against Cath
olic individuals and organizations up
on which the pontiff based his criti
icism. it was declared, are definitely
‘things of the past, having occurred
las a sontaneous angd. mementary - re
’action lasting for but a few days
‘after a most recent attempt on Mus
- solini’s life. i
l Since then, it was asserted by a
’government spokesman, nothing has
occurred to occagion the Pope's re
!marks. .
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WIDOW DECLARES KILLED
HUSBAND ACCIDENTALLY
" NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 20.—(AP) —
Mrs. Ethel Power, who shot and kill
ed her husband, Deputy ire Chief
Timothy Power, Saturday afternoon,
waived examination this morning in
police court and was sent on to cor
poration court by Police Justice R.
B. Spindlé. lln a statement to the
police shortly after theshooting, Mrs.
Power said 'it was accidental.
At request of 'Attorney Charleg( L.
Kauffman, ' retained by!Mrsi Power,
Coroner C. J. D. McDonald postponed
the inquest until Tuesday, December
28. |
Mrs. Power said she had no idea
of shooting her hushband and drew
the .25 calibre pistol on him only as
a threat. She thought the safety
catch was on the weapon, as was us
ually the case, she said.
The shooting followed an argument
between the firechief and his wife,
Mrs. Power said. She followed his
presence and went into her own
room, Mrs. Power said. She left his
and it was then, she sald, the acci
dental killing occurred.
USE OF ELECTRICITY
SHOWS BIG
INCREASE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—(AP) —
During the five year period, 1920 to
1925, there was a fifty-one percent in
crease in consumption of electricity
in the United States and in ‘some
gtates the report by the geological
survey asserted the increase ranged
‘higher than eighty-five percent.
~ln actual increase the middle At
lantic states led with five billion nine
‘hundred and fifty million kilowatt
‘hours. The south Atlantic states in
;creased forty-eight percent.
MYSTERY ATTENDS
|
MISSING MIKE TATUM IS DRAG.-
GED FROM RIVER AFTER
SEARCH IS MADE.
LA GRANGE, Ga., December 21
—(/P)—The body of Mike Tatumn, six
ty, well known resident of Troup
! county was found in the Chattahoo
chee river today. He had been miss
ing from home since Mcnday when
he left with a gun and dog supposed
i ly on a hunting trip.
; The searching party found Tatum's
E gun and coat on the river bank and
!the body was recovered after the
] stream wai dragged.
|
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" WREckERs e
!ALTHOUGH ONE NEGRO ‘iCON
FESSED, HIS FREEDOM IS
‘ GIVEN ALONG WITH OTHERS.
A ot Lt iy o IRE i o
I The remarkab}e thing occurred in
superior court tqday. Although time
and again he confessed his part in
breaking into the W. R. Williamson‘
grocery store on tlie National High
‘way scuth of the city limits, "from;
which a safe was taken, hauled to
the woods and rifled by a party
which have cinsisted of some six or;
eight men, Edgar Blanche, negre.
was given his freedom today when
an indictment was mnolle prossed
.against him. i
| John Gordon, Anderson Kenyon,‘
[px'eachor, Lee Jordan, Sid Starling‘
iand Buddie Cobb, other negroes
' charged with the same crime on the
‘ statement of Blanche were also giv
! en their freedom when the solicitor
1 nolle pressed their cases.
| This action came when Claud
Reed, negro, four times convicted of
crime of one kind or another in the
‘courts here from selling liquor to
gambling was tried and released on
the verdict of a jury, as at least the
negro leader in the robber case.
Blanche detailed how the crime
was committed and how the heavy
Yafe was hauled off—how he jumped
off the truck and ran away whaei
‘it was to be broken open and rifled
—and ran faster when he thought
somebody was shooting at him for
deserting the crew. But he is a free
negro today.
Another case, that of having lis
uor, was nolle prossed against Roney
Durham, negro. Aubrey Johnson,
white, was found not guilty of taking
an ato tire at Daphne last smmer
at a dance.
The court concluded its work for
the term and adjourned late this
afternoon.
WOULD DIRECT STOCK
TAKING OF
COTTON
WASHINGTON, December 21—
(P)—A resolution directing Secre
tary Hoover to make an investiga
tion in the south to determine the
quantity and quality of the cotton
surplus as of Janary first 1927, was
introduced tcday by Representative
Wurzbach, republican of Texas.
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WASHINGTON, Deceinbey * 21+
(®)—Coolidge does not beljéve it}
necessary to begin immed“{@ly’.fl;fe‘;?
‘construction of ten new lik_b?‘ ;‘;\!ifi
ers which would be authoriized: up
der the Butler bill introduedd in-the’
house Saturday, e TRk
It was said at the White House to
day that with the cruisers. ale o ¥y
under construction in the " Unit y
States has an ample hu.ildim :
ram for the present. tim“q"; :W )
building of airplane carriers'and gip
marines now being cswied-&qjl,%hef
. believes, has given the’ nation'a suf |
ficiently heavy naval bill. ‘"’ ;’
g S L Y
'THIS MAN HURRIED TO:
. GET HIS TERM ?
‘ IN GANG & '
PR o ¥ ‘;L‘-:' } a
A man who gave his‘nam‘!-”,y.‘;
'R. Smith, appearing fdr'nlléko'" nifs- |
representations at a, battery. Q’p(fip a
in Cordele where he «p;}o(\im‘q@ A ;
tery last month, wag apqfltgi@“&.j'._ ®
lr'to get his sentence on a“nla '? g
and the court gave him’ tv:'eme; 3’" :
with Captain Cox on -tHe fl’)#i‘!’;‘, ",
T L |
' BURNS ARE FATAL ‘i jiip
: T L ok A g
SWAINSBORO, Ga., Dec, $l.-<bdf
tle A. J. Youngblood, ‘fotr-yeatiold kon '
|ot the late A. J. Youngblood and witg, '
was fatally burned at his Home dn"
Lcmle'ge Hill this morning. 'The chilq .
’sustained the burns while &;‘es‘qiim ;
and died several hours later. The '
!child was dressing in front of the fire
when his clothing became fgnited. .Hln
oldest sister, Mary, in an eftort: 'tb
smother the flames received several -
=serlous burns on her hand's and face.
i ‘A North American boa ‘constrictor
| said to measure 14 feet and 9 inches .
in length, was killed by Joseph Ir
_ving, of North Strafford, N. H.; gn
a trip through the White mountains ’
He has the skin on exhibition at His
home there, &
Ch . t kT
\ristras
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Toilet Articles, all
kinds —Perfumes—
Stationery — and a
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