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GEORGIA WEATHER
Increasing cloudiness tonight. Tues
day rain, rising temperature; fresh
east winds.
VOLUME NO. 10
FIVE SOUTHERN STATES SUFFER HEAVY FLOOD LOSS
* SERVICE TOD¥
S
ALABAMA MINERS ARE FORCED
TO LEAVE THEIR WORK BE
CAUSE OF WATER.
By Associated Press
Rivers that reached out of their
banks and grasped valley dwellers in
five southern states in their icy grip
today ~ were promised still further
power, for the weather forecast was
bfpr more rain today and to
night in all of them.
Few lives wére lost, for warnings
had comexn time but property dam
age mounted into thousands of dol
lars as inundated industries stopped,
1.-R:cstock was drowned, and highways
‘and raliroads were washed ot.
Two men drowned near Pinebluff,
"Ark., one near Columbus, Miss., and
‘another died at Selmer, Tenn., from
exposure.
In Alabama, Akansas, Kentucky,
Mississippi and Tennessee the rivers
were out of their banks., The latter
state probably the destructive pow
& of the high water more than the
others,
.~ 'Eleven Towns Cut Off
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.,, December
M—-(A’)—Elevén towns on the Louis-
Lilw and Memphis branch =~ of the
Louisville and - Nashville railroad
were without train service today as
a result of flood waters from the
Cumberland and Tennessee rivers.
The isolated towns are Palmyra,
&Carbandale, Sailors Rest, Cumber
tand City, Erin, Tennessee Ridge,
Stewart McKinton, Danville, Faxon
and Big Sandy, Waters is repo‘ft_ed
to be three feet deep ovwrtions
‘o( the tracks. e
“*The Cumberland river here today
lacked only thirty-six inches reaches
the 1882 high flood stage.
Floods Black Mining
BIRMINGHAM, December 27—(&)
\_J:More than a thousand coal miners
in Walker county were thrown out
of employment temporariiy today as
the result of flood waters rising in
saveral properties. In some instances
_rié'lch damage was reported,
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~ NED YORK, Ocec. 27—(AP)— The
Woodrow Wilson award medal, ten
inches in diameter, »will be presented
to Elihu Root at the Hotel Astor on
'Tuesday when he reccives the $25,060
cash award of the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation in recognition of his part
in the creation of .the Permanent
Court of International’ Justice. The
medal was designated by Ivan Mes
trovich, Jugo-Slav sculptor, and shows
a symbolic figure of Woodrow Wil
son conveying a sense of what Mes
trovich believes to have been Wilson’s
chief charaeteristies—wisdom; justice
and love of humanity. ’l‘hé medal is‘
of bronze. |
FRESNO FEELS NEW
EARTHQUAKE
TREMOR
FRESNO, Calif., December 27—
(P)—An earthquake was felt here
and in Turlock, eighty miles from
here, at one twenty this morning.
The shocck was felt by telephone op
erators and others, but apparently
did no damage other than rattle
dishes and awaken many persons.
Several blocks were reported from
Hanford and Porterville, but no re
pérts of damage.
REFI%ERY BLOW UP
SENDS TWO MEN
TO DEATH
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VENTURA, Calif., December 27—
(P)—Two men were reported burned
to. death and several othcrs injured
when an explosion rocked the re
finery of the.General Petroleum
Company, near here, today.
MeDERMOTT TRIAL
HAS COST OVER
$lOO,OOO o
CANTON, Ohio, December 27—(&)
—While the passing of sentence on
Patrick McDermott, convicted of the
murder of Don R. Mellett, was held
up pending the filing of a motion by
defense counsel for a new trial,
Prosecutor C. B. McClintock today
checked up the costs of the prosécu
tion.
Altogether McClintock estimates
that more than a hundred thousand
dollars have been spent in the in
quiry, including the amount spent by
the county, by private interests, by
the federal government, and by the
state executive department.
Trials for Ben Rudner and Louis
Mazer, indicted with McDermott,
are yet to come.
CORDELE,; GEORGIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1926
888 AND BALDWIN CITVZENS SEEK
10 SAVE CONDEMNED YOUTHS
LATIMER REPORT
ONLY NEWS FROM
NICARAGUAN PORT
LANDING OF AMERICAN FORCES
IS BITTERLY PROTESTED BY
LIBERALS.
| WASHINGTON, December 27—(#)
’ —Aside from the report of Rear Ad
| miral Julian Latimer that he had
i landed a force of blue jackets at
' Puerto Cabezas and had proclaimed
a neutral zone there within rifle
' shoot of all American properties,
Washington officials were withofit
information over the week end as to
developments in the Nicaraguan situa
tion. :
Puerta Cazezas, near the Hondur
an border, was headquarters of the
Sacasa ‘liberals who are opphsing
the conservative government of
President Diaz which has been recog- :
nized by the United States. |
The landing of American forces 1
there and at Rio Granle Bar has
Leen vehemently protested by repre- !
sentatives of the liberal group which!
has been recognized by Mexico as{
the constitutional government of
Nicaragua. i ‘l«’% ‘
MINISTER HURT ON
WAY TO XMAS
TREE
ABBEVILLE, Ga., December 26
—Rev. R. G.,Braziel, well known
Baptist minister of the county, was
going to a Christmas tr2e at Brown
ing, one of his chrches, and while
Iriving down the highwayv, he met a
car whose lights blinded him so he
lost his bearing and lan off a
bridge( and overtrned hLis car. His
wife, whowas with him, was hurt in
the hip. After being examined at Ab
beville, they retrned to their home
near Rochelle. .
DRUNKEN NEGROES DRIVE
FORD INTO FINE CAR
ABBEVILLE, Ga., December 27—
Christmas passed in Abbeville quiet
ly, with two automobile accidents,
both south of town on the Divie
Highway. .
A Ford car loaded with negroes
said to be drinking ran ran into a
car said to belong to a Mr. Heath,
of Macon, wrecking both cars. The
one driven by Mr. Heath, a big tour
ing car, was badly damaged.
The negroes, it was said were
drinking and got out with theirknives
and wanted the white men to pay for
the damage to their car, Other cars
passing brought them to town and
they soon had the town marshall on
the scene, He arrested two of them,
the others making their escape.
- George Holmes is here irom Lecs
burg, Fla, for the holidays.
Editor C. E. Brown, Misses Al
lene and Marion Brown, Charles Jr.,
and Harold Brown spent Sunday in
Atlanta with Mrs. C. E. Brown who
is a patient at the Piedmont Hos
pital.
WALKER LISTENS
T 0 PLEAS MADE
~ FOR WHITE BOY:
'ATLANTA, Dec. 27.—A delegation
of citizens from Bibb and‘ Baldwin
counties 'went into confercnce with
Governor Walker today to ‘pio:ul for
‘executive clemency for Wade John
son and Jarrett Benford, white youths
sentenced to die at Milledgeville Fri
day. They were cenvicted of slaying
an eighty year old Jones county wo
mbn and sentenced te hang.
Gallows Is Ready
WILLIAM H. MAYQ
- PASSES AT AGE 75
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NEER DIED ON CHRISTMAS
DAY HERE. bl
William H. Mayo, agcd 79 years,
pioneer in this section, lately a
crossing traffic officer for the A. B.
and A. Railway here, died at nine
o’clock on Christmas morning at the
family residence on Thirteenth ave
nue. He had been criticaily ill for
some days and his death was not un
expected.
Nearly all the members of his
family were at his beside at the
time of his death. The funeral ser
vices occurred at the residence yes
terday afternoon at three o’clock
and the remains were laid to rest in
Sunnyside. The services were in
charge of Elder Theoodre McArthur,
acting pastor of the lacai Primitive
Baptist church, assisted by Kev. J. B.
Johnstone pastor of the First Metho
dist church.
Mr. Mayo was a consistent mem
ber of the Primitive Baptist church,
a man of wonderful activity for his
age and usually with a jolly disposi
tion and a kind word for everybody.
He took lige as though it were all
happiness, Few ever saw him down-
cast. Until his infirmities drew him
away from his duties and his friends,
he was as active in going and com<
ing from his work as though he
were no more than forty years of
age. He numbered his friends as all
those who knew him. He was reared
in this section and was known vwver
a wide community. His death will
bring sorrow to many people
His children surviving him are
Miss Nannie Mayo with whom he
made his home here, Mrs. Johnson,
of Valdosta, Mrs. C. I. Powell, of
Fitzgerald, James of West Palm
Beach, George of Thomasville, and
B. W. of Jacksonvillo, The pall
bearers were Messrs J. . Kelly, W.
B. Howard, W. B. Smith, J. S. Dick
son, Fred Barrow, and Jack Shep
pard.
PREDICTS ANOTHER
CALIFORNIA
QUAKE
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Willis, Stanford university carthquake
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ABBEVILLE, Ga., December 27—
Robeit M. Pearce, in charge of the
ill-fated Ponce De Leon train on the
Scuthern, was a Wileox ccunty boy,
and had been railroading for several
years. He was the son of John
Pearce of Wilcox county and was
reared between Rochelle and Pitts.
He was a brother, of Hon. L. W.
Pehifee, tax colléétor— of “Wilcox
county, and the family have been
well to do ecitizens of :le county for
many years.
He lived in Rome, Gl.. and had
been Engineer foreman for several
years. It has not been learned wheth
er his body will be bwought back
to Wilcox county for surial.
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NEW BAPTIST
CHURCH
There will be a mecting at libenez
er church at ten o’clock Wednesday
morning for the purpose of dizcussing
plang for rebuilding or repairing the
old church edifice., A recent storm
hadly damaged the historic old build
ing and it is deemeq necessary either
to repair this building or build an en
tirely new house.
ICHIEF OF POLICE GETS
' PART OF HOUSE ON HIM
In a 2 hurry up call among some
turbulent negroes near the Bulloch
wocd yard Saturday night, Chief of
Police 'T. N. Turk had the whole of
a front veranda of a negro house
knocked down upon him and today
‘ig ‘getting about on crutches as a re
sult of a bad. bruise on the leg. A
negro had caused a disturbance and
Dan Mclver answered the call. The
trouble made a tresponge by the chief
necessary and when a close in was
made on the negro, he darted out pay
ing no mind to the posts holding the
veranda up. He knocked out the only
substantial prop and the others gave
way letting the veranda down on the
'officer. He is painfully, but not se
riously hurt. The negro was finally
taken into custody.
expert, predicted another severe earth
quake for southern California cn his
arrival here today.
He declared the future guake would
be severe with possible serions dam
age to cities in that part of the state.
He was unable to predict when the
quake will come,
COOLIDGEC ARE AMONG FIRST
TO SEND MESSAGES OF CON
DOLENCE
TOKYO, December 27—(&)—
Silent and bareheaded, more than a
million mourners lined the four mile
route from Harajpku station to the
Imperial Palace as the body of the
late Emperor Yoshihito, was return
ed to Tokyo tonight from the royal
villa at Hayama where he died
Christmas Day.
From the railroad station to the
palace the streets were " sprinkled
with white sand as a ceremony of
purification.
On either side the way was fringed
with soldiers and policemen, fifteen
thousand of them.
Cablegrams from President and
Mrs. Coolidge addressed to the
dowager empress and were among
the first of hundreds of condolences
from other sovereigns received.
t COMMUNISM WRECKS
THREE STRONG
UNIONS
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—(AP)— The
New York World says today that
communistic activitics in - past
‘nguj . l{qve cost ; t'l_)g _ nzedle - trades
| union apparently thirty million dol
i]ars, have practically wiecked the
furriers union, and partially wrecked
tlie international ladies garment
workers union through strikes that
could have been avoided. :
‘ A meeting called fro, tonight by
the cloak cutters unionfl, ostensibly to
!infitull officers, the World declares,
lactuully is called to discuss the situ-
Iil(,‘i()ll and receive agsurances of sup- .
’pm-t from the American Federation
’of Labor in combatting communism.
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BANK NOTICE
The undersigned banks of Cordele
will close each day at twelve o’cloci
December 27th through December
31st, and all day Saturday January
first.
—American Bank and Trust Co.
—Exchange Bank
—Commercial and Savings Bank
12-28. e
Friends are pleased today to sce J.
Monroe Hunt out again after several
‘days of scvere illness.
NEW YORK COTTON
OPEN CLOSE P. C.
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July aaa N 181% 1218 1302
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CORDELE COTTON
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LOCAL CREAM MARKET
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Standard butterfat . ... ... 48:050
PEANUT MARKET
Peanuts $105.00
COTTON SEED MARKET
Cotfon Seced, car lots .......... $23.00
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. WASHINGTON, December 27—
(P)—Friends of Ty Cobb and Tris
Speaker at the Capitol and else
' where waited patiently today for the
former American League baseball
managers to put in an appearancé
to lay their cases before government
officials.
Just what action the men intond
to take as a result of charges
against them in the documents made
public last week has rot been dis
closed.
There were reports that they might
ask investigation of bascball under
the anti-trust laws, or try to, interest
some members of congress i nthd
cases in an official way, but no steps
in such direction weer anparent.
Cobh and Speaker were reported
last night as being enronte to Wash
ington, but -neifher had been scen
here today.
STRAUSS MAKES GIFT
TO HEALTH OF
. JERUSALEM
NEW YORK, December 27—(P)—
Announcement of a donation of
two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars by Nathan Straus, philan
trropist, for the creation of a health
center in Jerusalem was made today
by Mre. Irma L. Limpeimn, national
president at the third annual con
ferenle of Hadassah, tte women’s
Zionist organization of America.
ATTORNEY IS SLAIN
IN ROBBERY
FEUD |
SEDALIA, Missouri, Dec. %7.—(AP)
—Robert K. Bardwell today shot and
killed Claude Wilkerson, an attorney,
on Sedalia’s principal thoroughfare,
Bardwell’'s son, ‘Elbert Bardwell, and
Will Palmer were shot ang killed a
few months ago by a deputy sheriff
who sought them in connection with
robbery of the Fleasant Green, Mis
souri bank last July,
Later Claude Wilkerson was indict
:d on charge of complicity in the rob
bery.
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
AND
HAPPY
NEW YEAR
TO ALL
OUR
FRIENDS
AND
CUSTOMERS .
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