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B e T T LI T A TSR e Ly SR O,
GEORGIA WEATHER
Rain tonight and probably in the
south portion Saturday morning.
Fresh northeast winds. .
VOLUME NO. 11
GERMANY FRIGHTENS PEACE GIRGLES WITH CALL FOR ARTICLE 10
MMACON SUFFERS COSTLY DEPARTMENT STORE FIRE
BERNSTOREF IS
CREDITED WITH
WOULD REVISE PACT SIGNED AT
VERSAILLES IN THE INTEREST
OF GERMANY.
GENEVA, Detember 2—(AP)--The
security cdmmittee of the preparatory
dicarmament confrence which has
beenn in session here for the pasi ten
days adjourned today at the call f
the chairman and probably wiil hold
its nevt session on February 20.
Count Von Bernstoff, of Germany,
caused a sensation at the security com
mittee meseting today by insistiny that
importance be given to Article ten of
the League of Nations covenants. The
artcile provides for the revision ot
treaties. The delegates immediately de~
duced that h referrd to th treatis of
Versailles.
LISTEN AT THIS FORD
STORY, NOW YOU
TELL ONE
LONDON, Dec. 2—(AP)— The new
Ford automobiles went on exhibition
in London today. A Ford official
stated that orders for 640,000 cars were
received, 160,000 of which were for
immgdiate delivery.
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MRS. WILLIAMS PASSES AT
TY TY HOME THURSDAY
Mrs. Edwin Williams, aged seventy
six, passed in death yesterday at the
family home at Ty Ty. She is sur
vived by her husband and several
children among them being, Dr. Frank
williams, of Vienna, Mrs. G. D. God
dard, of Milner and Brigadier General
wil} s, (\‘ the Fourth Corps Area
Natf%’rg.! G ‘ids, Atlanta.
The Williaiis family resided in Cor
dele some thirty-five years ago and
were among the earlier esteemed res
idents -of this city.
Funeral services were held this af
ternoon and interment was in Tifton.
Friends in this community of the
family sympathize with them in their
bereavement.
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‘ DEAD IN STREET
ATLANTA, Ga., December 2—(AP)—-
An unidentified man appearing ahout
55 yéars old, was found dead on the
side? walks of an Atlanta street today.
Death was believed to have occurred
;(pm natural causes. :
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gles or sizzles, more
than 7 million a day
welcome a pause and
the wholesome re
freshment of ice-cold
Coca-Cola. Every bot
tle sterilized.
Ouwer 7 million a day
Cordele Coca-Cola
. Bottling Company
Cordele, Ga. Phone 87
A. C. Towns, Manager
{T HAD TO BE GOoOD
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CORDELE DISEATCH
DISPATCH
AMAZING LIQUOR COLLUSION IS CHARGED TO CHICAGO POLICE
SHADOWED IN U. §
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FEDERAL INDICTMENTS BY
WHOLESALE TO FOLLOW WIDE
CHICAGO CAMPAIGN.
CHICAGO, December 2—(AP)—The
Herald and Examiner today said that
amazing evidence of collusion between
Chicago police oificials and politiicans
and the operators of liquor and gam
bling resorts has been obtained by the
United States government in a secrat
investigation during the last month.
Evel"y police captain, said the news
paper, has been continuously shadow
ing federal operatives during the past
two 'weeks. Warcs and precinet com
mitteemen and their “lesser licuten
ants” haye been under surveillance.
- Th newspaper said it had bheen in- |
dicated that a number of indictmems‘
alreday’ had been prepared bus were
being withheld nntil the govemmentl
case is completed. ‘
Government men have learned, the
newspaper said, that saloon and gam
bling resorts operate only upon the
payment of “protection money” whicin
in his precinct went to “high ranking
police officers.” |
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| WILL: COME TO MARSAILLES FOR
: RESTORATION OF HIS CITIZEN
| SHIP. %
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| ORAN, Algeria, December I—(AP)—
, Bennett J. Doty, of Biloxi, Mississippi,
: was released at Sidi Vel Abes, Algeria,
' at 2:30 p. m. this afternoon from ser
!ving the remainder of his enlistmeat
' with the French ¥oreign Legion. -
| Doty, who as Gilbert Clare, served
I part of a sentence in a military prison
, for desertion froin the Legion in Syria
| will be brought khere tonight. He will
will start for Marsailles tomorrow.
Doty wil lbe delivered into the tech
nical custdoy of Elford, Ainericen
consul at Oran. Ai‘though his freedom
from the French military services willl
; be effective at Sidi Vel Abbes, he will ‘
| not be completely reinstated in civil
iian life until Lie reaches Marsaillcsi
- Monday. |
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OPPOSITION TO |
WET CANDIDATES
THIRTY-ONE TVEMPERANCE AND
PFFORM ORGANIZATIONS MAKE
DECLARATIONS IN CONFER
ENCE. ;
WASHINGTON, December 2—{AP)—
A policy of oppoesitiion to any presi
dential candidate not committed to the
eighteenth amendment was adopted by
the national legiclative conference, rep
resenting thirty one temperan~c and |
reform organizations of the cournitry.
The policies should also demand that
positive decalaration in party plat
form of both dsmocratic and repub
lican parties, as to their standing on
prohibition must pe.made, was adopt
ed at the past two day meeting of the
temperance forces here. i
FORT WORTH CHOSEN
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., December 2
(AP) Fort Worth Texas, was chosch
as {-ei convention city for the 1928
meeting of the association of colleges
and secondary schools of the southeru
states at the closing session ot the
;’ meeting here today.
WAXNT ADS CASH |
You may phone your want ads‘
but please remember they are cashi
ir advance. Come in and pay for|
them first time you are down town.‘
/A collecting force trying to find
ou and going back on promises is
pxpensive. \
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CORDELE, GEORGI: , FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1927
Nurse For Late Multi-Millionaite Sues For $lOO,OOO
E.W.GRAVES BADLY
CHARGES SHE WAS SHALOWED
B YDETECTIVES WHILE NUR
SING LATE E. W. GRAVES.
ASHEVILLE, N. C., December 2—
(AP)—Miss Rubie Dellinger, a trained
nurse of Warren county, Virgiitia, 0~
day filed suit 1 Buncombe supericr
court for $lOO,OOO against E. W. Grove
Jr., of St. Louis, alleging that he had
“mortified, humiloated, and brutally
mistreated” her while she was nursing
the late E. W. grove, Asheville mul
ti-millionaire, during his last illness.
j She charges tnat young Grove cir
‘and that she was shadewed by de
)culated “false and defamatory” state
\tectives employed by E. W. Grove Jr.,
while she was nursing his father
' " FOR SOUTHWEST
24 BELOW ZERO IN COLDEST OF
COLD NORTHERN AREA UNDER
SPELL.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 2—(AP) — A
chilly north wind today brought the
lowest temperature of the season in
middle west. The mercury in Kansas
lCity went down to 15 degrees above
zero this morning with prospect of
rising in the thirties tomorrow whiie
the cold moved south and east.
Fair and colder weather tonight and
tomorrow was predicted for the south
west with frost. extending nearer to
the Gulf coast in Texas and to the
southern part of Louisiana.”
‘ Cold Checks Flood
COLUMBUS, O, Dec. 2—(AP)—Cold
weather has forestalled threats of a
flood menace in 'OChio and no serious
damage is expected by weather bu
reau observers, although many streams
an drivers have reached flood crests.
While additional reains were predict
ed tonight and swell already of high
‘'waters predicted, cold weather wos ex
pected to offset this. Lk 6L
’ 14 Below Zero
ST, PAUL, Dec. 2—(AP)— Another
day of sub-zero temperature grasped
‘the northwest today, Hibbin, Minn,
having the honor of reporting the
minimum in the United States—2s be
low.
Canada was considerably colder
however, Prince Albert, Sask, report
ing 24 below. The Pas, and Minneco
sa, Manitoba, 32 below and Winnipeg
20 below. It was 12 below in the
Twin Cities.
| ROSSVILLE YOUTH
| IS, KILLED ON
HUNT
CHATTANOOGA, Ten., December 2
—(AP)—A hunting party in which
several small boys participated yester
day afternoon resulted in a tragedy
when Jacob Earl Davis, of Rossville,
Ga., was killed by a discharge irom a
gun in the hands of Clarence Fe2ins,
21. The gun was accidentally discharg
ed.
OFFER TO ATID HUNT
FOR NEGRO LYNCHERS
FRANKFORT, Ky., December 2-—
(AP)—GCovernor W, J. Fields today re
ceived a telegram from Governor liar
yry F. Byrd, of Virginia in which he
offered his cooperation in bringing fto
justice the person who stormed the
Whitesburg, Ky, jail Friday night,
taking from it Leonard Woods, negro
who was later lynched at Jenkins, Kv.
Woods was said to have killed a white
man,
Can And Will Spirit of
Pep-timism Unbeatable in
Dispatch Gift Campaign
CAPTAIN HELD FOR $lOO,OOO RAN
SOM; NUMBERS OF CREW KILL
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HONG KONG, -[-)%cember 2—(AP)—
The British steamship, Sicngiar,
wohse home port is Shanghai, was
attacked by bandits near Ichang on
the Ichang o nthe Yangtse river, says
advices received here from Hankow.
Some of the crew were killed.
Captain Lalor of the Siangton i
being held for $lOO,OOO ransom, the
advices stated:
Gunboats fo Rescue
LONDON, December 2—(AP)—Two
British gun boats are proceeding to tlic
sceie of the attack of the British
steamer, Siangtan, leported from Icang
The British admiralty was informed
today that the attac ktook placc six
teen from Ichang wheer tne steamer
anchored, s
DECLARES DODGE OUGHT TO BE
DEAD ALSO WITH REMUS' WITE
CINCINNATI Ohio, Decembe:r 2—
(AP)—A crowded court room, women
about equalling men, resounded with
louf guffaws today when a witness
in George Remus’ murder trial asser:-
ed Franklin L. Dodge Jr., should be
dead with Imogene Holmes k2mus,
killed by her hushand in Eden Park
last Octcher 6. |,
At the high point of the mroning
session devoted to cross examination
of two defense witnesses, John Berger
of Los Angeles, California, and John
T. Rogers, of St. Louis Post Dispatch
reporter.
Stead’s
DRUG STORE
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compounded
by a
pharmacist.
. Prices
~ reasonable,
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'WORK UNTIL LAST
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MINUTE OF PERIOD
IFEW REMAINING HOURS OFFER
LAST CHANCE TO HELP WITH
HIGHEST VOTES.
Pep-ti-mism—which is optimism put
into practice, i® a factor that wiil car
ry the winners in the Dispatch Cam
paign to hig success. The candidates
‘who, not merely believing that they
can win one of the three automob!les,
'back up that nelief with hard work
will be the ones in this campaign,, as
‘in everything else in which they ‘en
gage, to reap the deserved rewards.
Pessimism is a disease that reacts
to the unhappiness of the one af
]flicted. Optimism is the doctrine that
everything is for the best, but Pep
timism is the intelligent use of our
brains to insure leaving nothing un
done to hring our optimism to a suc
cessful end.
At nine o'clock tomorrow night the
first lap of the campaign® is closed
Yand it will be the pep-timist who will
l be in a leading place when the stand
iings are next announced on the fol
{ lowing Monday.
; There are only a few hours remnain
ing to make goud on the promise of
1 subscriptions to the candidates. Do not
| delay longer, but get that subscripzion
{to the candidate or to the Dispateh
office hefore 9:00 p. m. Saturday. Can
didates should overlook no possibili
ties, cash every promise for they a-e
sure to be needed.
| The most fatal mistake any candi
date can make is to underestimate an
opponent. Get &li you can before
Saturday for its easier to stay alirad
after reaching the top than it is to
[ climb there. Work until the last min
ute tomorrow night for every subscrip
ttirm means extra votes on the firsy
period offer.
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READING COURSE
I, i 1 A
JOINED AT LIBRARY
CREATIVE READING PROGRAM
HAS HNELPED STIR LOCAL IN
| TEREST IN BOOKS
! The course offered by the public
f]ibrary in current literature, known as
;t.he creative reading course, has en
rolled a number of appreciative read
‘ers. This course presents each month
:two outstanding contributions to mod
tern literature—one hook of fiction and
|one book of non-fiction. These books
;':tre analysed and discussed by the
;f’ox“(-mr»s‘.t ceritics and professors of
{ America. and the hooks discussed may
'he obtained for reading and study at
|the library.
| Each novel is selected and discuss
!rd as representing a particular type
'of novel as, Marching On by James
Boyd; the historical novel; The Old
Countess by Ann Douglas Sedgwick;
the novel of manners; Dear Old Tem
pleton by Alice Brown; character
'types in fiction; Death Comes for the
‘/\r(-hbis.hop by Willa Cather; the novel
!with a purpose; Meanwhite by H. C.
Wells; the socialogica! novel. Among
the non-fiction books analyzed in the
L enurse are, Napoleon by Emil Ludwig;
What can a man believe by Bruce
| Barton; the Golden Complex by Lee
'Wilson Dodd; Shakespeare hy Clara
;r,()mr'mrth de Chambrun; The Road
[to the Temple by Susan Glaspell.
i The entire course is both interest
ing and worthwhile, and may be had
,at the public library.
PRESIDENT OF AFRICA IS MADE
GREAT HERO AS HE SHIPS FOR
DEPORTATION.
NEW ORLEANS, La., December 1—
(AP)—Five hundred negroes stood in
the pouring rain today and shecuted:
“God save our piesident” as Marcus
Garvey, self styled “president of Afri
ca” boarded the steamer, Saramacca,
which a short time later left «for Co
logne.
~ The negro, whise sentence reently
was commuted after he had served
more tha ntwo yras in th Atlanta
Federal penitentiary on a technical
charge of using the mails to defraud,
will be taken to Jamacia from Coiogne
'He had been ordered deported by the
federal government. '
j Perched ona cannon on the prowuen
ade deck ofthe steamer, Garvey ie
livered his valedictory to his adherents
pledging that he would carry on his
work “or negro freedom” all cver the
world, and declared he had been “try
ing to get lands to colonize in Afiica.”
LOCAL SHOW ROOMS AND REPAIR
AND SERVICE STATION DECO
RATED FOR OPEN HOUSE ALL
DAY ¢
The sales rooms and service sta
tion of Strickland Motor Company,
one of the most un-to-date Ford
stations in Georgia, regardless of the
size of the city, were all decorated
and wearnig new coats of paint this
morning when the hour arrived for
receiving guests who wanted to see
' the new Ford cars.
' The crowds came and went all day
and several thousand people saw the
!:-piendidly arrayed line of colored
paintings of the six Ford designed.
They were demonstrated and explain
ed by the local force, including J. L.
Strickland, president of the local or
ganization. The whole force was ob
lm_;mu; and courteous and every person
coming, ladies included, got a fine de
‘tailed explanation of the wonderful
‘line of new cars.
Foreman M. F. Davis in charge of
the large and excellently equipped ser
vice station, had his force assigned
to daties which made this depart
ment likewise an interesting show for
the visitors. New and modern equip
%mcnt of vast importance to the auto
mobile trade is installed and avail
‘able in all repair work in this station.
; The Strickland Motor Company will
display the new Ford cars at their
1 show rooms Monday and Tuesday, De
cember 12 and 11. Orders for new
cars are heing taken now.
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SENATOR FLETCHER’S
| WIFE IS INJURED
. ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 2— (AP) -
Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher, wife of
Florida's senior United States sena
tor, suffered a broken leg when she
foll at her winter home here today.
At the hospital where she was taken,
aide-de-camp said she had suffered
no other injuries but that the frac
ture of her leg was serious.
The best man in a controversy is
the one who does the most listening,
Tomorrow Is Your
Last Chance To
Help With
High Votes
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FIREMEN BATTLE
| .
~ FIRE AT LEE STORE
'LOSS OF $lOO,OOO 1S RECORDED IN
i BREIF PERIOD OF HOUR’S TIME,
' MACON, Ga, lecember 2—(AP)— .
Fire that broke out this morning at i
7:30 o'clock on the second floor ‘at |/
Lee's Department Store in the Cherry
street business district did damage es
timated at $lOO,OOO before the fire de-.
partment got the blaze under control.
Origin of the fire is not kknown. Part
of the loss is covered by insurance. '
The fire started on the second floor .
in the office department of the Lee!
store and had been burning for some |
time before the flames burst through
the front window. For more than |
lone hour twelve streams of water
Iplayed into the building, a two story’
|etructure, but on account of the fire.
| having gained such a headway, it
‘isnread to the X-V clothing store next
- door. 3
i The stock of merchandise in this:
{store was badly damaged by water;
Iwhich poured through holes cut on’
lton of the building by firemen in or-’
{der to get a stream of water on the
linterior. S 0
INTERNES STRIKE
l FOR SUSPENDED =
! DOCTOR :
DETROIT, Dec. 2—(AP) — Incensed
at abrupt suspension last night of Dr.
Lee Hillman, twenty three intrenes at
the receiving hospital, the city’s only
emergency hospital, today . presented
Dr. Thomas K. Gruber, superintend
ent, when they signed an ultimatum
threatening a walk out if Hillman is
not reinstated by six o'clock tonighf.
Dr. Hillman was syspended on com
plaint of a woman with whom he had
disagreed as to how long her hus
wand should remain in the hospital.
INSULL WILL TELL
CAMPAIGN GIFTS
CHICAGO, December 2 (AP) The
| Chicago Tribune said today tha” Sam
luel Insull, 'public utilities magnate,
and Daniel Schuyler, his altorney.
I have offered to tell to the senatz com
l mittee the names of all candidates to
zwhom campaign contributions = ‘were
{ made by Mr. Insull in the 1926 ' ri
| maries, by associates of Mr. Insull ve
' fused to confirm nr deny the s‘ory.
The Tang
®
of Winter
! Winter is in the
l air. The nip of
morning frost in
vigorates. As you
store up energy
for the efforts of
the coming year, '
so store your fi
nancial sinews,
letting them work
for you in the
meantime, draw
ing interest in this
bank.
Cordele
Banki
anking Co.
CORDELE, GA. |
NUMBER 15