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\ MEMBERS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOL. 3.
HOUSTON ASSN.
GOES FAR QVER
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-1 BAPTIST QUOTA
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CORDELE CHURCH MORE THAN
TWENTY THOUSAND AHEAD
GREATEST DAY IN HISTORY
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Sunday was the grémtest day in
Baptist history o far as the great
army of workers in this community
“have knowrw. The Cordele Baptist
church went over twenty thousand
dollars over the local quota of sixty
thousand dollars in the Seventy Five
Million Dollar (fampaign. Rev Wal
lace Wear pastor of the local church
and also moderator of the Houston
Bapit'st Association, church director
for the campaign, Mr. W. L. Robuck,
church organizer and Mrs. U. V.
Whipple, W. M. U. organizer for the
zna,r campaign are more than happy
today at the unusually fine results of
the day’s effort yesterday llll'Ol’lKh
(r’z the association, and especially in
Cordele.
The resu't~ as reported this morn
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CONGRESS RETURNS
.~ FOR NEW S"SSION
YWeashington, --])m".“'l —The Sixty
. avh Congress met today in the first
"o.gular session which is expected to
'.” rontinue until the next fall elections.
_TThere was a large attendance of both
fouses. ‘
In accordance with the agreement
of the leaders, the usaul f()rnmlit_\'%
of appointing a committee to notify
the President that congress was in}
sesson, was dispensed with l)m-uusul
of the President’s illness and a f:)r-g
mal notification wag drafted and dis
patched instead. : i
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THE CORDELE DISPATCH
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~ GREAT STRIKE
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THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND EM
| PLOYEES OUT
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FALL RIVER IS IDLE NOW
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New Bedford Emplcyees
E Are Waiting on Further
| Negotiations.
! Fall River, Mass., Dec. I.—Virtual
ly all the textile mills here, employ
ing 38,000 operatives, are tied up to
day by a strike for a twenty-five per
cent increase in wages.
At New Bedford the the textile
workers are reported o have re
mained at work pending further ne
gotiationg with the cotton manufac
turers.
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DUDLEY FOUCHE
CORDELE BOY FIRST ON TECH
TEAM
Cordele friends of Dudley Fouche
who is a student af Tech will be in
terested to know that he came first
iin the cross county run which was
held Thursday morning.
Tha purpose of the race was to
pick a team that could bhe sent to
Birmingham to represent Tech in th(-?
big inter-collegiate cross country that
i gaing to beheld in that vity Dec
ember 6 in this race there will be five
men from each school or club that is
represented, and from the showing
the Tech men made Thursday they
will gfve the others entered a hard
fight. Teams will he entered in this;
run from Emery, Auburn, Atlanta A.
C., Biringham, A. €. Tech and many
other schools. ‘
The five men that wlhll rupl'csomi
Tech crossed the wire in the order
named, Fouche, MeClesky, l)avm:i
Nelms and Harrison, Fouche mmu“
in second place in the ¢ross country
last year and since the winner of last ‘
year's run lis not in school, he stop-|
ped up and copped first honors :l)is‘i
year, McClesky did some nice run-|
ning in this race, closely followed h,vl!
Daves, a freshman, who has come to |
Tech with some record as a track |
man. In the race there were c~ntt-r¢;d;
about twenty-five men and from the
heginning of the run it was hm'df
fought. ,
This was not the regular cross%
country that is held at Tech evoryf
year, but one that was held simply!
to select a team to send to ]lirming-é
ham. The regular one will be held in;
the spring, with the pumber on nn-§
tries around five or six hunrded. :
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ARRESTS STARTED
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- NEWBERRY CASE
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Grand Rapids, Dec. I.—William |
Rice, printer, one of those indicted |
in connection with the campaign ot‘!
Senator Newberry, pleaded guilty t,a)fi
a charge of conspiracy in I'<3derali
court today. he was released on §l,OOO l
bond. ‘
Grand Rapids, Dec. I.—The first ar-i
rests by federal officers of some ux'z
the 133 men named with United States i
Senator Truman Newberry in the in-l
dictments returned Saturday in
charges growing out of the im'u;sxi,',;u'{
tion of the Newbherry campaign lu.kzl
vear, are expected today. |
it was said that an atttempt would
lhn made to commence arraigning the
| defendants before Fedral Judge Ses
‘isiuns here next Monday.
CORPELE, GEORGIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1919,
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GEORGIA GOES
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OVER BAPTIST
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CAMPAIGN QUOTA
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EREPORTS IN ATLANTA SHOW
‘ WONDERFUL GIVING
SOUTH GEORGIA STRONG
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EBoll Weevil Section Meets
~ Obligations in Splendid
- Manner '
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i Atlanta Dec I.—iA congestion of!
wireg made complete reports on tie
Baptist 75 million campaign <or i
!ffl‘.“l day of the drive impossible early
;Loday. The headquarters office in At
}hllll:l was open all night Sunday and
iul 10 o’clock Mpnday morning the re
i‘norts were still pouring in with a
number of associations unreported.
Indications that Ceorgia is now
cver the top are strofig. The total
subscriptions at ten o'clock this morn
ing are hetween five and six millions
with many t.oiegrums and long dis
tance reports not tabulated. Geor
gia’s quota is seven m_ld a half millions
The reports are showing a tremen
dous response from every part of
Georgia. The country churches in the
boll weevil sections of Georgia are
sweeping far beyond quotas and pil
ing up good margins. The big city
churches of Atlanta, Macon, and
Columbus are leading with the biggest
subscriptions in the state. Many
sther larger churches are making ex
cellent records.
~e&f'he Moultrie church reported $136,-
000 last night; The Cordele church
more than, $80,000; The Dublin
church more than $80,000; the Griffin
church more than $91,000; and the
LaGrange church more than $83,000.
Capitol Avenue church Atlanta, ’]‘fllt,':
nall Square in Macon, Second an(lf
Weoodlawn in Augusta, Tabernacle in'
Macon, Kirkwood in Atlanta, and (‘g)i-;
tol view in Atlanta were* mukiug:
great records. They had far vxwmd-i
ed quoias and were gtill going. Hun- |
dreds of other churches were i‘ar!
above their quotas and reports guvgé
evidence that Georgia was over the |
top if all the reports could be made
at once. : !
The weakest points in the state
seemed to be Savannah, Augusta and:
Rome with the following LlSSO(‘iflti()nF-?
reporting Mell, Pulaska, Turner, N(iwé
Sunbury, Friendship Georgia ’l‘a!tnallg
KKmanuel, Pine Mountain N()(Hldflyv’
Catoosa Cohsa, Floyd county, Gordon
county, Middle Cherokee, North Geor
gia, Bowen Campbell. Taylor Con
solation, Telfair Mt Vernon l')aniol.{
Sarepta, and Mulberry. i
nf(losggmx)’}‘m?j qB t ,Ja2aFAetDb |
“We are delighted with the show
ing and I am confident that when all
the reports are in we will be far over
the top in Georgia,” stated Dr. (. Cree
state director this morning.
TEN PER CENT INCREASE %
WAGES PACKING EMPLOYES %
B {
Chicago, Dec. I.—Unskilled laborers |
~mployed in the stock yards of pu(-k-!
ing firms in Chicago, Kansas, City,|
St. Louis, Denver, Omaha and mhr-rl
western cities were granted about a|
ten perceni wage increase by nw;ml!
today of Federal Judge A. L. Schuler, |
arbitrator. !
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NEW YORK COTTON l
Open Close |
ganhary .. . 3690 36.35 {
Marer ... - . 3400 24.28 ’
... . 3% 2240 |
iy . ...__3olo 31.29
Decembiny ... ... . 3800 28.50 ‘
! LOCAL. MARKET
l(;()()l) MIDDLING CLOSED _.___38.50
iMEXICO MADE
EFFORT TO TRAP
AGENT JENKHNS]
NO ULTIMATUM 1S SENT
Note Says Demand For Re
lease Is Founded on Jus
tice and Right
. Washington, Dec. l—Reuewing ity
request for the release ol Consular
Agent Jenkins, the latest American
note to Mexico, made public today,
arraigns the Mexican ".B.‘A)\"é‘l'lll\h‘l‘.g 's
conduct in severe terms, and charac
(l‘l'iZ(‘.\l'» it as an attempt to ensnare
Jenkins ir the intricacies of logal pro
ceedings.
No ultimatum was served and
there is no indication of what wil] he
the American Gevernmentfs course
if Jenkins is not immediately released
Jenkins Reported Released
El Paso, Dec. I.—An unveified re
port was current here today that Jen-
Kins had been liberated from jail ut
Puebla, Mexico.
What Note Says
Wiashingion, Dec. I.—The Ameri
c¢an note to Mexico in the Jenkins case
beging by saying the United States
has declined to be drawn in to a jud
icial discussion of ‘Sirrelevant and
unimportant matters.” It sayvs the
request for the consular agent's re
lease ig founded on “right and justice’
The note says the United States is
“constrained t othe ()1)j:iion" that the
(‘ari‘?mza arguments th:t the 1::1;6 is
being investigated and that Jenkins
has not taken the opportunity to be
released on bail are “mere excuses.”
It says that the government does
not admit that it ig necessary to keep
Jenkins in jail while the case is being
investigated. The Government fails
to discern that “the intricacies of the
Mexican penal law” have been applied
to Jenkins, It is for Mexico to show
catoe for the detention and not for
For Christmas Gifts
Fine ~
Assortment
Toilet Waters, Per
fume, Manicure sets (-
gars and Tobacco In
Christmas Packages,
Elmer’s Fine Candies
STEAD'S
WHIPPLE & McKENZIE BLDG
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SCHOOLS CLOSE
FOR WANT COAL
| WESTERN CITIES
INERS REMAINING IDLE
fNo Indicaticn of Early Set
| tlement of Strike in Cen
!
. tral Fields.
Chicago, Dee. L—Further stringent
reguliations ror the conservation of the
coal supplies, made necessary by the
strike of the coal miners, were in ef
fect today over virtually the entire
| country.
l Regional tuel comuniitteeg took
;<-llzlrge,' of the stocks of coal in many
!smtns and nonessential industries
| continued to close down, while the
I)murs for heating stores and offices
and theatres were curtailed.
In Kansas City, Omaha and Lincoln,
all common schools were closed today,
and officials in many other cities dis;
cussed the advisability of closing the
schools until the fuel shortage was
over.
i Reports from the large coal fields
[in Ilinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsyl
vania gave no assurance of the union
miners intending to accept the four
ltoen percent increase in wages includ
ed in the offer of the Federal Fuel Ad
ministration.
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~ WARMLY GREETED
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! Rome, Dec. I.—-When King Vietor
I}Cmmamml ertered Parliament today
;(0 deliver his speech from the throne
filw was received with loud cheers. The
' Premier requested the audience m;
be seated, whereupon the extreme so- \
i('iulis(s shouted “Viva Socialism” and
Ilul‘t the chamber, l
|SOCIALISTS LEAVE CHAMBER‘
WEHN KING ENTERS |
The King and Queen were given an
enthusiastic reception while proceed
ing from the Quirinal to purli:uu(eml
building today to participate in the |
’opnning of Parliament '
I Bells were rung, salutes were l‘nwl.l
i.’md houses along the streets were
:dwuruuwl. The King in a speech suidl
illll‘ confidence and sympathy of the
gnati«‘m were indispensable to the Par
| liament. [taly, he said, after her
luruut viu%}ry, must direct all her ef
forts to the works of peace.
:lhu United States to show cause l‘m‘l
hisliberation,” says the note. It suyh’!
the only conclusion this Government :
can darw is that Mexico has made :1:
!“sludiml effort” to ensnare Jenking in |
ilc-g::l intricacies and divert the :mun-‘
!11!)11 of the American and vairan[
i]mopl(- both from the fact that the!
lm-«-rm(l largest city in Mexico is uvvl'-{
(run by bandits and that the )h-xiv;m’
i:m!hnritiv:: have been negligent. !
| “It appears,” says the note, “to |
' have been the purpose of the Mexican |
!guvvmnwm to assume a wilful indif-g
éfvnsnm- to the feelings of the Anwri-:
Ivun people that has been aroused m';
| the point of indignation by the expos ‘
furu, hardships and physical sul’l’uringsi
éox' Jenkins during his abduction and
'subm-quvm treatment at the hands of
yth" Mexican authorities.”
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SWITCEMEN CALL
. QFF BIG STRIKE
{ Kansas City, Dec. I.—The strike of
| railway switchmen here which wa
!‘vmn. Saturday, was called off by
i'hw strikers today after a vote at a
! mass meeting of strikers which lasted
lim cthe morning.
SEVENTEEN MEN
GATHER AGAIN
~ IN CONFERENCE
LABOR IS MDISSATISFIED?
'Claim Every Other Interest
' Represented But Labor---
| Body Meets Today
" Washingion, Ilec. I.— Seventeen
!mc-u. widely known in business and
‘puhliv lite, representing no particu
jlm' group as such, but acting for the
ipvnph- as a whole, assembled here
| today to coufer on the indnstrial sit
! uation.
! The conference marks the second
e ort of President Wilson to devise
a menas of settling chaotie conditions.
The opening session ig set for 2:29
| this afternoon,
| Organized labor has expressed dis
lszllisl‘uvlimr with the personnel of lhv‘
conference because of the fact that no
!luhm- men are nawmed, although lh(-y%
claimed every other interest was rep
' resented. :
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HURRICANE CUTS
- DOWN INDUSTRY
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ILAKE MICHIGAN PLANTS BADLYI
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i Detroit, Dec. I.—Scores of indus
)v_riul pfants here and in othér cities
of the staet are temporarily closed or
,'hvir production curtailed because of
!:hv hurricane which swept across thoi
:snuth«-rn end of Lake Michigan lult-|
| Saturday.
) Miles of electric power wires wvre‘
“u\'vll‘(l, stacks of power plants were
j!ur-l down and other serious damage
'was dore by the wind.
The demoralied interurban electric
railway system in the gouthern por
tion of the state wil Inot be returned
to normal in several days, it was re
ported.
Farly reports from Lake Erie, Hu
ron, an dMichigan points failed to
how any material marine logses.
Lake Superior ig said to have heen
out of the path of the strom.
STRIKER IS SHOT '
CLASH BETWEEN STEEL MILLé
WORKERS FATAL i
Wheeling, W. Va., Dec. I.— ()xwl
striker was shot t odeath and another
ceriously injured in a clash hutwmen‘
triking steel workers and the shoriffsi
forces at Benwood this morning, ac-|
cording to a report to the police hurv.i
WILL MAKE TREATY |
WITH NEW HUNGARY
Paris, Dee. I.—An attempt to mnke‘
the peace treaty with Hungary thro'
the new Hungarian government was
iecided upon by the Supreme Coun
il today.
GREAT ACTIVITY
NOW AT FIUME
Belgrad, Dec. I.—Great activ
ity prevails at Fiume. A des
troyer left there Saturday, pre
sumably for \Seara, according
to the Serbian press bureau.
The merchant Messel Adria
followed with a thousand shock
ships.
AFTERNOON
EDITION
FIVE BILLIONS
NEEDED T 0 RUN
UNCLE SAM 1921
FTle
BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR
1 ¥
lArmy and Navy Get Largest
Share. Interest on War
l Debt Large. ;
i Washington, Dec. I.—Record bfllhn
dollar congresses of ordinary &
Elvimvfi taded into the past today 3
' Secretary Glass presented the 4
\:stimutos of proposed apporpria ¢
i“r practically five billions for conetct
ing the peace time activities of the
government during the tiseal %m
1921. ;
The greatest individual &stinite‘s.:
of course, go to the army and navy.'
The yearly interest on the war debt,
however, is more than a bllllon. and
seventeen million dollars. ¢
All in all, the estimates justify the
predictions made on the floor of cop
gress that the present generatlpqi
would not see the government wnduct?
ed at an expense of less than four bfl
liong yearly. S
FRENCH REQUEST .
AMERICANS TO STAY
Paris, Dec., I.—French repr‘ese‘n.td‘-f
tiveg at the peace conference are un)
ing the Ameriacns to delay their d&,
parture for home until the protocol ig
signed putting into effcct the tréfity
with Germany, it was learned todfly.‘
The feeling in French circles wh'lch
is shared by some of the other dele
gations is that the departure of thé
Americans will be misinterpreted in
Germany as a sort of abandonment
of the conference, although it would
in no wise change the relations of the
United States toward that body. :
YES,
[ still have a few Win
chester Pump Guns in
stock at the old priece.
Better see me at onee
if you want to save a
few dollars on your
gul.
GEQ L. RILES
Phone 483 MzCol'sm Bldg
NO. 5