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VOL. 3.
A SUBSTITUTE RESERVATION FOR ARTICLE TEN IS OFFERED;
50,000 BODIES U. S. SOLDIERS BROUGHT BACK NATIVE LAND
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FOLLOW 81-PARTISAN CONFER
ENCE OUTLINES
Lodge Says Change in Words
But Not in Thought for
Compromise. -
Washington, Mar. 12.—A substitute
for the Republican Article Ten reser
vation was introduced in the Senate
by Senator Lodge. In general it fol
lows the form of the drafts agreed on
in the bipartisan compromise negotia
tions.
When it was offered it was declar
ed among Republicans that almost
enough votes were liend up to ratify
the treaty on that basis, but a final
agreement had not been reached.
-Republican leaders planned to ob
tain the vote late today.
Senator Lodge said he presented the
substitute in the interest of a com
promise, and not because the new
draft represented any substantial
change in the meaning of the reserva
tion.
NEW CASHIER COMES WITH
. ARMOUR PLANT HERE
{Local Manager J. L. Lasseter for
Armour & Company yesterday an
nounced that J. W. McLendon of
Miami, - Fla., is to come here as cas
hier to succeed M. ‘D. H. Tallant,
who goes to Winston Salem, N. C,
to enter employment with the R. J.
Reynolds Tobbacco Company. The
change is to take place at once. j
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ADMIRAL CLAIMS DISREGARD
OF HIS PLANS
—-——
Said Nevy Department Was
Long Time Adopting His
Suggestions.
Washington, Mar. 12—The disre
ward by the navy department of his
recommendations in regard to the
adortion of the convoy system was
described by Admiral Sims dn his tes
timony today as “infinitely more se
rious” in its bearing on the war than
other cases of alleged inefficiency
cited in previous testimony.
He said on March Ist 1917, he “ui
gently recommended” that the United
States cooperate in the convoy plan
of the allies, but it was in July before
the department accepted the convoy
pian for the troop ships and later for
the supply vessels.
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tMOSES OFF SUNDAY,
CHANGE HERE IN SEABOARD
FREIGHT AGENCY OCCURS
J. N. Moses, for a number of years
lone of the most wide awake young
lmen in the employ of the Seaboard
Airline Railrcad, leaves Sunday to
assume charge of the agency for the
Seaboard in Montgomery, Ala. He will
leave the local agency in charge of
Mr. P. M. Browning. In all probabili
)ly Myr. Browning will receive the ap
lpointment as Mr. Moses successor
ihere.
’ Mr. Moses has many f[riends herc.:
"He had been urged last year to nmke“
the race for city council and was be
ing “groomed” for the next muym"w‘
race in Cordele when he got his pro-!
motion. He was a director of the lmvnli
board of trade and closely allied with
many of the live church movementsl
in the Methodist church.
He has a bright future as a railroad
man ahead of him. He is a young man
and his appointmient to the agency at
Montéomery reveals that he is heldl
in highest esteem by the higher of
ficials of the Seaboard. ;
HUNGARY GIVEN
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NEW PEACE TERM
CONFERENCE AGREES UPON.
‘MEASURE AND SENDS TO BE |
: - DRAFTED. 1
: London, Mar. 12.—A new Hungu-l
rian peace treaty has been definitely‘
agreed upon by the peace conference
and placed in the hands of the drafting
committee.
Various economics chages have
been granted. 1
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POPE MAY RESUME
RELATIONS WITH FRANCE
Rome, Mar. 12.—Although the
vatican has denied that any ar
rangements have been made
for the resumption of diplomat
ic relations with France, rumors
are current that some steps in
tliat direction is imminent.
“BROTHER ISAIAH
WORKED ALL NIGHT
CANADIAN BOATMAN MAKES
MANY PEOPLE WHOLE.
New Orleans, Mar. 12.—John Cud
ney, the aged Canadian boatman
"known as the “Brother of Isaiah,” re
tired at six o’clock this morning af
ter working all night in the “treat
ment of persons who braved the rain,
fog and cold to await their turn be
fore the lowly houseboat where by the
“laying on of hands” the boatman is
alleged to have “cured” many ailments
Dr. Dowling, president of the state
board of health, stted today that he
was powerless to take legal action
‘against t_he boatman, because he was
“accpeting no money, prescribing no
medicine, and violating none of the
rules of religious practice.”
ICE GORGE DOES
RIVER DAMAGE
ALLEGHANY -S-V_V—E;T CLEAN BY
’ MASSES
Pittsburgh, Mar. 12.—An icc gorge
twenty feet high, stretching eight
iiles up the river broke loose at Free
port last night and started with a
lush down the Allegheny.
1t ran iuto the County bridge, mov
ing it ten inches out of line, tore a
number of flat boats, large barbes and
house Dboats [rom their moorings,
washing them down river into the
Ohio. pounding them_to splinters.
More damage is expected when the
bulk of ice begins moving (lOWil the
Allegheny.
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HIC PRICE BEEF
U 7 (GNSUMPTION
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EACH PERSONT“NITED STATES
' USED 8 POUNDS LESS.
Washington, The high prices in 1919
reduced the per capita consumption of
bheef in America almost eight pounds
and caused the consumer to turn more
frequently to veal and mutton, accord
ing to a statement today by the depart
ment of Agriculture.
~ Slightly less pork was eaten but the
"total consumtpion of pork products
was much larger than in 1917,
MONEY SAVING, MEAT SAVING
| WEEK PLANNED,
Washington, Mar. 12.—~The week ot
March twenty-second was set by the
Department of Justice today as the
first “save money on meat” week.
The "air Price Commission in many
states have been conferring with the
retail meat dealers as a result of
which cheaper cuts of meat may be
stocked to meet the expected demand.
Mr. and Mrs. R. ]Tfifi}— announce
the arrival of a fine baby boy to be
named Raymond Douglas Jr.
CORDELE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1920.
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iAGREEMENT IS PROBABLE
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" Principal Differences Are on
- Wage Advance and Hours of
Work.
~ Washington, Mar. 12.—An effort to
compose the difference between the
majority and the minority reports of
the bituminous coal strike commission
will be made by President Wilson it
was said today at the White House.
Officials said neither the majority
nor the minority report would ‘be
made public if there was a probability
of bringing the members of the com
mission to an agreement on the
principal differences—the amount of
wage advance and hours of work.
MISSOUR!I TORNADO KILLS THIR
TEEN PEOPLE.
Branson, Mo., Mar. 12.—Floods in
the streams added further menace to
live property in the southwest of Mis
souri where yesterday a tornado Kkill
ed at least thirteen people and injur
ed a number of others, and caused an
unestimated property loss.
Chief concern was felt over the sit
uation at the power site on the White
river, where the water held by the
dom is ninetyv feet high.
NOW IS THE
TIME TO BUY
A CAMERA
Look For The Sign
The Name.
SENECA
on Photographic Appara
tus or Material of any
kind is an Absolute Gnar
antee of Qualiuy.
“There is Something
in the Name”
Prices $3.00 to $20.00
Also a complete line of
Films and Developing
Material just
received.
STEAD’S
WHIPPLE & McKENZIE BLDG
PHONE 1 A. M. STEAD, Prop.
EUFAULA CALLS
FOR EMBALMERS
SR @
Mcentgomery, Mar. 12.—DBe
cause of the extensive preval
ance of influenza at Eufaula,
Ala., both undertakers being
ill, a call was made on Mont
gomery today for embalmers,
1t was reported that the malady
was keeping a large portion of
Eufaula citizenship abed.
FAILURE TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE
SALARIES CAUSE.
Washington, Mar. 12.—The country
is faced with a serious shortage of
school teachers, chiefly through the
failure to provide adequate salaries,
according to reports to the United
States Bureau of Education.
Conditions are slightly better, how
ever, in some sections as compared
with last october.
Reports show for ebruary 13th last
that there were eighteen thousand,
two hundred and seventy-nine schools
closed by lack of teachers, forty one
thousand, nine hundred being taught
by teachers Lcharacterizea as “below
standard but taken on in emergency.”
'FOREIGN BORN ARE RETURNING
TO NATIVE LAND. .
| _New York, Mar. 12.—Prohibition is
‘\vausing so many foreign born people
to leave the United States that emi:
{ration is exceeding immigration, ac
‘cording to Congressman Seigel, mem
per of the house immigration commit
tee.
Ellis Island records today showed
since January st that immigration
totaled fifty-three thousand, while
sixty-one thousand left the country.
Most of the latter have gone back
to Poland and (zecho-Slovakia.
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'MRS. PRESSLEY DEAD
~ LISTONIA HOME
'ESTEEMED MATRON PASSED
AWAY BRIEF ILLNESS
| Mrs. Sarah Almn'l'r(-sslv,\'. wife of
}M’. L. Pressley, prominent furmm-]
(residing at Listonia, died today ut,!
jvh-vvn o'clock after g brief illness. |
;Sho. was forty ‘)‘«-urs of age and h'-r!
Ehusban(l and several children sur-|
| vive her. I
,_5 The i'm‘.m'ul.-.nnl interment will oc
!(:ur tomorrow afternoon at two 0-
"clock at Union church. Mrs I'x'vssh-_vl
%wus a daughter of = the late Willisy
| Johnson and was a woman of strong
!christiun example. She was widely lwl
‘;luvml and her death has caused deep
:surr(nv throughout the entire commu-
I nity.
Vs
_ Mr. G. B. Eunice, tobacco expert for
the A. B. & A. railroad in this section
was here today lending assistance to
the tobacco growers in this scction,
He will probably spend several days
in this community assisting in getting
@ proper start for the year.
Mrs. Clyde Winfree is out again
after her recent illness to the delight
of her many friends.
SAYS SERVICE IS HIS GREAT
EST AIM
Deplores Tendency to Charge
Graft and Maladministra
tion to Government.
New York, Mar. 12.—1 n terms of the
advertising manager, Secretary of Ag:
riculture Meredith told the members
of the Merchants Association of New
Yorl§ today of his ambition to increasc
the output of the department’s chief
product—service.
He paid tribute to the employees of
the department and deplored the ten
dency to discuss “waste”, “graft” and
“soft snaps,” because it was poor ad
vertising for the country.
He pictured his department as
serving an invested capital of more
than eighty billions.
FOREIGN TRADE
REPRESENTATIVES OF SEVERAL
STATES IN CONFERENCE.
Greensboro, N. C., Mar. 12.—Manu
facturers, bankers, shippers and for
cign specialists l'l'[)l'l}scntil‘:"(hil‘t}'
cities in the Carolinas, Georgia and
Florida are meeting here today for a
fereign trade conference to devise
plans for the expansion of the trade
of the South Atlantic States through
the ports of Wilmington, Charleston,
Savannah, Brunswick and Jackson
521525 PEOPLE
GAINS FOR TEN YEARS TWENTY
NINE PER CENT.
Washington, Mar. 12.—Population
statistics announced today included
Chattanooga, fifty-seven thousand,
oight hundred and ninety-five, and in
crease of 29.8 per cent.
Macon fifty-two thousand, five hun
dred and twenty-five, an increase of
deven thousand, eight hundred, or
29.2 per cent.
AOME WEDDING POPULAR
COUPLE HERE TODAY
Miss Carrie Mae McKenzie was wed
ded this afternoon at two o’clock to
Mr. B, H. Tallant at the home of the
hride's parents, Dr., and Mrs. J. S..Mc-
Kenzie on ’l“ourleumh avenue, Rev.
‘l'. B. Stanford, pastor of the Methodist
church, performing the ceremony. The
couple left immediately for Arabi
vhere they boarded a south bound
nassenger train for Florida points.
Within a few days they will return
imnd make their home in Winston-Sa
lem, N. C., where Mr. Tallant will be
~ome associated with the R. J. Rey
nolds Tobacco Co., |
The bride is a popular and lovable
voung woman, having been reared in]:
ihe community. She has hosts of “
friends here and throughout this Sd!(‘-j}
tion. The groom has for some twoi
fwo years or more been cashier at the
local plant of Armour and Company
and “has proven himself a valuable
voung busins_-s.s: man. Both bride and
zroom will have the best wishes of a
host of friends in their married life.
AFTERNOON
EDITIOR
SOLDICRDEAD
10 BE BROUGHT
1V DL i
FIFTY THOUSAND WILL BE
GIVEN GRAVES HERE . .
Government Plans to Bring
Large Number Dead. Soldiers
Back Home. i
Washington, Mar. 12.--—-The bod.i«#
of about fifty thousand American dq&_&
will be returned to the United States.
Twenty to twenty-five thousand W'tsi:l
remain permanently interred oversflda
Secretary Baker today informed Chahj
man Wadsworth of the Senate Mili
tary committee. i
DEFENDS FRANCE AGAINSf
WILSON CHARGES =
Lendon, Mar. 12.—President Wil
son’s charges of “imperalism” agai.ést.
France, continued in his letter to Sen
ator Hitchcock early thig weal B‘fl&
moved Ilie Morning Post to taks u.p
the cudgel in favor of France, 4
The paper cites Wilson's presend
criticism and his appea.l to the lhalla_&s
over thie hiead of Premier Orlando last
swmmer as sitowing that ‘“‘uander: the
impulse of loyty ideals, the Auieriean
Prosident is almost as impatient. of
censtiiutional governments of 3ods
ern European democracies as be is
impatient of his own senate.
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