The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, March 22, 1920, Sunday Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text- MEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. 3. GERMANY WILL URGE TREATY REVISION IN UNITED STATES; PEACE DOCUMENT IS NOW BACK IN HANDS OF PRESIDENT Vj’ILL FLOOD AMERICA WITil 1) PROPAGANDA Millions of Other Pamphlets Being Sent to Strengthen Sentiment Here, --Paris, Mar, 22.—The Germans are preparing a formidable propaganda in favor of a revision of the Versailles treaty and holding a new international conference at which the vanquished qtions might be represented for the object. of . changing.. or. eliminating many clauses of the present treaty.... -.According to a Geneva dispatch, a book entitled “The Greatest crime of Humanity,” has.. been prepared. and ten million copies printed for distri bution.. in. America,. England.. and France....lt is said millions of other phamplets along same are to follow. TANK COMPANIES FOR CAMP BENNING Washington, March 21.—Two tank companies, one cquipped with heavy and one with light tanks, have been ordered from Camp Meade to the in fantry school at Camp Benning, Ga. They are Company A, Threghundred and Forty-fourth Battalion, hl Com pany A, Three Hundred and First E’g alion, tank corps, both of which saw service in France. 1 -addition, the War Department an =rounced today each of the seven or ganized infantry divisjons would have a light tank units can be made ready. ready. Battalon headquarters for both the light and heavy units will also be sent to Camp Benning and later two addi tional companies will he assigned there. The heavy battalion will havée with it several of the new Mark VIII tanks. Miss Wilodene Mclver who has been visiting her parents here will return ¢omorrow to Maryville, Tenn. where she is attending school, and will gra duate in June. Call For THE GENUINE i R} 5¢ a Bottle TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES CORDELE BOTTLING CO. THE CORDELE DISPATCH | BATTLE COMING | | l . [N SPARTACAN | STRONGHOLD 5 | ] i | | B i 'EBERT GOVERNMENT MAKING | - EFFORT TO CONTROL } 'HUHR VALLEY RED CENTER | ; e aow {chorts Say 8,000 (_:im'luzumx | Slain in Latest h’cvoltsl to Date. ; | —_ | By Associated Press. I Not withstanding the return of the | Ebert government, Berlin still pre sents pretty much the appearance oii and armed camp with the food Sup-.| ply short and sanguinary fighting oc- | '(curring at intervals in the suburbs. | In one conflict near the industrial }distri(:ts Sunday night twenty Spar-‘ tacans were killed and 24 others cap- | tured and summarily executed. i In the R}xhr district veritable (-ivil] warfare exists. Leipsic is quiet after {a government victory there. I : Serious in Berlin ' ‘ Berlin Mar %2.—(Sunday Asso.)—| Cenditions in " Germany are desm’ih-i «d by the mministey of defense this morning as extremely serious "_voul - cannot paint the situation throughout Germany too black,” official at the ministry declared after a survey of the night's reports. | Fighting Expected : Stuttgart, Mar. 22.—(Associated) | —Troops from Silesia, are reported yto have arrived in the Huhr district ~and fighting wth the Spartacan army ’lhere s expected tomorrow. Exag gerated rummors of the size of the ' Red forces current here place the number as high as seventy thousands. X..visitedaeliTer bh bm ht h tmhtth 8000 Germanhg Dead Paris Mar. 22.—Eight thousand per- Exons have been killed since the Ger: man revolt broke March - thirteen. ‘according to advice here, Forces Will Armed | Paris Mar. 22.—Spartacaan forces in the Huhr valley number twenty to ;forty thousand, accord'ng to latest ‘advices from the foreign office here. They are well organized, being com {pose(l of old stock troops and ve terans, supplied with field guns, ma "chine guns and mine throwers. ~ The Ebert Government authorities are concentrating troops and plann ing to surround the Huhr valley and force the Spartacan to capitulate. * TThe German officers were sent by the Ebert Government to acquaaint the French authorities with the situa tion in the Huhr valley, the occupa tion of which by German troops is in direct violaton of the peace treaty. Munich Calls Strike. Stuttzart. Mar 22—A general strike has been called in Munich. It is expected that the movement will extend throughout Bavaria unloss'iy is stopped as a result of the negotia tions now in progress to settle the de mands of the workment for pay during the strike against the Kapp regime. Reports from Nuremburg said the | city was quiet sunday following some | disorders the previous night. Further | disorders at Leipsic Sunday were re- ; ported. | POSES FOR PICTURE GIVES FIVE MINUTES TO MOVING PICTURE MEN. Washington, Mar. 22.—President Wilson posed for more than five min utes for moving picture men today as he was leaving the White House grounds for an automobile ride. The pictured showed the President some what thinner than before his iliness. Taking advantage of the first balmy spring day of the year, the President accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Rear Admiral Grayson, motored through the city’s parks and nearhy by Mareland for about two hours. LIQUOR SEIZED AT MIAMI Miami, Fla., Mar. 22.—692 cases of liquor valued at nearly $200,000, ac cording to local prices were seized here during the 24 hours ended at 2:30 a. m_today by federal, county and city officers REPUBLICAN AUTOCRACY IS ' TOLD OF NEW LIBERAL FORCES WILSON SILENT ABOUT TREATY Washington, Mar. 22.—The official copy of the treaty of Versailles which President Wil sol brought from Paris and per sonally delivered to the senate and which was returned to the White House Saturday. is again in the Prezident’s possession. Uo word came from the White House today as - to the Presi dent’s probable course with’ re gard to the treaty, since the senate has refused four times to ratily. BAPTIST WOMENS ¥ MOST INTERESTING DAY'S PRO-{ GRAM AT CHURCH f o | The Missionary Rally, of the Hous-| ton Baptist Asscociation was held this! merning in the Baptist church with! a large crowd of lades in gttendance | The meeting was opened with a song! in whieh all joined,—"“All Hail The | Pewer.” l Prayer by Mrs. C. T. Fox. Devotional by Mrs. Sallee. l , Mrs Coker and Mrs. Gay rendered] ~ beautiful duet. “He Walks ‘With Me.” | Mrs. ‘Sallee, the gifted speaker of the morning again cha¥med the audi-| ence with an gccount of her sixteen years’ work in Central China. Of es- | pecial interest was the story she gave! ci her work with the women in her| mission in, an industrial school which | she started with cnly g few, women.! and which has increased into a- per-| +anéent paving institution which has, been untold benefit to the Chines wo-, wen, She also told many interesting facts about the wayv in which women ! are regarded in China. | Announcement by Mrs. C. T. Fox. | ' A delighttul lunchecn was next! jserved in the dining parlors which' were beautifully decorated with a pro-! fusion of yellow doffodils, jonquils | narcissus and ferns. ! The afternoon session will be giv-! en to interesting addresses by Misses | Powell and Mallory, whose coming has been a matter of wide general in-; terest to Baptists in this community | CUMMINGS LOSES ~ HEAVILY INFIRE a 0 | | " ee— 'BLOCK AND A HALF OF BUILD -1 INGS LOST TODAY. | Cumming, Ga., Mar. 22.—A biock land a half of bulldings, abnut a | square, were -lostroved by five today I square, were destroyed by fire teday | The lgss is estimated at a * andred l:m(l twenty-five thousand dollars SPECIAL ATTENTION i Toall W O. W.and T. O: O, F. to [ meet at W. O. W. Hall Tuesday at 2 !u'(-lm:k prompttly March 23 to take i charge of the burrial of L. J. Collier . All members of the uniform rank es | pecialy urged to meet at same time ' and place. By order of the Counsul Cammander of Cordele Camp 106 ' E. R. OVERBY Clerk. | ; . O. PERRY Noble Grand 3 ATTENTION, ROYAL ARCH MASONS i The "attention of all Roal Aich i Masons is called to the fact that the ! Regular Cenvention will be held To merrow (Tuesday) night in Masonic illull at 7:30 o'clock. Work in the { Mark Master and Past Master De (grees on a class of eight or ten candi !;lah-s. Every Chapter Mascn in Cor idele and vicinity is urged to be pre | sent. | W. B. SAMS, Sect'y. i R. L. BENN, H. P. | COLUMBIA GAINS OVER 1’ FORTY PER CENT CENSUS ? Washington. Mar. 22.—The 57fula ‘rion ¢, . Columbia. S. C., was annoi - | ed today as thirty-seven thousand, five i hundred and twenty-four, an increase .of eleven thousand, two hundred and i five, or fortv-two and six-tenth per | cent. i ' THREE KILLED, EIGHT | INJURED IN EXPLOSION ! Doanoke, Mar. 22.—Three were kill ed and eigth to twelve injured in an explosion in’ the plant of the Griggs Packing company here today. CORDELE, GEORGIA. MONDAY, MAR. 22, 1920 “ { OF REPUBLICAN | A 1 f { SENATOR FRANCE ASSAILS! ABUSES OF LIBERTIES } Effort to Get Better ll(l(‘l‘~! | standing Between Moslem | Christian and Jew. ! { s ! Washington Mar 22Z.—Warning thnt" “republican liberals” might form ga | new political party to fight thel “Deurbon Autocracy” in an effort to| restore individual liberty was souml-‘ ed in the senate today by Senator France of Maryland, ; Wlth the repeal of naticn prohibition| and the Espionage act as the Chief| Plenaks in the tentative plmt‘m'm.‘ France declared the liberals need not hestitate to “raise the battle cr,\'g against all the reacticnary forces of} autocracy and unamerican Burbonism| “He said” The democratic pm't.\'; under autocratic leadership, “has in-) gloriously abrandoned the sound -“""'l trine of Sovereignty of States bhas voted without scruple Hugh Powers to the chief executice, who has in vio lation of the constitution and every| cherished principle of libery, heen created the most powerful despot in! the world” | France charged that the republi cans. had joined wieth “the Bourbon, reactionaries, and cofinived in setting, those principles of autocracy. : WOMAN NAMED MEMBER CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Washington, Mar. 22-—Helen Ham ilton Gardner, author aud lecturer, widow of Col. S. A Gardner, was non inated by President Wilson to be o nember of the Civil Service Commis jon tosuccead Charles M. Galloway, ~ Oolumbia, 8. L, “ousted” last year. NOW IS THE Look Fer The Sign The Name SENECA on Photographic A})ptn'a tus or Material of any kind is an Absolute Guar antee of Quality. “There is Something in the Name” Prices $3.00 to $20.00 Also a complete line of Films and Developing Material just received. WHIPPLE & McKENZIE BLDG PHONE 1 A. M. STEAD, Prop. RAIL RATES UNDER ADVISEMENT BY iCk Washington, Mar, 22.—Hear ing to determine the basis for adjustinent of railroad ratoes, to yield the roads a return oi five and a half per cent on their aggregate value, as provided in the new transportation law. be began today before the inter dqate compmerce comuiission, DEEP BITTERNESS it SENSATION THROUGHOUT IRE LAND DEATH OF MAYOR OF CORK. London, Mar. 22.—Dispatches from Treland show the murder of Thomas Maccurtain, lord Mayor of Cork, to have produced an intense, if subdued, sensation throughout Ireland. This tragedy, says the London Times corresnondent in Dublin, clos ed one of the blackest weeks since the rebellion of nineteen-sixteen. The motive for the murder of thdé Lord Mayor continues a mystery. No arrests have been made. Among the theories advanced is one that Macecurtain was murdered as a wam ing to others because he recently had the courage publicly to deprecate an attempt to murder a policeman m Gork. PROPOSED FOR MEN TO TAKE PLACE OF FIFTY DOL. ¥ it LAR BOND PLAN. Washington, Mar. 22.—The payment of an adjusted compensation to former service men at the rate of a dollar « day was proposed before a nieeting of the executive committee of the American Legion as a substitute for the eriginal proposal of a fifty dollar bond for every month of service. 'ATLANTA FIRE ! i | INJURES FOUR WOOLEN MILLS BLAZE DOES CON i ERABLE DAMAGE, INJURES 4 . Atlanta, Mar. 22.--Three firemen iand two negroe women employees were injured and a loss of a hundred | thousand dollars was caused by fire at the Georgia Woolen Company, ' Shoddy Manutacturers, here today L. J.COLLIERI§ ~ DEAD AT LENOIR i REMAINS COMING HERE TOMOR | ROW FOR BURIAL 7 The remains of L. J.. Collier, 49 vears of age, a brother of Mr. J. N. ' Collier, of Cordele, will reach here to morrow afternoon from - Leuoipy City Tenn where he died Saturday night at eight o'clock ‘suddenly from heart trouble. He was a native of Dooly and is survived by his wife and adopted child. : He was an Odd Fellow and a Wood man and both the local orders will 'join in conducting the funeral ceve mony at the grave tomorrow after ncon after arrvival of the remains. He was a visitor here a year ago. e has been in Tennessee some years e married in Oklahoma and was gsome vears ago in the furniture busi ness here with his brother. He had acquired a comfortable fortune i ihiz same business in Tennessee. 1 His death will cause wide scrrow in ‘ricp and Dooly counties where he hae heen known since hovhood, HON. JESSE MERCER HERY TODAY ON BUSINESS Hon Jesse Mepcer, in charge of pro hibition enforcement in Georgia, wis here today on husiness. He spent only a 4 short time and went out on an early morning train for duties in another pertion of the state. ATTENTION, DEBATERS Those who desire debhating mater ial against universal military train ling should address American Union | Against Militarism. Westroy Bldg.. Washington D. C. . REFERENCE TO BRITISH WAS CASUAL CONVERSATION ‘ it WAS NOT DANIELS ORDERS (i p Sins Savs Benson Was Talk ing on IHis Departure for Ingland. WaskLington Myr. 29.—Rear Admiral Benson, then clfef of naval opera tion, was the official who told Ad miral Sims "not to let the British pull the wool over vour eyes: lhe would as soon fight them as the Ger mans,” Admiral Sims told the senate comimittee today. He said the rvemark was mhde just after he nrecieved final instructions freom secretaary Daniels preparatory to his departure for England on the eve of the eatiy of the United States into the war. He added, however that it was not made in the course of for wal instructions. But during a con versation in the office of Rear Ad miral Falmer, chief of the bureaun of investigation. ‘BONILLAS WILDLY | lP’ 4 ' . GREETED IN MEXICO | | = i AGREES TO BECOME CANDIDATE! | FOR PRESIDENCY OF MEXICO } | — | i Mexico City, Mar. 22 —Thousands ! I thronged the street vesterday, u)l ‘reet’ Yagnacio Donillas, Mexican Am-i 'bassador to the United States, who, Jannounced his willingness to bcc()mo' i'a presidential candidate of the civil-l | ‘an party in the general elections, | July eleven. i " The few slight disoder were quelled| by the mounted police. | ~ The indications are that fight has; narrowed down to Bonillas, Al\'um; Obregon, and Pablo Gonzales. | REVIVAL GOES ON FOR ANOTHER WEEK 3UNDAY BIG DAY IN MEETING AT METHODIST CHURCH Dr. Andrew Sledd left the Metho dist revival last night owing to press ‘ng duties at Emory University and it is under way today, the pastor, itev. T. B. Stanford, having charge. 't will continue through the week. slembers of the church was leanding caluable assistance and on all sides there are strong hopes of great re sults, The following tribute to Dr Sledd wag written by Miss Bell Norwoood. “Those who have heen s taking in the Methodist reveval services part -0 with Dr. Sledd with great reluct ance Sunday night. His is a most efec rive work. He is earnest, efficcient, aravful, and one feels as a lady re narked, he lives as he preaches. The oy of a holy life shines on the coun tonnee of a consecrated person—who con doubt this man lives near to God “One feels the strength of this truly coold speaker. He secems to impart some of his own confidence ti his hearers. “Brother stanford will carry on our neetings. No need to discourse on his raithfulness and sincervety. All the «ood people of Cordele love him. We uray that many may be brought through these deligitful meetings to caving knowledge of Christ.” = LA | 1 OCAL BUSINESS MEN | LOST NOTHING IN FIRE New accounts of the fire in Cuam ning todayv reaching Dr. J. A, Otwell \itorney (. L. Harris, Hurt & Wil anks and others who came heve from Cfamming, revealed the fact that one of the local citizens lost any hing in the wide sweep of the firve Pusness men here hold considerabls 1 interest in Cumming. NEW YORK COTTON * Obun Close l Mav. 40.41 11.70 Mav 37.75 2840 July 34.98 35.78 oOct. i 8240 22.60 Dec o 31.90 o odtmte 1 NCAY. MARKET 00 Middling close .....40.40 SUNDAY EDITION NEW SYRIAN KING BOYCOTTS FOREIGNERS ‘ AIMS AT BRITISH, FRENCH Wilson Arranged as Most Powerful Despot in the S orld by Speaker, Beirut, Mar. 22-—Emir Feisal, the newly elected king of Syria, has de clared a boycott against countries oc: cupving the territory of the Arabs, France and England, and has organiz od a commission for the purpose of bringing the Moslems and Christians into a better understanding. g Posters displaved at Damascus where the Sirian cengress has pro claimed the independence of that country, declared: “In spite of him solf, the Moslem is a brother to the Christian and the Jew., The Arahs existed before Christ, Moses oy Mo+ haimmed, and freedom and indepent ence are the rights of Syra " . ; [Foreigneers have been asked to evacuate the region, including Palés tine. 28 g g { - 3ren”s MUSCLES SHOALS | 4 FOR FERTILIZERS | S | 'BAKER SAYS WOULD BE' PRO i FITABLE ENTERPRISE 3 !i Washington Mar 22.—An aunpal yprofit of two million =+nine hundréd | thousaand, dollars could be.made bf ithe federal government throug opera’ 'tion of the muscle sholads nitratéd | plant for the manufacture of com 'mittee today by Secretary. Baker. = " He adcoated the passage of .a bill Lo organize g twelve and a half mil Nion government corporation to oper- Lite the plant for commercial purpos cs. The only altermatives to the coms ‘mercial use of the seventy two mil licn plant. said the secretary, were its salvage or its vetention and upkeep 'n meet some future emergency. iz BEAUTIFUL—~SERVICEABLE DURABLE . /»-"'?\ A’[ ) € z~§ ( g :..;??Z;i';ff ‘}, K , There is' no question about the quality of these goords Better Aluminum than Mirro Aluminuin bas never heen made. The only trouble is’ that we can not get enough of these soods to supply the demand. We have just received a par tial shipment of an order placed with the factory more than sig months ago. ENOUGH SAID T P Y PSP S (5. ST, PO S TN RGP PHONE 483 EIGHTH ST, McColium Building NO. 110