The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, March 26, 1920, Sunday Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS - VOL. 3. AFTER EFFORT TO REORGANIZE GERMAN CABINET RESIGNS; DESTRUCTION NATION’S INDUSTRIES THREATENED BY REDS “ 4 - — ISSUE STATEMENTS. FROM GREAT HEADQUARTERS GOVERNMENT TROOP WAIT Workers’ Forces Claim Cap ture of Village and 200 Prisoners London, Mar. 26.—Workers forces entrenched along the Lippe river, south and southeast of the city of Wesel, threatened if they failed to caj ture Wesel, to destroy' all factories and mines in western Germany, says a Berlin dispatch to the Exchange Tel»- graph. The Reds have established great headguarters similar to that of the old German army and are issuing of ficial statesments. In last night's communique the Reds claim to cap ture several villages and more than two hundred prisoners quring the day They say government troops in wos' tern Germanyv are not taking any ac tion and are awaiting orders f{rot Berlin. Situation Clearing Berlin, Mar. 26.—Wesel, the be seiged fortress northwest of the Ruhr coal basin still is holding out todav againsst revolutionary workmen,..ae cording to Friehiet: ~The situation in the Ruhr distict graﬂually is clearing, the newspapers says. Government Holds Wesel Buderich, Thursday, Mar. 26.—Gov ernment troops still held Wesel across the Rhine from here at four this af ternoon. The fighting at that hour seemed dying out and although Wesel is under fire from artillery in the hands of the Reds, the troops had suc Call For THE GENUINE &/ % AR % | 5c a ‘Bottl'e TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES CORDELE BOTTLING CO. THE CORDELE DISPATCH i - { L o LUI BdA b - e | ol NO PERMISSION FOR TROOPS | OCCUPATION | | ALLIED OR NEUTRAL ZONE | Allies Reach Agreement as, | to Guarantees to Be De-| manded 3 i | Paris, Mar. 26 —The allies have not i vet given or refused permission for | the German regular troops to enter | either the allied zone of ()(:(wuputionf or the neutral zone established by the f treaty., according to semi-official in-! formation today. | What has been done it is stated is | to‘reach an agreement as to gmn'zm»! tees to he demanded from eGrmany in | the event she desires to engage ini military operations in the zones in] auestions. ‘ SEIZED BY BRAZIL HAS PLEDGE OF SUPPORT FROM ENGLAND. Paris, Mar. 26.—France and Brazil have_begun negotiations relatives to the purchase of some German ships seized during the war by the Brazil ian government, according to Journal, which says England is reported to have pledged her support to France in the exchanges now going on. Some agreement concernnig shipping is nearing a conclusion at London, the Petit Parisien believes. 3 BRSNS ceeded in vepelling all infantry at tacks. ' Food Gnowing Scarce Geneva, Mar. 26.—Towns along the Swiss German frontier are calm but railroad and telegraph conditions are chaotic and food growing search in southern Germany. Many wealthy German families are crossing the hor der to get good mouls. Jack Horkan Not Held On Murder Charge Albany, Ga., March 25.—1 n the case of Jack Horkaan, of Moultrie, charge with the murder in a warrant issued in connection with the killing of Pcliceman M. C. Collins, in this eity, last month, the Doughterty county grand - jury has raturned a no bill, according to announcement made Wednesday. Horkan, however, was indicted for violating the prohibition lJaw, it being charged that he and other members of the party of five that came here from Moultrie at the time Colling was killed, had a gallon’ of moonshine whisky with them. R. S. English was the only member of the party that was indicted by the grand jury *%or murder. His indict ment was made public Wednesday. He hag been in jail here since the day! of the shooting. His trial will probab ly come up about the middle of next' week in Doughery superior court. ! Asbury Newell, another member of the party, was akso indicted fov \‘i('-I lation of the prohibition law. i BROOKLYN SHOE COMPANY SUFFERS BIG FIRE LO>o New York, Mar. 26—The factories of the Adler Shoe Company in Brook lyn was partially destroyed by fire, believed of incendiary origin today. The loss is estimated at a hunded and fifty thousand dollars, Five firemen were overcome by the smoke. ANDERSON, S. C. HAS TE j PER CENT INCREASE Washington, Mar. 26.—Populations " nnnounced today included Andm'son.{ S. C., ten thousand, five hundred and i thirty-five, an increase of nine and one | tenth per cent. E SUPERIOR GERMAN GUNNERY STOOD THE BRITISH ON HEADS AT JUTLAND SURPRISE AT TONE BRITISH PREMIEK Washington, Mar. 26.—Sur prise is expressed by officials here today at the tone of Lloyvd George's speech in the Com mans yesterday regarding ihe refusal of the United States to to accept mandates over torui tories in the near east, GOV. SMITH AFTER . Ay i N. Y. RENTROBBERS AVe Ko i Y RECOMMEDS STATE ASSISTANC® ' IN HOME BUILDING Albany, Mar. 26.—Gove. Smith sen: a message to the legislature today as sailing profiteering landlords and re commending laws providing for the appointment. of local housing boards and a central state housing agency for co-ordinating local efforts and a con stitutional amendment permitting ex tensions of state credit on a larg» scale and low rates to aid in the con struction of moderate priced homes "GOV. HOLCOMB REFUSES | " TO CALL SPECIAL SESSION| l Hartford Ccnn., March 24.—Gov.' Marcus H. Holcomb Republican, in! !;v statement tonight flatly refused lni | call a speciaal session of the Connec-: [ ticut General Assembly to act on the. | federal suffrage amendment. The Re- i ipublican state convention by an al-! ]most unanimous vote in New Haven! { this afternoon called upon the Gov-, lernor to call a special session, so that! L it might be possible for Connecticut | { Lo be ‘the thirty-sixth state to ratify | !the suffrage amendment,. { ; ! WIDEINTERESTIN 1 FARMERS MEETING | ] 10 CRISP PLANTERS HEAR EXPERTS : ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS A good crowd of represenative farmers from all parts of Crisp coun ty attended the farmers meeting at the Court house this morning. Ad-| dresses were made by three experts | fm'm the State College of Agrivul-i ture, and the Horticulturist of the A. B. & A. railroad. County Agent | C. B. Culpepper presided over thoe! meeting which convenced at ten| o'clock. ' The growing and handling of to-| bacco was discussed in detail by E. (‘ Westhrook. He stressed the imp()rt-i ance of having plenty of good strong | plants and in transplanting them | early. He said tobacco should be transplanted by the middle of April. He also stressed the importance of keeping the beds free from grass and weeds, 8 The next speaker, Mr. Paul Tabor, stressed the importance of the Farm Bureau in this county. He poinurd; out how a live Farm Bureau would | enable the County Agents to rem'hz every home in the county. Then be gave a thorough discussion on gruz‘! ing crops for hogs and permenant | pastures for cattle. He said pearl mi]»l let and sorgham planted now, wouldf furnish grazing during the summer | months when grazing is scarce. | Mr. J. W. Firor, of the A. B. & A.| railroad and the Planters Products | (‘ompany, pointed out the value of the | sweet potato as a money crop fm'” South Georgia. He warned against the danger of setting diseased plants. He also talked on storing and marketing. Mr. F. C. Ward, boll weevil expert, gave results obtained from the use of Calcium Arsenate in poisioning the boll weevil in Georgia last year. Mr. Ward stated, that Calcium Arsenate should be used strictly ac cording to the Government rec comendations, in which case inm‘eas-} ed yields from 300 to 500 pounds of lint cotton per acre may be ()htainnd.{ The cost of poisioning will range from $B.OO to $12.00 per acre. ! Gennine interest in all the subjects discussed was manifested during thel the meeting and County Agent ('uL‘ pepper who started and put the meet-| ing over successfully, as well as thoso! who handled the different subjects are hopeful of good results amomz] the farmers of Crisp.. I CORDELE, GEORGIA. RIDAY, MARCH 26, 1920 BRITISHSTOOD ONHEADSBY HUN GUNNERY GERMANS BETIl;R SHOT IN JUTLAND SCRAFP LATE START SAVED U. S Would he ]’:l\_l:_’ Ihdeniniiy Now Had we Gone Agoinst Tiuns at First of Wawe Washington, ' Mar. 26—The Ger mans by sperior gunnery “turned the British cn their heads’ at the battle of Jutland, Rear Admiral Plunkett de clared today befcre the senate com mittee. He did not g’o"\jmn details and no questions were usked him. Plun kett told the committee that the navy was without sufficient men when the war began. “If we had been up against Germany when the war began we would have been paving indonmi'(,\' today and all because we did not have trained men,” he said. - - He declared Secretary Daniels would not let the navy have men. Washington, Mar. 26.—Charges that the navy department took steps to prevent reports reaching the public regarding the shortage of personnel in the navy .before the United States entered the war were made before the senate committee today by Capt. Jo seph K. Taussig, of the naval war col legs at Newport. Teussig said that Daniels in his an- AINY NOW IS THE Look For The Sign The Name SENECA on Photographic Appara tus or Material of any kind is an Absolute Guar antee of Quality. : “There is Something 5 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. PASHT CABINET IN ; TURKEY RESIGNS Constantinople, Mar. 20, The Turkish Cabinet headed by Sali Pasha, formed March 9th has resigned. The Sultan has asked Samad Fredi Pasha. tormer grand Vizier, to form a new government, IF ELECTION LAW TRANGRESSOR IN MICHIGAN. - Detriot, Mar. 26.—The Democratic state central committee will gladly join Gov. Sleeper in the proesecution of any peson connected with the Dem ocratic campaign of nineteen-eighteen who may have transgressed the law, Chairman Thad Preston Informed thegovernor today. The letter of Mr. Preston asserts that sworn state ments of receipts and expeitures by the committee show s total of fifty three thousand awo hundred and eigh ty-four dollars expended for all state and congressional candidates and AMr. Ford's candidacy Besides this there was expended a thousand eight hundred and seventy five dollare by the Fords for senator committee preston added. KIDNAPPED SON | ~ FOUND IN HOTEL "HAD EEEN PRISONER SINCE WED | NESDAY NIGHT. Lexington, Ky., Mar. 26.—Paul Lit the *welve years old son of 15, R. Lit tle, a Lexington capitalist, who has peen held for twenty five thousand dollars r.ms.r‘,m. by kidnappers, was found this morning locked in a rooin of 2 local hotel. The boy said he had ll{x»m a prisoner in the room sinee - Wednesday night. nual report in nineteen-fourteen stated the numerical strength of the navy adequate. Next year he said only an additional ten thouasnd men were needed, while the navy general board in its 1914 report stated that ninetee: thousand six hundred men were need od. The general bhoard, the commande: in chief of the Atlantic Fleet anc many officers of high rank brought the deplorable and unsatisfactory cond: tion of the personnel to the depart ment's attention with emphatic and re peated recommendations that imme diate steps should be taken to remedy ; sonditions, Taussig testified 1 e | J, W. FRANOIS WILL | ADDRESS SA\I,I‘]S.\HG.\'I J. W. Francis left this afternoon t'nr(‘ Savannah where he will address u’ meeting of Southern Cotton oOil C‘om pany salesmen of the Savannah di>| trict tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock It goes without saying that Jin’ will give the boys something to laugl and think about. " ALLEGED INSULT TO WOMAN * CAUSES RAILROAD WALKOUT Roanoke, Va., March 25.—This af i ternoon 303 of the local clerical em ployes of the Norfolk and Western Crailway in Roanoke had walked out becaused of the company's refusal t “dismigs W. T. Divers, non-union time keeper at the West End terminal of fice, charged with making alleged in lsulting remarks to a woman employe. | NEW YORK COTTON | —— j Open Close [ May , 38.25 38.4 f VNI e 30000 35.58 oot . 82.16 32.12 IRO bt ki 51.40 a 1 3¢ 10CAY. MARKKET Good Middling close ... ... ; 38.50 N 3 / LRAY _'.% MAXIMUM OF TWENTY-FIWVE HUNDRED DOLLARS 2% '{ i DEMAND PROMPT ACT.ON Wagld Cost Canada $215.- (00,000 t¢ ‘\gl'('(' to I’]'n]m» sed Bonus Montreai, Mar. 26.—Canadian ex service men want a bonus from the government ranging trom a mininium of one thousand to a maximum of twenty five hundred dollars, accord ing to resolutions adopted last night at the annual convention of the great war veterans association of Canada The resolutions call upon parliament fo immediate action. Secretary-Treasurer Macneill in formed the delegates that the pro posed bonus would cost the govern ment two Lhundred and fifteen million and said the present government had declared itself against an indiscrimi nate cash bonus. °* ENGINEER ELI BOND IN WRECK OF Y“ROYAL PALM” NEAR MACON. Macon, Mar. 26.—Engineer £li Bonud and Fireman A. G. Tidwell, both oi Macon, were killed when their engine of the Royal Palm train of the South ern Railway, turned over near Adam Park, ten miles south of Macon here this morning. Two sleepers were de railed, but none of the passengers were injured. It is believed the engine struck an open ,\'\vilth ” 1 1 i COTTON DESTROVYED IN ; MONTEPUMA BLAZE Montgomery, Ala., Mar. 26 —Fire less approximately resulted at noon from a blaze in the Atlantic Compress Company was three hundred bales of cotton and a thousand bales linters. The origin of the fire is helieved to have been spontancous combustion, The property was insured. Hogs are going down. The compe tition of profiteers was too muchfor them dowen Fa''s v --- Peweo Falls, Ky —Rire last night !(':lh')‘\wl diie large home fot Kentucky ! (mmlr!.«.!'.- \eterans here, entailing a loss cstima‘eq -at $75.000. There was no loss of life or injuries, the 1i...‘. !.Ilh v olrem the Luilding before tie fice gained huch headway, Louis Ville theman and pparatus arrvived heve in time to piovent spread of the blaze to nearvhy resulences. The origin of the fine in urd. & Imined. SUNDAY SINGING AT PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH There will he a song service at the Primitive Baptist Church begining tt 2:30 Sunday P. M. and all those wilo like good songs sung vight o also those who love ty sing are cordiil ly invited to bhe present, Those in charge of this service promise a mos! enjovable afternoon. Several zood leaders from adjoing counties are ex expect to bhe present, SULLET IS FIRED INTO VIRGINIA SUPREME COUR | Richmond, Va.,, March 25-—Search is being made by the police for the person who fired a 32-caliber bullet into the rooms of the Virginia sup reme court of appeals ‘today while the judges of that tribunal were on the bench. (lerk H. Stewart Jones waas among hurt. Glass 'was scattered in all di rections. A hullet was fired into the office of Secretary of the Common wealth B, O. James g day or so ago. SUNDAY EDITION A 1T % Ty BERLIN REPORTS WS Wi TORT & TEART RESIGNATION OF 2 A SLHLR ‘2 bAHER @AEE&ER EFFORTS TOWARD REORGANI ZATION FRUITLESS UNEXPECTED ATTACK FELT Dissension Among Social ists Led by Seheidemann Feature Session, ~ Pairs, Mar. 26.—German cabinet headed by Premier Bauer has resign ed according to 2 messae from Berlit today. Unable to Reorganize . Berlin,' Thursday, Mar. 25.-—lnter party deliberations looking to the re crganization of the German goveru ment have been fruitless up to seven o'clock this evening. Unexpected attacks on the vice pre micr, e Schatfer, and the increased dissention in the wing of the social ist party led by Phillip Scheidemann, featured the day CARPENTIER GI3 ARPENTIER CIVEN ROUSING OVATION UorlV VAI DISPLAYS SPEED AND CLEVER NESS IN FIRST SHOW New York, Mar. 26.—Georges Cai pentier gained o host of friends here early today by his display of speed and cleverness in an informal shirt sleeve sparring exhibition with Maj. Anthony K. Drexel Biddle before a thousand guests at dinner at the In ternational Sporting Club. It was the Frenciman’s first exhis bitien in this country and he was giv en 4 rousing ovation. Mateh et two 2-minute rounds was staged in an in provised ring in the center of “the Hotel Commodore ball room. s" Ao i BEAUTIFUL--SERVICEABLE DURABLE P ,/// ,’ o / )" JiN s . S A @é (‘:P; SRS w ~3)“,_;",) / = : '.b‘v‘l: 1 If f G qﬁ‘# ; \ 5 2/ 'l \ s / A\ w There is no question about the quality of these goods Better Aluminum than Mirro Aluminum iias never heen made, The only trouble is that we can not get enough of these goods to supply the demand. We have just received a par tial shipment of an order placed with the factory more than six months ago. ENOUGH SAID s v - s S————————— PHONE 483 EIGHTH ST. McCollum Building NO. 114.