The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, March 29, 1920, Sunday Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMEMBERS ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. 3. TORNADOES LEAVE 78 DEAD, THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS FRENCH DISCOVER HUN REGULAR ARMY IN RUHR VALLEY TWO POINTS STILL CUT OFF E FRCM WIRE THOUSANDS ~ HOMELESS Property Losses Will Mount Into Hundreds of Thous ands of Dollars. Atlanta, Ga., Mar. 29.— With seventy-eight dead, several hundred injured, and theusands rendered homeless, the list of casual ties is growing out of yester ‘day’s tornadoes in Georgia, Alabama, continued to grow today. Casunalties at . Lagrange were fifty dead and a hnn dred injured; West Point, ten dead, injured unknown; Milner, Ga.. one dead; Ma con; Ga., one dead. number injured:; Agricola. Ala.. vve dead and several injured; Alexander City, Ala., eleven dead. West Point is still cut off from the rest of the world at noon. Atlanta, Mar, 29.—Casualties result ing from the storm which Sunday /*'wept. sections of Georgiag and Ala bama eary today stood at 36 known dead, hundreds injured, several thou sand rendered homeless and the pro perty loss wil lmount into the hund reds of thousands. . West Point and LaGrange are still - cut off from the wires. { Communication during {he morn wm said relief workers from Atlanta were reported to have reached both Call For THE GENUINE J'l " L;:‘;!1 5¢ a Bottle TAKE NO_SUBSTITUTES " CORDELE BOTTLINGV CO. THE. CORDELE DISPATCH | | ORDER WILLDE ! 2. | i | | h ! i i | | | | o | | ‘ ' SOCIALISTS WITHDRAWING ’ FROM COMMUNIST CAMP ¢! ' MANIFESTO 15" ISSUED : i = Government Will Require | - Guarantee of Order A'i'tcr; | i - Mar. 31 from Communists | | [ | ————— { ) Berlin, Mar. 29.—News from tho! Ruhr district,. Rhineland in general, {xand trom Wiestphalia permits the con-! iv(-lusim) that order will be restored in! ' these regions where rebellions forces | lol‘ workmen have been operating, it | +was declared here today. At a meet-| [-ing vesterday at Hagen, Westphalia, | /the three socialist parties decided to swithdraw from Mulheim headquarters! - the seat of rebel control, and, if neces-| i sary, to fight under republican leader lfship against the Mulheim faction. ! Hagen dispatches announced that | similar decisions, it is stated are ex-| ‘ pected from Dortmund, Elberfeld and| . Bremen, whic hwould mean an isola- | ' tion of the Mulheim forces. ) ! ManifeSto Issued | | Berlin, Mar. 29.—Energetic meas-. ures to restore order and protect the ""German people from “illegal acts” (-will be taken by the governmeént |against the communistforces operat !»ing in the Ruhr region, said a mani ¢ festo issued by the government, if i the communist leaders fail by March | 31 to give an adequate guarantee to { Gen. Watter, commander of the gov !emment’s troops in that district. | ‘points. At LaGrange 50 were report-, ed dead, 21 bodies recovered, while. West Point’s death list reached ten. Woman Killed at Milner ‘ Atlanta, Mar. 29.—The last commu nication with West Point, Ga., where' ten were reported dead as g result of vesterday’s storm came this morning in a telephone message to the Red Cross headquarters here from Mayor Smith Lanier stating that the pon toon bridge across the Chattahoochee, | built by an army engineer after the! flood last December had washed away | early todey. No report is received yet! from the Red Cross doctors and nurs-| es sent to that town. | At Milner, Ga., Mrs. William Car-| den was killed when the home was| blown down during the storm. The, Christain church, school and other! buildings were damaged. | Atlanta, Ga.,—With thirty-six known dead and with estimated dead reach ing total of seventy, with hundreds injured and property loss running in to the hundreds of thousands, the worst storm of many years swept over sections of Georgia and Alabama early last night. - LaGrnge, Ga.,, and West Point, Ga., ‘were the hardest hit points, the former place reaching probably fifty killed and twenty-one bodies recovered, while West Point’s death list eached ten. Five are reported dead at Agricola, Ala., 2 miles from Opelika. Hundreds are ‘injured at these points, while property damage is re ported from Macon, Washington nd Warrenton, Ga., and Deatsville, Ala., and other points. i ‘Houses Destroyed. Greatest damage at LaGrange cen tered in what is known as the hill sside mill section, where it is estima ted that 300 small residences were either destroyed or severly damaged. Fire broke out in the wake of the high winds and many of the frame build ings were burned. Help was rushed to the stricken town from the Atlanta chapter of the Red Cross, a train of army motor trucks having reached there at an early hour this morning. Until after midnight it was impossible to dis patch a relief train, as the telegraph wires were down and the whereabouts of train No. 36 on the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, was unknown for many hours. Every hospital in LaGrange was filled with the injured nd the churches and courthouse were transformed into temporary hospitals, likewise filled CORDELE, GEORGIA. MONDAY, MAR. 29, 1920. STORMS SWEEP OVER WESTERN STATES PILING UP 77 DEATHS LAFOLLETTE SEAMENS ACT IS UPHELD Washington, Mar. 28— The supreme court in deciding ap peals brought by the British ship owners today upheld the constitutionality of the provis ions of the LaFolette Seamen's act relating to the payment of wages to seamen upon demand. b CALLS FOR GENERAL STRIKE FOLLOWING CONCESSIONS. ' L s Rio Janeiro, Mar. 29.—The fedéera tion of labor has called off the gener al strike following the promise from the government to release most of the strikers who have been arrested, and permit the reopening of union head quarters which were clcged recertly, l VIRULENT SMALL = | HALF COUNTIES IN MISSISSIPPI " ARE AFFECTED Jackson, Miss., Mar. 29.—Small Pox in some cases of a most virulent type is prevalent in half the counties in Mississippi, Dr. C. M. Shipp, state sanitary inspector, announced tcday before leaving for Jones county, where several deaths have occurred in the past wo ‘weeks. The situation is under control, health ‘borad offi cialg say. “PhouSifAds“of persons are being vaccinated. ENGLISH MINERS VOTE ON FUTURE OF COURSE ' London, Mtr. 29.—Mine workers delegates in conference here today ‘decided upon g ballot of the men to decide whether tp accept the govern ment’s offer of twenty per cent in crease in gross earning or to call a ‘strike. to overflowing. Three hundred army tents are being sent from Atlanta by the military authorities here. West Point. At West Point the damage is re ported to have been confined to the business section of the town, which was practically wiped out. Less than six months ggo this town suffered heavily from floods and was just re covering from losses sustained at that time. A temporary pontoon bridge, thrown across the Chattanooga river at that time, was wept away last night and army engineers left Atlanta last night to replace it. Five white persons and five negroey are known to be dead at West Point. Damage in other Georgia towns is coifined to property loss, which was reported as severe at Macon, where plate glass windows were nearly all destroyed and the roofs torn from sev eral buildings. Word was brought from Agricola, Ala., by train of the loss of life there. but furtehr details are still lacking. Telegraph and telephone communi cation was badly impaired on many lines and details of the f]isaslf*r are, in many cases, meager. { LaGrange Casualties - 1 LaGrange, Mar. 29.—The casualties {from yesterday's storm today are i placed at about fifty dead and a hun jdred to a hundred and five injured. i Approximatey a hundred homes were | destroyed, with a loss estoimated at { half a million dollars. ! The city council at 3 special meet | ing this morning voted one thousand | dollars for the immediate needs of | the sufferers. ! Eleven at Alexander City ' Alexander City, Manr. 29.—Five - white persons and six negroes were killed in the tornado yesterday. Dam ages tp houses and live stock was es timated at a bout thirty thousand dol 31;1|'s in Tallapoosa county. | S e 'HOLY WEEK SERVICES | AT ESPICOPAL CHURCH { Every day except Thursday at ten { thirty a. m. {1 Thursday, Holy Communion, Bp. m. !Good Friday, services gt 11:00 a. m. : 7t | LATE DEATH LIST OF SEVENTY. SEVEN IS SHOWN i SERIES OF TORNADOES! Damage Estimate at Many Millions is Given in Tab ulated Accounts. ; " Chicago, Mar. 29.—Re ports today from the storm swept states of the widdle- Ewmt indicate that seventy seven lost their lives and lmi]linns of dollars worth of damage = were done. Chicago, Mar. 29.—A known death list of sixty-four, hundreds injured, and property damage, estimated ut many millions loomed taﬂ’ay“when the rectoration of wire communication permitted the compilation of accuraic reports from : the . Central westevn states, hit vesterday by a series of of tonadoes. g The most serious rulgors come from the southern Michigan Peninsula and the rural districts of Indiana and Ohio. The Chicago district with 29 dead, was the heaviest sufferer. Thousands throughout the st_{'iﬂmn sections were made homeless. In Elgin millitary law has been declared and soldiers are on guard in many other cties. 20 Dead at Toledo Toledo, Mar. 29.—Casualties in the storm which swept Toledo and this district yesterday and last night were twenty killed and hundreds injured, NOW IS THE Look For The Sign The Name on Photographic Appara 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. STEAD'S WHIPPLE & McKENZIE BLDG PHONE 1 A. M. STEAD, Prop. NEW COAL WAGE AGREEMENT COMING New York, Mar. 29.—A new wage agreement based on the majority report of the Presi dent's coal commission will be signed within a week, it is pre dicted by members of the gen eral scale committee of opera tors and miners who are here today to negotiate a new con tract. ROW STRATS OVER CHARGES OF SETTLING FINE. Columbia, S. C., Mar.29.—Hugh Fan ning, Bryan Salley and Julian Cooper, are dead and John Sally wounded as ilho result of an altercation late Sat ‘iurda,\' nght with Charles Corbett, a frmer near Salley’'s. | Corbett came to Columbia yesterday ~and surrendered at the penitentiary. {'l‘]m trouble resulted from charges by | Corbett that the party had set fire ' to pumice stone belonging to Corbett. | { LURWIG MATENS ] . AGAIN ON STAND BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE IN ﬁ CROOSS EXAMINATION /| Whashington, Mar. 29-—Cross evam ination of Ludwig Martens, Russian /soviet agent in the United States, was resumed today before the senate com mittee with the introduction of pa ‘pers taken from Louis Muller, en route from Moscow to the United States at Riga March 8. Wade Ellis, counsel for the com ' mittee, said the papers were propa -ganda, for revolutions in the United States. Martens told the committee ‘he did not know Muller. as far ag could be learned today with communication impeded by fallen wires. TAX RECEIVER €. 0. PERRY IS MAKING PLANS Tax Receiver (. O. Perry announc es that the Old Fiddlers will be here again Memorial Day with a finer, bet tey program than ever. A number of features wil lmake the program well worth the attention of the people who cnjoy the old time fiddler, £. J. Wright, the quill blower, will he here in fine form for a hair-rais ing program. The program fhis time will consist of playing for the usual prizes and this will insure a splendid event. Those who have kept up with this attraction from year to year will be glad to know of the pleasures which will come with another pro gram by the fiddlers. DORSEY LIST IS | ~ QUT IN CORDELE: PETITION IS HEADED BY JOHN [ W. WALTERS | | There is a Dorsey list in circulation in Cordele, out for the purpose of se curing and forwarding to Hon. C. L.| Sheppard at Fort Valley the names of those voters who wish the Gover nor to enter the preferential primary on April 20. This list will be rapid ly signed and forwarded tonight pos-| sibly in order that it may be used to morrow in the formalities required to get the Governor on the Democra tic primary tocket. ; The list is headed by Mr. John W. Walters, a local insurance man. It was being rapidly filled this after-| . noon and promises to get an abun-| idzmce of names. | | VR | | There is a certain seaweed in tho!‘ ' tropical waters which is said to grow! to a length of six hunderd feet. ’ lADMIRAL GRANT SAYSU.S. ÜBOAT ;‘ APOOR EXCUSE i SMALL AN[)_WITN'AI)EQUATELY : ARMED BEFORE WAR ‘TOOK MUCH PREPARATION iHni(l LS, S—l:l:lul—lillillp Foree l Was Entirely Inadequate To Cope With Germans, Washington, Mar. 29.—The navy's submarine force was entirely inad equate to meet the demands of the war against Germany, Rear Admiral Grant, in command of the Atlantic fleet of submarine forces, testified to day before the senate committee, He said our submersibles were too small an dof widely different types, of small radius of action, an dinad quately armed. “It took nearly two years of pro paganda to get the navy department to realize the importance of building submarines capable of combating the large German U-Boats,” the witness said, : i 00, 5 | ACTING FREIGHT AGENT OF SEA-? BOARD BECOMES TRAVELING ! FREIGHT AGENT R i Acting Freight Agent . M. Brown-' ing of the Seaboard here, has been named traveling freight agent for! the Seaboard in the territory I'mm: Jacksonville south to Tampa. He | will make his headquarters in Tampa. | Mr. Browning for a numbey of yvurs} has been cheif clerk in the {treight| offices here and has been acting | freight agent since Mr. Moses went! to Montgomery. Friends throughout this community expected him to suc-| ceed Mr. Moses but it is now known| that he is getting even i hetter place, than the local freight agency. The| thing most to be regretted is the fu(:t! that he wil Imove to Tampa. | Mr. J. V. Swearingen, it is stated, | will become chief clerk in Mr. Brown-' ing’s old place. This will be a promo | tion for him which friends will np-i preciate, ’ IN VIOLENT BLOW WOMAN IS KILLED BY LIGHTNING OTHERS HAVE CLOSE CALL.. Macon, Ga., Mar. 29.—At least onc person was killed, several injured and heavy property damage was done by a terrible wind, rain and hail storm which struck Macon euarly last night. The damage will each several hun dred thousnd dollars. Many houses were partly unroofed and torrents poured through the open ings damages furnishings. Windows were smashed, poles and trees blown down, cellars flooded, show windows vroken and the contents drenched and other damage done. The wind attained a velocity of six ty miles an hour. Rain poured dow in torrents. Almost solid sheets of hail beat down with the incessant rat. tle of a machine gun volley. Today the streets re littered with debris. Damage done by the stom i cvident in every part of the city. Rev. G. T. Todd, a young Primitive Baptist minister residing at Glenn ville, preached at the local Primitive Baptist church yesterday morning and night. £ NEW YORK COTTON Open Close May . i 28.40 38.47 gy 26.50 85,12 QOL it danl 32.14 DO o s 3120 31.32 LOCAL. MARKET Good Middling close ................39.75 SUNDAY EDITIOR FRENCH DECLARE NO GOOD EX ‘ CUSE FOR MOVEMENT Giermans go Into Rubr Vals ley Without Permissjon, Navs Reports. ; Paris, Mar. 20-—Absolute copfirpmar tion of the entrance of regular Ger man army troops into the Rghy tah ley on the edge of the llied zone of oo cupation without any permission fyem the allies, has been received by the French foreign office. it was ynnons; ced today. ¢ Subject, it was said, would probe bly come before the supreme eouscil at London. The French says they cas find no excuse whatever for the sent: ing of troops into this section. : RICHLAND AGENT COMES TO COR DELE FOR SEABOARD. . @ a—e—— ’ 8 v. John Bowen, who is now fyeight agent for the Seaboard at Richland, will become freight agent for -this line here as soon asg temporary’ amr rangements can be completgd.” The announcement will be madp’ within a short time end Mr. Bowen . will ocme here to assume his new duties. He has heen freight agent for the Seaboard for a number of years im this immediate section. He was 2 long time at Abhbeville and is well known here. He succeeds J. N. Mos eg. Eldey W. H: Crouse of Fitzgerald, was here Saturday on his way to Cul loden for services Sunday. BEAUTIFUL—~SERVICEABLE DURABLE L. T A ] r /4 & v There is no question about the quality of thege goods Better Aluminum than Mirro Aluminum bas never been 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 ovder placed with the factory more than six months ago. ENOUGH SAID Oe L T 8 A IR, .R OO MR RO TSN PHONE 483 EIGHTH ST. McColium Building NO. 116