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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
KILLS MAN WHOM
HE STATES BROKE
UP HAPPY HOME
r. E. coLLlNo SHOOTS FIVE
TIMES INTO THE BODY OF
NORTHERN SPlNkS.

Macon, Nov. 19-I've killed the
man who broke UP my home,' ex-
claimed R. e. Collins, standing over
the prcstrat2 form CT Northern
Spinks, after fri. g four shots at
Srinks from an automatic pistol and
as the victim raised his head Collins
fired again,
That is the story in brief Of a shoot
ing which occurred ,a:t night a. 6
o'clock at tie corner of Talfair and
Elm Streets. which resulted in the
death & Northern Spinks, Camp
Wheeler carpenter, at the Macon hos
pital half hour later Collins gave
himself up at police headquarters and
was later = accd in the county jail
Spinks was carried to Macon hes
pital, where it was found that he was
shot through both lungs, through the
base of the skull and through the
neck. How many of the bullets took
effect could not be told as some OF
them probably passed through his
body: When the patrol wagon reach
ed the place Spinks was lying across
the sidewalk in front of the grocery
store of r. E. Sessions, blood flowing
from bullet wound in his mouth and
he was apparently dead.
81 came to Sessions store to buy
some bread" said Mrs. Collins, wife
Of the man who did the shooting
"and / met Mr.. Spinks in front of the
store. did not know Mr.. Collins
was anywhere around, as we have
been separated for over a year. Mr..
Spinks said something to me about
my preparations to move to East
Macon, and j told him l would have
left the baby in the carriage outside
and Mr.. Spinks was out there talk
ing to her when l heard the shots
fired. When l rushed out, Mr. Collins
said: GIVE killed the man who
who broke up my home, and am a
coed. mind to shoot you' I told him
to shoot. About that time Mr.
spinks raised up on his elbow and
Mr. Collins shot at him again, was
all excited. Mr.. Collins then walked
over and kissed the baby-he seem
ed out, of his mind Then he went in
to the store and told Mrs. Sessions
to call up the Sheriff.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
COURT URGES JURY
TO GUST TIGER
B. NJ. WILLIAMS MADE FOREMAN
GRAND JURY AND BODY GOES
TO WORK.

Judge D. A. R. Crum, in his charge
to the grand jury this morning called
special attention to guarding the fl
nances of the county and special care
to the public funds on all SIDES, The
care to be exercised in examining the
accounts and the books of public Off
GERS was also stressed.
The court also bore down hard on
blind tigers and the illegal traffic in
liquor. He urged close investiga-
ton to this class of law breakers.
B. N. Williams was made foreman of
the grand jury and Judge ]. P Hughes
secretary. The body took up it's du-
ties at once and within a rev moments
time committees had been arranged
for the work which is to be done at
this session.
The court will be busy this week
with civil business. A jury was ready
to take up work and a number of YER
diets were reached in minor cases dur
ing the day.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
CAPTAIN AMERICAN FRETGHTER
0UTWITTED SUB CAPTAIN

AN ATLANTIC PORT, Nov 10
Fires kindled on the matches of an
American freighter saved it from
submarine attack, according to off
GERS of the steamer which arrived here
When the submarine was sighted the
captain ordered fires started. When
the submarine commander stopped
him, he told him an explosion had oc-
Cured aboard and that because of
fire he was abandoning the ship. The
submarine quickly departed.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
ELECT COUNCIL
ON TOMORROW
THREE MEMBERS CITY BODY
WILL CHOSEN BY VOTERS
TUESDAY,.

All arrangements have been made
which three members of the city coun-
Gil will be named Tuesday. There are
four candidates. There are the three
present members, John S. Sheppard,
j. Monroe Hunt and NJ Wakefield,
who are asking to be reelected. j. r.
Zachary makes the fourth man. Three
must be named.
A voter will not be permitted to cast
his ballot for one man. He must vote
for three or his ballot will be thrown
out. This is a ruling of the executive
committee. The Australian ballot will
also be used
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
BOARD DISCUSSES DISCOUNT
ACT AT RESERVE MEETING

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-Modifica-
ton of ehdiscount acts was discussed
today at the Federal Reserve Board.
Some officials think the rates should
be raised slightly as a Means of pre-
venting the initiation arising out of pro-
noting sound business, particularly
since the large over payment of eigh-
teen per cent. on the Liberty Loan in
stallments of last week seemed to in
dictate generally that there are easy
money conditions.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
PRESIDENT TlGHTEMS ROPE
ON ALL ALIEN ENEMIES

WASHINGTON Nov. 19.-All alien
enemies are required to register and
obtain permits for travel under a pro-
clamation issued today by President
Wilson.
Enemy aliens are also prohibited
from approaching whiting a hundred
yards of the water fronts, docks, rail
road terminals and storage houses, and
are forbidden to enter the resident dis
trict of Columbia. The proclamation
affects only Germans.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
Triton EXPECTS A CROWD

Tifton,, Nov. 19,-Tifton is making
preparations to entertain the biggest
crowd in it's history when Alec Tenn
pie, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine, jour
ney here Thanksgiving to put on a
big ceremonial There will be .candi-
dates plenty and the Shriners are
assured a great time. Reports from
all over South Georgia indicate that
the Shriners from all over this sec
ton are coming in great numbers.
A feature of the days entertain
ment will be the football game be-
tween Norman Institute and Triton
Aggies.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
PIONEER WOMAN
GOES TO DEWARD
MRS. BETSEY WARREN 81 YEARS
-oF AGE BURIED TODAY AT
MUSSELWHITE CEMETERY

Mrs. Betsey Warren, 81 years of
age, probably one of the Oldest wo-
men in South Georgia, and an old
Dcclyi pioner who spent all her years
in this community, passed away at
the family home in the Listonia com
munity Saturday night.
Surviving Mrs. Warren are three
daughters, Mrs. c. c. Coleman, Mrs.
Jane Eldridge, and Mrs S. E. Will
liams, all of the county, and a son,
c. L. H. Warren. The funeral was
largely attended, number of the old
est residents still living attended.
The intefment occurred at Mussel-
white cemetery
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
ITALIANS WIPE
OUT TEUTONS
NOT ONE LEFT ON WEST BANK
OF PAVE. GLORIOUS BUT,
TERRIBLE.

ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS, Sun.
day-Austrians who forced their way
across the Piave river above Censor
have been thrown into the river and
drowned and bayonetted and killed till
there is not one enemy who remains
on the west bank of that most
threatened point.
The fight was one of the most s.'arfnl
chapters OF the entire war and was the
most glorious. es
The wounded were 50 numerous that
many have not yet received suscor.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
ATTACK
In GREAT NUMBERS
ITALIANS WORKING OFFENSIVE
ALSO AND TAKE TRENCHES.

ROME, Nov 19.--Italian forces have
begun an offensive on the Asiago pla-
teau and have occupied some advanc-
ed trenches the war office announces.
Further efforts of the teutons forces 10
cross the Pave have been stopped.
On the front west of the Piave and
sol tn of Quero, great numbers of Aus
tro and Germans are attacking Monte
Monfernera and Monte Tomba lines.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
STRANDED STEAMER GOES
DOWN OFF ALASKA

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 1e.-The
steamer, Mariposa, which grounded on
the rocks in a narrow passage of Sum-
ner Straight in southeastern Alaska,
slipped from the perch and sank last
night according to word received to-
day Two hundred and sixty passen-
gers picked up by steamers were land
ed at Wrangle.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
AMERICANS SAFE
in CITY MOSCOW
MESSAGE SAID THERE HAD BEEN
MUCH FIGHTING.

LONDON, Nov. 19-Robet P. Skin
ner. American Consul General, has re-
ceived a telegram dated Saturday from
the American Consul at Moscow, say
ing he and other Americans at Moscow
are all safe. The city was quiet at
the time but there had been much
fighting, the message said.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
ALLOUET in new
AMERICAN FRONT
ARTILLERY ACTIVITIES CONTIN-
uEn lN SMALL WAY.

WITH AMERICAN ARMY FRANCE
Sunday-ArIillery fighting and patrol
activities continue on the American
sector but the infantry are not taking
part in any Of the engagements. Moth
ing of special interest has been report,
ed from the front in the past twenty
four hours.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
ALLIES GETFIVE GERMAN S(BSIN ONE DAY
LIST OF
GENERAL PERSHINC
DEATHS BY OTHER CAUSES THAN
GERMAN SHELLS.

WASHING TON, Nov. 1G.-Thc cas-
ualty list cabled by Gen. Pershing to-
day shows one man killed by accident,
two deaths by natural cause, the dead
Sergeant Carl G. Shew, of the coast
artillery, was killed by train; Privates
M. S. Cobb, infantry, first class; Pri-
yate Harold e, Rawlings, headquarters
company
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
DEATH CLAIMS MAUDE
ABLE BRITISH COMMANDER

LONDON, Nov. 19.-General Maude,
the British commander in Mesopota-
mia, died yesterday after brief ill
ness.
Major General Frederick Stanley
Maude was age SO and captor of Bag
dad and was rated as one of the most
brilliant commanders of the war.
He had a distinguished record be-
fore the war.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
PUBLISHER is INDICTED,
VIOLATES ESPIONAGE ACT

NEW YORK, NV ,S--Max East
man, publisher of the Masses Maya
zine, recently denied mail privileges
was indicted heretcday with. six
others in connection with publication
on the charge of conspiracy in viola
ton of the espionage act by Federal
grand jury
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
AMERICAN WFIALER LOST
in SEPTEMBER STORM

A BRAZILIAN PORT, Nov. 19.-The
loss of the American whaler Alice
Knowles, was reported on the arrival
today of the American schooner, Fred
Turlo. The Knowles was wrecked in
a hurricane September 8. All the
crew was washed overheard.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
II. W. MORROW LOSES
Is MONTHS OLD SON

Grady, fifteen months old son of
Mr. and Mrs. H. w. Morrow, who re-
sides in the Clements community,
died Saturday night and was buried
yesterday afternoon. The sorrowing
family have the sympathy of host
of friends.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
ARTILLERY FIGHTING Is
GOING ON AT VERDUN

PARIS, Nov. 19.-Heavy artillery
fighting is still in progress at the Yer.
dun front east of the Meuse, says tc
days report, but the night was COM
paratively calm everywhere.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
TWO AMERICANS KILLED
in ACTION LAST WEEK

WASHINGTON Nov. 19.-General
Pershing in reporting today two men
killed in action November 10, three
severely and three slightly wounded
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-19
ALLIES INTEREST IN
WILSON ADVICE
SUGGESTION UNITY
OF PLAN AND PURPOSE
TALKED.

LONDON, Nov. -Notwithstand-
ing that there is considerable subsi-
dence Of the excitement caused by the
Paris speech of Premier Lloyd George
the keenest interest is shown today in
the House of Commons on the creation
of an allied war council and the pre-
miers' recent utterances.
Interest has been heightened by the
pSblication in all the morning papers
Nof President Wilson's statement thru
Colonel House concerning the neces-
sity for unity in plan and purpose and
control between the allies and tie
United States.
N
LONDON, Nov. 19-In the House of
Commons today Former Premier As
quith opened the debate on the crca-
ton OF an allied war council, refer
ing to the recent utterances of Lloyd
George, he deprecated settling OIL any
organization to suppercede or interfer
with the unfettered activities and in
dependent position of the general staff
He said the new scheme launched an
indictment of the general strategy of
the. allies on the ground that it had
been in several instances dilatory and
misdirected
Replying, Lloyd George, says the
for consultation am ing the
allies has become inadequate.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-20

FNlNOSN ! ~ ANU TEN
ing from her first quarrel. Her whole
attitude was one of hopeless endeav-
or utterly at variance with her part.
Once l thought l saw LawtOn
say something in an aside to her and
she seemed to try to get into the
right tempo. That girl is either soul
or bodily i'll, I said to myself-and
then came the big scene. To my sur
prise and almost to the cOnsteTna-
ton of Lawton, I could see, she acted
yes, this time it was splendid act
ing - interpreting the part better
than she had on the first night.
LawtOn could not pick up his
stride and his Characterization fell
fiat. LawtOn has always been very
lucky in his women's support since
he has been a star. They have al
ways seemed to me to play up to him
without thought of themselves.
He has been with his leading la
dies and his ingenues one of those
men who are always getting and for
getting, for these many women who
have supported him have stTutted
their little hour on the stage and
then dropped out of the public eye.
They-were the kind of women who
will always give and forgive.
g However, the young woman
whose name is on the bill as Paula
Newton is.nOt that kind I would hate
to do her a wrong, for l am sure it
would mean an eye for an eye and
tooth for a tooth.
She is an actress, is Paula, and
if Earnest LawtOn does not look out
the electric lights in front of the the
alter will twinkle out some night the
letters that spell Newton instead of
Lawton. He is getting older and
more blase every day. She is piling
up the energy and enthusiasm of
youth.
Welcome to our city, Paula New
ton. If you have not yet added to the
4
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-20

p BOOS ~ ONE-IO =
Well, you are starting in all
right, Paula sneered Ernest Lawton
the next afternoon as I passed him
on my way to the stage.
1T was our first matinee in Phila-
delphia, Margie, and I noticed he had
one Of the morning papers in his
hand
What do you suppose he meant?'
I asked Ruth, as she stepped into my
dressing room between the acts.
She looked at me in surprise.
Haven't you seen the morning pa
pers?' she asked.
No. l answered Did that pretty
little Miss Huntington have some
thing nice about me in her paper?'
Your pretty little Miss Hunting
ton is on an afternoon paper. Is she
going to have something nice about
your inquired Ruth with. almost
grin.
I think So
Well, if she does, you can tTem-
BILE in your boots, for Ernest is frOth-
ing at the mouth now at the nOuce
you have in one of the morning pa
pers
Let me see it, I said, for saw
she had a paper in her hand.
LAS l read it I remembered what
had overheard at the next table to
mine the night I went on to play my
part, not knowing whether l was go
ing to turn out an actress or just a
woman. The piece was headed, Still
an Enigma and it went on to state
that the writer had gone again to see
The Woman H, Chose puTpOsely to
make up his mind whether l really
had talent as an actress or was just
enacting a woman with more or less
of the enthusiasm of youth for ro-
mances.
When Miss Newton first came
on the stage the other evening" he
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-07
Tennis Men Take Stand
For Compulsory Service

George townsend Adee. president of
the United States National Lawn Ten
mis- Association. issued statement last
night in which he outlined the position
of the association in regard to present
conditions in this country as affected
by the war with Germany.
In defining the situation as 1t az
fected the lawn tennis players Of the
country. Mr.. Adee said:
THE association has appointed a
committee on military preparedness
and has sent all its members letter
urging them to work for universal com
pulsory military service. As soon az
Congress determines the method OF
raising an army the association will use
all its influence with the tennis players
of the country to secure their co-opera-
ton; furthermore, it will urge those
not Immediately eligible for military
duty TO limit their expenditures, keep
in good physical condition and devote
all possible attention TO military affairs
in the effort to further national de.
fence. In this movement the United
States National Lawn Tennis Associa
ton is working with the United States
Golf Association"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-07

Melvin W. Sheppard, who has been
dropped as coach Of the Millrose
Athletic Association track team, had
not. up TO late last night. complied
with the request for his resignation.
which was TO take effect to-day. The
former Olympic star was at com.
plete loss to know what prompted the
Millrose officials to take such action.
Sheppard says he is incensed at the
procedure taken by the Millrose or
ganization in announcing its edlct.
THE tone Of the communication sent
the newspapers" said Sheppard, was
exceedingly severe and mysterious
and hurt me considerably"
With preparedness the main topic
of discussion nowadays. II is very
likely that greater number OF ath-
letes. and those who have become i'm
bued with the athletic spirit, Will en-
gage in the usual Sunday road races
Tomorrow. During the last severa
months the fields in these contests
have been large. and it is likely that
the coming races will witness sitter
competition. An instance OF the
orowtb OF the fields will be shown
to.morrow. when a pack OF 200 mar,
riers are scheduled TO answer the cali