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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1930
Page
3
Employees of the Covington Planter Company in Headland form a 100 percent Miller for Governor Club. About 86 members join as campaign support grows daily. The letter to Miller cites his Monroeville address and notes Headland’s strong past Democratic vote.
Dothan High School Tigers defeated Enterprise 7 to 1 as Reynold May pitched effectively, limiting six hits and striking out seven while homering once and adding a single. Fred Holmes contributed a triple and solid defense at first. Enterprise standout Martin led with a triple and single and robbed Dothan in center field.
OSSINING N Y April 5 a Sing Sing inmate attempted escape during recreation. Alphonse Tartello 24 after scaling walls jumped the river bank was shot by guard Ernest Bullard as he fled toward the Hudson. His body was recovered minutes later with a neck bullet wound.
Eleutherios Venizelos states he will retain the premiership and reconstruct his ministry within two years. He vows to continue as head of government if he wins a parliamentary majority at the end of his four year term.
Investigators reveal city gas tax losses at independent and chain stations within Dothan while outside stations and nearby towns profit. City plans consider redistribution or storage tax to even the burden and boost municipal revenue amid growing travel traffic and hotel business concerns.
The Kiwanis Club conducted Rural School Visiting programs at Hicks Community School and Pan sy. Over 200 students and parents attended the Hicks event as Prof. B D Sellers and Prof. C N Johnson spoke for the community and County Board of Education. Kiwanian Woodfin Parkman and M D Black addressed dairying and the Kiwanis Farm Program.
Dr Hu Shih a former college president becomes a University of Chicago faculty member and will lecture at Yale this spring He is a Cornell graduate and earned his PhD from Columbia in 1917 at age 26 He is noted as a leading contemporary Chinese thinker and has lectured in the U S and England His outspoken views have at times brought him into conflict with government authorities.
Rome reports the Swedish queen died of a heart attack in Rome. Funeral services are set for 11 A M Wednesday. A special train will move the body and royal party to a German port for a Swedish warship to Stockholm. Mussolini orders half mast flags nationwide. Britain and Belgium courts observe mourning.
Greenville Ala April 5 Four bank officials were indicted in connection with a grand jury probe into the recent closing of the Butler County Bank at Georgiana. Indictments returned yesterday names withheld pending service of process. Investigation led by J W Brassell assistant Attorney General with C C McCall overseeing.
Dr. Mo Gomimin of Ashford and Dr. N. B. Cannady were chosen to represent the Houston County Medical Society at the state convention in Montgomery on April 14 1 with Dr. Russell E. Neff and Dr. H W Burderhaw as alternates. The crippled chin clinic will be held at Davis hospital this year and at Frazier-Ellie hospital next year then at St Mount hospital following year. The state education department will set this year’s clinic date.
Alabama outlook shows generally fair conditions tonight with light winds and no precipitation. Temperatures remain mild with no significant weather events expected across the state.
The Literary Digest poll shows Kansas and Tennessee as the only bone dry states among forty reported, with 533,387 bone-dry ballots and calls for strict enforcement. Other states split between wet damp and, in several cases, repeal or modification, reflecting regional trends and ongoing debate over Prohibition enforcement.
A fragmented summary indicates questions about support for continuing the Eighteenth Amendment and Valstead Law. It asks if readers favor the sameification of the law to permit certain wines. The text appears garbled with OCR errors but centers on Prohibition poll queries and sentiment toward liquor regulations.
Dr. Bennett Battle Ross, a 37 year professor of chemistry at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, will lie in state in the new Ross building in Auburn tomorrow. His body arrived from Miami where he died yesterday. Funeral services are set for 2:30 PM in Langdon Hall with Rev. Bruce McGehee and others officiating. He will be buried in Auburn Cemetery.
Organized labor mobilized to oppose the confirmation of Judge John J. Parker as associate justice. William Green of the AFL and railway brotherhoods prepared to testify before a senate judiciary subcommittee. They cited Parker's circuit court injunction against union organizing at Red Jacket Coal and Coke Co as evidence of an anti labor attitude.
The Rev ALF Perpetua of Jones College faculty will preach at First Presbyterian Sunday at 11 AM. He is said to master nine languages and has taught at University of Texas and the Presbyterian Seminary in Dallas.
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