Britain weighs defense as Egypt canal vigil grows
London dispatch reports Britain massing naval and air defenses for the Suez gateway to protect imperial routes while sanctions on Italy spark debate over risking a wider war. Rome signals troop movements as press warns Britain is ill prepared to challenge Italy. League deliberations loom.
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Roger D. Greene
Associated Press
London
Great Britain
Egypt
Fez Canal
Italy
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Offields
Admiralty
Mediterranean
Defense Committee
Suez Canal
League of Nations
Daily Mail
East Africa
Rome
Teves
Fleet Stone
Mail
Youth Eligible For CCC In Houston Called For Aug 22
Houston county plans to enroll its CCC recruit Aug 27 due to eligibility limits. Relief Director Hall said CCC rolls reopen on Aug 22 with only one youth in the county eligible for registration amid a projected group of about 175 recruits.
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CCC
Houston
Houston County
Aly
Beer FF
Hall
Whire CCC
Regio Coc Salis
Development Vista Opens With Chamber Picks Secretary
Development Vista opens with Cairo secretary J. M. Hughes chosen by a unanimous committee led by Pres. J. H. Brennan. Hughes, with a decade of Cairo service, will take the post around Sept 1 as Dothan’s Chamber of Commerce rebuilds after bleak years and seeks broad private and public support to foster business, industry and farming growth.
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Pothan
J. M. Hughes
Cairo
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce Selection Committee
Pres. J. H. Brennan
Brennan
Dothan
Hughes
Will Rogers Farewell Note From Alaska Travel Row
Will Rogers writes from Alaska after Rex Beach visits Juneau as the editor notes this may be his last work. He mentions Juneau, Nome, mining claims, Strip fishing for jack salmon, bear hunting, and fond memories of Alaska as he reflects on friends and the country.
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Will Rogers
Air Mail
Junead
Alaska
Tle
Daily Dispatch
Rex Beach
Juneau
Rex
Pect
Nome
Postal sleuths step in Lowndes communist quiz
Montgomery Aug 24 AP The Post Office Department joined the probe into circulation of communist literature in Lowndes County where a Negro was killed and two wounded in a strike. Pamphlets left in mailboxes were sent to Washington and potential mail misuse carries a felony. Sheriff Woodruff said calm returned with workers back at 40 cents per hundred, after strikers demanded a dollar. authorities are reviewing literature urging overthrow of the capitalist system.
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Montgomery
United States Post Office Department
Lowndes Ounty
Lowndes County
Washington
Potter Smith
Highway Patrol
Lowndes
Bibb Graves
KR. EB. Woodruff
Hayneville
Ralph Dowling Back With School Ship
Ralph Dowling landed a Taylor Cub monoplane at the municipal airport at 11 15 a m Saturday and his newly formed flying school is ready to take pupils. He bought the ship in Bradford Pennsylvania and flew to Washington DC where O L Baker joined him for the trip to Dothan Alabama. They left the capital Thursday afternoon for a leisurely jaunt to Danville Virginia then flew to Columbus Georgia where they spent the night. Dowling left Columbus at 102 p m but weather delays postponed the Dothan hop. He invites any interested person to call at the airport for a demonstration of the ship.
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Ralph Dowling
Bradford
Washington, D. C
Dowling
O. L. Baker
Dothan
Capital
Danville
Columbus
Dethan
Elfiport
Alabama to Close 28 County Relief Offices
Montgomery August 24 Thed Holt relief director for Alabama announced the closing of 28 additional county relief offices, bringing total to 42 with five more units to shut Sept 1. Montgomery Mobile Jefferson Welker Madison are not ordered closed. Federal relief agencies will transfer clients to work relief and public welfare bureaus are to be organized under the extrate department of public western supervision.
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Montgomery
Thed Holt
Works Progress
Alabama
Mobile
Jefferson
Welker
Madison
Hott
Extrate Department of Public Western
County Department of Public Welfare
Mr. Holt
Women saved by tree in Mississippi crash near Bolmolly Springs
In Bolmolly Springs Mississippi an automobile swerved at speed and struck a tree, preventing a plunge down a 20 foot embankment. Seven people in the car likely survived due to the tree breaking the fall and stabilizing the vehicle.
Cotton Slips as BuyersSparse in Market
New Orleans and New York reports show cotton futures dropping one to over a dollar per bale as selling intensified and buyers dwindled. October through March contracts fell 22 to 24 points, with a late rally from short covering and profit taking. Some hedge selling noted while professional traders dominated the day.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Byrnes
Joan Plam
Congress
New York
Market Slide Deepens as Utilities Lead Declines
Continued gelling of utilities underpinnings from the stock market today pushed prices lower. At the close many leading issues sagged by over three dollars a share amid renewed scrutiny of Wheeler Rayburn legislation. Electric Bond and Share dropped 2.87 to 12, North American fell 2.60 to 20.25, and Columbia Gas and Electric Service 5 per cent traded at 42, down IT. Several industrials and rails slid about 1 to 22.
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New York
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Columbia Gas and Electric Service
City Manager Bill To Vote In House Monday
Rep W Perry Calhoun announced a house vote Monday on a bill letting cities with populations between 15 090 and 24 1t hire a city manager. The measure reportedly cleared committees despite opposition and would set a manager salary cap of 15 000 a year, reducing commissioners pay by about 3 906 annually.
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W. Perry Calhoun
Calhoun
BIH
Hese
Brockton Resident Hurt In Collision
Jacksonville Apr 24 AP Harry L Jones 32 of New Brockton Ala was in fair condition at the hospital after a two vehicle collision on a highway 23 miles west of Jacksonville The accident killed John Patrick Mc Cabe 30 of Miami Mc Cabe an employee of Pan American Airways died en route to the hospital Wives and sisters visited their parents The two men were en route to New Brockton Mc Cabe a native of Chicago
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Jacksonville
Fla
Harry L. Jones
New Brockton
Ala
John Patrick McCabe
Miami
Here
McCabe
Pan- American Airways
Jones
Chicago
Storm Warning Over Tropical Disturbance Near Sable Island
The Weather Bureau issued an advisory at 10 a.m. noting a tropical disturbance advancing northeastward about 200 miles south of Sable Island Nova Scotia has decreased slightly yet continues with shifting gales. Caution advised for vessels in the area.
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Sable Island
Washington
Weather Bureau
Nova Seatle
Vexed policemen swap belts as uniforms arrive
Dothan police struggle with new belts and uniform fittings as 14 officers face shifts and waist adjustments after a belt shipment. Chief M. Tatum promises uniforms ready Monday including blue serge shirts trousers caps badges and Sam Browne belts. Firemen received seven caps.
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Wn Dothan
Taylor Hicks
M. Tatum
Trade slump reversed as exports and imports rise in July
The Commerce Department reports July 1935 saw both exports and imports rise from June. Exports up 2 percent led by machinery, vehicles, tobacco, wood and paper, and chemicals. imports up 13 percent with gains in vegetable foods, beverages, sugar and crude rubber. July exports total $175.37 million. imports $177.60 million. Seven month totals show a $25.21 million favorable balance, down from 1934. Gold exports reached $59.99 million while imports were $16.29 million.
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Washington, Aur
United States
Commerce Department
Will Jr Dismisses Memorial Plan With Father's Words
Los Angeles reports Will Rovers Jr dismisses a proposal for government purchase of the Beautiful Rogers ranch memorial park. He says no family member has been approached and burial arrangements in Oklahoma may take a month or two, with efforts ongoing to move the mother away.
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Los Angeles
Will Rovers, Jr
Rogers Ranch
Memorial Park
Will
Rogers
Oklahoma
Mother Awey
Miss Marjorie Jones Appointed Rural Rehab Supervisor
Miss Marjorie Jones has been appointed county supervisor for rural resettlement administration under Mra. W. G. Pruett. She will assist Mr. Pruett in overseeing home affairs and the county's 238 rural rehabilitation farmers. The appointment is effective September 1.
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Marjorie Jones
W. G. Pruett
Jone
Privilege License Fight Against Houston L A Loan Association
The State of Alabama sues Security Building and Loan Association in Houston County circuit court seeking six years of privilege license tax payments from 1920 to 1924 plus penalties. The state alleges 140 dollars per year for lending privilege was unpaid, with six penalties of 2456 dollars each.
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Alaboame
Houston
Senate Endorses Neutrality Pact to Bar War Risk
The Senate backed a White House compromise neutrality measure amid a public dispute over possible involvement in European conflicts. The resolution imposes a wartime embargo on arms shipments, credits a munitions board, warns travelers, and authorizes the President to restrict belligerent ships and subs, signaling a shift from traditional hands-off policy. Senator Johnson and Connelly criticized the plan as hindering avoidance of war.
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Washington
America
Senate
White House
Bankhead
Alabama
Gerry
Rhode Island
House
Arma
Ahip Mente
Belligerenta
Teense Arma
Actress seeks court permission to resume maiden name
Derethy Gish, the actress, applied to the superior court today for permission to resume her maiden name of Derethy Fite. In other news, with tanks and planes, the first division of the New York New Jersey Hed arm began retreating Bridgeport reports. Tokyo censors said two young Americans were cleared of wrongdoing in the allied photo of forts from the American freighter Golden Mountain.
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Bridgeport
Derethy Gish
New York-New Jersey
Tokyo
Epanese Cendarmes
Americas
Freiekter
Golden Mountain
Alabama Legislature Advances Social Security Measures
Alabama's legislature, under Gov. Bibb Genevea, pushes social security related bills toward enactment amid age tensions and unemployment insurance debate. The session passed a clarifying bill, killed reapportionment, and sent driver safety and education funding measures to conference committees as it moves through final passage.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Bibb Genvea
Senate
University of Alabama
Alabama College
Attorney General's
Heatth
Woodall-Queries
State Department of Labor
House
Praga
Co-Operator Of First River Showboat Dies Here Age 73
Mrs. Calib F. Thomlinson, widow of Capt French and longtime operator of the first river showboat on the Mississippi, died at a Columbia hospital at age 73. Born in Worthington Court, Ohio in 1861, she later partnered with Capt French and later with Capt J E McNair until her retirement to a Columbia farm. She was a Methodist church member and a Worthy Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star. Funeral services will be conducted at 4 PM Sunday from her home, with burial in the city cemetery and Eastern Star rites. Survivors include Miss Callie McNair, Mr and Mrs F E McNair of Columbia, and Capt and Mrs W P McNair of New Orleans.
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Fop French
Ats
French
J. E. McNair
Columbia
C.H. Thom- Tinnon
Freneh
Frenen
Mis
Thetalingen
Cage McNair
Mra Thom
McNair
Mra
Tesides
Clemmons
Ecematery
Thorne Beard
Tom Atheson
L. ©. Atberer
Camp Elseleran
Aermarrang
Senate Moves Quick Adjournment As Roosevelt Neutrality Resolution Clears
By D MAROLD OLIVER Associated Press staff writer the senate patched the neutrality resolution to President Roosevelt today and the house agreed on the compromise alcohol control bill. Senate acceptance was expected to send the liquor measure to the White House easily but both branches had yet to act on the 250000 tax and utility holding company regulation bills. Fear Cotton Drive Speaker Burns said adjournment by mid afternoon was possible unless the drive in the senate to force a 12 cent cotton loan intervened. He expected the house to take little time in getting the gold salt loan bill to the President. Thronged senate galleries were tense as Senators Johnson and Connally called the neutrality resolution only a gesture toward peace.
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D. Marold Oliver
Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
House
Burns
Thea House
Johnson
Connally
Roosevelt to Address Nation In First Major Radio Talk
President Roosevelt will speak to the nation for about 15 minutes at 8:20 p.m. on a radio program carried to viewers in Milwaukee and nationwide by the AP. The address is anticipated to cover actions of the current Congress and possible prospects.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Milwaukee
Dothan
Congress
House and Senate Breakthroughs Mark Late Session Push
The 77 to 2 federal vote amid few opponents signaled strong support as lawmakers moved to approve key bills. The arcobal conference report passed 277 to 24 in the House while both chambers met early, shaping utilities, alcohol, and gold salt measures for swift ratification. Delegates sent a modified neutrality bill to the Senate as party leaders push amid a tense late-session pace.
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Bankhead
Alabama
Gerry
Rhode Island
House
Sesalon
Retired Marianna Merchant Ernest Daffin Dies at 79
Ernest Linwood Daffin 79 of Marianna died at his home after a two week illness. Co founder of the Daffin Mercantile firm, he helped build Marianna commerce with his brother Roger. Survived by two sons, two daughters, a step daughter, two sisters, and a brother, with funeral set for 10 a.m. tomorrow at Riverside Cemetery.
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Marianna
Fbe
Ernest Linwood Daffie
Hig
Roger Date Datfin
BR. D. Daffin Mercartile Company
F.C. Datfin Company
Maertanus
Ernest Linwood Daffin
Tie
Robert Linwoot Daffin
Marienna
Jona Pakor Daffin
Mary Baldwin College
Staunton
Joseph Smith
John Lafferty
Davidson
M. D
Robert Linwood Hallin
Fannie FP
Covington
el Paso
Texas
Charlotte Hartafield
Mariampa
Weather summary for Alabama and Florida coast areas
Partly cloudy Saturday night and Sunday with unsettled conditions on the coast. Northwest Florida shares the unsettled trend with Saturday night and Sunday. Next week shows scattered showers in the Central and East Gulf States, with patchy showers at week’s end. temperatures remain mild.
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Alabama
N. W
Florida
Central
East Gulf States
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