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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1935
Page
3
The Alabama Public Service Commission extended the Milford request to April 4 for a change in weighing and reweighing per load freight. The hearing moves to Birmingham from Montgomery and focuses on light weighing of empty railroad cars.
Five out of state physicians and Dr. James S. McLester of Birmingham will address the 68th annual meeting of the Medical Association of Alabama in Mobile April 16 to 18. Other speakers include Drs Arthur Neal Owens and George H. Semken with two guests from New Orleans and Connecticut experts. Alabama leaders listed include McLester and numerous local doctors. The association will act as a state board of health on the final day.
In Verdun in 1916 a rain soaked trench collapsed burying 100 French soldiers alive. Their bayonets stuck above the mud as a grim memorial. France uses the tragedy in its 1917 19 charity drives to aid orphans of war.
In a Los Angeles courtroom Judge Ben Lindsey hears a sensational Beverly Hills divorce case with alleged all night wife swapping and gay beach parties. Walter Emerson sues Jane Schultz Emerson naming Barton Sewell co respondent. Mrs Emerson seeks alimony and custody while denying any impropriety and stating the arrangement was mutual.
Milwaukee assistant library director Joseph V. Carvill says dogs damaged more books in the past year than in any ten-year period. One woman blamed her pet’s hunger for the act saying Toodles didn’t know any better.
In Birmingham a federal suit challenges TVA plans for yardstick rates and dam projects. Shareholders claim unconstitutional government production and erosion of private utility competition. TVA argues dams aid navigation flood control and defense with production incidental.
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