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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1935
Page
3
Secretary Ickes said Congress would approve the 4.83 billion work bill without the prevailing wage provision. He cited strong demand for public works relief and noted many letters of support as relief measures face Senate deadlock and pressure from enemies of the plan.
A. R. Gissendanner and H. C. Temples clash leads to criminal assault charge against the inspector. Temples sues for 2000 damages claiming injuries from a two foot stick strike that kept him from work two weeks and required hospital time.
Cain Sidney a Black farmer from Camel stills a missing cow after 28 days. The cow Bossy was found at the bottom of a dry well by neighbors who helped hoist her out. The animal showed signs of weakness but no serious injuries, and Sidney hints at renaming the cow Camel.
A Beverly Hills letter from February 26 argues 60,000 Filipinos seek to return home and suggests the Rogers plan to ship anyone who wants to go back, easing travel costs. The writer notes citizenship is not popular and calls for U. S. action to send home those willing to leave.
The master William F Warms the acting skipper of the Ward Hiner Morro Castle when it burned off the New Jersey coast had his master’s license revoked by Commerce Department inspectors in New Haven Conn. Warms faced trial with two steamboat inspectors in New York. Eben S Abbott chief engineer was suspended 90 days from Feb 25 Antonio R Bujia first assistant engineeer 30 days from Feb 25.
Government counsel sought records to show Andrew Mellon retained control of donated securities. Mellon’s secretary Howard M. Johnson testified that within months gifts moved to the Coalesced company, with children receiving stocks valued at over 21 million dollars in early 1932.
Hope faded for 28 guests believed lost after the 13 ton motor launch St George capsized three miles off Choiseul Saint Lucia. Of 102 aboard, 74 survived and six bodies were recovered at Labourie as rescuers searched the shark infested Caribbean waters.
Kenneth M. Davis age 33 was fatally shot near Green Cove Springs Florida yesterday. Harry Batten a neighbor was ordered held for Grand Jury action after witnesses testified Davis interceded for his mother during an argument. Davis had moved from Chattanooga Tennessee sixteen years ago. The coroner's jury ordered Batten held.
The burning airplane report off Saba in the Dutch Islands was explained as British squadron planes practicing bombing nearby. A mid air explosion was misread as a plane crash, clearing the mystery.
Chilly weather grips the Wiregrass and Northwest Florida with winds shifting north as temperatures plunge from 61 to 46 by morning. Forecast lows dip to 28 32 along the coast with clouds to follow. Chicago storm toll reaches seven deaths and major travel disruptions.
Rear Admiral Sidney Robert Bailey was acquitted by an admiralty court martial of responsibility for the January 23 collision during maneuvers off the Spanish coast. Nine naval officers, from admiral to captain, exonerated the commander of His Majesty's battle cruiser squadron. The trial drew intense interest in England as Hood and Renown are among the most famous ships bearing the union jack. Three hundred spectators attended the proceedings.
The first meeting on the corn and hog reduction program in Houston County will be held at the courthouse Friday at 1 30 p m. Farmers must cut hogs marketed in 1932 and 1933 by 10 for eligibility earning 15 per hog. Corn must be reduced 10 to 30 percent of the average yield, with growers paid 35 cents per bushel for the removed production.
Two young American sisters Martha and Ruth Bailey aged seven and eight drowned when the car they rode in veered off a ferry into a river near Hong Kong. Their father Dr J Mans field Bailey Baptist medical missionary at Kewilin was with them on the return from a vacation.
Dr. F G Granger health officer notes influenza cases dropped to ten in the county weekend tally. He says reports from physicians show a steady decline from a peak of about five hundred to roughly one hundred active cases now as the epidemic abates.
Mrs Zeffie Lewis 33 widow and her three children Hughie 12 Evelyn 7 and Wallace 6 begin a five year struggle to earn a living from a ten acre farm. They refused federal aid, faced years of hardship, and started anew after a funeral left them to self sustain. Page Three continues.
Washington February 26 AP reports that hopes for ratification of the child labor amendment this year by the required 36 states have faded among its main sponsors. Twenty four states have ratified. several states may not. Wyoming Idaho Utah and Indiana ratified this winter while Kansas Massachusetts Nevada New Mexico Tennessee and Texas rejected it. Several states in session, thirteen have not yet acted Alabama Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Kentucky Maryland Missouri Nebraska North Carolina South Carolina Rhode Island and South Dakota. Twelve of these must approve.
Three Italian liners push through stormy Mediterranean waters carrying Italy’s war force to East Africa. Telegraphic reports from Eritrea say the Steamer Gange arrived with two battalions of blackshirts embarked at Naples February 18, boosting total landed troops to about 3,000 amid Italo Ethiopian tensions.
City councilmen failed to meet in an adjourned session yesterday due to lack of a quorum. The meeting would have discussed a proposed application to the FERA for funds to repair several school buildings.
The Eagle will announce today at the plant on N Oates street at 7 p m the state wide referendum returns. Associated Press wires from Birmingham will provide rapid accounts and The Eagle staff will file local area returns to central points for tabulation and dispatch via leased wire.
The article reports intense pressure on the textile code led by the NRA and recovery officials. Labor and management confronts, with fears of a spring general strike looming. Industry leaders contemplate appealing to the White House to speed action to avoid further distress.
Representative Henry B. Steagall of the Third District paid a brief visit to Dothan yesterday and today was en route to Washington. He spent the afternoon in Dothan talking with friends and had no special business attached to his trip.
Baton Rouge Feb 26 AP Senator Huey Long announced the Louisiana legislature would meet in a special session at 10 o clock tonight The move aims to adopt a concurrent resolution ratifying Longs agreement with Standard Oil Company of Louisiana for a 4 cent rebate per barrel of refinings The session may be one day and is tied to questions about a no three fifths vote with four senate vacancies and an opinion from Attorney General Porterie on gubernatorial appointments to fill seats including the late judge CypKisvrot frame remains unclear due to OCR errors.
Walter Jamison of Glenwood set traps after months of suspected rabbit damage to young fruit trees near his farm. In two months he reports catching 36 rabbits and preventing further harm, though he says no daylight sightings of the animals occurred on his property.
AP early returns from six counties indicate modification leading four to three in Alabama prohibition referendum. Urban areas favor change while rural sections oppose it. Houston County预计投票约3,500到4,000，天气和低参与降低总票数。 First results due two hours after polls close.
Eugene J. Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel, told the Senate Munitions Committee that pay for veterans’ bonuses is undesirable and unwise. He cited his own 1917-18 compensation and taxes, and questioned claims Bethlehem profited on war ships, urging profits not be used to press a wartime bonus.
A $350000 appropriation of Federal relief funds approved. Seven men quartered in barracks and five houses completed as the Alabama Rural Mobilization corporation advances its 260 land plot agricultural and industrial colony atop the Cumberland plateau in Jackson county. Governor Graves learned of the approval via Thad Holt, director of the Alabama Relief Administration, and a letter from Colonel Lawrence Westbrook, assistant FERA administrator.
Twenty seven defendants including Rev Pred T Krueger face juvenile delinquency charges after police found four children at an undressed party at the home of Mr and Mrs John Garrison. They will first appear before Judge Stanley Johnson at the juvenile court then before Municipal Judge Alvin H Pickings on a disorderly conduct charge as defense lawyers seek continuances.
Mobile provisional results show repeal leading by over three to one in absentee ballots. Modifications on beer and wine and hard liquor appear with counts of 67 to 17 and 35 to 19 respectively, reflecting strong support for repeal.
Absentee ballots tabulated in Tuscaloosa County show 80 for modification and 74 against. Beer and wine support 86 with 71 against, and hard liquor: 9 for and 75 against.
In Montgomery County on February 26 AP reports a three to one plus margin for repealists on three points of the prohibition refer endum ballot. Absentee voters totaling 252 favored modification with 198 supporting light wines and beer while 193 backed hard liquor and 197 55 opposed.
Morgan county's absentee votes show 45 in favor of modification and 68 against in the February referendum.
Two small boxes in Dallas counted in today's referendum reported 11 votes against modification and 6 for.
By T. M. Davenport AP staff writer in Birmingham dated February 26 first returns from Alabama's first state prohibition referendum in 26 ballots cast show initial trends. Results indicate early support or opposition as officials tally votes across counties and consider the broader impact on state policy.
Alabama expect partly cloudy to cloudy and a cold spell with lows near 22 to 26 tonight and 28 to 32 in northwest Florida. Wednesday brings fair skies in Alabama and partly cloudy conditions in Tennessee with a gradual warmup.
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