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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1933
Page
2
Dothan reporters interview major cotton growers as the plan to cut acreage nears closure. About 30 percent of farmers signed to remove 10,899 of 35,933 acres. Clerks will accept further contracts at the courthouse tomorrow, with Beat-by-beat tallies showing progress toward a 21,000 acre target.
Col. A. M. Tunstall, chairman of the State's Right and Repeal steering committee, declares prosperity in Alabama and nationwide depends on repealing the 18th Amendment. He urges support for Roosevelt's repeal plan, warning defeat would hinder recovery and harm farmers and workers. Also notes James Mattern the missing Siberian flyer is safe at Anadyr, Siberia per telegrams.
A city council inspection committee led by Councilman J. P. Botts departed to Florida to inspect new and used engines and a super Diesel for the municipal light and water plant. The trip includes Jacksonville Tampa St Augustine and other Florida cities with fellow council members B. H. Lisenby D M. Jerkins T. H. McEntyre and J. J. Newton.
Joe Bridges aged 19 from Webster Florida and J E Hickey aged 20 from Arkansas are held in Houston county jail facing U S grand jury action for violating the national motor vehicle theft act. They confessed to stealing a car in Gainesville Florida and the gasoline and license plate involved. Bond set at 1000 dollars each.
Houston County officials including probate judge H. K. Martin and welfare director Mrs. Co. L. Collins spoke at the Columbia Lions Club gathering. Lloyd Adams became club president succeeding Carl Oakley. Topics covered AFC work civic welfare relief and home demonstration club activities. Lions voted to pay 25 cents per person for fertilizer for community gardens.
Sabine parish in north Louisiana appears set to pioneer a dry movement as a local option vote on beer sales shows about seven to five in favor of the dry side. Full returns indicate Sabine, a rural parish, will move without a state prohibition law locally.
Two men believed to be stowaways died from hydro cyanic acid gas used to fumigate the President Garfield of the Dollar Line in Jersey City. Three men linked to the fumigation were charged with manslaughter. passports identified the victims as Al Signor of Brooklyn and Giuseppe Raina of Aix en Provence.
Lester Lee Silcox 21 of Ashford route three died at his parents home last night at 10 from a long illness of dropsy. He is survived by two sisters Etta Johnson and Ethel Silcox. Funeral at Cowarts cemetery this afternoon with Rev. Almon Godfrey officiating. Fellows and Forrester in charge.
The comptroller of currency issued a call for the condition of all national banks as of the close of business Friday June 13. In Buenos Aires thousands mourners joined the funeral procession of former president Hipolito Yrigo yen, who served as chief executive eight years. A Sacred Harp sing is announced at Enon church on Sunday July 9 with the public invited.
Birmingham July 7 AP The News reports movement to ask Judge James Horton to recuse himself from further Scot'sboro retrials. It also notes a probable change of venue and that Horton presided at the Heywood Patterson trial, the first of nine to be retried, overturning the verdict and granting a new trial for insufficient evidence.
About 5,590 workers in five South Jersey cities joined a nation wide clothing wage strike today. In Vineland approximately 2,000 walked out, with more than 800 in Hammonton and over 500 in Egg Harbor. No disorders reported. Workers demand a 10 to 30 percent pay rise, shorter hours, and standardized conditions.
The Eagle welcomes thirty new subscribers expanding its growing reader base. Names listed include W C Howard A L Johnson H J Tew Edwin Borland J W Casey M R B Cochran Newey Godwin Jonas Rice H A Tew S H Tew P K Hawkins J E Creamer W W Merritt plus several from Dothan and Headland routes with additional names and route designations.
The Post Office Department reported June postal receipts rose 13.05 percent from 1932, totaling 24,984,394 compared with 22,006,142 for the prior year. Akron Ohio led gains with 345,156 and 40.39 percent, while only Detroit and Dayton Ohio showed small declines.
Dallas county approves borrowing from the government to pave 500 miles of secondary roads. A sinking fund will be created to retire the indebtedness established by the county board of supervisors in Selma.
Markets rose in New York led by declines in the dollar as European currencies strengthened. Cotton and grain showed initial gains but selling pulled cotton 50 to 75 cents lower from the prior close. Wheat held some gains despite profit taking and stocks rose $1 to $4 before selling trimmed gains.
A Houston County health meeting opens at Porter's Fairyland at 7:30 pm with public attendance invited. Speakers include Dr D G Gi of Montgomery, head of the preventable disease branch, and the Houston County Medical Society will hold its meeting there as well.
Jackson Mississippi July 7 federal court action postponed the execution of Tom Carraway a Negro man convicted of rape on a white woman. The postponement until September follows an extended legal fight in state and federal courts.
Dr. Earl H. Bell of the University of Nebraska reports remains unearthed near Bloomfield Nevada reveal an old Indian civilization with better built homes, more comforts, and a wider variety of tools than typical early white settler communities.
A plan to pay aldermen ten dollars per meeting even if they miss sessions was halted when the rules suspensions were objected to. Council President Martin offered the amendment, votes showed mixed support, and the measure may return at the next regular meeting alongside stalled committee reports on water plant engine costs.
J P Scarborough city clerk announced the office will stay open until 5 p m from the first to the tenth of each month reversing a 15 year 3 30 p m closing. The change aims to accommodate workers who cannot leave early to pay bills.
Two fire calls reached Dothan firemen. Officials say a fire damaged a roof at 395 Lafayette Street. One man reportedly injured. Another blaze affected a truck at W Adams Street near No Lesa Street, with damage from a wharf circuit.
Professor W. M. Hepburn of Alabama law school lauds the 1933 Securities Act as seeking to prevent punish and remedy wrongs. He spoke at the Alabama Bar Association convention in Birmingham noting it extends federal control over interstate commerce and the mails to protect security purchasers.
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