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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1935
Page
1
Mayor I C Ezell cites state election law sections delegating poll list authority to himself and orders a separate poll list used July 18 for three city commissioners. Council delegates Vaughn reported a week earlier that the council instructed Auditor Vaughn to prepare a poll list removing certain names.
Gov. Bibb Graves signs the Walden bill establishing a three member city commission elected on a plurality basis in Dothan for July 18. The measure shifts from a nine member council and mayor system. Debate centers on ballot lists and ward voting versus citywide eligibility.
Six new cases of infantile paralysis were reported to the state health department, raising totals to 89 since June 1 and 47 since July 1. Only one case, from Rockbridge, came from a county not previously affected. The health department did not request federal aid.
Miss Louis Ingalls completed the first nonstop east to east flight by a woman, landing at Union Air terminal in California after 18 hours 19 minutes 30 seconds. She left New York's Floyd Bennett Field early this morning and planned further attempts to attack west to east records.
Mayor T. C. Ezell refuses to approve or veto two ordinances cutting water and electric rates, letting them take effect by council responsibility. The water cut and business electric rate slash were passed in July and will apply in August after July meter readings begin. The mayor cites fiscal year budget concerns and debt reduction as reasons for his stance.
Montgomery July 12 AP two Alabama towns Greensboro and Clanton reported the first 100 degree temperatures of the summer as the state heat wave entered its first week. Forecasts called for partly cloudy weather with little temperature change and possible showers in southern areas. Highs across the state yesterday included Decatur 99 Wetumpka 87 Birmingham 95 Gadsden 95 Evergreen 95 Montgomery 92 and Mobile 90.
A National Geographic Society U S Army Air Corps stratosphere balloon collapsed during preparations near Rapid City South Dakota causing 375000 cubic feet of helium to escape. No injuries occurred as five workers jumped to safety and officials announced an investigation into the sudden rupture.
Wiregrass farmers read and compare results at the sub-experiment station near Headland through Thursday. Attendance figures show Houston leading with 624, Henry 410, Geneva 494, and delegations from Dale 400, Crenshaw 324, Coffee 324, Covington 313, with Pike and Barbour counties joining Friday afternoon.
Beeba de la Fontaine, a New York dancer, appeared to be bitten by a six foot Florida rattler during a vegetarian immunity stunt at a West Street lecture venue. Skeptics questioned the display as health expert Dr Lloyd C Shanklin led the program drawing a couple of hundred spectators into a dramatic moment before the bite was disputed.
Mrs. Blanche Dunkel confessed to hiring assassins to slay her son-in-law Erving Lang in Chicago. Police Lieut Kell seld said she took Lang to an apartment where knockout drops were used and that Evelyn Smith, a former burlesque dancer, induced Lang to consume four drinks laced with the drugs. Smith is sought as the alleged go-between in the plot to kill Lang.
Mrs Myrtle Summers 49 lies in a Gadsden hospital after a bullet wound from her divorced husband Charles Summers at their Alabama City home. Sheriff Leath said Summers arrested himself without a warrant, Summers was restrained by son Samer Glagner until aid arrived. Summers, a merchant, and Mrs Summers reportedly hold substantial property. divorce filed in court to undo a Arkansas decree.
Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, would neither confirm nor deny a report that John Roosevelt, 16, son of the President, has taken a job in the TVA cost accounting department at Norris. Morgan said the President asked that his son be spared from newspapermen and photographers.
London July 12 English men will pay higher prices for monocles and related eyewear after a treasury order raises import duties to 33 1 3 percent on spectacles goggles eyeglasses monocles and frames. The rise aims to shield a fragile British industry from cheaper foreign competition.
A four hour fire at Gravton Lumber Co plant in Birmingham last night destroyed the plant garage and adjoining row of dwellings. Nineteen firefighters and one Negro volunteer were treated for burns as flames swept through the area. The blaze began in the lumber plant garage and spread to nearby homes, razing a row of houses and damaging several more. Continue on Page Three.
Montgomery acts predict larger savings as Gov Graves backs the Starnes Livingston measure. Mobile reports a four year old elephant case with a non dangerous status. Washington notes appoint of Melvin Purvis as chief of the DOJ unit. Ethiopia flyers recruited by Kerrier. U S cottonseed output for 11 months to Aug shows a rise year over year.
The Washington Senators have tried six players in the clean-up role this season without success. The list includes Sammy Stone, Heinie Manush, Buddy Meyer, Joe Kuhel, Creel Travis and Fred Schulte as contenders.
Washington July 120 The Ohio Chamber of Commerce denounces the President's tax plan as redistribution of poverty not wealth. George B. Chandler of Columbus testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee amid campaign to defeat the program. He lists five supposed menaces to recovery and accuses administration allies of seeking private property destruction.
Melvin Purvis head of the Chicago office of the Justice Department resigns with U S assistance. He had led the manhunt for John Dillinger and said his government jet will be used for new duties. Commanded to leave today, his resignation was accepted by J F Edgar Hoover in Washington. Purvis had overseen the killing of Pretty Boy Floyd and the Chicagoland pursuit. Fort Worth Tex July 1 AP. A woman removed a pin from a wound after a doctor drained a cyst and found it.
Governor Bibb Graves signals upcoming legislative action on tax exemptions and a proposed state department of labor. He will confer with leaders on the 1935 session agenda, with bills including voter qualification changes and institutional oversight still in committee.
Governor Graves appointed two legislators and two citizens to Alabama’s oyster commission. J Staples of Mobile and A McPhaul of Baldwin join Nella Gongsten of Mobile and Charleswekemara Bonsejour as members. The panel, chaired by I T Quinn, plans to promote replanting and development of oyster beds in Mobile Bay and nearby waters and may seek federal funding. The commission can levy fees on oysters harvested from state waters.
Oklahoma City reports four heirs of former U S consul to Guiana await arrival from Wheeling West Virginia as treasure in a secret attic is described. Oklahoma City attorney C W Clift says he found a treasure chest during a night search in an old building in Wheeling. The treasure is part of a 106000 estate left to Mrs. Hazlett's sisters, with surviving kin listed in Oklahoma City Tulsa and Hollywood.
Senate lobby committee hears evidence that more than 300000 dollars was spent by public utility executives to defeat the provisions abolishing holding companies. Philip H. Gadeden of Philadelphia testifies that about 200000 dollars was raised by a 0.5 cent per meter assessment and 151000 spent, with Edison Electric Institute contributing 150000 dollars.
Five bodies recovered in Granada Colorado after a cloudburst flood near the Eder ranch. Seven people, a father and six children, reported missing. Karn family visitors and others affected as floodwaters swept Cranede and Woltereeka, Granada county.
A Birmingham girl Jewell Hovis 14 drowned in the Coosa river near Hoke's Bluff while swimming to a sandbar. Her father and uncle Joe Everett attempted a rescue as the party visited from Birmingham. Delmos Hovis, the father, lives in Birmingham.
An inspector in San Francisco interrupts a voyage from the Orient where two Chinese travelers display a cage of crickets. He labels the pests a threat and orders the death penalty for the crickets and the cage occupants.
Partly cloudy Friday night and Saturday followed by local showers in southern Alabama and throughout the northwest Florida region. Friday night into Saturday brings intermittent showers and cloudy spells across the affected areas.
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