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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1934
Page
3
Detective Harper and partner Lafferty confront a tangle of letters and alibis at the Morlock residence. They press Andrews as a diary and memory tests probe for a hidden plot, while a mysterious killer may have escaped the scene.
Willy Nilly, Jelly Bear, Christopher Crow and others battle a forest fire in Puddle Muddle. Sparks fly as wind shifts and the crew drains their strength, finally gaining a momentary calm as the wind dies and last embers die.
Notice urges readers to telegraph when the carrier misses delivery by 6 o clock and promises a rushed copy of The Eagle at no extra charge under a special arrangement with Postal Die.
The Presidents committee on water flow drafted a plan for navigation power and flood control along the Alabama Coosa rivers costing about 60 million dollars. It calls for a nine foot navigable channel from Alabama mouth to Rome Georgia with thirteen locks and dams and a total 84 million dollars for combined navigation dams power dams and storage developments.
The schedule lists multiple acts across Wed to Fri featuring Zasu Pitts Edward Everett Horton Pert Kelton Nea Sparks and Ramon Navarro Lupe Velez in Laughing Lay plus Vincent Lopez Orchestra. Frank Puck's Wid Cargo Annie Moved Away The Vanishing Shadow David Harum with Wil Rogers Evelyn Venable Stepin Fetchit Vaudeville On Parade and Mar From Hell are billed with cartoons and Paramount short reels.
The article notes a total estimate of 55 million dollars for Consa two power and storage plants on the Etowah a run of river project on the Etowah and a storage dam on Big Canoe Creek. It also cites a plan by the President's interdepartmental committee on water flow for a Warrior Tombighee river system at 170.9 million dollars for navigation from Tombighee to the Tennessee basin plus power and water utilization.
In Montgomery Alabama Charley Spencer on death row for killing a Tuskegee patrolman argued he acted under coercion by two men in Mobile. Others including Walter Lett and Lucelle Williams also urged clemency as a sanity panel assessed Williams as having the mind of a 15 year old.
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