Dothan Fire Department to Sponsor April Fireworks Benefit
The Dothan Fire Department plans an April 18 and 19 Memorial Stadium event featuring spectacular fireworks acrobatics and vaudeville. Proceeds will fund the Firemen's Relief Fund with diamond rings prizes in a popularity contest. Mayor Ezell backs the plan noting its merit and fund goal.
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Dothan Fire Department
Memorial Stadium
Baldwin Fireworks Display Co
Chicago
Fair Association
J. E. Ziegler
C. F. Baldwin
Ezell
Zieglar
Dothan
Baldwin
Minstrel Show Cancelled In Dothan After No Notification
Coburn's minstrel show, once scheduled for tonight, failed to notify the auditorium manager of its arrival. Officials canceled the engagement with another theater group. Several residents questioned the troupe's absence and expressed disappointment that the show would not come to Dothan.
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Coburn
Dothan
Minor Cases Set For Common Pleas Court Tomorrow
Several minor cases are scheduled to be tried in the court of common pleas tomorrow morning at the Wise county courthouse. Judge Keener Baxley, recovering from an operation, may preside. if unavailable, Judge T. E. Bun will oversee the session.
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Common Leas
Court of Common
Keener Baxley
T. E. Bun
South Careling
Hanudis Tiefund Din Ciis
Court resumes with 72 civil jury cases in session
The circuit court reopens this morning before Judge H. A. Pearce with 72 civil jury trials on the docket. Trial phase expected to conclude by Thursday night while criminal court to begin afterwards.
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Circuit Court
H. A. Pearce
Dothan Contingent to Cover Inaugural Return
Dothan’s contingent of the Alabama delegation plans to retreat from the inaugural ceremony at the Capitol. Eighteen residents from this city took part in the ceremony.
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Dothan
Alabams
Hoover
Tomhd
Little Willie Osage Indian Leads City Night Show
Willie Chitopa, six feet eight and 342 pounds, known as Little Willie, leads a troupe of musicians touring the streets. Tonight at 7 30 the South Side School auditorium hosts a program with black face comedian acts, a string band set, and other features.
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Willie
Willie Chitopa
South Side
Chitopa
Antonya
Black Face
Hoover Begins Work Today as President at Nine A.M.
Washington March 5. President Hoover starts his first full day in office arriving at the White House at 9 oclock. Mellon and Davis continue leading the Treasury and Labor departments with no Senate nominations yet sent for their reappointment. Eight remaining nominees await transmission and Senate confirmation, while Stimson pending arrival delays on diplomacy.
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Washington
Hoover
Calvon Coolidge
Treasury
Labor Departments
Mellon
Davis
Senate
Diplomatic Corps
Stimson
Republican National Committee
United States
Coolidge
Police arrest alleged Dothan shoplifting gang four men held
Four men, described as members of a Dothan theft gang, have been jailed while police seek others connected to the ring. Chief Domingus says the thieves operate in groups using a ruse that they intend to buy before stealing merchandise while merchants are distracted in another store section.
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Dothan
Domingus
Paris Pawn Shop to Build Garage for 600 Cars
The Paris municipal pawn shop faces a car surplus with 600 spaces planned to handle vehicles. Last year loans were issued on 361 autos and only 18 remained unrepaid.
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Paris
One Hurt After West Main Street Car Collision
Five people escaped serious injury when a crash on West Main street involved a car driven by QO L Baker and another driven by James King. King and McAllister suffered minor injuries while Miss Leneave Tanner and Julian Murdock were treated for facial bruises and a bruised hip. Rain and slick pavement contributed to the wreck, with King’s and Baker’s cars both damaged and King’s car rear struck.
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QO. L. Baker
James King
West Main Street
King
Baker
John Turner McAllister
Elgin Cowarts
McAllister
Miss Tanner
Murdock
Kong
Red Wind
Bakers Machine
Seth
Fiee
Girl Trouble Clerk Counts On Her Smile in Revere
Revere Massachusetts appoints Louise Termingio 19 as complaint clerk at City Hall. She has two years of office experience and a charming voice. Residents line up daily to voice grievances from ash collection to tax bills, drawn by her demeanor.
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Revere
Louise Termingio
Det
Sunday School Campaign Here Rakes Progress
South Carolina Sunday school and B Y P U secretary H S Sagls Corzine reports the Enlargement campaign making progress with census completions and strong church director reports. A Monday conference drew pastors, superintendents and teachers as 500 attended classes across ten cooperative churches.
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J. L. Corzine
B.Y.P.U
South Carolina
Baptist
Corzine
F. G. Cox
Midland City
Jean Williams
Walter Rowland
Temple Baptist Church
Memphis
Tenn
First Baptist Church
Dothan
Davis C. Cooper, Jr
State Sunday Choor
Alabama
Aris
First Baptist
Song of the Kuemin Exalts Duty and Loyalty
A fragment notes the new national anthem in China praising virtue as Dravery Poistity Diligence and Loyalty. It calls on the people to embrace the Song of the Kuemin as patriotic exhortation.
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Prring
China
Spa
Weather Forecast for Alabama and Coastal Storm Update
Fair and colder tonight with frost. Wednesday expected to be fair and warmer with light to moderate westerly to northerly winds along the coast. The Weather Bureau reports a storm marines were rated from the mouth of the Delaware breakwater to Jacksonville Florida with intensity over the southern Appalachian region moving northeastward and likely gales.
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Alabama
Weather Bureau
Washington
Delaware
Jacksonville
Fla
Appalachian
Relief for Farmers Bill Advances in Congress
Senator Hugo Black answers Hon J J Speight on federal loans for flood damaged crops in Alabama. The measure has cleared conference and is likely to pass the Senate before adjournment. The plan proposes loans up to 40 dollars per acre on cotton and timbered lands and 25 dollars per acre on other crops.
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J. J. Speight
Huge Black
Speight
Alabama
House
Senate
Eye witness held in burning of three negros in Alabama
Adolphus Sonny Boy Tilount, named as an eye witness to the burning deaths of Ralph Clark and two women, is held in Dale county jail as a material witness after authorities say he fled from a lumber mill scene near Ozark and went to Georgia to avoid arrest. He reportedly can identify the assailants.
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Ozark
Ala
Dale County
Adolphus
Sonny Boy” Tilount
Fort Gaines
Hearh Slaughter
M. Z. Scheffert
Newry
Oa Dumber Mill
Harris Home Construction Advances On Woodland Site
Work on Harris home progresses rapidly on Woodland Avenue. The three story dwelling will be one of the finest in the city when completed, with Mr. Harris owner of the Harris Furniture Company.
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Harris
Hen Proves Hardy as 17-Year-Old Fowl Impresses County
In Richmond Virginia a 17 year old hen kept by Mrs. Gladys Harris of Nelson County has laid two clutches of chicks each year since age one. Despite age the bird remains vigorous and continues laying well through aging.
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Richmond
Gladys Harris
Nelson County
Dothan Enacts Slot Machine Ban and Street Stop Ordinances
The Dothan city council passed an ordinance prohibiting slot machines with fines from five to one hundred dollars and up to six months hard labor. A separate measure designates North Appletree and College streets as through streets with illuminated stop signs to require full stops at crossings. City officials also plan incinerator construction after a trip to Florida to inspect garbage disposal options following complaints about dumps.
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Dothan
J. L. Vaughn
E. H. Stewart
Florida
Appletree Street
College Street
Dothan Civic Clubs Plan Meeting on Hospital Effort
The American Legion Auxiliary joint committee schedules a Thursday 7:30 p.m. meeting in the city council chamber to discuss procedures for bringing the U S Veterans Bureau hospital to Dothan. Each civic and business club is to appoint representation for the session.
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American Legion Auxiliary
L U. S. Veterans Hereau
Fach Civic and Business Club of
Dothan
Hem
Ting
Legion Holds Ground On Airport Question
The American Legion states the airport issue was not dropped and will be discussed again at Friday night Legion meeting after council did not take action last evening.
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American Legion
Legion
World Panorama In Two Minute Walk
New Haven visitors at the Peabody Museum of Yale University take a two minute stroll through thousands of years of life on earth. The exhibit introduces invertebrates and insects first, then traces fishes, early life from water, reptiles, birds, warm blooded animals and humans from stone ages to today.
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New Haven
Conn
Peabody Museum
Yale University
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