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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1934
Page
1
In Washington March 17 policy column outlines self interest shaping the St Lawrence Treaty fate. Roosevelt faces sectional pressure as Eastern lawmakers resist shifting commerce, while talks of a new treaty and stronger Senate ratification efforts surface.
Increasing cloudiness tonight and Sunday with cooler highs and lows. Alabama shows patchy to scattered clouds tonight and Sunday with colder periods. Northwest Florida predicts partly to mostly cloudy conditions tonight and Sunday with a cool spell tomorrow.
Airmail service will restart on nine routes at 12 01 a m Monday as the Army resumes mail carrying. Eddie Rickenbacker urged President Roosevelt to purge his official family of advisers who mis advised him, saying their counsel led to the cancellation of the air mail contract and weakened American principles. He told the Senate Post Office committee he was not attacking the President and spoke to defend the nation during a challenging period.
United States Senator Nathan L. Bachman testified in the grand larceny trial of former Insurance Commissioner J. J. Reece in Nashville. He denied any agreement to use state tax funds for Governor Hill McCalister's 1932 campaign and said a September 1932 meeting in Chattanooga involved Bachman, his lawyer, Carroll Reece, and J. I. Reece. He stated no finances were discussed and rejected suggestions of using a $12,000 unadjusted back tax balance for the campaign.
Kinston North Carolina March 17 AP reports mail carrier P C Kennedy vents humor over 13 name duplications on his route. He notes half the mail lacks street addresses and an average of three dogs per home. Names include two John Taylors Lucy Davises Julia Griffins Pete Phillipses and several Suttons Taylors and Smiths. He recalls seven John Smiths previously on the route.
Dispatches from Tashkent say more than 2,000 people including British consulate staff were massacred in Kashgar Sinkiang by Tungans after rebels and independent government troops fought. Government forces tied to Emir of Chotan aided counterattacks before the besieged town fell. Uygur and Kirghiz factions supported the independents.
Washington March 17 A House committee will report that Harry H Woodring Assistant Secretary of War is above reproach in a $7 500 000 worth of Army planes inquiry The Rogers military affairs sub committee found this as the majority view The panel seeks to identify who changed specifications and lowered speed altitude and range to block competitive bids and to push back toward negotiated contracts
Fall weather pattern dominated by cooler start and rising temperatures. East portion may see showers at week’s start with additional showers later. Temperatures moderate to warm midweek and in later parts, with notably colder conditions at the end.
In Lima on March 18 AP reports Charles Makley, the Dillinger gang member, was found guilty of murdering Sheriff Jess Larber with no mercy recommendation. The verdict mandates the electric chair sentence.
Hollywood reports Katherine Hepburn and Charles Laughton were chosen as the top screen performers of 1933 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, though neither attended the ceremony in person. May Robson and Diana Wynyard won acting honors with other stars earning directing and writing accolades in an awards lineup led by Cavalcade and Little Women.
Earl Joiner wanted in multiple Texas bank robberies was seized by Sheriff Binford and a posse at a western Houston area farm house at daylight. His wife Estelle Davis Joiner and the farm owner were also taken into custody. They were found in a bedromed room with covers over their faces. Joiner remarked it was a tough break as they were jailed in Harris county.
Geneva March 17 AP League of Nations leaders know what it will take for Germany to return to Geneva. An arms memorandum to Paris, made public, hints that Adolf Hitler would consider rejoining after a settlement on armaments. He portrays himself as a peace advocate and says Germany has never questioned the Locarno Pact.
A young Geneva County woman Miss Lian Boutwell 20 of near Slocomb is near death after firing a bullet into her abdomen at home. Mysterious shooting injured Vern Mae Meadows 20 and Louie Frank Riley at the old fairgrounds. Deputy Sheriff John Hilson said a warrant would be issued for Clayton Skipper. Hosea Koonce 24 was treated for a bullet wound, claiming the pistol discharged when he dropped it.
In Birmingham on March 17 AP reports the fire probe into last Saturday's $3,000,000 blaze concluded with two firemen's statements read. Tensions rose as J M Jones Jr accused the hearing of cheap politics while attorney Hugh Locke pushed to expose political motives. Public safety chief W O Downs said no cheap politics appeared. the inquiry questioned department response and past leadership.
Despite a strike by horsemen sufficient entries were secured for the five supporting events to the sixth annual Florida Derby and juvenile championship at Hialeah Park. Track officials kept entries open until hours before racing began as a minority continued to walk out after the Florida Racing Commission rejected a safety proposal.
Fourteen members of Moody Hospital School of Nursing 19384 senior class will receive diplomas at graduation exercises Monday March 26 at 8 p.m. at the nurses home. Public invited. Class members include Minne Mildred Burns Atmore Georgia Kimbell Greenwood Fla Juanita Arnold Malone Fla Frances Shealy Fiba Grace Roundtree Piichard Ferrell Harper Fiba Burhy Hughes Geneve Beniah Whiddon Tallahsee Fla Ruby Eliott Blakely Ga Fistelle Anderson DeFuntakh Springs Fla Teele Anderson DeFuniak Springs Fla Suxie Juer Cairo Ga Ebnern Bjorklund Freeport Fla and Mary E Winans Quincy Fla. Mie Harper is president of this year’s senior class.
Montgomery March 17 The states first year in the income tax field shows receipts above 360000 as late returns roll in from remote sections. Roy Billings chief of the income tax division says a definite figure will not be set until next week. Returns arriving before the midnight Thursday deadline still come in as extensions are likely. The tax is based on gross income for 143 percent with thresholds of 1500 for singles and 3000 for married persons. Proceeds fund the 16440 bond issue refinanced to retire floating debt. the first five percent bonds from July 1933 will be exchanged Monday for county boards of education warrants.
In Rome on March 17 AP reports Mussolini presiding over the second quinquennial gathering of his general staff. More than 4600 military political industrial and labor figures attend as the Duce promises to summarize government gains. The assembly precedes elections in which about 10.5 million voters will approve 400 deputies. candidates attend en masse.
At Forges d Aunly an alcohol distillery blast last night killed two workers and injured about a dozen others. AP reported the accident occurred in Melle, France, on March 17.
Paris police report Paolo Bonfanti planned two assassination schemes, a five-target list in Paris and a broader list including Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin. He abruptly died by suicide after leaving despondent letters stating the plan was mathematically impossible to execute. Franco Clerici, an Italian lawyer, had appeared on the first list, having been murdered two days earlier.
The four week strike in Alabama coal fields ended as operators and United Mine Workers representatives ratified a 25 clause contract effective to April 1 1925. The pact preserves wage scales 2.40 to 4 outside and 2.99 to 8.18 inside per day, sets five eight hour days, and establishes a three member mine committee for grievances with no strikes during the term. General Pearsons stated all affected mines would resume operations as soon as possible under the agreement.
Dust storms and a cold wind plagued the Southwest as the storm front moved through Oklahoma and Texas. In Oklahoma’s Elk City ranch country a search for missing three year old Gene Carr was hampered by dust. Independence Kansas described the dust as the worst in years. Amarillo reported 40 mph north winds mixing dust with snow, while Arkansas saw icy air from the northwest.
Three women perished when their car broke through the ice on the Hicopee river near North Wilbraham. Identified are Mrs Edward T Crimmins and her two daughters, sisters of Palmer Police Chief Crimmins.
Samuel Insull reached Piraeus at 7:15 p m on the freighter returning him to Greece. A group of harbor authorities welcomed him while reports said he was on a hunger strike and receiving hypodermic injections to bolster his strength as U S officials close in. The 74 year old former magnate, known as the Old Fox, faced possible extradition as the ship neared Athens.
Cirenit Judge H A Pearce still considers an injunction to block the city officials and Hoffman Combustion Engineering from executing a contract to buy three atoliers for the water and light plant. The suit, filed by J J Tompkins J A Keyton and Juan Hall, argues the contract is void due to mayor pro tem W F Martin signing while Mayor Ezell was present and that Hoffman lacks Alabama authority to do business. Attorney T F E Buntin for Hoffman argued the bill’s allegations justify no injunction, noting Martin believed he was authorized and had approved other purchase orders which Ezell later said were not valid. Evidence showed the orders remained active despite Ezell’s telegram denying Martin’s legal signing.
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