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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1929
Page
1
Washington May 16 House Republicans approved the Senate Debenture Farm Relief Bill and indicated it might go to conference. They warned that Senate inclusion of the debenture proposal invades the House prerogative to initiate revenue raising legislation.
Madison Wisconsin coverage notes a rare triple threat for the Wisconsin Badgers in Big Ten athletics. The football team stayed undefeated until the final game losing to Minnesota to finish second. Basketball honors were shared with Michigan and baseball pursued a spring title against the Wolverines.
President Hoover offered former Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis the post of Governor General of the Philippine Islands and officials express confidence he will accept. The report notes Davis’s background and the potential impact on U S administration of the islands.
In Ladensburg Germany an early motor vehicle pioneer Karl Benz, age 44, died as a new Florida speed record era arose nearby. His three wheeled Velocipede faced ridicule yet spurred a lifetime of persistence, patents in 1887, and the creation of Mannheim Gasoline Engine factory later evolving into Benz Works, foundational to the global auto industry.
The death toll at a Cleveland hospital rises to 120 with continued details from page one. Rescue efforts include patients removed through windows and a group of patients doctors and nurses taken from the roof. Among 5399 youths who left home from 100 cities last year, 302 went to Chicago.
An explosion severed the water main serving Elizabethtown and the American Bemberg and Glanzstoff rayon plants. Sheriff J. M. Moreland identified George Crow as the man who warned of the dynamiting. Two hundred National Guardsmen patrolled the scene and 100 picketers faced charges of intimidation and highway obstruction.
A delegation from the Alabama Press Association, after two days in New York, sails today for Montreal aboard the City of Birmingham. Mayor James J. Walker reviews the group at City Hall and receives a goodwill proclamation from Alabama Democrats. Editor J. P. Mitchell of the Headland Wiregrass Farmer cancels plans to join due to illness.
Saint Valery sur Somme France old windmills that ground grain are vanishing though fashion fades. About 300 mills remain many abandoned. Wealthy art lovers fund preservation while Herman A Webster an American artist in France serves as vice president of the Society of Friends of the Old Mills organized by Dr. Paul Helot of Rouen. The Mill of the Standard near Cassel is the oldest known mill dating to 1328. The Moulin de la Galette in Montmartre bears 1295 but authenticity is questioned. Historic windmills were taxed whether they ran or not prompting destruction by peasants anxious to avoid the levy.
The four Mackusick brothers from Winthrop Massachusetts dominate college rowing. Meredith at Harvard 140 pound crew. William and Evron at MIT 156 pound crew . Arthur a MIT freshman. Cousin Webster also at MIT adds to the engineering family story along the Charles river.
In an interview in Sidney the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Solomons, Rt. Rev. Ludovico Maria Raucaz, says cannibalism still persists on Malaita though claimed extinct. He cites fifteen police boys murdered last year, malarial fever, and labor shortages affecting settlers. notes a 1926 boxing ring now at Hill School gym in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
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