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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1930
Page
1
Archaeologists discuss early human presence in the Americas with claims of skilled men using cave tools and spear darts. A landslide trapped a group behind mountain barriers near the Colorado River area, while legends of Robin Hood in forests and other ancient dwellings surface amid notes on Atlatl steel darts and indigenous ballads in the Pacific islands.
Smyth reports Coosa river flood gates opened at Lock 12 and Mitchell and Jordan dams as rainfall pushes rivers toward flood stage. Tallapoosa unlikely to rise much due to backwaters at Martin Lake. Martin Dam near high mark but gates not opened. Forecasts call for more rain in eastern and southeastern states. spring crops benefit from the rainfall. Canadians plan foreign trade missions to Asia and Latin America next winter.
Daily cotton futures data from Dothan shows May, July, Oct and Dec contracts with opening highs lows and closes. Prices cover domestic futures with May at around 15.7 to 16.4 cents and other months fluctuating between 14.6 and 16.4 cents.
Cotton prices opened 15 points higher on local buying and cover on over Sunday rains in Arkansas but lack of outside demand caused a late slide as forecasts favored mostly fair weather west. Weather showed heavy rains across north central and northeast Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee with six to seven inches in parts of Arkansas and Mississippi.
The conference discussed Bishop Cannon’s election status and the potential removal of a report section, noting Daniels’ controversial prohibition pronouncement and delays in board officer nominations. Delegates questioned Cannon’s fate and a push to unify Epworth League, Sunday School, and education boards for streamlined governance.
Rain boosted Alabama crops with corn planting up to 75 percent in central regions and larger statewide acreage than 1929. North Alabama has over half planted, gardens and truck crops show fair relief from drought, and Baldwin County potato and cucumber crops move to market amid drought impact. Peanuts acreage rising in the south, oat output lagging 1929. National Master Plumbers director R L Thomas keynotes Alabama SAI convention as early registration shows 200 attendees.
In a Dothan address John Bankhead denounced Heflin as unDemocratic and warned that Thompson lacks party loyalty. He cited newspapers and records to accuse Thompson of yellow journalism and criticized Heflin’s cotton and tariff positions, urging voters to choose a true Democrat for the state’s standard bearer. He praised Jeffersonian ideals and pressed for party unity.
Curtis Kenan of Benton, a well known Lowndes county stock man, died in Selma hospital from injuries suffered when he dived into a shallow water hole at a swimming park. He left a widow Mrs. Alice Thompson Kenan of Montgomery and his parents Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Kenan of Benton, plus two sisters. Funeral services will be at Benton tomorrow with burial there.
In Hammond Louisiana an engineer on the Illinois Central tied brakes to jump a locomotive off the rails to avoid an automobile stalled on the track. The attempt failed. the engineer Leon Bud Ford 5 and fireman Harry Watts were fatally injured along with 14 year old J P Wall Jr of Hammond. The crash scarred both men before they died en route to a McComb hospital.
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