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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1934
Page
1
Washington reports detail backroom maneuvering in the Roosevelt administration with Liberal and Conservative factions clashing over policy. Plans for NRA and AAA personnel changes emerge as professors and officials face moves, resignations, and reassignments amid behind the scenes bets and leverage.
The Mabana forecast shows mostly cloudy skies with possible showers along the coast tonight and Thursday. Expect mainly cloudy conditions elsewhere with cooler temperatures, and increasing cloudiness in the west and south later tonight.
President Roosevelt pressed for stronger oil control while moving forward on war debts and other policy questions. He signaled public debate before decisions on NRA and Darrow report, with Congress weighing a $422 million industrial loans bill and an embargo power for Gran Chaco War. The plan includes boosting oil output and expanding RFC loans to fishing, amid broader flood control and grazing policy discussions.
Alry Evelyn Frechette and Dr Clayton May were found guilty by a federal jury of conspiracy to aid John Dillinger. Frechette received two years at Alderston Women’s Reformatory and a $1000 fine. May drew two years in a federal prison and a $1000 fine. Augusta Salt was acquitted.
Tickets for the Dixie Amateur Baseball league first home game between Dothan and Abbeville go on sale at nine points in the city. Sales end at 10 a.m. Friday, with remaining tickets available only at the stadium gate. Advance outlets include The Hilden, Martin Hotel, Adas Fulford's, Page Drug, Pastime Pool Hall, Dothan News Stand, Mrs. E. O. Jones, and E. A. Cox Jr.
A bombing occurred today in the courtyard of Starhemberg castle in Waxenberg upper Austria. The attack targeted Prince Ernst von Starhemberg leader of the heimwehr and vice chancellor of Austria.
Chestine Vickery, 20, killed when a truck overturned after striking a cow 15 miles south of Williston Florida. Two others escaped with minor injuries. Vickery slept on load of produce and was pinned beneath. died within minutes. Funeral set for 3 pm at Dowling Rhodes Chapel.
Havana May 23 AP government sets price at 35 per ounce to buy all Cuban gold with a 1 percent commission to cover expenses.
James Perritt, 34, of Port St. Joe Florida, was in a local hospital in serious condition after an automobile crash while returning home from Panama City. He lost his right eye due to a glass-inflicted laceration and suffered a fractured skull with a glass fragment near the brain impacting speech. Perritt could not recall the accident and appeared to have been thrown through the windshield. other injuries were to his right leg.
A week long contest to name the Dothan entry in the Dixie Amateur Baseball League ended at 6 p m with many name suggestions. Judges Roy Hill G M Lewis and Nat Faulk will select the winner who will be announced at the Memorial Stadium home game Friday afternoon and receive a three pound box of candy plus a season pass for the first half.
Century-old Stevens Grove Baptist church once used as a Ku Klux Klan rendezvous during reconstruction was sold cheaply and demolished by a wrecking crew in a rapid teardown in Chapel Hill Tennessee.
Proponents plan to lay out the Roosevelt Memorial Highway route from Warm Springs to Panama City via Dothan with a 75 car motorcade from Graceville Chipley Wausau and Lynn Haven. Local leaders urge citizens to attend the courthouse meeting at 7 30 a m to back the Alabama routing and the cross country alignment through Garrard's Cross Roads.
President Roosevelt reaffirms support for the National Recovery Administration while debates over the Plarrow report and the future of NRA continue. He plans a nationwide tour to assess results and possible next year legislative changes.
A U S destroyer Hale and two seaplanes sped from Balboa toward Tagus Cove Galapagos to aid William Albert Robinson who lies critically ill with appendicitis aboard the honeymoon ketch Swasp. Florence Crane Robinson, heiress to Richard T. Crane, wired for help after radio contacts with Balboa and Los Angeles advised ice packs while awaiting medical secours.
Clyde Barrow the Southwest’s top public enemy faced murder charges in at least a dozen killings across Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas. The piece lists crimes from 1931 to 1934 including deputy sheriffs and highway patrolmen, with Bonnie Parker also implicated in gunplay during the Dexter arrest.
Tokyo will protest Soviet gunfire at the Japanese consulate general in Khabarovsk after shots were fired from a nearby building. No casualties reported. envoy Tamekichi Ota will urge a thorough investigation and safeguards against recurrence.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed when a sheriff’s posse ambushes their car fifty miles east of Shreveport near Gibsland. Frank Hamer and Texas Rangers engage in a long pursuit, ending in a blazing gun battle as the car crashes. Barrow and Parker, infamous for bank robberies and killings, are dead. authorities describe Barrow as Southwest’s most dangerous killer.
The Italian government promotes marriage among the brigadiers of the national police who patrol isolated posts, reversing prior views that the duties were too strenuous for wives.
Beverly California May 23 Will Rogers quotes Senator Norris arguing against abolishing the electoral college. Rogers praises Norris as persistent despite opposition and criticizes the lame duck session as a target for reform.
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