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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1934
Page
1
An interview with Col Ino J Dishwater reveals his support for Bibb Graves amid tax reform talk. He discusses ad valorem taxes, homesteads, and political alignment while joking about Prohibition and Klansmen reorganization.
Alfred P F Sloan head of General Motors invited scientists to forecast 109 years ahead. They predicted healthier living, cheap mass produced homes, planes from ground stations, sun energy, climate controlled food, and longer life. Walter B Pitkin cautioned that three to four hours of work yearly would suffice but warned against utopian ease.
A collection of satirical quips and political musings wide ranging from social habits to tariff debates. The piece mocks advertising phrasing and public discourse while lampooning political camps and consumer prices. It ends with partisan tariff contrast between Democrats and Republicans.
Verona 1796 to Trianon 1813 excerpts reveal Bonaparte and Josephine letters expressing affection and health notes. Communications include kisses and assurances, with occasional financial quips about debts and incomes, ending with a light jab about aging.
A Dialect filled debate frames Dixon as loyal to reform while Bibb Graves is attacked over pie-eating and Klan ties. The piece endorses Dixon, arguing he offers courageous leadership and fairness, contrasting Graves with promises of a New Deal and political reform.
A Scot whose wife needed tonsil removal sent the bill to his father in law. The surgeon’s note says the operation should have been done in childhood. Report appears in the Lexington Observer.
The Scrap Book lauds Bayne of The Macon News for calm factual editorials backed by records and precedents. It compares him to Charles R. Pendleton, noting his use of figures to counter statements and predicting continued impact in Georgia politics coverage as The News gains vigor.
Ringling show drew nearly all lawmakers to Washington. John Kelly, Ringling GM, handed out free passes to officials responsible for tax laws while stressing the ten per cent tariff. He wrote on the passes urging payment of the tax.
Central Park in New York faced a split local view when proposed around 1850, with fears it would be usurped by rowdies or by the upper class. The disagreement persisted, delaying the park project for several years.
A Los Angeles Times note says a “mountain giant” is seen roaming the Frazer Valley in British Columbia, with a cheeky aside that interior Canada may rival the coast in the sea serpent business.
A gunner's mate previously occupying the room notes he invented an explosive. New tenant asks about ceiling spots, landlady clarifies they are from the gunner's mate, referencing the U S S West Virginia Mountaineer.
In Los Angeles on May 30, the New York Day By Day writer tours Will and Betty Rogers’s 500 acre ranch. The spread features a polo field, golf course, and an eclectic collection from cowboy gear to Ziegfeld memorabilia. Guests include Billie Burke, Doris Kenyon, John Barrymore, Theda Bara, and Will Hays, with Rogers’s son Jimmy at Pomona and another at Stanford. The writing highlights Rogers’s home ambiance, family life, and a gallery of prominent figures enjoying California’s calm.
A compact dictionary note explains Lahor as a process by which A acquires property from B in the Devil's Dictionary.
A playful exchange aboard a naval setting as one sailor compliments another on dreamy eyes and comments on the time. The brief interaction highlights light banter among crew members aboard the ship.
In Bridgeport Connecticut David S Day scored a hole in one on the 12 yard fifth at Brooklawn. His wife Mrs Day followed with a hole in one on the same hole the next day. In Cegled Hungary Istvan Sagi aged 60 with chronic insomnia has reportedly not slept for 23 years. She cannot use sleep aids due to a weak heart and changes beds nightly to cope with wakefulness.
Francesa G. O'Neill of Milton Massachusetts a Bates College senior campaigned for mayor of the campus on a platform advocating mortgaging of the college buildings to provide automobiles for the students and abolition of professorial jurisdiction. He was elected.
Halifax police, after two weeks of pursuing vandals, concluded that scratches on store windows totaling $4000 were caused by window cleaners who worked with unusually high intensity. The finding shifts the incident from vandalism to work-related damage.
Oklahoma City reports Theodore Roosevelt Samuel Wilcox will appear as Theo Roosevelt S Wilcox on the ballot after the state election board shortened the name to fit the ballot. In St George N B a 14 year old boy admitted to burning Blacks Harbor Superior School, causing $20000 in damage. The youth pleaded guilty to arson and received a three year sentence in an industrial school, suspended on recommendation of authorities.
Southwestern College will dismiss soon and Superintendent N J Melroy of the Municipal Zoo laments loud undergraduates led to a Tarzan yell. He says wolves and coyotes start the noise, followed by hyenas and a roar from lions, disturbing residents.
Copenhagen AP reports Middelfart Dampskibsselskab, which controls Middelfart to Snoghoej traffic, has declared a dividend of 300 percent to be paid in three installments this year.
In Santiago the Ministry of Public Education opened a mountain health camp for children to plant trees and develop government land as part of a forestry course.
A health column discusses epidemic pleurodynia or the devil's grip. It outlines abrupt chest and abdominal pain, fever, summer outbreaks since 1888, transmission between people, and self limiting recovery with pleurisy-like treatment.
The Smiths split and arrange joint custody for two children aged four and six. Initial cheerful sharing gives way to strain as the kids grow, losing weight and becoming withdrawn. The piece argues divided allegiance harms a child’s sense of life direction and self.
On Wednesday the Senate debates a reciprocal tariff bill. The Labor Committee holds a Public Works hearing. Foreign Relations weighs a new Cuban Treaty. The House considers an Administration favored Silver bill. Commerce opens hearings on Oil Production Control. Banking holds Housing bill hearing. On Tuesday the Senate debated the tariff measure. The Mining Committee approved the Production Control bill. A bill to authorize Free-Trade zones at American ports passed, with conference reports on Air Mail and Corporate Bankruptcy.
The text argues that greater road diversions and differing parental ideals burden children. It urges keeping children in one home despite parental sacrifice to preserve balance and avoid harming the child’s vitality, warning that divided upbringing resembles a modern Solomon’s judgment.
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