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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1934
Page
5
Commerce Daniel C. Roper argues no nation can sell goods abroad without buying, urging a balanced foreign trade policy that serves both American needs and international requirements. He criticizes strict nationalism and says farming revival depends on stronger export demand for agricultural products.
Warsaw reports natural population increase shifting from 18.5 to 1.28 percent over eight years. In 1938 Poland added 402,000 people amid birth and death rates of 96.5 thousand and 142 thousand respectively.
A local newspaper advert urges readers to place in Eagle want ads by phone calling 111. The message emphasizes broad reach for selling renting or buying with the stated contact number.
A report from the women's bureau notes NRA improved women workers wages with many codes setting a 40 hour week and pay between 12 and 14 dollars weekly. Yet half of the 11 million working women are not covered and industry-wide recovery remains incomplete with ongoing gaps in benefits and enforcement.
The ad promotes Feen-a-mint as a gentle mint chewing gum laxative for women with organic needs. It claims gradual action through saliva, avoiding sudden system upset, and markets the product as non habit forming with no diet or appetite disruption. Prices cited are 13¢ and 25¢ at druggists.
The report notes average minimums still leave many women underpaid as codes vary by town size and southern states. Clothing industry workers have benefited most under the national recovery program, while hotels and restaurants show little improvement and the laundry code fails to raise previously low wages.
C R Williams, one of four defendants charged with dynamiting grocery stores during a butcher strike, testified he did not take part. He said on June 1 he was with Pres Hardwick Jim Oswell and R J Tate and neither participated. The trial included tense exchanges between Assistant Solicitor Long and defense counsel Morel Montgomery as spectators laughed.
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt will not debate Dorothy Frooks at a New York dinner where she was to speak for Carolina O Day. Mrs Casper Whitney, dinner chair, ruled the program too long and declined an extra speaker. In New York, Roosevelt said she would welcome Frooks if organizers wanted her. In Tyler Texas Peruna the SMU football mascot died after a hit and run incident.
In the Probate Court of Houston County Alabama notices are filed for final and annual settlements in the estate of T M Espy deceased with hearing set November 19 1934. A mortgage sale outlines default on April 11 1928 mortgage to Effie B Williams with executorship and probate details following.
J H Saxon as executor of the will and estate of Effie B Williams deceased will sell at public outcry for cash at the Houston County Alabama courthouse in Dothan on November 26, 1934. The property includes two house and lot parcels on East street with specified dimensions. Proceeds go first to foreclosure costs and attorney fee, then to debt and interest, remainder to mortgagors or assigns.
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