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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1929
Page
1
A garbled text from Rio Janeiro cites an official report claiming the city’s population exceeds 22,000,000 and mentions some events or entities with unclear names. The fragment references numbers and possible social or infrastructural notes but is poorly legible.
Coast Guard units will conduct a winter gunnery training program in southern waters from St. Petersburg. The exercise runs January to April with 2000 sailors and fleets of destroyers from New London and other bases. Units include divisions led by Shaw Turker Davis Downs Erics yon Cummings and MacDougal Porter Rye Terry Ammen Henley Trippe McCall Monugiun Fancing.
An announced ordinance governs the Palm Island resort area. The measure addresses utilities and services for tenants and businesses, including heating, cleaning, and maintenance standards. Officials emphasize compliance to ensure safe, orderly operation.
In tragic California incident McKeon joined the Caterpillar Club after a failed parachute deployment. Flying in fog, his aircraft encountered a spin and crashed near San Mateo as rescuers watched and photographers captured the event.
In New York a detective John Dilworth fought a suspected pickpocket John Andenly Curry in a subway tunnel under Wall Street. They wrestled on the tracks near the third rail as a train neared, were pulled apart by subway workers, and treated by an ambulance surgeon. Curry was taken to a police station.
The flyer fell thousand feet and opened a small parachute catching air to evade a pursuing plane. A sharp pull released him from danger and he landed safely as the plane crashed nearby. Photographer captured the dramatic sequence. Mickey McKeon made his first parachute jump. Vatican city news notes Tus became a sewing machine distributor after distributing twenty samples to hospitals and charities.
An ancient rule in U S and England bars women from testifying in certain cases. The California Highway Department plans to paint an additional 1,400 miles of white center lines within the next two years.
Federal Judge H B Anderson of the West Tennessee district declares women can testify in defense of their husbands. The archaic rule, long barred in many states, remains in some federal courts though Gov ernment objects. The judge criticizes the rule as useless and barbarous in criminal cases in this district.
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