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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1928
Page
2
Mrs. D. A. Saliba and two children Haleen and Imeel arrived in Dothan from Betgreen Syria to join husband and father D. A. Saliba a popular fruit dealer who settled in Dothan 21 years ago. He had struggled for five years to bring them due to immigration quotas before a happy reunion.
The Montgomery Advertiser notes Atticus Mullin reports Herbert Hoover’s acceptance speech promotes equal opportunity for all. Ben Davis’s Atlanta Negro paper prints Hoover’s claim of social equality, citing Palo Alto August 11 1928. Davis links Hoover to white Democrats and Jim Crow debates in the South.
Plane mail from Priedr ish shafen Germany to the United States on Graf Zeppelin closed today with no definite word on a possible start tomorrow. The status remains unsettled and timing unclear.
The windmill project with a 2000 gallon tank was started as part of upgrades for the Houston County Poor Farm. A permanent convict camp will be built and inmate quarters repaired. A. B. Price was appointed keeper of the premises by Judge Harry K. Martin.
An earthquake rocked Mexico City and nine states last night injuring five people and damaging many areas. Dispatches from Oaxaca reported violent tremors with a large portion of southern Mexico City in ruins. The quake lasted 41 minutes, with its strongest force in a four minute span.
The Frank M. Charles Post No 480 of The American Legion in Hamilton Beach New York held a smoke screen dance with proceeds designated to purchase cigarettes for veterans at the Northport Laboratory Government Hospital.
New York City faced a wave of poison liquor deaths with thirty two lives lost in three days. Police raided twenty one alleged speakeasies on the Lower East Side, seized samples, and arrested operators as federal agents support the crackdown. Mayor Walker calls the poison liquor distribution homicide and Dr. Norris condemns the government practice.
For the fifteenth season Milt Tolbert's Tent Theatre based in Dothan opens a week on the Baker lot starting Monday October 15. The company of 45, led by manager H D Hale, presents clean moral entertainment with a 4 act comedy drama The Country Pay and new plays for home audiences.
Tokyo reports three Japanese freighters Oyama Maru Fuke Maru and Ibukiyama Maru in distress off the east coast after a typhoon. Yokosuka naval station orders warship assistance. Twenty fishing craft are missing and two seamen from the Fake Maru were washed overboard.
Dr. S Parkes Cadman, chairman of a famine relief group, received word of a reported massacre of about two hundred thousand people by fanatic Morlems in Kaneu province in China.
The Headland Methodist Church faced a divided congregation as Rev James Clendinen declared he would not influence votes following Dr Bob Jones political remarks. He contrasted a prior call for civic engagement with his vow to stay out of the campaign, amid factional tensions in the church.
Washington October 4. Efforts to obtain from a supreme court justice an appeal for William Edward Hickman of Los Angeles under death sentence for the Marian Parker murder were abandoned today after counsel urged Justices Butler and Holmes to permit the case to be brought up. Efforts will be made to obtain commutation from the California governor as the last hope of saving Hickman whose execution is set for October 19.
Mostly fair conditions in Alabama favoring gentle southeast and south winds. No significant precipitation expected with mild temperatures likely through midweek.
Angeline de Crockline will sing at the First Baptist Church as part of the Community Revival. Kiwanis at the Houston Hotel will hear talks by the Rev. Stevens Woodson and Dr. Les Poole on improving Dothan with a focus on a single future project. Ballots will be published later for reader selection.
Members of George Alfred Smits Post No. 74 plan to dedicate their new home in Fairfield Connecticut on Armistice Day. The $12,000 structure serves as a meeting place for the American Legion chapter.
The article reports a 1928 World Series game with Ruth hitting three homers and Gehrig and Durst also contributing four base hits. It describes St Louis taking an early lead while the Yankees rally in the seventh, with lineups and play-by-play notes including Ruth, Gehrig, Meusel, Lazzeri, and Dugan. The report mentions crowd size around 37,000 and wire transmission issues affecting detail.
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