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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1930
Page
3
Cotton market notes from Dothan show spot quotes with Basle Mug and Strict prices. Prices listed include 9.82 for some grade, 0.57 for others, and 9.57 for another low tier. The jumble suggests a brief market snapshot with multiple line items and irregular OCR text.
Oct 23 report notes bullish ginning prospects could aid scalpers in Saturday drives. A Memphis bureau estimate shows about 400000 bales fewer ginned than last year, with other factors like Liverpool weather forecasts and industrial conference sentiment shaping market mood. Advance paused after a rise on a ginning estimate that shows 200000 bales more ginned than last year, while stock strength and rain expectations support a cautious recovery, mainly driven by scalpers.
The bodies of Burton Hensley and Woodrow Wilson, high school students from Bald Creek North Carolina, were found burned in a swamp near the Mississippi River in eastern Arkansas. Notes and a diary in their pockets identified them. motive and method remain unknown as investigators search for clues amid a nightmarish scene near the Tuarahan bridge.
The article describes a heated pre election clash inside Alabama politics as Senator Heflin attacks Tammany and Roman Catholic influence while the Jeffersonians back multiple candidates for Congress and state offices. Republican strategy abstains from fielding a ticket, citing debts to Heflin for his 1928 help.
Mort Birthuss, lauded as a top Lehigh University athlete, left college to join the Philadelphia Athletics. Strauss, a three year varsity baseball player, expects assignment to Portland in the Pacific Coast League.
Dothan attorney John W. Rish spoke to Cottonwood and nearby voters praising the Democratic line and outlining core issues. He defended majority rule, condemned a third party, and urged support for broader representation for Houston County in the State Legislature.
Nashville dispatch identifies Hawkins D Westmoreland of Athens Alabama as one victim in a Bee Line Highway crash. The deceased, son of a prominent Athens physician, was visiting friends in Birmingham to attend the Vanderbilt Alabama football game. He had studied at Sewanee and before that at the University of the South in Sewanee Tenn. Neighbors say no one was at home, the Westmoreland family had gone to Hanceville Westmoreland. The AP report datelined Nashville October 23.
Colonel Arthur Woods takes charge of unemployment relief coordinating with Secretary Lamont and a seven member cabinet committee. He aims to mobilize industry and local agencies to quickly function the program, building on a 1921 model to find jobs or provide relief as winter approaches. The effort emphasizes local responsibility and federal coordination to ease 3.5 million jobless Americans, with Woods meeting reporters at the White House.
A 23 year old junior in the Vanderbilt Law School left Nashville at 6:30 pm Wednesday to visit friends on the way to the Vanderbilt Alabama game in Birmingham Saturday. Westmoreland, a Lambda Chi Alpha member from Athens Alabama, attended Sewanee before Vanderbilt. Both parents are deceased.
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