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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1930
Page
3
Burkett Vann, 27, of Dothan, shot himself in a hotel room. The .22 caliber bullet lodged in his shoulder above the heart. He left a note, tore it, and refused to discuss motive. He was hospitalized and expected to recover.
A good roads meeting is planned in Dothan Alabama with delegates from Tennessee and Alabama cities along the Florida the route invited to discuss promotion and completion of the highway. Local officials and highway representatives from Nashville Deesburg Shelbyville Guntersville Albertville Gadsden Anniston Opelika Headland and Dothan will attend to form a permanent association and seek appropriations. John S. Turner and L. B. Liles will participate to push organizational work and support from the state highway commission.
The Rev. L. C. Branecomb a pastor in the Bessemer district Methodist Episcopal Church south suffered a fractured leg in a car accident near Jasper Alabama yesterday. He was taken to Walk County hospital where doctors reported favorable to recovery.
Milton Sills, 48, famed educator turned motion picture star, collapsed while playing tennis with his wife Doris Kenyon at their Los Angeles home. He died shortly after of heart disease. coroner to order autopsy. Born January 12, 1882 in Chicago, he rose to film fame as an athletic leading man.
In Birmingham Alabama John H Bankhead Democratic U S Senate nominee assailed the Independents for forming alliances with the enemy of the mother party and urged party harmony He labeled Heflin an Independent rival as weak on prohibition and accused him of hedging on the Webb Henyon liquor bill and shifting positions to appear staunchly dry.
In Rocky Mount North Carolina three black laborers were buried under tons of dirt in a sand pit collapse. Two were rescued alive while a third victim died before rescue. The deceased was identified as John Forbes and the injured as Isham Roeber and Adam Small.
The City Council voted unanimously to cancel C R Ramsey's contract as sales manager for electrical supplies effective October 2. City Auditor J L Vaughn becomes sales director and city employees become direct salesmen receiving 10 percent of sale prices. The move shifts sales to city staff and ends Ramsey profits from department sales.
An Oklahoma City school yard became the site of a giant oil gusher named Number 5 Holmes. The well flowed about 65 000 barrels daily on its first day, causing a fire hazard and prompting the temporary evacuation of more than a thousand pupils.
Ambassador Morrow placed a wreath on the Independence monument in Mexico City to mark Mexican Independence Day. He and his party left the American embassy at 10 A M and arrived forty minutes later to honor the occasion.
In Massachusetts the Republican senatorial contest pits William M. Butler against Eben S. Draper with prohibition as a central plank. Democrats split with governor candidates Joseph B. Ely John J. Cummings and John F. Fitzgerald, whose illness paused his run but kept his name on the ballot, while James M. Curley enters amid intra party clashes over race and slate changes.
Bernice and Phyllis Zittenfeld, New York twins aged fifteen, abandoned their English Channel swim four miles from the French coast. Their mother said they would return home, citing rough seas, jellyfish, and porpoises as the main challenges. The girls reported the voyage was very rough and said they were not weakened by the experience.
Washington reports miniature golf courses have used 1 500 000 yards of cotton textiles. Commerce Department branch notes growing interest and warns baby course operators may need canvas coverings for winter use.
Governor Huey P. Long issues a summons for a special legislative session in New Orleans to tackle vital state matters. The eight day limit may compress work to five if two thirds suspend rules. A caucus of Long's opponents signals possible cooperation to pass his measures. A city commerce group seeks harmony between Tang and anti Song factions for Louisiana's welfare.
In Salisbury North Carolina on September 16, four defendants from Charlotte and two girls were convicted for the August 14 Bank of Rockwell robbery. Judge John Clements handed 19 to 14 year hard labor terms to the two boys and five to eight years to Mabel Yarborough who pled accessory to the robbery.
Headland Alabama voters chose W Frank Covington over incumbent H Shelly by 348 to 114. Covington, 27, becomes the citys youngest mayor as 260 of 267 eligible cast ballots in the Tuesday election. Re-elected councilmen H C Woods J B Johnson H G Hawkins Dr C F Hardwick and J P B Davis faced no opposition.
In Columbiana Alabama on September 16 the state continued its case against James Turner and his brother Clarence Turner on murder charges tied to a November 1928 killing on a Birmingham farm. Witnesses described a dice game dispute leading to gunfire and Hendersons’s death.
Two unmasked men held up H H McNeill, agent for Railway Express in Marianna Florida, escaping with about $7000 in currency and $600 of express funds from a shipment to the Federal Reserve Bank Jacksonville. McNeill was bound and gagged, later freeing himself and raising alarm with railway staff. The incident followed earlier wire tapping allegations by Ruth Hanna McCormick and Nye committee tensions in Washington.
James E. Millar general manager of the Birmingham plant of the Ingalls Tron Works Company was found dead in a bathroom with a self-inflicted gunshot. Coroner J. D. Russum ruled suicide. Millar had been despondent and in poor health for months, survived by a widow and two children.
Herbert Pease Hoover Jr, a technical adviser for a aviation item company, is temporarily disabled by a fall while at the Rapids River camp on an American pre presidency trip. He will spend a few days at the Rapidan camp before returning to Washington to be with his parents.
Ten railroad work crew members were injured near Jasper Alabama when a motor driven work car derailed half a mile south of town. Six men suffered serious injuries. names include Lawton Taylor and A L Gaston. The crew was en route to bridge work for Southern Railway when the car detached and occupants fell onto the tracks.
Bids were opened for eight highway projects in multiple counties including Montgomery Morgan Limestone Dale Elmore Sumter and Mebane. Projects cover concrete paving surface treatment and grading with various mileage figures and a flood relief project in Elmore County.
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