The Dothan Eagle from Dothan, Alabama • 1

The Dothan Eagle NUMBER 125 The Eagle Is a Member of the A RIDAY ATERNOON EBRUARY 15 The Eagle Receives AP eatures VOLUME 23 DOTHAN ALABAMA ALLEGED BAND CAR THIEVES THOUGHT BROKEN UP VENGEANCE AVANT MURDER MOTIVE SAYS McCAIl THE HOOVER CABINET IN PLACES PROMINENT CANDIDATES OR Vll Ll AM ANDREW MLLOil it: 'V DWIGHT DAVIS 'vA i RAY LYMAN W1UJUB Interior is: Caval Do ring 1 acher in his school His false 1 DECLARES PERSONS ARE SUSPECTED EARL JERKINS AND EARLY LEE MESSER HAVE BEEN INDICTED WILLIAM DONOVAN General WALTER BROWN Postmaster (jcrtenl I STIMSON aPStde SECONDWARRANT CHARGES NEGRO WITH BURGLARY HENRY Secretary WHAR RATS TUNNEL UNDER GARAGE AND OWNER INDS CAR BOGGED TO ITS AXLE MAYOR AND POLICEMAN HERRIN ILL CONVICTED VIOLATING PROHI LAWS THREE BUSINESS MEN SAMSON ARE IMPUCATED DOES NOT BELIEVE HE WAS KILLED AT PLACE OUND OVER SITflOt IS REALIZED ROM HOGS CHICKENS A chain of 10 or more stores kto czzi nn Will lift 1 I MEN ARRESTED CHARGED WITH AUTO THIEVERY ONE LIVED TWO BOORS BUT MADE M) STATEMENT Wilton Herndon Who Is Alleged To Have Broken Into Store Entered Home Belief rank Mizell and Malcolm armer of Samson and Radford of Hartford Arrested Theory That Tramp Murdere Slocomb Teacher Is Abandon ed by Charlie McCall Blow By Blow News of Heavy weight Clash Be Read At Ringside Legion Arena CURTIS TJ WILbUR Navy LOWERS IS RE ELECTED HEAD COUNTRY CLUB BEALL DRY GOODS CO PLANS CHAIN STORES I HR A RD THEM SAT C8 GO TO DOTBAN" fc GnrtUl 17 lit LINED THEM AGAINST WALL AND KILLED IN COLD BLOOD 17105 Pounds of Poultry Solid Carload Sold By Dothan and Ashford armers Harris Re Elected Vice President and Mrs Palmer Secretary 1 State Law Enforcement Officers Arrest Seven Charged With Grand Larceny STRIB SHARKEY IGHT RETURNS BE WIRED HERE Car Stolen from In ront of Hous iou Hotel Wednesday Night Is Recovered Attorney General Is of Opinion Murderer Was Not Stranger to Community With indictments returned against three Dothan men wild four Geneva county citizens three of whom nr prominent business men state law en forcement officers Potter Smith and Tranum believe they hnve identified the principals of the band of automobile thieves that has been operating in the central and southern part of the state according to an nouncement made this morning by Of ficer Smith who was detailed on the case by McAdory chief of the state law enforcement department Three Dothan men for whom the officers hold warrants are Ma theny who in also chat ged with the theft of the Hergesou car Wednes day night and which was recovered last night Earl Jerkins! now under $1000 bond charged with participat ing in the Consolidated Grocery Co robbery and the llcrgeson car theft also wnd Early Lee Messer already in jail on a burglary charge Await Action Grand Jury The four Geneva county men alleg ed to have been accomplices in auto mobile thefts arc: rank Mizell Sam son men hant Malcolm armer drug gist and Ras aulk all three of Sam son ami Houston Radford Gulf Re fining Co agent at Hartford Th have made bonds in the sum of $1000 Clark of Atlanta representa tive of th( American Underwriters aided the state law riforcement offi cers in gathering the evidence against the Geneva county citizens Potter Smith reports Because Matheny and Jerkins had already been arrested lefore the state law enforcement officers arrived they will be held here ponding investiga tion of their charges by the Houston county grand jury which convenes Monday They are raid to have been rndicted by a Montgomery county grand Jury already Some Believe Detroit Gangsters Angered By Hijacking Did Killing GRAND JURY TO CONVENE HERE MONDAY EB 18 Dothan Wholesale Concern Pur chases Group of Stores at Vantage Points EMPLOYEES WESTERN UNION HERE WILL SHARE IN COMPANY BONUS PLAN Local Western Union employees to day will share in the in come distribution plan of the tele graph company according to Miss Charlie Mae Baughman who states that every person who has been in the employ of the concern for 19 months is eligible to a portion of the fund Dothan employees will receive a bonus of 28 per cent of one salary Mr (1 i 1 1 1 a nt ll It UHI Johnson occupancy of use there was a contin of job hunters and par A new paper of the day the the i a in wasrkrgwii nr oath was administered by Chief Just ice Salmon Chase in the presence of members of the cabinet and a small home demonstration AGENT RETURNS HOME lowers vice president of the Dothan Rank Trust Co last night was re elected president of the Doth an Country Club at the annual elec tion of officers He was first elected last year succeeding Dr A ras ier who had served as the Club's president since its organization in 1923 Harris was re elected vice president and Mrs Palmer was re elected club secretary an office she has ably filled since replacing Mrs loy Hall who had held the position since th organization except for one year when Mrs Will Hopkins assumed the duties Returns on the Stribling Sharkey bout at Miami Wednesday night eb ruary 27 will be received at the Le gion Boxing Arena here whether ornot the fight is broadcast by radio since promoter Antley announces that a leased wire will be utilized at the arena for this purpose A fight card is also scheduled for evening he says Although efforts' to bring Eddie Rurl here for a bout are proving futile Antley declares that an all star card is contemplated for the evening Strib ling and Sharkey mix it in Miami Returns on the heavyweight clash vull be announced at the ringside as fast a they come in says Antley The preliminary bouts will probably be over here before the main go in Miami I commences i fore to read the returns just prior to the main go here ft 0 And cw Johnson 186" By ALEXANDER GEORGE (Associated Press eature Writer) WASHINGTON Three hours after the death of Lincoln Andrew Johnson erstwhile tailor who had en taught by his wife to write and figure legan his turbulent admini stration as th seventeenth President of the United States Johnson who was democratic war tlm governor of Tennessee and a bit ter opponent of secession tons oath of office in his rooms at Kirkwood house now the site of Rsleigh hotel CHICAGO eb 15 Maj red Silloway assistant prohi bition administrator today ad vanced the theory that police of ficers themselves killed seven gangsters yesterday and he be lieved their names would be known before tonight He asserted that the police I were receiving protection money I from the gangrte and planned the killing when the Moran gang failed to pay Police Captain James Gleason denied the charge saying the kill ers had masqueraded as police CHICAGO eb A blind alley ley ahead of police today seek ing to trail the slayers of latest and bloodiest of all gang kill ings yesterday when seven men were lined up against a wall and shot by a gang who entered their room disguised as policemen After a 24 hour search police are still without a clue As the massacre was cunningly planned there were no witne ses Several theories are ad vanced two involve the liquor racket ri'tKer polities and some believe that a Detroit gang which had been in a hijacking war w'th the Moran gang did the kil'ing Photographs and fingerprints of 16 Detroit gangsters were sent to Chicago Posed Au Policemen 1 The killers mshed into the garage with drawn pistols and machine guns informing the seven men they were police officers Some of them flashed stars and others wore parts of police uniforms Without ado they herded the victims to a courtyard in the rear Overhead gleamed a powerful elec Continued on Page Seven! Wharf rats tunneled under the garage of 1 Scarborough to such an extent that this morning following the heavy rain last night when he opened the door 1 the building he found the surface soil of the garage had caved in and his car was buried in the day to its axle 8 Gangsters Disguised As Police men Surprise Victims In Room tedh were in his mouth Two hun dred forty yards from the body and further down th trail and about five st ps to the left thereof mar a marshy low and swampy place was found his car which had been burned very badly License Tag ound 25 steps from the car andicr ss the marsh was found the li cense tag of the car which had been ripped therefrom evidently thrown to the place where found trail near which the car and (Continued on Page ive) A second warrant charging Wilton Herndon gio arrested Wednesday night after he is alleged to have brok en into the Omar Powell store and scaped with four sacks of flour and other foodstuffs with attempted bur glary has been sworn out by oy Mi zell who has identified th negro as the person who broke into his home 'I uesday Herndon is said to have pried loos the fastener on the wreen door at th rear of the Mizelle homo to gain en trance to the house He was wen by neighbors but becoming frightened ran away before police could be sum moned Th gro was taken to the home of the persons who are alleged to have htr him aving the Mizelle house and they clared him tu be the would be burglar county horn kx rt rninl cl I Ivoi nrv nf hnW Si dlinnvi a demonstration work at Houston Tex of Mullins chairman Az lowers Zollie Doak rnd Jim Drennan the last three of whom rvul during the last EAST ST LOUIS eb Mayor Marshall McCormack of Herrin HL his biother IJmei a policeman and Chief of Police John Stamm were convicted of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act today Th were accused of being in collusion with the famous Charlie Bieger gang of gunmen ers Tops brought $785 Christmas had charge of the sale hogs were sold to a Richmond concern More than $17000 has be realized by Houston county farmers from chicken and hog sales during the week according to Henry Yt ith i i ng ton county agent Thursday 371 farmers at Dothan and Ashford sold 17105 pounds of poultry a solid carload the sale net ting the producers a total of $3 81 41 A hog sale a Ccttonwood netted 61 farmers $3 920 for 412 head of pork Th Va The following board of directors was chosen: John Sanders jr lowers Harris wis Dr Andress Mullins Georg Malone LaBruce Hanahan Eric Gellerstedt aircloth armer Bates a nd Norman Spann The finance committee elected Iewis chairman Dr Andr ss and Mullins The greens committee consists Judge A Pearce has ord red th a grand jury be impanell for Mon day ebruary 18 Several burglaiy cases are scheduled to be investigate Th murder of Avant Slocomb school teacher liears all the earmarks of one for vengeance in the opinion of Charlie McCall state attorney gen eral who has been personally con ducting the investigation of the case at Slocomb this week He discounts the theory that tramps killed the teacher ami declares that persons are suspected in con nectiwt with his death and nothing will be left undone to clear up the Not Killed Where ound In the opinion of the attorney gen eral the brutal killing does not appear to be the act of a stranger to the Slo comb community He also believes the plan fur th disposition of the body was interrupted and does not be lieve Avant was killed at the point where the body was found McCall's statement relative to his findings in connection with the case is as follows: Avant principal of the high school at Slocomb Geneva Coun ty Ala disappeared from Slocomb on Sunday Sept 23 1928 with his old model ord coupe automobile I rof Avant had been teaching school at Slocomb for two or three years prior to which he was principal of the school at Hartford Ala and prior to that he had taught school at Brun didge Ala Prof Avant was about 3f years rf age six feet one inch tall Weighed about 196 pounds the time of his disappearance lie was dressed in a gray suit and had a gray felt hat After he had been missing for about a day parties at Slocomb became alarmed and notified his people in Elmore County where upon a search was institutes! covering a period of three or four days but no search was made in the direction where his body was found Bsiy Is ound riday Sept 28 a young white boy discovered Prof tsxly ly ing on the ground about one hundred yards from a grist mill and mill pond 27 miles from 'Slocomb Ala over th' lorida lin about six miles north of Bonifay la near Creek Th body was badly coat shirt and undergarment wer pull'd down over his forearms and under his back otherwise his clothing was in projs place He had been Stabb in the left breast where the fourth rib joins the sternum bme and evidently the stab had punctured th hear' 'ITier was an abrasion on th upp right sid of his head but no fracture appeared on the outer skull There was no cuts through his clothing ft coat and pants had been burned On hi person were found two fountain pens two or three hand kerchiefs seventy six c' nts in change his watch and a short letter of appli cation from a person for a position as our men have been arrested charg ed with the theft of the Chevrolet coupe belonging to Berg son trav eling salesman They are: Matheny oot Smith Artie Vickerynd Ear! Jerkins The car was also recov red officers finding it in a barn ar Panama City The machine was stolen Wednesday night while park front of the Houston hotel Stumbling upon a clue yesterday morning policemen aided by Sheriff Rollins' force planned a campaign on this faint evidence that led to success in icgaining the car for the salesman after the officers had spent the great er part of th night out in the rain fromVASHINGTONtoROOVER Mb 000 Rebel Cavalry A Goomy OOTID POPULATION UH 174: UW uM 14034 1925 15a0 group of nators ami representative? A grief stunnmi city and unron paid attention to the induction of the President and there were no inaugural or ks al ter Lincoln's death the newspapers had black bordered columns voted to the th hunt for th assassins and demands for punish ment of th' ators The military power of the Confed eracy was crush the war was com ing to a dost: and Jefferson Davis was a fugitive in clothes with an offer of $190000 reward by President Johnson for'his capture The Wash ington Evening Star displayed in bold letters a headline which read: "Jeff Davis is Skedaddling for Texas with A chain of 10 or more stores in BIIU directed by the Beall Dry Goods Co wholesalers with Dothan as the central purchasing and distributing office occording to announcement to day our stores have already been bought by this concern and are being operated under the direction of the firm They are located at Blounts town and Crestview la and at Donaldsonville Gm and Elba Ala aun Prohi Administrator Believes Cops Killed 7 Gangsters don eek rs tt i 1 1 ds of pardon seeker daily besiege th White Hou rowd into the ante room and are us hered into ire pre ence found all rigiit on th record they are pardoned oth' rwiM not Presi dent Johnson is still busy pardoning southerners who are worth mor than $20000 about 3600 having taken out th ir papers while about 50000 appli cations have bc marie (Continued on Seven) Weather I ALABAMA: Cloudy tonight occasional rains tonight and Sat urday light to medernte easterly i lAtnli a ari Hit vvslsl IMlVUimg able to Vaughn city auditor Negotiations are underway for tional stores Buv Stores Outright The bankrupt stock oi the brock Mercantile Co at Hartford was pur chaser! by the Beall interests Wednes day when the goods were sold at pub lic auction but whether or not a store will be opened at the Geneva county town has not been determined Contrary to a previous report that the firm was purchasing only a 51 per cent interest in the various stores requiring the manager of the respec tive establishment to assume the min ority of the stock the firm announces that the stores are being bought out right and that the manager will Ire paid a salary plus a bonus deter mined upon the volume of trade All the buvinir for the chain stores LU1C LHC 1IIU1I1 ftV 4 I and it is planned there will be done through the central oi ficc here 1 CITY COUNCIL WILL MEET IN REGULAR SESSION OR ROUTINE BUSINESS MONDAY The city council will meet in regulai i session Monday ghk No business of great import is scheduled according I Ut anrlifnr z4 VILtIAM JARDINE JULIUSculture Commerce wJ i AJkp I It 11 X'te' A1 DOAK Ao'r iredsurv ft i hi I i I we TP I 1 W' a l' I ZP At VJ: vv MB II2 i 1 Itr I 8fX'z' Zv Ji I'i fe 'jlffibi I LW.