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SThe Dothan Eagles I NUMBER 11 AP Leased Wire DOTHAN ALABAMA SATURDAY ATERNOON OCTOBER 6 1934 TIGERS SMOTHER CARDINALS BY 10 4 tv Qeorgia Political Detroit Blasts St Louis With Barrage In Eighth Scoring 5 Bunched Runs ERA PLEDGES ITS HELP fere orcibly Removed errors 4 91 ELDEN ACKER MAJOR COHEN to A ootball sal It asked shores of Lake Erie Mac he of The Weather RELATIONS WITH RANCE PRIVATE JOKE BETWEEN IL DUCE AND OLLOWERS out of his ox popped POTENT NEW DRUG HELPS IN COOPERATIVE DRIVE ON MALARIA IN VALLEY Montgomery of the rain was and VANDERBILT COURT SPAT OVER CHILD MAY UNOLD WITH OUTSIDERS BARRED STEEL COURT ATTACK ON NRA MAY BE MAJOR TEST OR EAGLE there were yet to be STATE VIRTUALLY READY TO LAUNCH TRIAL GERMAN LOATING BIER THREE LITTLE BOYS IS BEACHED was forced at second Rogell Gehringer One run two hits no errors An extension in time to ginners who must file returns under the Cotton Control Act for the months of June July and August has been granted allowing them to file their returns not later tfian Oc tober 31 it was announced here today by Harper assistant to the collector of Internal reve nue A for berg risch lined to Goslln No runs not hits no errors Pl TRIAL OUR WHO THREW MAN IN IRE SLATED RAINSTORMS SOAK SOUTHEAST LOOD WIDE TERRITORY CITY CALLS BACK WARRANT ISSUE OR REDEMPTION POLICEMAN KNOCKED ROM CHAIR BY BOLT man of many aliases HELD IN MAIL RAUDS ij I criticiz policies Georgia in any likewise A LEADERS IN INAL DRIVE OR SUPPORT PLAN DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE PILES UP AS INSULL'S TRIAL ENTERS RECESS IRE RAKES LORENCE LORENCE 3 Ort 6 (AP) In the heart of the lorence business district today destroyed the Woolworth store and drug store doing damage running into many thousands dollars coast today no damage In Alabama PARK St Louis Oct 8 The Detroit Tigers belted five St Louis pitchers sav agely today to win the fourth game of the world series 10 to 4 behind the pitching of young Elden Auker evening the series count at two games all Gll petl for end Involving of Major Cohen As Break" With The New Deal ATTACK BREACHES PEACE WITH GOV WASHINGTON Oct 6 (AP) A yawning chasm opened today be tween Gov Gifford Pinchot who and Pos ster General ar has been called a Repub Continued On Back Page) Advisory Committee Already Named With Others to Be Elected Tuesday Night he declared case against Young Elden Auker Making De but in Big Leagues Turns Back Murdering Missourians With our Runs And Keeps His Hits Scattered Ground Rules Rob Greenberg of Triple in Big Inning But Damage Already Is Done Tying Up World Series by Two All Count Third: Sewanee 0 6 Alabama 14 28 Second: Vanderbilt Ga Tech 6 6 Third: Tennessee The action of the party In Georgia is but the first of many similar dis appointments coming to the new arley how dismissed the Georgia convention action as "ir regular and invalid" and told Co hen in an open letter that "you will continue to represent Georgia on the committee" VOLUME 27 THIRD INNING Auker filed deen Orsattl in right center White fan ned swinging hard Cochrane slashed a double down the right field line Gehringer walked the (Continued rom Page Three) SECOND INNING Rogell fanned on a called third strike Greenberg got a single on a hard drive that Du rochcr barely knocked down with his glover hand Owen popped to IRST INNING There was some dis pute about Umpire de cisions on the first two pitches to White and Manager risch led a Cardinal protest White lifted short fly to Orsattl Cochrane bounced to risch near second base and was tossed out Gehringer sin gled sharply over second Goslln lined to Rothrock No runs one hit no errors CARDINALS Martin walked Rothrock grounded to Auker and the Tigers engineered a double play Auker to Rogell to Green 14? I I NEVC YORK Oct 6 (AP) The court fight over custody of Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt 10 year old heiress will be resumed Mon day behind closed doors unless Justice John Carew changes his mind heirlng was postponed after an ell day wait for another case to end Justice Carew who Is hearing the litigation in supreme court said all further sessions would be private because of the sensational turn which testimony had taken Coun sel for Mrs Gloria Morgan Vander bilt mother of the child and target of the charges sought to have her answer the attacks publicly A petition filed in court yesterday said that Mrs Van derbilt "has no independent income and Is wholly dependent for sup on allowances which the court makes from the estate of her husband Reginald Vanderbilt for their only child The guardians George Wickersham and Thomas Christ recommended in the tlon that 148000 be allowed 1934 I Heard Them Say Let Us Go To Dothan Genesis 37:17 det 6 (AP) A man is many names said by Cole postal Inspector to be wanted in I several cities is under $5000 bond here charged with using the mails to defraud pie man was arrested Cole said Jacksonville la 'while using the name Victor Evans in a scheme for selling non existent slot Machines The inspector said the men had 28 aliases handy for use WILKESBARRE Penn Oct 6 (AP) Robert Allen Edwards the youthful hard coal surveyor who called himself a man" was convicted today of the "Amer ican Tragedy" slaying of reda McKechnie unemployed telephone operator The jury recommended death in the electric cnair Edwards sat almost alone as heard the verdict Only rank McGuigan Jr his counsel sat beside him The youth listened to the verdict with bowed head and slumped for ward In his chair as the poll of the jury was made There were only a few persons in the court room when the jury filed in news writers less than a dozen spectators and state police Neither rank McGuigan Sr chief of Edwards counsel nor his assistant John Phillips were with him at any time during the morn ing District Attorney Thomas Lewis said: WASHINGTON Oct 6 (AP) Troubles down in Georgia over the status of a Democratic national commltteman assumed nation wide proportions today as charges and denials flew that efforts to oust Major John Cohen was "rebel lion" against the new deal While Republicans perused a statement from Chairman letcher of their national committee last night that the Democratic party in the southern state had broken with the administration Cohen himself enjoyed the assurance from Chair man arley of the national commit tee that the Atlanta editor would continue to represent Georgia on the committee Revolt Interpretation Denied Denial that resolutions ing some administration adopted Thursday by the Democratic convention sense constituted a revolt was mad by Howell Sr an other Atlanta editor and chairman of President Roosevelt aviation commission The convention also approved a resolution calling for removal from the national committee xxx outside letcher said is not surprising that the De ocratic party in Geor ga has definitely broken with the administration and rebellion against the new spending orgy and its bureaucratic dictation (By The Associated Press) A deluge of rain fell through parts of the Southeast during the 24 hours ending st 7 this morning with Pensacola la and the highlands of North Georgia re ceiving the heaviest downfall Automobiles were stranded In the business section of Pensacola as the torrential downpour of rain reached 1728 Inches today The rain at Pensacola had stopped at 7 o'clock but Weather Bureau ob server said It might start again later in the day Heavy rains were recorded In the mountainous part of North Georgia the Carolinas and Vir ginia Gainesville Ga had a rain fall of 403 Inches during the past 24 hours and Dahlonega reported 253 inches and Norcross 360 inches during the period The rainfall reached 275 Inches In Atlanta today Newnan and West Point each had nearly three inches The gulf storm is diminishing but the Weather Bureau predicted rain would continue to fall in most part of the southeast and all along the Atlantic There was virtually from strong winds yesterday Birmingham and received their shade that fell In Alabama yesterday and today the former having 471 Inches of rain and the latter re cording a downpour that reached four Inches Weather observers said the aln would continue from New Orleans on through to west ern North Carolina Little change was expected In the temperature ORT ERIE Ont Oct 6 (AP) bodies of three little boys who set out from Crystal Beach October 3 in a duck boat without oars were found today at Long Beach when the boat drifted ashore The boys were Lorraine Mcar land 6 his brother Walter 10 and William Matthews 8 A United States coast guard cut ter and a fleet of small boats had sought them for three days along the shores of Lake Erie MILAN Oct 6 Half a mil lion 'Italians gathered at his feet roared "With laughter today when Premier Mussolini told them: "The relations between Italy and rance ar notably Improved" The gales of mirth swelled tre mendously in the vast cathedral square Into which the listeners had fought to be near their Duce: Possibly the laughter was spon taneous but it was possible that it was inspired by a wink of Musso eye as he finished the phrase The Premier let the laughter con tinue some minutes then he declar ed: attitude shows that you are a very intelligent rom the time that he entered his lofty pulpit in the cathedral square Duce in the green and black uni form of a corporal of the ascist militia was cheered until he waved his arms imperiously and began to speak Pensacola Saturated By 1 7 Inch Downpour Alabama Cities Soaked By Deluge Mayor Issues Proclamation Call ing or Participation City of Dothan August payroll warrants totaling $606745 wert called late yesterday by city of ficials Upon presentation at the city office warrants bearing the following dates will be paid: August 3 10 15 17 24 and 31st Interest on the warrants stops the day they are called for pay ment' Payment of the August warrants nearly two months before dey are due brings the city that much nearer to a financial condition which will allow payment of aries in cash risch The bat flew hand as he connected to second No runs one hit no Medwick singled over Rogell's head connecting with alow ball Collins hit against the right fled screen for a double send ing Medwick to third Delancey walked the fourth ball being low and the bases were filled Oriaiti filed to Goslln and Medwick scored after the catch Delancey and Col lins held their bases Durocher filed to ox whose throw kept the run ners from advancing Carleton grounded to Rogell and Delancey was forced at second Rogell to i ft I A lightning bolt knocked Policeman George Garrett out of his chair last night while he was talking over the telephone He was slightly stunned bui not otherwise injured Garrett said the bolt hit the telephone line at police head quarters and the impact through the 'receiver threw him to the floor LO3 ANGELES Oct 8 (AP) The Times says "flagrant cases" of communistic activity Intended to lead to "rebellion" have been discovered on United Stat war ships In San Predo harbor The alleged rebellion plot the newspaper says was carried on by sending attractive young communist girls aboard ships on visiting days to make dates with ths sailors and spread sedition inancial Condi tion Brought Closer To Cash Basis oley Bares Plans After Alien Meets Wife Hauptmann ound Sane With 30 cases set for trial the first day a two weeks term of court in the criminal division will open Monday in Houston county circuit court The most sensational case on the first' day's docket is that charging Hughes Alva Hughes Cebie Hughes brothers and Johnnie Windham with assault to murder The quartet the state alleges more than a year ago threw a companion into a fire and held him there The companion Harvey Yoman suffered near fatal burns and today is partially paralyzed as a result bf the burns or weeks he stayed in a local hospital with his recovery a mat ter of conjecture Trial of the quartet was continued several times because Yoman the principal witness was unable to attend court 'At the time Yoman was burned investigating officers said all five were on a "drinking on the Dothan Campbellton road Next court will run through Thursday reconvening the following Monday for another week At the second week's ses sion three first degree murder cases are scheduled for trials De fendants in these cases are Comer Knight Eunice Hughes and George Armlstead Knight is accused of shooting Wilma Belcher pretty young blonde to death Hughes is alleged to have strangled hfs two year old stepdaughter while Armlstead will be tried for killing Lan der Jones In what he described as an "honor Coal Town Gallant Doomed To Chair or Death Third: Michigan State 3 3 Michigan 0 0 Second: Texas 0 7 Notre Dame 6 6 Recond: Rice 0 0 Purdue 0 0 Second: Nebraska 0 0 Minne aota 6 6 Third: Urslnus 7 Penn 6 inal: Columbia 12 Yale 6 Second: Auburn 0 0 Tulane 7 7 Secbnd: 15 Pres byterian 12 12 MORE TIME IS GIVEN GINNERS ON RETURNS day with at least 350 wounded as J( "It was a very proper verdict it has been my hardest tark but jus tice must prevail His assistant Hamid I tan nery agreed It Is a proper verdict Edwards trembled as he was handcuffed back to his cell In the county jail John Phillips of de fense counsel announced before the case went to the jury at 8:54 last night that an appeal would be made The jury retired for three hours sleep at 2:35 o'clock this morning but came back to its deliberations at 6 o'clock Edwards was accused of bludge oning to death Miss McKechnie as they swam together in Harvey's Lake the night of July 31st Miss McKechnie was to have be come a mother and the state charged that Edwards killed her so he could be free to marry Mar garet Crain East Aurora teacher whom he had met at Mansfield College sev eral year sago Population I X744) 1300 M75 W10 74M MU Montgomery oct 6 (ap cooperative campaign against a malaria moved forward today in' the Tennessee Valley aided by the drag which Dr Baker gtate health officer said of ten effected a cure in five days The campaign is waged by the "State Health Department and health officials of th Tennessee Valley Authority in the 10 Ala bama counties located in the val ley Preliminary work of making fee survey has begun already in two counties to determine the average number of cases of malaria in reach county Declaring that the' drug "aeta is four times more active than quinine Dr Baker said that one who has taken quinine in th usual amounts and over the a lengthy time deemed necessary rid one completely of malaria is likely to welcome this new agent and extreme NORTHWEST LORIDA: Partly C'lW tonight Sunday generally nur a TENNESSEE Cloudy with rain 1 xtrem portion tonight Sunday chane in tempera Weather outlook fop the week be Monday: Central and east guiL states generally fair 'except wiiz rains latter part of weeki somewhat warmer at close of week Star Witneii Partly Paralyzed rom Bums Now Able To Testify sault of troops One of those killed was a young girl and two others in high social circles The new Madrid outbreak between a group of worker guard in front of a hotel A MINERS WAGE GUERRILLA: WARARE WITH SOLDIERS 5 More Than 300 Wounded As Extremist! Launch New Snr prise Attack to Shatter Government Claim HARMON ORMS PTA Parent Teacehrs Association the Harmon School has been formed with the following offi cers Taylor president Mrs I Culbreth vice president Miss Clarice Ingram secretary The as next meeting will be held October 12th at 7 PRESIDENT CRUISING WASHINGTON Oct 6 President Roosevelt left the White House for Quantico Va shortly before noon today to board the Commerce Department yacht Se quoia for a week end cruise on the Potomac He was accompanied by members of his staff The party will return to Washington tomor i row afternoon i The local branch of the ederal Housing Administration in the last stages of a final drive for complete organization and with the appointment of an Advisory Committee already settled is to meet Tuesday night at 7:30 in the City Auditorium with Grif fin chairman supervising the meeting Leaders in the movement re quest all interested persons to at tend the meeting and offer sug gestions and help in getting the program started in this not eaid Grif fin "Are asked not to come as they would be more of a hindrance than an The Advisory Committee elect ed at the last meeting Is com posed of Hart Blanken ship Thomas Perry Calhoun Parsons and DeWitt Thomas It is possible however that this committee might be rearranged with the naming of the several other bodies at the next meeting Ten committees including the Executive Committee and inance body are to be selected and vari ous subsidiary groups named for service under them: ERA To Help In support of the housing pro gram local ERA headquarters has been instructed to offer aid in any way possible and several projects are pending One project already planned Is to have a num ber of ERA workers canvass the town and this entire section to find out who needs repairs on homes and to inform the owners of the housing plan for loans Mrrison head of the local ERA 'favors the housing pro gram and' pledges the support of his department Chairman Griffin said of the program here "I think with the aid of all the business men in this section we should be able to put this plan over but we have no use for those who are not going to work The banks are already inter ested and have pledged (Wr co operation in the program all we need now is the support of the people who wish to borrow money and really need Other Town Surrounding towns and communi ties are interested in the program according to Griffin who has made several trips into the towns for the purpose of contacting civic lead ers and several of them look to Dothan for leadership in the plan would follow every said Griffin The concensus on the Housing latest plan seems to favor it although several have raised slight objections to some phase or other Draw a Distinction Hart member of the Advis ory Committee said of the plan "I am in favor of anything that will offer work to those without it but am not in favor of a program irt stituted to further the Interests of the contractor and business Perry Calhoun also a member of the body says: "I see but one ob jection to the program and that is getting the banks to lend money at a rate making It attractive enough for the loans to be desired At the present rate of discount in terest 5 per cent the banker is not any too anxious to make the loan and you blame them They get better rates ordinarily The bankers now are requesting practically the same security and the same moral credit risk that they do in the usual business loan (Continued On Page Three) Dothan Spots Middling 1137 Strict Middling 1222 Strict Low 1157 NEW YORK Oct 6 ol lowing a brief meeting between Bruno Richard Hauptmann and his wife District Attorney Samuel oley today announced that his case against the taciturn German carpenter charged with receiving the Lindbergh ransom money was practically complete oley added that slight cleared "I am convinced' "that the Bronx Hauptmann will result In a con oley was asked whether Haupt mann was suspected of having had any confederates He replied: care about accomplices or confederates right now con cerned only with our case against oley Asserted he was "absolutely prepared" to absolve from corn complicity In the extortion case the late Isadora isch furrier who Hauptmann has declared gave him the ransom money found at his home isch died I Germany last March Davi Retainer Denied rom two sources today came de nials of a published report that John Davis New York lawyer and former presidential candidate had been retained to represent the state of New Jersey In extraditing Hauptmann to that state Meantime four of the five alien ists who examined Hauptmann said he is sane Hauptmann Sane Not only Is Hauptmann sane but he shows no sign of ever having suffered any mesital ailment the experts declared in a report which they submitted late yesterday to oley The fifth psychiatrist retained by the defense Is preparing an Inde pendent report for bmtaslon to counsel He declined to discuss hl findings 3 MILLER SURE BOTH MEN uf ATVfiN SAP Rum vn At dan the death list stood at 93 and the government of Premier Alejandro Lerroux against which the anarchist communist and socialists had declared war stated the general strike was a failure and that troop were being with drawn from moat of the battle front of the last two day Battle lare Suddenly Suddenly the extremist renewe Eleven more person wer killed In clashes during th morn Ing Trouble In the mining region Aflturlfts accounted for six dead1 In Madrid a boy of 14 on hl way to school and an unidentified laborer were killed when caught in a crossfire between extremist and Civil Guard in the Cuatro Cami no district Extremist attacked tne Civil Guard barrack at Colmlpar Vfezo and several were wounded In the ensuing battle A general strike was declared in Escorfal Vitoria Authorities In various outlying towns of Asturias reported con tinuous firing between group of ambushed miner an detach ments of troop and up until noon no one had been able to estimate just how many had been killed and wounded in this guerrilla warrare but it was regarded as likely that the casualties were many Tn Mad drld syndicalist and communtata maintained a running fire on guard from the rooftops of house on Pablo Iglesias street Th gov ernment ordered soldier to start a house to house attack in an ef fort to rout the snipers Extremist blasted the Remonta barracks with a volley of rifle fire then fled when the troop fired back A regiment of cavalry clattered Into San Sebastian with order to cut down everyone who offered any resistance but the casualties result were only five wound ed That city 'was placed in the hands of the authorities by the army mounting machine guns on the roof throughout the strategic tj districts Tn Bilbao the extremist etrlke was tightened completely paralys ing the city The strikers shot and killed a merchant who defied their orders and tried to keep his shop open The situation in Zaragoza was reported "tumultuous" Many dead were seen in the streets Th gov ernor of the Province of Zaragoza ordered army reinforcements in to relieve the beleaguered govern ment troop there ive extremists were killed and several wounded In Oviedo in the 4rriiKiA in t)iA capital and in Madrid many were killed including a guard In an in terchange of shots 5 Reports from Trubia said work i A in an rnntnrv thAA HAG CHICAGO Oct 6 Stack of document by which the govern ment hope to convict Samuel In 1ul! and hl associates for mall fraud vere piled high in the fed eral court today while the trial It self stood adjourned over the week end The maietial offered a evidence by the prosecution conslBtea or ledgers and brokers' accounts poaed to contain the laboratory records of the manner In which the etock of the Corporation Securities Company was allegedly synthetical ly produced The record demonstrated the elaborate method the government Is using In Its attempt to convict Insull and his 16 co defendanta on a charge of having Used the mails to defraud stock Investors out of some $100060000 ederal Judge James Wilker son ha barred detailed cross ex amination by the defense rulkig that it would have to confin itaelf to the few facta about which the prosecution had questioning th witnesses WASHINGTON Oct 6 (AP) A suit In which a Jersey City steel cocern assails NRA as unconstitu tional is considered likely to de velop Into a major test of the Blue Eagle agency The concern Ames and Com pany filed an action for an injunc tion In District of Columbia su preme court yesterday that Secretary Ickes Secretary Wallace and Thomas Donald chief of the bureau of pub lic roaas oe resirainea irooi en ers in an arms factory mere nao forcing an executive order of Pres armed themselves from the com fc toeci rtooseveit on tne ground tnat pany storeroom seized the plant the order led to an "illegal boy and successfully withstood the as Vs The order prohibit the use of federal fund to buy product from concern which fall to comply with code requirement Ames and Company which did not sign the reemployment agree ment nor any code said It lost sev eral contracts through the execu tive order Among other thing the company alleged the recovery act wa un constitutional a mere device to coerce this plaintiff among others similarly atuated to act as congress ind the president wish them to act in respect to matters completely the business of the state government under the federal constitution" MAxpMtinn of Extradition of Vt Pair Sought In Scandal MONTGOMERY Oct 6 M' eeived a telegram from Governor Herbert Lehman of New York Wtajkihg him to Investigate that two New York attorneys taken from Nashville in deflance of a writ of bcorpus ft WJ Governor Mill wired back that Jv th men Daniel Swift and Kone extradited legally and that there 1 "no danger of any personal to Complains Quoted 7 ''Governor telegram fol am In receipt of the fol lowing telegram from the Interna ('1 tfonal Juridical association: "Two New York attorneys forcibly taken yesterday from Nashville Tenn by men claiming to be local Alabama officials in defiance of a writ 6t ha beas corpus We respectfully urge 'ft to request Alabama governor to protect these lawyers against any further deprivation dr due proces A6 this incident arises out of the Scottsboro cases feelings may run high in Alabama and endanger the unless the governor takes steps to insure their I be llev this telegram should be brought to your attention I am confident of course that the state of Alabama will at all times respect the full rights of these two citizens of New York state I will greatly ft appreciate' your efforts to Insure their personal safety and the pres ervatlon of all their rights under the Governor Miller replied: telegram re two New York attorneys held in Alabama These men are charged with seeking' to 'ft bribe a witness in an important felony case pending in the court 6f Alabama They were found in Nashville Tenn I issued extradi tion papers and after the extradition was honored by the gov ernor of Tennessee and the men were brought to Alabama There Is 06 danger any personal violence to them They will be tried ac cording to law and win be given all Of their legal rights" Attorney General Thomas Knight Jr said no habeas cornua writ was served on any of the Ala 7s bama officials in Nashville WtT i Chief Executive Telegraph Ex Extradition of tz SPAIN COIMS i IM DEAD TOIL it RED RIOTS A i Qeorgia PoliticalBR1NG QUERY d0 Sbread Intn Nationalpie Ldunson Htwi At jftorueye Involved In Republican Chairman Sitting Pretty Inborn Bribery Chargee Over Democratic Internal i iAW WH orciblv Removed Invnlvinv nf 4 Battle of Roof Topi ought In Madrid Situation in Zara goza By REX SMITH (Associated Pres oreign Staff) (Copyright 1334 By Th Associated Press) I MADRID The death toll In extremist rebellion mounted to 104 persons at noon to machine guns rifles and pistol obliterated a government etate ment that tranquility had been re stored 'JRi oh e1.

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