The Dothan Eagle from Dothan, Alabama • 1

Weather Alabama: Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Thundershowers in south portion tomorrow. VOLUME 23. LOW FOG BANKS SHROUD FLIGHT OF LINDBERGHS Vacation Flyers Only See Earth Small Part of Time On Hop From Aklavik to Point Barrow NOW ARE AT AMERICA'S NORTHERNMOST OUTPOST Hundreds of Eskimos and Few Whites Give Aviation Pair Rousing Reception POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 8-(AP) -Colonel and Mrs.

Charles A Lindbergh, fying vacationists, arrived here today at America's northernmost outpost, 320 miles north of the Arctic circle, after flying through low-lying fog banks, which shrouded the way from Aklavik. Leaving Aklavik last night, Colonel Lindbergh set the plane down on open water here at 4 a. m. today (Alabama time), cove: 17g the 5 536 miles in six and half hours. For four hours through the Arctic night, Lindbergh zoomed through fog that hid the earth.

A handful of whites who live here and several hundred. Eskimos gave the flying fair a rousing welcome. ESKIMOS LIKE GRAPEFRUIT SEATTLE, Aug. Pioneering an air route along the Arctic rim of Alaska, Col. and Mrs.

Charles A. Lindbergh will encounter Eskimos with a taste for grapefruit and other trimmings of modern civilization. The Eskimos, practically all of whom talk English, would insist on grapefruit for breakfast if the traders could supply the demand, says Ralph Lomen of the Lomen Reindeer company. Even now the first trading -ships of the season are threading their way along the Arctic coast toward Point Barrow, Alaska. For many years ships have managed to get by Barrow late in July or early in August.

Large power boats, whole buildings, knocked down, radios, foodalmost everything conceivable form the cargoes of the trading ships, which return to the States and British Columbia with holds laden with furs. The natives live in frame houses brought in by boat from the outside or in semi-dugouts covered with driftwood and skins. Many of them achieve comparative wealth from their fur trading. SUGGESTS SENDING WHEAT TO CHINESE Man Who Directed 1930 Relief Work Declares 10 Million Face Starvation SHANGHAI, China Aug. 8 (AP) -Declaring 10,000,000 dwellers in the flooded valleys of central China face starvation before spring, John Baker, adviser to the minister of the railways at Nanking, suggested today that part of the United States farm board wheat surplus be poured into China under long-term credit arrangements.

Mr. Baker, who directed international relief work in the famine region in 1930, estimated the property damage at $300,000,000 and refused to even guess at the death till in the flooded territory, Baker estimated 5,000,000 bushels of wheat monthly would be required to feed the starving people until the new crops are made. The Nanking government has not begun a serious survey of the death toll, GEORGE L. FOX DIES NEW HAVEN, Aug. (AP)-George L.

Fox, retired educator, publicist and lecturer who twice acmpaigned for the Liberals in England, died here Thursday night from heart disease He was 79. Is for everything You may no longer need Quickly turned into cash With low cost and speed. EAGLE WANT ADS Phone 111 THE As Ina Claire Won Freedom Ina Claire, stage and screen star, is shown here in court at Los Angeles as she won an uncontested divorce from John Gilbert of the movies. She charged mental PHILLIES CATCHER TAKES LEADERSHIP IN CLOUTING RACE Virgil Davis Has Nine-Point Advantage Over Nearest Batting Rivals NEW YORK, Aug. Davis, the ball-pounding catcher from Philadelphia, is back at the head of the National league batting parade with a longer lead than any of the first place holders have had in some time.

The semiofficial averages which include Thursday's game show a .352 average for Davis, while his clouting teammate, Chuck Klein, and Charley Grimm of the Chicago Cubs, are tied for second place, nine points behind. Behind this pair, however, the contenders for batting honors in the elder major league are closely bunched. Harvey Hendrick is fourth at .339. Then come Terry, New York, O'Doul, Brooklyn, Hornsby, Chicago; Roettger, St. Louis, and Hogan, New York, tied at .331, and the tenth regular on the list Cuyler, Chicago, at .329.

The major slugging honors remain in Klein's hands, with few if to threaten his supremacy. The any Philly outfielder leads in three departments with 91 runs, 24 homers and 85 runs batted in. He is also tied with Lloyd Waner, Pittsburgh, for second place in the hits column. They have 144 safeties apiece while Babe Herman, Brooklyn, has made one more. Rogers Hornsby still leads in doubles with 35, one ahead of Sparky St.

Louis, and is second to Adams, Klein with 78 runs batted in. Herman also has hit 13 triples for second place in this department which is led by Bill Terry and Pie Traywith 14 each. Cuyler and nor Woody English, Chicago, share second honors in 1 scoring, each with 76 runs while 17 circuit clouts give Mel Ott, New York, the runner-up position. Frankie Frisch of St. Louis finalhas passed Cuyler in the base ly stealing race with 13 thefts to Cuy12.

Chicago's hold on team ler's is unchanged. The Cubs honors lead with a .294 batting average and a .975 fielding mark. Although Bob Osborn, Pittsburgh, holds first place at the top of still with five straight victhe pitchers Jess Halnes, St. Louis, is tories, the best moundsman in raeed as the league with nine wins and two Guy Bush, Chicago, has defeats. ten and lost three while anwon Cardinal, young Paul Darother ringer, is a good third with 13 vietories and four defeata Birminghma Asks For Improved Air Passenger Service BIRMINGHAM, Aug.

president of the F. G. American Airways, has advised the Junior Chamber of Birmingham Commerce that this city's request air passenger service for improved east has been given considto the will be presented to the eration and Air Transport, operators of Eastern the line from Atlanta east The junior chamber of commerce received word from simialso has bodies in Montgomery and lar that they will join this Nashville city in urging 'establishment of a connecting link between the three cities which also would hook up with transcontinental routes. DOTHAN Heard Them Say, 'Let Us Go To Dothan'." ALABAMA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST ALABAMA STATUTE BOOKS ARE BULGED BY 601 NEW LAWS Survivors of 1,828 Bills From 1931 Legislative Session In Effect Now MONTGOMERY, Aug. statute books strained at their bindings today to admit 601 new laws enacted at the 1931 session of the legislature, survivors of the 1828 bills introduced.

The files in the department of archives and history sent up a louder groan as it prepared to receive the 1,227 bills which were killed in committees, died on the calendar or were vetoed by the governor. The house ran away with all honors in every department, introduring 1,212 bills of which 432 became law 36 resolutions, enacted 24 bills into law over the governor's veto and saw 13 of their measures become law without the gove enor's signature as they lay on his desk the required six days. 616 BILLS INTRODUCED The senate contended itself with percentage honors, Introducing 616 bills of which 169 became law, 163 with the governor's signature, five over his veto and one by the sixday route. General bills led local measures by a wide margin in becoming Jaw with a total of 402 to 199. Twelve constitutional amendments received a two-thirds vote in each house and will be submitted to the people for ratification, five originating in the house and seven in the HUNDREDS NEW LAWS In the senate from the 616 bills introduced, 119 general measures became law and 50 local proposals while 283 general house bills became law and 149 local measures.

The session opened January 13 and adjourned sine die July 22, costing the state approximately 000. The 35 senators elected to seats, in the upper house remained throughout the session but three members dropped from the original ranks in the house. One died between election time and opening of the legislature, a second was killed during the session in an airplane crash at Mobile, while a third resigned to take over his duties as a county superintendent of education. $2,950 IS OFFERED FOR NEGRO SLAYER Authorities Believe Killer of Birmingham Girl Still In That Section BIRMINGHAM, Aug. today expressed the belief that the Negro slayer of Miss Augusta girl, was still in the area and Birmingham' redoubled efforts as the rewards offered mounted to $2,950.

Representative Negroes met yesterday and pledged cooperation with th authorities in bringing the gullty Negro to justice and Birmingham Civic and Improvement associacion, Negro organization, added $200 to the rewards offered. Police today held many suspects to take before Miss Nell Williams, sister of the slain girl, for possible identification. Fifteen suspects have been rounded up, but several have been released. Deputy Sheriff Robert Smith has been placed in charge of the search for the Negro slayer and is coordinating with agencies in the hunt. Miss Nell Williams and Miss Jennie Woods, wounded by the Negro, after he held them captive several hours, were reported somewhat improved.

Dothan Camp Names Delegates To 33rd National Gathering C. L. Doggerell, R. M. Jacobs, and William L.

Lee were elected last night to represent the Col. Wm. L. Grayson Camp 13, of the Spanish War Veterans, at the veterans' 33rd national convention in New Orleans, September 6-10. About 15 or 20 more members of the Dothan camp also wit attend the national convention, according to Miles S.

Brown, adjutant of the camp. Four Get Licenses For 2nd Marriages Two couples obtained marriage licenses for second matrimonial ventures here yesterday, according to files in the probate office. The couples who obtained marriage licenses were: Charlie Snellgrove and Mrs. Cora Lee Jordan, both of Ashford route one; and George S. Farnsworth of St.

Petersburg, and Margaret P. Alston, of Prattville EAGLE -Genesis 37:17 8, 1931 World's Largest Airship to Be Christened To NEST FOR SIXTEEN INFLATED WITH MACHINE GUNS NON EXPLOSIVE GAS: 0 EIGHT MOTORS CARRIED INSIDE HULL FIVE FIGHTING PLANES CARRIED RADIO AND TELEVISION HERE EQUIPMENT Above is shown the U. S. Navy's new dirigible, Akron, the largest, fastest and safest airship in the world--its designers believe--which was to be christened this afternoon at Akron, Ohio. Mra.

Herbert Hoover was to christen giant dirigible. Thousands of persons thronged the city to be present at the christening, one of the most important events in the history of aeronautics. Carrying five milltary planes within its hull and mounting 16 machine guns, the Akron will be a veritable fortress of the air. The new zeppelin, 785 feet from stem to stern, nine feet longer than the Graf Zeppelin, with a gas capacity of almost twice as much as the Graf, was to rest today in the cradle of the hangar where it was built until Mrs. Hoover pulled the cord to release a flock of homing pigeons resting in the hatch of the nose of the ship.

The dirigible was partly filled with helium to permit the ship to lost forward 40 feet, but the trial flight was not to be made until about September 1. JUNIOR GOLF TITLE MATCH TOMORROW William Espy and Reynolds May, to Meet In Finals of Dothan Tourney The city junior golfing championship will be determined tomorrow afternoon when Reynolds May, and William Espy play in the finals of the tournament, in which the younger golfers of the city have been competing at the Dothan Country club course during the past two weeks. Young Espy and May are evenly matched and a battle Is expected before the winner is decided in the match tomorrow. May went to the finals in the tournament by running away from Ingram Hanahan. 7 and 5, In semi-finals match Thursday.

Espy made sure of his chance for the city championship crown by nosing out Paul Flowers, 1-up in an extrahole battle Tuesday, The championship contest will start at 2 p. m. tomorrow over the 18-hole route. 175 Are Scheduled To Take Government Examinations Here About 175 applicants for the Civil service job of junior file clerk will take examinations here August 10, according to J. H.

Bell, secretary of the board of examiners. Two classes will be necessary to accomodate the number of applicants, which is the largest number to apply for an examination here, Mr. Bell said Applicants will come from Alabama, Florida and Georgia to take the examination here, according to Mr. Bell. All applicants, whose applications have been accepted, will be mailed admission cards, Mr.

Bell said. Peeresses Continue In Fight for Equal Rights With Lords LONDON, Aug. 8. (AP) British peeresses in their own right want to sit in the house of lords and are making a determined effort to crash the gate of that famous Mall. There about 30 in all, led by Lady Rhondda, a woman of action who is, among other things, a company director and editor of a lively topical magazine.

So far their luck has been bad. Prime Minister MacDonald 18 sympathetic, but says it is up to the house of lords. The lords, no little aghast, say, "No," or merely, "My word!" The government says the removal of sex disqualification destroyed the prohibition against peeresses. The lords say there is nothing on the statute books which would permit their admission. The ladies say it is a vicious circle and that they intend to petition the king.

The battle has been going on since 1919 and Viscount Astor twice has been defeated when he introduced bills in the house of lords to remedy the situation. Dothan Spots ...712 "For I DOTHAN MOST OFFENSIVE POWER DISPLAYED BY N. Y. YANKEES Five Batters On Team Hitting Better Than Ruth Is Leading League CHICAGO, Aug. -Whatever else the Yankees lack, it isn't offensive power.

Semi-official averages which include Thursday's games reveal that the firm of Ruth and Gehrig is in control of five Individual leaderships; that five are batting better than that the Yank batting average is .296 and gives them a tie with Washington and Cleveland for first place, and that Ben Chapman is in a class by himself as a base stealer. Babe Ruth successfully batted off Al Simmons of the Athletics in the batting championship contest, but the Philadelphia seige gun was creeping up. Ruth's mark was .384, two points off from last week, while Simmons increased his average five points to .382. Other leading regulars were: Webb, Boston, .366, West, Washington, Morgan, Cleveland, Goslin, St. Louis, Gehrig, New York, .344: Cochrane.

Philadelphia, Averill, Cleveland. .336 and Haas, Philadelphia, .326. Gehrig was out in front In four offensive departments. He had batted home 116 runs, to 114 for the Babe; had 31 home runs to 30 for Ruth, had scored 109 times and led in total bases with 278. Simmons topped the list in hits with 163 and had 13 triples while Earl Webb of Boston had collected 51 doubles in his pursuit of George Burns' American league record of 64.

Chapman's 43 stolen bases placed him far out in front. The Yankees had scored 712 runs in 104 games, with Washington second with 616 in 105 contests, and the Athletics third with 613 in 106 games. The A's, however, had held the opposition to 432 runs, Washington had given up 469 while New York had had its plate crossed 539 times. Philadelphia continued to lead in team fielding with .978, the same as last week, while St. Louis had turned in 113 double plays, The pitching situation was merely a story of Bob Grove's drive toward 30 or more victories this season.

The lanky southpaw was credited with another victory and had the fine record of 22 triumphs and two defeats. Fred Marberry of Washington had 12 victories and two defeats, while George Earnshaw, the right-handed part of Connie Mack's staff, had 17 victories and five defeats as well as leading in strikeouts with 124. Covington Farmers Prepare to Plant Hay Crops in Fall ANDALUSIA, Aug. Having harvested big yields of excellent hay in the late spring from mixtures of Austrian winter peas and oats, Covington county farmers are now preparing to plant winter peas and oats this fall. W.

T. Cheney, county agent, reports outstanding yields of 22,000 pounds hay on six acres by L. D. Foshee of Red Level, 7,400 pounds on two acres by J. L.

Ellis and 420 pounds on nine acres by T. J. Morrison. During the winter W. R.

Jordan let 26 head of cattle graze on 20 acres of winter peas. He took them off in the spring, allowed the peas to make sufficient growth and then turned them under. A big crop of corn is being made on this land now, after its Agent Cheney reports that winter peas are proving themselves to be very valuable for hay, grazing and also soil improvement. Farmers of Covington county are turning to them on a larger scale. Headland Juveniles Defeated By Dothan Hitch-Hiking' Team The Dothan Bulldogs, Dothan juvenile baseball team, defeated the Headland Tigers of Headland by a close score of 15 to 14, in a hotly contested baseball game, at Headland, today.

The youngsters "hitch-hiked" to Headalnd today. The Headland team is expect to "bum" its way to Dothan for a return engagement. The Bulldogs -re planning 10 catch rides to Graceville for a game there next week. The line-up for the Dothan juvenile team follows: Catcher, Ross Stephenson; Pitcher, Grady Hartzog; 1st base, Buddy Speight; 2nd base, John David Shanks; Shortstop, Robert McRae; 3rd base, Marvin Middlebrooks; L. Field, Britt Sheehan; R.

Field, TruItt Hall; C. Field, Hosea Wilson. NUMBER 286. HIGHER COTTON CROP ESTIMATE THAN EXPECTED Yield of 15,584,000 Bales In U. S.

Is Predicted In Report Issued By Government PRICES ON CHICAGO MART CLOSE 137 POINTS LOWER 1,263,000 Bales Estimate for Alabama, With Condition 70 Per Cent WASHINGTON, Aug. production this year Indicted by the condition August 1 was announced by the department of agriculture today as 15,584,000 equivalent 500-pound bales. Condition of the crop was placed at 74.9 or normal and the acreage in cultivation July 1 at 41.491,- 000, with an estimate that 40,129,000 acres would be picked. The Alabama crop was estimated at 1,263,000 bales, with condition 70 per cent. REPORT CAUSES SURPRISE Bankhead's Primary Expense Less Limit, Jarman Says MONTGOMERY, Aug, 8 -(AP) -Secretary of State Jarman terday told Senator Hastings, of Delaware, chairman of the United States Senate elections contest committee, that Senator Bankhead, of Alabama, did not exceed the limit of $10,000 in the primary campaign all last year.

Secretary Jarman said records! in his office showed Senator Bankhead spent $8,831.50 in the primary and figures of $11,531, given by Frank Hampton, attorney for former Senator J. Thomas Heflin, as the amount spent by Senator Bankhead referred to both primary and general election expenses. BANK GOLF TEAM CAPTURES MATCH TO LEAD TOURNEY Arthur Sanders Shatters Par On Course to Lead Team to Decisive Victory Winning three points in a match yesterday with the City Tire Co. team, the Houston National Bank golfers took the lead in the bust; ness men's golf tournament at the Country club course. The Houston National Bank team has scored five points in the tourney.

Malone Slingluff Insurance Co. team 18 second, with four points. In defeating the City Tire Co. yesterday, Arthur Sanders, Houston Bank star, had a brilliant score of 69, one under par for the course, negotiating the first nine holes in 33 and the second nine in 36. Marcellus Spann, Sanders' partner, also shot good golf in the victory over Jim Brennan and Az Flowers, City Tire players, the latter substituting for Ed Crawford, city champion, who was unable to play on account of business obligations.

The Dothan Bank Trust Co. golfers took the measure of The Dothan Eagle team, 1-up, players on the former team being Drury Flowjers and Az Flowers and for the latter, D. B. Scott and Horace Hall, Malone Slingluff golfers also handed The Eagle players a defeat, capturing two points. Raymond Spann and Reynolds May, were the Malone Slingluff golfers.

Health Officer Says Clean Up Back Yard Dr. F. G. Granger, county health officer, today advised Dothan persons to clean up yards where mosquitoes might breed. cane, weeds and ditches in backyards offer a good breeding place for mosquitoes, the doctor said.

Dr. Granger said he could only request persons to look after mosquito breeding places as the control of mosquitoes in Dothan was place ed in the city's hands several years ago, during the late Dr. Neff'a administration. Mosquito control in the county is still being carried on, however. wth several drives being made now, the health officer said.

B. Y. P. U. SCHOOL AT CHURCH ENDS One of Most Successful Ever Held, Baptist Association President Says The Y.

P. U. study school, which was started at the Smyrna Baptist church Monday night and ended last night, WAg one of the most successful ever conducted in the Columbia Baptist Association, according to J. H. McDaniel, preslof the association, who had charge of the senior department of of the school.

Average attendance at the school was 62, the average dally Biblereaders totalled 56 and 69 took the I exminations. Mr. McDaniel said that it was the first time during his long experience with such work that an Intermediate B. Y. P.

U. department was organized while a B. P. U. study course was being conducted.

Mrs. G. C. Posey was elected 815 leader of the newly-organized intermediate department. Arthur J.

WIlliams, of Dothan, was the teacher for the Intermediate division Mins Ammie Kilgore, of the Smyrna community, was the teacher in the junior department. A B. Y. P. U.

convention will be held at the Memphis church, five miles mouth of Dothan Sunday at was announced today by Mr. MoDaniel, The convention will start at 2 p. m. New Trial Granted Because Deathbed Scene Was Staged MONTGOMERY, Aug. (AP)--Staging a deathbed scene fore the jury may be a trump card to the prosecutor but the court of appeals has called for a new deal.

Awarding C. C. White another trial and reversing his sentence of 20 years for slaying G. C. Roper in Shelby county, the appellate court ruled that deathbed scenes "should never be permitted." Judge W.

H. Samford, associate justice of the court of appeals, held that the appearance of Roper's widow before the jury and her story of holding her husband's hand 8.8 he died, "was not evidence of facts and circumstances of the homicide but a scene whose only effect was to prejudice the jury against the slayer. Justice can never be administered in this way." Court testimony White showed that he killed Roper in an argument at Roper': home after the men had been drinking but the state offered evidence that White shot Roper down shortly after entering the house and that there was no drinking on Roper'a part Tailors In Germany Sponsoring College For Style-Teaching BERLIN, Aug. 7. (AP) Not even creative Paris, where quen fashion has her domicile in thousands of millineries and rules an army of dutiful servants, posesses an educational institute for Its "petites midinettes" such as Berlin is proud of having opened as first city in the world.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. Exclamations of astonishment arose from traders on 1 the New Orleans cotton exchange, who remained after the close of the to receive the government estimate of cotton crop in excess of 15,000,000 bales, which exceeded by a million bales the highest private estimate. The New Orleans and New York cotton exchanges closed before the crop announcement but in Chicago, where the market was still open, the closes were down 137 points, ANOTHER PROTEST ION PROPOSED HIKE OF FREIGHT RATES National Pecan Marketing Group Voices Complaint Against Railroad Request JACKSON, Aug. 8. (AP) The National Pecan Marketing sociation, which functions in ten Southern states has added 1 its voice to protests against the proposed increase in freight rates applied for by railroads of the country before the Interstate Commerce Commission.

H. G. Lucas, Brownwood, Texas, president of the National Pecan Marketing association, declares "that because of the alleged excessive freight charges already existing in the shipping classification in which the pecan falls, producers are transporting 90 per cent of their product by truck." "If the Increase just applied for is granted," says Mr. Lucas," an even greater use of the motor transportation will be resorted to." The National Pecan Marketnig association operates in Alabama, Texas, Okiahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina in the cooperative marketing of pecans for its 3,000 members. Last year the associati on handled tel million pounds of pecans.

Boom in Needley Knitting Under CANBERRA, Australia, (AP)- -Remarkable revival alework and knitting is throughout Australia. Shopkeepers' sales of knitting and sewing yari other needlework materials the past few months have precedented. It is a result of the dep Reduced incomes have necei household and clothing ecol Daughters now out of empli cannot sit Idl at home, get busy with knitting need Then there is the greater and more urgent appeals by volent societies, and many a muter spends traveling time day in making garments fe needy. All this female industry is another effect, too. There has an amazing slump in the pri women's wear and ol tablished businesses that dea rich goods have failed.

CRAMER FORCED DOWI LONDON, Aug. 8. (AP)--A 1 ter's dispatch from Copenha said Parker Cramer, American man, had made a forced land somewhere between Iceland the Faroe Islands but expected be able to proceed..