The Dothan Eagle from Dothan, Alabama • 1

Dothan Spot Strict iddling 550 Middling 540 Strict Low Middling 575 The Dothan Eagle VOLUME 24 DOTHAN ALABAMA NUMBER 67 Jap Troops ace Bitter Cold Judge Turns To Nab Gang I PROPOSED TAX re leg re HAVE MARTIAL LAW TO AMPLIY SUBJECT of Ala Dec Muscle Shoals to Chattanooga for plant have been given I that nf Mr crime of was reelected clerk returned the blue be a mention know By PALMER CO of NEW YORK the to return In num to brush adde the the govern behind some the not say for toplc to Coll rank went and will a greater nearly an of of Judge Mrs sections from the Shoals and from grounds that the were unprepared of officers at the oster street last none of he car was to for the of home Ioan home owning Clothes may not make but they certainly make father sleeps during ATAL STABBING SON The rain fell slowly soak into the soil to depth than the rain of in last riday Rain started falling here late yes terday afternoo nand continued at intervals through the night and this morning The second rain within a week fell in this section last night aid today the rainfall here measuring an inch and a quarter according tp the at the fire depart ment BERLIN Dec 9 The Damoclean sword of threatened martial law hung over the heads Of Adolf Hitler and other opposition forces of Germany Dr Heinrich Bruenlng scholar and chancellor delivered a warning in a radio ad dress last night which followed the signing by President Hindenburg of the new drastic emergency degree which slashed wages prices? and rents In the nation The six men who wer sentenced to the penitentiary June 1 after they pleaded guilty in circuit court here to manslaughter charges in connection with the death of Wes Skipper of the Rehobeth commun ity asked clemency of the state pardon board yesterday afternoon according to an Associated Press dispatch from Montgomery WASHINGTON Dec (AP) The administration recommenda tion for the raising of taxes on a widespread basis went today to Congress where at once It met with Democratic resistance President Hoover and Secretary Milon Joined In presenting the dis mal story of ederal finances along with the budget verging on $4000 000000 "fhe president detailed the need of meeting th deficit with promises which exceed that figure by the end of the next fiscal year as the way out Secretary Mellon advocated high tax rates to take effect next month and apply on this Income tax No sooner had the report reached the capitol than the Demo crats began attacking It Young Man ined $10 In Court On Charge Of Stealing Auto Tire Unemployed Army Leaves The Capital Without Results APPEALS OR SIX MADE TO STATE PARDON BOARD ENTERPRISE Dec 9 (Spe Mrs Hutchison (Nell anning Hutchison) of Enterprise has been notified by the Birming ham News that she was one of the two wnners of the $10 prizes offer ed by The News and Age Herald during the month of November for the best feature story WASHINGTON Dec The demonstrators who loudly sang "The In front of the Capitol and White Washington yesterday subdued fined a 30 Enterprise Woman Awarded $10 Prize or eature Story SKIPPER CASE PRISONERS ASK OR CLEMENCY of re House left silent and orrester Is Named Commander Of Dothan WOW Three Negroes reed Of Garmbling Charge the police District This morning the communist newspaper "Rote ahne" took up the challenge and branded hfs and appealed to the basses to cajl a general strike Dec 15 In protest against the "dictatorship" wage cuts the man the gang ster That tough looking "hood lum" at the left Is none other than Judge rancis Rorelll of Chicago's municipal court who in this disguise invaded gangland haunts and gathered evidence aganst the notorious "42 long called a school from which larger gangs dra wther recruits At the right Is a late picture of the Judge Dothan Unemployed To Sell Magazines I' COLVMBIANA Dec Rush Reynolds was confined in the Shelby county jail today charged with fatally stabbing Walker Rey nolds his younger brother and Pat Reynolds was being sought In con section with a fight in which the three brothers engaged last night Nettie Aldridge said to have wit gessed the fight which took place in the Reynolds home midway be Montevallo and Calera was being held today as a material wit ness Officers said Walker Reynolds was stabbed In the neck and face and died instantly Pat Reynolds vu said to have received a slashed hand Jim Reynolds father of the Reynplds who were said tohave engaged In the fatal fight was asleep at the home and did not witness the struggle officers ported Cause of the trouble among 'three Reynolds brothers was'determined The Weather Alabama: Unsettled tonight and probably rain in the east portion Cooler in extreme aouthweat portion Thunday The project iovIUes for a nine foot navigable depth from the mouth of the river to Knoxville The report disapproved new work being started on mouth to Muscle Knoxville on the power Interests (o cooperate In high dam construc tion Messenger Bicycle Stolen Judge Recommendt Mercy or Defendant Blames Mate Of Slain Woman WOMAN ESCAPES ELECTRIC CHAIR Soil will be in shape Ing oats and winter forage crops farmers said here today Pastures and garden crops also will be bene fited by the rain WASHINGTON Dec To balance the treasury Kooks and hasten better days President Hoo ver recommended Increased taxa tion to Congrss yesterday along with a many pointed program to cure "credit paralyse Unless taxes go up and expendi tures down he said ment will have run $4400000000 by the end of next fiscal year He did not specify the method of tax revision but sug gested it be made effective for only two years A plan for a gigantic fedral financed Reconstruction Corpora tion headed the pro posals to help business The would advance money to needy in dustries Besides in his third annual mes sage to congress he advocated that Subscribe more funds to federal land barks Use federal reserve banks to lib erate funds arrested in failed banks Establish a home loan discount bank system Broaden the base for paper serve banks can discount Overhauf banking laws Review postal savings bank islatlon Avoid general tariff revision Revise interstate commerce com mission Jaws regulating raiis Allow "proper of railroads Adjust anti trust laws to remove injustices Refrain from extending expen ditures on veterans Regulate interstate transmission of electrical power Reject proposals for government dole Transfer shipping board admin istrative functions to commerce department Make shipping board a regula tory body having jurisdiction over coastwise shipping and rates and services on inland waterways Strengthen immigration laws Attorneys Seek Parole or Men Now Serving Sentences or atal Shooting Of Rehobeth Man Plan avors One Section Of Tennessee River Bnt Is Against Other Two The Christmas number of The War Cry Salvation Army magazine is here and will be sold by the un employed and needy in Dothan Captain Tldman of the Salvation Army announced today A per centage of each sale will be given to the person selling the magazine Captain Tldman raid All will be canvassed bv those selling the War Cries accord ing to Captain Tldman Mrs story was sel ected from among stories submit ted by the 250 other news sent to the Birmingham News and Age Herald Mrs story featured Mrs Lillie Purvis a Cof fee county woman who furnished her home with $345 This is the second time that Mrs Hutchison has received rec ognition from the Birmngham pa per havng been awarded a $10 bonus for a feature story written during the Elba flood She has been a correspondent of this paper for the past six years and is so ciety editor for the newspaper here She is also correspondent for other state papers Brother Of Victim Sough By Officers In Connection With ight President Hoover And Secretary Mellon Present Dismal Story Of inances Their faithful escorts went with them to the Columbia line and an exchange farewell greetings followed They took the form however what has been colloquially describ ed as the razzberry accompanied by uncomplimentary motions of the hands orrester was elected coun sel commander of the Woodmen of of the World Camp No 131 at th annual election hall night Holland and Belcher was chosen man ager to succeed A Whlddon Other officers elected were Tidwell advisory lieutenant A Davis banker Mixon escort Brown watchman: Tom Woodham sentry TRIAL ISSTARTEDTODAY WASHINGTON Dec Sccretany Hurley submitted to Congress today recommendations for the Tennessee river improve ment favoring further authoriza tion for one section of the river but recommending against the other two sections Urge Action Must ace A Temporary Increase In Taxes President Says Secretary Hurley asked that $22 500000 be authorized for low dam construction in the section from Mtlinls Qforxalsi f'halfSnnAHa Recommendation! or Keeping ive Companion! Are Preaented Commnniat Newapaper In Ger many Issues Strike Call or Dec 15 WOOSTER Ohio Dec 9 (AP) Mrs Julia Lowther 24 con fessed killer of Mrs Clara Smith escaped death In the electric chair today when Common Pleas Judge George Starn returned a verdict of first degree murder with mercy recommended i The sentence requires a sentence of life Imprisonment and Starn promptly sentenced Lowther Judge Starh declared the of killing Mrs Smith was planned I by her husband Trilby Smith rather than rMs Lowther Smith was electrocuted In November High Lights Of Message To Congress Second Rain Within Week ell In This Section Night And Today Dec In President t0 congress WASHINGTON High spots message yesterday were: "A strong America Is the highest contribution to world stability" "We must put some steel beams In the foundations our credit structure" "The first requirement confidence and of economic covery Is financial stability of the United States must have Insistent and determined reduction In gov ernment expenses" "Ve must face a temporary Increase In taxes" "lam opposed to any direct or Indirect government dole" "The emergencies of unem ployment have been met by ac tion in many directions" "I am opposed to nny general congressional review of thiVtar "Hie country Is richer In phy steal property in newly dlscov eved resources and In produc tive capacity than ever before" "We arc at peace with the world We have cooperated with other nations to preserve peace The rights of our citi zens abroad have been protect "We do not require more money or working we need to put what we have to "If the Is to regain Its standards of Ufa it must furth er decrease both naval and oth er arms" "Our system based on Ideals Of Individual Initiative and of equal opportunity Is not an ar tlflclal things II has success fully adjusted tsdf to changing conditions In the past It will do so "Business depressions are but transitory The nation has emerged from each of them with Increased strength and virility" PROGRAM Decreased appropriations and Increased taxes to assure the stability of the government Creation of a Reconstruction Corporation to make advance to needy Industries Provision to release assets frozen In failed hanks urther treasury subscrlp tlens to the federal land hanks Establishment banks to make easier Liberalization hanks rules to make more pa per discountable Revision of Interstate com merce laws to help solve the railway question Revision of anti trust laws to prevent burdensome Inequali ties Mr Hoover told the legislators he would deal with taxation more fully in hig budget message He did say the $2123000000 deficit ex pected this year needs to be par tially financed by borrowing but taxation should be so Increased as to balance the budget next year Seldom has he been more em phatic than in warning that for Congress to go beyond the limits he prescribes either expendi tures taxes or borrowing will de stroy confident denude com merce and inrustry of its re sources jeopardize the financial system and actually extend unem ployment and demoralize agricul ture rather than relieve "It is a distressful time for many of dur people" the president said they have shown quali ties as high in fortitude courage and resourcefulness as ever in our history "With that spirit I have faith that out of it will come a sounder life a truer standard of values a greater recognition of the results of honest effort and a healthier atmosphere in which to rear our children" OPPOSES INCREASE He flatly opposed any Increased expenditure for veterans "untll'thc country has recovered from the present Present expen ditures upon those who have served the nation exceeded $1000000000 a year As for the tariff he said general revision would "disturb Industry business and agriculture and would prolong the He held the tariff commission Is able to make any needed revision The chief executive promised several more messages to Congress He set no date for submitting the one year moratorium on Inter gov ernmental debts but did elgn relations would be discussed later Neither was there of prohibition He NEW YOU Dec 9 (AP) The lives of two gangsters were placed on the scales of Justice to day to be balanced against the life of flve ycar old Michael Vengall killed July 28 by a voley of bullets poured Into a group of children playing In a Harlem street Shortly before Vincent Rronx gang leader and Giordan his lieutenant through the Initial stages of their trial Assistant District Attorney James Neary announced: "We shall demand that the Uvea of these two gangland murderers be forfeited In the electric Giordano already had been sen tenced to die next month for an other gangland murder TENNESSEE VALLEY HOPES OR ACTION ON MUSCLE SHOALS Medting Being Held To A LORENCE The Tennessee Valley has bestirred itself with renewed hopethat the 72nd Congress will break the shackles that have boundMuscle Shoals for more than tenyesn and permit it to "cash its resources Sensing the report of the MuscleSkoals Commission as a call to ac tion residents of the valley are banding themselves into a concert ed move to make their voices beard in Washington A mass meeting held here Nov 24 gave endorsement of the plan for private leas tog of the plant for fertilizer man ufacture and other mass meetings lave been called this month at Rus i nllville and Decatur to urge con cessional action Civic interests instigated the movement in both instances and setthe Russellville meeting for Dec ember 8 at the ranklin county court house and the DN'atur meet ing December 9 at the city hall The plan calling for private operation "preferably farmers re ceived a cordial response from the executive committee of the Ala bsma arm Bureau ederation andthe lorence Sheffield and Tus unbla posts of the Alabama de Ptrtment of the American Legion live approval In a resolution Both the lorence mass meeting Ud a special delegation of Shoals enthusiasts to Washington head ed by Mayor Lee Glenn of lor Jtte expressed opposition to the government operation plan twice vetoed and which it has beenMmated may again come before Assistant District Attorney Says He Will Demand Lives Of Slayera coming some of the demonstrators said "and then fix "Oh coats The promise hers sufficient police who barred their entrance to Congress and the executive man sion was frequently heard The time for the second march on the capital however was and uncertain Although their leaders Including Herbert Benjamin spokesman for the more than 1500 marchers were enthusiastic the concrete results of the demonstration when compiled seemed zero The program demanding unem ployment insurance and other re lief measures was never presented Turned away at the White House and Senate th leaders refused to send their petitions in They saw President Green of the American ederation of Labor but he called Them Communists Throughout their stay here there was only one arrest and curiously the person taken into custody was a specta I tor He laughed too loudly and I too long at the somewhat motley crew I not name nor after he bought the tire anti tube from him I one night last month Three witnesses substantiated story tn the main points Witnesses for the prosecution testi fied the the and tube were stolen Beit Klikland a young man tes tified In common pleas court today that the automobile tire and tube he was accused of stealing was purchased by him from a "chunky" Negro for a quarter but Judge Keener Baxley apparently discount ed the story because he Kirkland $10 and gave him day suspended Jail sentence Kirkland said he dirt the "chunky" what became of him of life it ''must further decrease both naval and other arms" saw hope in the corning Geneva disarmament conference and in naval negotiations between rance and Italy Skipping quickly over the world i map he spoke of revolutions or acute social disorders in 18 coun tries and the resultant economic effect upon America He mention ed the Slno Japanese difficulty IUk I vvavax Pftcnt iViHl'lll WOULD SUSTAIN ACTS The United States he said would sustain the spirit of its peace treaties and those "assuring the territorial integrity of treaties and those "assuring the territorial in tegrity of The chief executive found much difficulty to have arisen from the substractlon of $1100000000 from circulation through hoarding He saw a weakness too in the increas ed bank assets invTsted in long term securities which sometimes lose their liquidity "The situation arises largely from an unjustified lack of confi dence" he asserted "We have enormous volumes of Idle monev in the banks and In hoarding We do not require more money or work ing we need to put what we have to INCH AND QUARTER HIRER GROUP MAY RAINALL HERE Attorneys representing the six men before the pardon board cald that red McCary who wag sen tenced to prison for 10 years killed Skipper with a pistol that the other five men knew tied and that the beating have been administered "good of the community" Recommendations for the parole of the five companions of McCary werp presented from prominent persons of this community among them one from Mrs Skipper ab solving McCary's companions from any blame in the shooting of her husband according to Information received here Appeals for the men were taken under advisement by the pardon hoard The fatal shooting of Skipper oc curred ebruary 9 when the si men went to home It thrash him for being so McCary a neighbor of Skipper was said to have knocked at the door calling on Hklpplr to "conn outside" In a fight that followed appearance at the door he was shot and killed dying 1 1 following day of a wound In stomach McCary and his five comnnhlons Jonah Newton John Pippin Shelley Barber Alphus Rice and Hebe Barton were indicted on first degree murder charges and re mained in jail here until the week set for their trials when tn a sur prise move the defendants agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter charges A special venire of 84 men in cluding 40 additional prospective Jurors and 44 summoned for regu lar duty was to have been called for the trials of the six men but the latter agreed to the selection of a Jury from the venire then em paneled to approve of the sen punishment was fixed at 10 years Imprisonment the others five years The death of Skipper and the charges filed against the six accus ed men attracted wide notorlty Each of the six defendants ware to I separate trials 'nat or McCary to have been held first "or I Heard Them Say 'Let Us Go To Genesis 3717 WEDNESDAY ATERNOON DECEMBER 9 1931 Braving bitter cold Japanese tr oops are shown here at the battle front in Manchuria where new hostilities on a large scale are im pending Above is a Japanese eglment entering Houllapa In the advance from Anganchi Below you see heavlly lad soldiers dis playing a Chinese flag captured in the fighting near that we hang on i tree Pretty a pretty can be new ones this year dd the cheer wno drop In to see Albert Kennedy Western Union messenger boy said today that his bicycle stolen from his home 310 Powell street Saturday night had not been found He said he left the bicycle on the lawn at his home Intending to take the bicycle inside the house later wuenuec turned for the bicycle It was gone young Kennedy said The bicycle was about a year old and bore a Western Union sign Kennedy said The theft has been reported to the 11 police Balancing Treasury Books I Will Hasten Better Days Hoover 'Advises Congress while the car was narked 1 i Henry Kirkland broth I er of Bert Kirkland also was ac 1 riisttd In the fkef cf the lift and I tub' but wee freed by Judge Bax Brooks and Eula Mae Brooksl and another Negro were freed of 'gambling charges after a hearing I in common pleas court today i AVT GET ALIO TWS deputies testified they I ATLANTA 9 'AP) i caught the Negroes rolling dice on BIRMINGHAM Dec Georgia motorljts cennot purcha: iu table at their home with 85 or The Jefferson county grand Jury their tags until January 1 i 40 cents on a peuruary 1 Judge Keener Baxl'v dismissed bloodhounds by the county to aid 1 or euffer a 20 pi cent penalty the three Negroes with a warning In tracking criminals The recorn plus 11 to the sheriff ot their re (that he was giving them the bene mendatlon was included In the final sp' tive ro fit of the doubt but If they were report of the grand jury for 1931 The 1931 gldat ut made this ever arresGd again on gambling In which 185 Indictments were re I important change in the lav gov charges there would be punish turned jernlng llcenxc plate nt i Cotton Market RIVER IMPROVING HIKE OPPOSED RECOMMENDATIONS BY DEMOCRATS GOTO CONGRESS any plans in th" coming weeks to forward recom mendations for strengthening law enforcement and judicial proce dure SHOALS REPORT PROMISED As to Muscle Shoals he promised to transmit to Capitol HUI the re port of the Alabama Tennessee I war department committee which favored private operation of the i huge wartime plant I He commended the interstate I commerce commission conclusions on railroad consolidation and re lated matters for early considera i tlon During the next few months he also will send the legislators sug gestions ror runner reorganization and consolidation among federal has recommended the purchase of end must bin aepanmencs nese win apply par ticularly to the department of the interior headed by Secretary Wil bur The President led of saying if the world is to regain its standards BAN IS HELD IN SLAYING BROTHER A i Said To Have ight Of Brothen Held As Material I Witness i 'pwwroRi'1 I Open High Low Close PC Jan 59" 597 539 589 597 Meh 616 616 607 607 616 May 633 634 626 626 634 July 650 651 642 642 650 Oct 675 676 663 669 675 Dec 595 595 585 585 595 NEW ORLEANS Jan 597 597 591 592 597 Meh 617 617 607 609 616 May 633 634 C25 628 634 July 643 649 641 642 650 ct 670 671 665 665 671 Dec 590 593 586 587 3t.