The Dothan Eagle from Dothan, Alabama • 1

JSi Weather Leased Wire Associated Press DOTHAN ALABAMA WEDNESDAY ATERNOON OCTOBERS 1930 Daily NBA and AP eatures COTTON PRODUCTION 14486000 BALEr I BOX SCORE COTTON CROP RENCH IGNORE Killed When Dirigible Exploded ESTIMATE IS TREATY RIGHTS The oficbtl box acorc: MUCH LARGER AMERICANS i nt 7 27 the 101 who lost their lives 4' 1 the A Con STATE at (I'LKAHE 71 H5 70 BACK PAGE) I Unofficial Vote Of City And County Boxes BOXES 14 3 IK I in 318 342 694 207 TOTAL 1208 19 1030 901 of of SHOWS MORE PRODUCTION THAN SEPTEMBER ESTIMATE however in a test before five different 0 0 0 0 went down to the pen as the inning mom been their early was charged opened be etle called last Weevil damage this year was light the report said compar ed with former years due to the severe drought during the formative stage of the crop Heavy rains in September caus ed considerable quantities of cotton to fall to the ground 0 0 52 20 In fol (A) first Morlarlty 1:46 17 2 0 0 0 2 3 3 0 2 0 0 (AP) 146000 of this month by the to to BIRMINGHAM Ain Oct 8 Thomas Ross ami Ma theny hold here in connection with Get 1 and by stntes At PETITION AVOR DISCONTINUANCE BOWDEN SHORT The young men arrested after an investigation by state officers and brought herp for safekeeping reiterated today they had no con nection with the shooting to death of father and the wounding of his mother REPUBLICANS HOPE IS DESTRUCTION OPPOSING PARTY TWO CHARGED WITH MURDER MOVED TO HUNTSVILLE TRIAL in ROBBERS ENGAGE POLICE IN BATTLE CHIE IS KILLED '9 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 6 0 0 Witness Declares American Citi zen Must Be Naturalized In rance to Get Rights 8 42 49 20 63 22 0 13 Indicated Prod Athletics Hammered Offerings of Wild Bill Hallahan As Well Rs His Successors With 4 Vengeance HITS ARE AGAIN MADE TO ACCOUNT OR RUNS ALABAMA COTTON CROP ORECAST IS 1400000 BALES igures Released By Depart ment of Agriculture Today Shows Condition As of Oct 1 By States At current price Mr Gist es timated a bale of cotton Ja worth about 95650 for the lint and seed The entire crop ex pected will be worth on this basis around 179000000 com pared with $129000000 for last crop a reduction of 50 000000 in the cotton Income Petitions Being orwarded to Public Service Commission Pray for Continuance Sylvester Johnson and Jim Lindsey Gave Most Spectac alar Battaing Attack 000 211 7 In ARMSTRONG GWALTNEY Votes 1 0 0 0 Two Robbers Mortally Wound ed Third Escaped Two Patrolmen Wounded 0 2 9 Wicksburg Jellico Hathorn Stand Ward One Ward Two Ward Three Ward our Taylor Piney Grove Merritts Madrid Cottonwood Hodgesville Keyton Cameron Cowarts Webb Kfncey Ashford Grangerburg Crosby Gordon Pansy Columbia Bentley Dupree 15 18 118 Ml hit no errors John In one Instance it the judge as the case fore him asked attor ney if his client was an American citizen Receiving anaffirmative reply it was said the judge re plied: leave the court An Ameri can citizen has no rights here If he wishes to enjoy the rights of the rench laws he must become (PLEASE TURN TO BACK PAGE) The forecast compares with 1342000 hale produced last year This year's crop Is ex pected to he gathered from 3 603000 acres yielding 186 pounds of lint an acre To Octo ber 1 there was reported a total of 663000 hales or about 42 per cent of the expected crop turn ed out of gins PROPERTY OWNERSHIP IS PROVIDED ON EQUAL BASIS our persons now are held In connection with the slaying Mrs Bessie Hamby was arrested yester day at Huntsville and held as a terial witness and Hender son negro has been in jail here for several days after beln pro tected from a mob at Huntsville by National Guardsmen trivna: Partly 1 powers in eart portion to glfht Thursday fair WASHINGTON Oct Charge of discrimination against American property owners in rance which may involve the en tire question of reciprocal rpnco American treaty rights are being Investigated by the state depart ment ive of the passengers and crew of when the Leviathan of the air exploded near Bqauvais rance are pictured here Left to right: above Squadron Leader Johnson navigator Major Scott who was a passenger on the 100 on its flight to America early this summer and Irwin captain of the 101 below Wing Commander Colmore director of airship development of Great Britain and Sir Sefton Branckw di rector of civil aviation for Great Britain Have Been Held In Birmingham Since Mob Threatened Jail Several Day Ago Ma 5 45 30 21 32 0 8 2 7 6 9 2 2 3 0 10 0 0 2 11 8 0 0 by Increased Indication tn states particularly in Ala Georgia and North Cam Vote i 35 6 8 3 1 2 2 8 7 19 0 0 8 11 26 2 MONTGOMERY Ala Oct 8 (AP) The Alabama cotton crop is forecast at 1409000 bales by Gist federal and state statistician reported today WASHINGTON Oct 8 An Indicated Increase of hales in the cotton crop i year over that Indicated a ago was announced today department of agriculture Production on the basis dltlons existing October 1 placed at 1 4486000 bales 342000 bales below last pro duction Black Would Not Be Deceived At Expressions of Reorgani zation of Party coa was This Is 10551 51 71 0 36 3 3 32 3 19 18 31 47 9 24 0 0 8 37 24 0 2 A petition of the A railway and signed by more than 150 promi nent citizens and business men of Dothan favoring the discontinuance of trains Nos 44 and 45 has been sent to the public service commis sion at Montgomery for approval The trains are locals between Do than and Montgomery leaving Do tha at 7:15 o'clock in the morning and returning arovn 7 ococt nigSX The petition is one of a series similar oetitions from citizens the communities along the A railway from Dothan to Montgom ery to remove these trains from service The petitions call for the discontinuance of both trains and will be decided upon by the com mission at its next meeting it is said According to Black tram master of the A in Dothan the trains were not paying ex penses and the people of the com munities along the line from Do than to Montgomery are thoroughly in sympathy with the proposal Mr Black said this morning that the removal of the two trains from ser vice would not inconvenience the public in the least He stated that the through trains would make the same stops as the locals now make There are four through trains on service between Dothan and Mont i gomery Two of these trains go each way and one leaves in the morning and one in the afternoon This stated Mr Black assures the people of Dothan and the surround ing territory two trains a day from Dothan to Montgomery and two from Montgomery to Dothan Aa the trains leave in both morning and evening he said and will make all the stops that the local Dothan MOntgomery train makes the pub lic who now use the local trains will not have a hardship put on them Those wishing to go all the way to Montgomery or just to a community just outside of Dothan will get the same service that they had on the locals pound er acre compared 532 per cant and 1532 pounds on Sept 1st 55 0 per cent and 155 0 pounds on October 1 last year and 531 per rent and 1551 pounds ten year average The condition on (Heated production low: 12 9 34 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 12 0 0 An American Citizen Has Been Defeated In Every Attempt to Secure PosieMion of rench Home The attention of the department has been called to the case of Cap tain Paul Rockwell an American citizen who purchased a home In Paris In 1926 and has been defeat ed In every effort since that time to secure possession of his home from a renchman who was a tenant when ths purchase was made The tenant it was alleged upon learn ing the new owner was an Ameri can declined to move from the premises under the terms of the so called rench rent laws Under the ranco American tre aty of 1853 rench citizens In the United States and American ctl zens in rance were accorded equal rights with the citizens of the coun try in which they resided so far as property ownership was concerned This treaty now would accord these rights to some 155000 renchmeh in the United States as compared with only about 12000 Americans residing in rance Captain Rockwell who fought In the rench army in the World war and was decorated for bravery with several of the highest honors which can be given In rance has met with no success pressing his case as the rench courts on occasions 7 2 7 29 0 0 10 23 21 0 0 the western three pu for the auto Shortly after midnight YOUNG Vote 1 2 7 6 2 8 TOTAL lt and 2nd Choice 11 Total 28 7 Score by Innings: St Loul 000 Runs batted Cochrane 2 Miller Simmons Dy ke 2 Hail Hnfey Two base hits Cochrane Miller 2 risch oxx Dykes HilTej 2 Home runs Sim mons Dykes Sacrifices Miller Haas Cochrmie Double play erri (imnsslsU d) Left on buses St I Louis fl fl Base on I 3 (Dy Ins 2 1 Population 1890 274 1900 3815 1910 I 7116 1920 10034 1930 15471 I MJ 7 i TOTAL BALLOTS GIVE MULLINS "IJ8 PLURALITY the killing of Herbert Ross Huntsville business man were be taken to Madison county today for preliminary hearing on charges of murder Gilbert filed to Simmons In isher hatting for Halla to left field for two bases hit to Boley and was out Grove I Athletics bull Mi 4 i Moore If Huas cf Boley amsliaw 4 MONTGOMERY Ala Oct 8 Senator Hugo Black last night warned Democrats of Alabama the Republicans in the state are seeking to utilize the dis sentions within destroy the Democratic Senator Black was delivering the second of a series of addresses he will make in the state in behalf of the Democratic ticket in the gen eral election and in addition to at tacking the state Republican par ty attacked its national record as the party the few by the few and for the not Senator Black cautioned iris hearers in referring to the assertions of Senator Thomas Heflin and his supporters that they were going to the Democratic party "The fight waged against the Democratic nominee is not one which can bring about reorganization of the Demo cratic party The shrewd trained and expert leaders of the Republi can party are right in their analy sis The inevitable tendency Is to destroy Warning that destruction of the Democratic party in Alabama was the aim of the Republicans Senator Black said "they have brazenly predicted that the defeat of the Democratic nominees will Injure the party for 50 Turning to the Republican na tional administration Senator Black said the "Hoover farm relief bill has relieved the farmer of everything except his "It is a failure" the senator said "Cotton wheat and other farm commodities have gone down so low that starvation mortgages threaten the happiness and pros perity of the American farmer Mr Hoover as a can didate foresaw that hl election would bring about the millenlum and the abolition of poverty Mr Hoover as the president Is now making excuses for the panic that has swept the Senator Black also attacked the Grundy tariff bill which he declar PLEASE TURNTO BACK PAGE) Condition of Crop As of Octo ber 1st Given As 535 Per Cent of Normal Wi Purdue Is New Manager Montgomery Dothan Store Purdue formerly connect district administrative Wflce of Montgomery Ward at Bir teinghsm has been appointed man the Dothan store It was MflclaJly announced today Mrydue succeeds Welty re gned Purdue took over active r8 of the large local store of optionally known institution He has established his lienee in Dothan TIME 99' AioADAaiA At rEKAOUxV UCTUUEK 8 Daily NEA and AP eatures NUMBER 14 i ATHLETICS WIN CHAMPIONSHIP lIJ Ir ivittiwild VV tm 1UA vuueciurd facc jarnsnaw No runs one ATHLETICS Sylvester son went In to pitch for the Cardi nals Simmons hit into left field foi a home run the ball landed high In the upper tier oxx filed to risch who ran into left field to make the catch Miller hit Into i left field for two bases his second tun hasp hit of the trame Mnnre Toby ain fourth I struck out swinging at the third flied to Watkins short right field One run two hits no errors OURTH INNING CARDINALS Simmons moved over to left field for the Athletics and Haas went into center Adams fanned swinging at fast ball for the third strike Watkins lifted a high fly to Dykes near third risch hit to left field for one base Hafey filed to Haas in center No runs one hit ho errors Earnshaw struck out swinging wiid at a pitch over his head Bishop walked Dykes drove a home run to left field stand it was a line drive over head (Continued on page eeven) 4 Two Victims of Would Jobber Attack Are Reported Recovering MONTGOMERY Ala Oct 8 Pi Two victims of an attack tri roi1er were recov fa a Montgomery hospital to and a search was vnder way negro Assailant ma 14 Richardson Coie ere beaten on the head and the negro and after he to flnd money in their pock lnem t0 off He eScaped ln darkness vA A AVT0 UCENSE DTJEfaKta Jlcenses Are alow in was announced a 1 the Unofficial count this morning ve A Mullins a 178 vote plu rality over Jones his nearest jivl for the office of tax collector gf Houston county The final unof ficial results are: A Mullins 1208 Jones 1030 A Gwaltney 901 Miss Susie fcO Armstrong 199 lynch 198 A Davis received a few votes after announcing several ago that he was out of the face primary ended one of tha most sensational races ever held in the county Beginning with the defeat of Mrs Kate Rudolph and the subsequent charges made against Jeffries his resigna tlon the appointment of John Heard Saxon to fill the unexpired term of Jeffries and the campaign lag preceding the special election yesterday the race for tax collector if Houston county has been filledwith al! the thrill of a movie melo drama the interest of a political novel and intricacies of a stage plot 8 Jl Mullins newly nominated tax collector was the last elected tax collector of Houston county he resigned from office because of: charges of irregularities and Jeffries was appointed in his place Mr Mullins is well known In Do than and the surrounding commun ities and is a prominent citizen of Dothan and Houston county 11 Mr Mullins poled a big vote in ithe city boxes and over the county 'he led generally by good plurali tiea In Ashford Mr Jones poled a larger vote and In Columbia he ledMr Mullins by 18 votes for first choice but therest of the boxes clearly boxes Mis Young received a large votetn the city but the county boxes 'Ave her very little support A Gwaltney ran heavy in yWtrd three in the city and led his opponents in Pansy and Webb in 7 the county 0 Jones Was Second In Race 5 With 1030 Gwaltoef 901 Young 690 Armstrong 199 Linch 198 second primary IN TAX RACE WARM fi Jeffries Winner of irst Primary Race Not a Candi date In Second Thine robbers who held up the Coker Creek Tenn post office Isle yesterday engaged a squ'd Murphy policemen In a gun battle sail ytoday killing the chief of po lice and wounding two patrolmen one pet haps fatolly jat the third one ox walked Cochrane scored on double to center oxx went to third Wat kins made t'rent play to hold the ball to a double Moore lifted a fly to Douthlt on the firt pitched ball Two runs two hits one error SECOND INNING CARDINALS risch filed to Simmons who made a running catch to deep center Hnfey lifted high fly to Simmons In center Bottomley struck oue swinging at the third one It was Ms ninth strike out of the serie No runs no hits no errors ATHLETICS Boley rolled' limit awl wnn thrown nut Bottomley Earnshaw struck out I swinging at a fast ball Btehop was i hit on the arm by a pitched ball i and took his base Bishop went to second when Wilson let the ball get I away Dykes gets second walk of the game Cochrane fouled to I Adams who ran nearly to the MURPHY Oct 8 stand to make the catch I No runs no nits no errors THIRD INNING CARDINALS Wilson grounded to Dykes and was thrown out to oxx center I han bit i muthit Two of the robbers who gave )lt frBt their names as Walter Bryson of Cherokee county North O'ro lina and Jeff McPherson 40 of Kentucky were shot and perhaps fatally wounded The third escap ed McPherson refused to disclose in what part of I tenlimky he lived Carnegie chief of police Of Murphy wag killed in the bat tle Patrolman George Leather wood 35 was shot In the right lung aswl Patrolman Bert Savage In the ar rn liccman engaging In th battle es one caped Injury ain said Linderman post 1 master at Coker Creek a Tennessee mountain town Carringer on the telephone night and told him the postoffice had been robbed uy three men who were headed tvvard Murphy In an automobile bearing North Carolina license 308528 Car ringer went tu edge of Murphy trolmen and waited mobile i they sighted and halted it Carrlng an to Question th occupants and one of them suddenly drew a and scored behind Bishop I pistol and shot him The gun bat 1 (Continued on pare teven) W'hlle there was a decline In the Indicated production In Texas Mississippi and Tennessee this was offset other bama llna Picking and ginning wns reported as unusually advanced in Texas and Oklahoma hut backward In Alabama and Mississippi In oth er states ginnings are above aver age for this time of the season I The condition of the crop on Oc balls off Hallahan i toher 1 was 53 5 per cent of oxx) off Johnson 1 (Bishop) off normal Indicating i yield of 164 7 Lindsey 1 (Bishop) off Earnshaw out swinging hard com thf tar at off ce of the county du Tla Assessment were aild WU1 vember By this wltl 5 000 etill due mber 14 ther Will be each oa of Paced on anj a fifteen per ct penalty it was said The Dothan Eagle or I Heard Them Say Let Us Go To Genesis 37:17 Pitches Athletics ries Climax By AJAN GOULD (Associated rees Sparta Editor) S1JIBE PARK Philadelphia Oct 8 Behind the wonder ful pitching of bifc George Earn shaw Connie Athletics to day won their second successive baseball championship crushing the St Louis Cardinals 't to 1 I nthe sixth game gave the the aeries four games to two The Athletic hammered the of ferlnga of Wild Rill Hanahan thlr previous conqueror a well as tha 'Jji pitching of hta successor Sylve ter Johnson and Jim TJndse ywlth dj the most sustaining and spectecu Itir batting attack of the World's I uirln I tedlthS 'K The champions mad their seven hlta count for a nfcny 1 1 runs they went on a rampag 1 0 1 and quickly settled th issue that had been so hard fought awl close ijt lin LO LCH1UV IRST INNING Douthlt struck out swinging at the third one Adami rolled to oxx and was out unas sisted Watkins struck out swing ing hard at tha third strike No runs no hits no errors ATHLETICS Blahop lifted a fly I to risch near second base Dykes walked Cixjirane hit to right field and Dykes scored Cachrane going ihi1 ns a twn haiA hit A VW I lltllt a naa oLnriral 1 i A Armf WHIAHin WUA a when the ball rolled through him with 3 (Bottuinley 2 Watkins) Nlruck out by Eninshaw it tlioiitldt Wat Idr Bollootlr ttllsoli Ttliuh s) by ILitlnhan 2 (Slnunons Earnshaw) by Johnson 2 (Moore Earnshaw) lilt off llalliihmi 2 bi 2 Innings Johnson 4ln 3 off Lind sey 1 In 2 oft Bell none In 1 lilt by pitcher Hallahan Bigler (N) plate Gclscl Reardon LN) second (A) third Time o7 rnrne i '4' W' MMRt ST LOUIS (N) All II A Douthlt cf 4 0 0 5 0 0 Adams 3b 2 0 High 3h 2 110 0 0 Watkins rf 3 0 3 0 1 risch 2b 4 0 1 3 1 0 Hafey If 4 2 1 0 Bottomley lb 2 0 1 0 Wilson 4 0 5 0 0 Gelbart 3 0 0 6 0 0 Hallahan 0 0 lslw 1 Johnson 0 0 0 Blades xx 1 0 0 0 0 Lindsey 0 1 0 Orsattl xxx 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tote! 31 1 5 21 6 1 Batted for Hallhan In 3rd Batted for Johnsen (Jth Batted for 8th ATHLETICS AB It li A Bishop 2b 0 2 0 Dvkes 3I 2 2 1 I 0 toehrane wf 1 HOU Simmons cf If sop oxx lb 2 0 Miller rf 3 0 2 1 0 Virginia 20 34000 North Carolina 63 870000 South Carolina 65 1010000 Georgia 67 1580000 lorida 85 44000 Missouri 45 1 50000 Tennessee 15 42080 Alabama tXt 1 400XX) Mississippi 53 1660000 Louisiana 48 665000 Trxns 54 4275000 Oklihoma 40 925000 Arkansas 34 9608)1 I New Mexico 85 100000 I Arizona 88 16508) 1 California 52 221 000 JONES LINCH MULLINS Votes Votes Votes 12 12 12 27 2 10 16 12 4 12 2 0 1 8 0 6 2 1 4 21 7 108 18 9 98 38 101 21 2 4 96 25 83 13 4 5 40 21 161 38 25 12 114 40 25 2 0 0 25 4 29 7 6 4 39 7 Ci 1 HO 7 6 25 3 0 46 8 20 6 13 1 65 8 0 1 0 0 19 0 6 2 0'1 36 11 5 2 0 60 1 4 6 10 6 0 8 2 0 0 35 12 10 2 11 19 2 88 12 4 IO 60 16 6 0 0 0 11 3 8 6 0 0 19 1 20 7 0 0 43 7 8 6 0 1 15 2 41 9 19 14 23 8 8 2 0 0 33 1 3 6 25 3 10 6 844 ISA 107 91 982 226.