a a a a a a a a a HITS HIGH RATE ON FRUITS IN MADISONUILLE MADISONVILLE LLE MESSENGER Fair and cooler tonight, fair, CENTS THE WEATHER PAY NO MORE continued cooler Wednesday Without or With Offence to Friends or Foes, I Sketch Your World Exactly as it Goes. -Byron. ASSOCIATED PRESS MADISONVILLE, KY. TUESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1929 NEA SERVICE NUMBER 118.
ORCHARDIST AT RATE HEARING HITS CHARGES Ben E. Niles, Hende son, Tels Hosmer of Rail Discrim nation. HEARING WILL LAST ALL WEEK, BELIEVED Trial of Former. Auti or Shanks Suit Opens in Franklin Court. FRANKFORT, Sept.
Alleged unjust freight rates on aruit shipments from Chr stian, Henderson, Warren, Campbell, Kenton and other counties were outlined cby Ben E. N.les, Henderson orchardist, at today's hearing on a petition brought by the commonwealth for lower rates for shippers to and from Kentucky. The hearing will lat all week, it was announced. Defendants to the petition brought railroads, by the seeking state lone. aga ns: rreight 564 rates in Kentucky, yes erday gan presenting their ar u.nen.s before Howard Homer, examiner for the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission, at hearings in the capitol. The state presented its arguments, contending that present rates are unjust and scriminetory, at hearings before Mr. Hosmer here several months ago: Alter the hearing is concluded, briefs are to be submitted to the commission. Shanks Trial Opens. FRANKFORT, Sept.
Trial of a suit brought by the commonwealth against former State Auditor, William H. Shanks, seeking to recover $21,000 he is aileged to have spent while in office, opened in Franklin circuit court today. The state contends Shanks kept funds for his own use from unexpended portion of appropriations 10r his department. The defense denies this, claiming he paid the money to his wlie as nis secretary. Inspect Institutions.
FRANKFORT. Sept. 17. -(AP) Temporarily dropping the que.tioning of witnesses, the grand jury today began inspecting county institutions. called to belief the jury, has been In zestigating the highway department, textbook commission, and bridge bond sales, and is expected to continue these probes, later.
Postmaster and Wife Are Held for Murder BURKESVILLE, Sept. Walter Shepherd, 45, postmaster and merchant of Littrell, Cumberland county, and his wife Havel been arrested on murder charges in connection with the killing" Sunday night of Clura! Huddleston, 35, a farmer, and the wounding of his nephew, Paul Huddleston, 26. A coroner's jury returned a verdict that Huddleston was killed by Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd.
The inquest did not reveal the cause of the killing. Preliminary hearings of Mr. and 'Mrs. Shepherd were set for Wednesday before County Judge J. G.
Jones. They were kept in Burkesville under special guard. Attorney S. A. Carey said was informed that the Huddlestons went to the Shepherd home and called to its occupants, and that the Shepherds opened the door, Mrs.
Shepherd firing a shotgun and her husband a pistoL Clura Huddleston was struck in the head by shotgun bullets and 38 caliber bullets. Paul Huddleston was wounded in the back, but made his way to the home of neighbors. The elder Huddleston's body was found in a ditch beside a road today. To Establish Direct Wire Lines to City Construction of additional toll circuits by the Southern Bell Telephone Telegraph Company from this city to Paducah and Memphis, and which will afford direct connection from Madisonville to those points was begun Tuesday by Construction Foreman G. C.
Gray and coworkers. The expenditure involved in the construction of these circuits will be $33,808 and the circuits are to be completed within three months. It will require 82,572 pounds, 232 miles, of No. 12 copper wire to complete the circuits between the three CURVE CHANGE 18 APPROVED CANNON MARKET ACTIVITY HURT CHURCH, ASSERT Speculation of Bishop S.o.ed as Bringing Reproach on Cause. REIDSVILLE SESSION OF CONFERENCE ACIS Resolutions Claim Office cf Bishop Lowered in Dign ty.
REIDSVILLE, N. Sept. 17. (AP)- quarterly conference of Yanceville circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, today adopted resolution condemning "in unmeasured terms the bucket shop marg nal speculations of Bishop James Cannoting action lowered the dignity of the office of bishop, which ne holds, and brings reproach on the cause of Christ which he is supposed to represent," the resolution stated. Claimed Partial Payment, Activity of the bishop in the stock market gained publicity several weeks ago through failure of an alleged bucket shop in New York City, the books of which showed entries indicating that Bishop Cannon had at various times.
securities on gin. In a statement issued following the exposure of his stock market trading, the bishcp stated that he thought he was buying securities on the partial jayment plan. Will Elect 3 Members To County Board Nov. 5 Terms of three members of the county board of education will expire this year and are to: be filled at the general election to be held Nov. 5.
Three candidates have filed. petitions for election with the councourt clerk. Two of these are W. H. Stanley, White Plains, republican, educational district No.
1, and M. F. Cox, Madisonvil rfd 3, democratic district No. 3 incumbents. Dr.
A. T. Crowe, democrat, who has been practicing his profession at Manitou for twenty-five years, successful business many and fraternal order leader, is: the only candida'e to from the fourth educational district, so far. Mrs. Sa lie Hobgood, Nebo country, is the present board member from that district.
Charles Eastwood, C11 Salem country, and Will Sisk, Dawson Springs section, both demo rats, are the holdover members of the county educational beard. They have two years to serve. One-Day Strike Slated As Mill Worker Protest CHARLOTTE, N. Sept. 17.
-(AP)-A one-day strike of all workers in textile mills in this section was called today by union leaders as a "mass protest against murder and terrors of mill workers. Funeral servicer of Mrs. FEES Ella May Wiggins, union member who was slain during Saturday's mob activities against communists, was the occasion for the strike call. Crash Didn't Halt Wedding Bandaged, limping, the result: of an auto smashup es they were on their way to the marriage license bureau well, it made, no difference to Bryon A. Maxan, of MILLION MAY BE BET ON SERIES CHICAGO, Sept.
the first time in several years the result of the world series is a toss-up. For that reason it is expected that more than $1,000,000 will be wagered on the approaching event. The author of this is none other than one of the most prominent bookmakers in Chicago. According to this bookie the Athletics at present are 11 to 10 favories to beat the Cubs in the series which opens Oct. 8 at Wrigley field.
However, lit is his. contention that only even money will be bet on the eve of the game. A's Are Favorites. Connie Mack's American league pace-setters rule a slight favorite because of Lefty Grove, Rube Walberg and Earnshaw, who are rated in the general concensus as more formidable hurlers than the best fine Cubs can send toi the mound. Most of the wise speculators think teams are on a par, -in hitting fielding strength and then that Rogers Hornsby will offset the slight advantage the A's may have in pitching talent.
That's why there probably will be no odds in the wagering when the heavy dough is laid on the line. This bookmaker has already received a $200,000 wager from al New York syndicate at even money on the Athletics. In al few days he expects bets equally as large to come in on the Cubs. Huge Sums to Be Bet. "I think this series will be the biggest handled," betting proposition said.
I have he "Betting on the presidential election was a flop because almost nine out of every ten figured Smith didn't have a chance. The world series last year was risky business. "Most of the birds with big money, to wager thought the Yankees had crumpled. Nobody wanted to cover St. Louis money.
But this it's almost bound of money will be offered by the to be a close series and a plenty fans of both Court to Probe Charges Made By Pastor In Pantages Case LOS ANGELES, Sept. What would have been one of the dramatic moments of the trial of Mrs. Alexander Pantages for second degree murder the appearance of her daughter on the witness stand -was submerged by interest in a sensational charge to have been made by the Rev. R. P.
"Fighting Bob" Shuler. The preacher is asserted to have declared over the radio Sunday night that "the jury in the murder trial of Mrs. Pantages will be hung, and I can name the man who will hang it." When this and other statements ESO. LAFFOON DIES AT HOME OF DAUGHTER Magistrate From Third Hcpkins District Victim of Stomach ILL SINCE MARCH: HAD UNDERGONE OPERATION Was Widely Known 'Memler of Prominent Fam ly. Burial Wednesday.
Magistrate B. E. Laffoon, member of the Hopkins county fiscal court for more than eleven years, died- at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clarence Maloney, Kentucky avenue, at 11 o'clock Monday night, after six months illness of cancer of the stomach. Returning from a hospital several months ago, where he underwent an operation, Magistrate Laffoon ally declined.
He was in a comatose state the last several hours. Funeral services will be held! the First Christian church tree o'clock Wednesday afteroon, Rev. W. H. Funderburk, fficiating.
Burial will be in rapevine cemetery. Pallbearers will be: County Attorney J. T. Gooch, Sheriff Charles E. Barnett, J.
E. Arnold, S. D. Langley, Louis Iglehart and Robert Crow. Benjamin Elizabeth Laffoon, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth.
Laffoon, members of a prominent Hopkins county family, was born May 4, 1861, and was 68 years old this year. Married Miss Cardwell. was married in 1881 to Mr. Miss and Katie Mrs. Cardwell, daughter Wm.
Cardwell, of another family. prominent. died Hopkins counshe January 10, 1918. Of this: union three chilwere born. Two of these children, William Laffoon, Madisonville route 3, and Mrs.
Clarence Maloney, Madisonville, survive. Mrs. Lizzie Barnett, first wife of T. H. Barnett, another child, died in 1912.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Harpe Jones, Hebbardsville, Henderson county. Circuit Judge Ruby Laftoon Madisonville, is cousin. Laffoon had long been a demoeratic leader in Hopkins county. The only public office he had from (held was that of magistrate the Third magisterial district.
He served two full terms of four years. each and was nearing the end of his third fouryear term. was a member of the Anton Woodmen the World camp, of the Madisonville Blue lodge of Masons, of the Bethlehem Christion church and of the Hanson Boring Bible class, First Christian church. For years Mr. Laffoon was one of the most prosperous farmers of the county.
His home in the Anton section had been the scene of many gatherings and his hospitality was county wide. The; amount of charity he dispensed to the needy and suffering in his! magisterial, district and in other sections of the county will never be known, as he would not talk of his benefactions. 1200 Trapped as Fire Sweeps Several Areas Associated Press) (By Fires along the Pacific coast today were threatening the Ventura oil field in southern California; had trapped 200 ranchers near Portland, Oregon, and had burned a rancher to death near Vancouver, Washington. Near Ventura conscription men over a 50-mile radius was begun to assign them to fire lines. Twenty oil derricks have already been burned.
In the foothill of the Cascades, fire had blackened 15,000 acres of timber, destroyed six houses, a hotel, school, logging camps, and had sent one workman to hospital violently insane. Phillip Rowe, a rancher, was burned to death near Vancouver when fire destroyed his home. Mrs. Rows and a son escaned. She Leads $1,000,000 Parade Miss Evelyn Smith, famous, county fair yesterday, at Pomona, California horsewomen, is shown Calif.
with her beautiful Palam'no stal- stable of largest in Miss Smith owns the Palamino horses lion, Rey Del: Mundo, as they, America, the Palam no, being a appeared at the head of the cross between the Arabian stock "Million Dollar Livestock and the early imported Spanish rade" opening the Los, Angeles thoroughbreds. Last Minute Wire News FLAMINGO FORCED DOWN INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. (AP)--The Flamingo plane which attempted to establish an endurrecord, was forced down early today it became lost in fog. The plane ran out of gasoline, also, after being in the air 78 hours and minutes. It was and the crew unhurt PROBE BRIBE CHARGE.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. -The board of public safety today was investigating charges that protection money was paid. to police raiding squads. Three members of a squad of plain clothes men, M. J.
Murphy, Owen Horsley and Roy Watts, were summoned to appear before the board today. BROWN WASHINGTON, ENGINEER Sept. CHIEF, -President Hoover today appointed Brigadier General Lytle Brown, Nashville, as chief of army engineers to succeed Lieut. General Edgar Jadwin, retired. An additional engineer is to be appointed, to have charge of Mississippi tributaries, including the Ohio.
Rebekah District Meet Will Be Held Thursday Mrs. Carl Hoffman, Madisonville, district president, will preside at Rebekah district No. 24 sessions to be held at Hanson Thursday. The opening session will convene at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon, and a night session will be held following a banquet. District officers will be elected at the Hanson meeting.
of One hundred delegates 'from! the Dawson, Spring's, Earlington, Madisonville, White Plains, Han-1 son, and Nortonville Rebekah lodges are expected to be in attendance. OF C. OPENS MEMBER DRIVE An intensive drive to secure! 250 members for the Madisonville Chamber of Commerce will begin Thursday and continue through and Saturday, it was announced today, the drive being the annual campaign secure that number of memberships, at $25 cacn. The Madisonville Chamber, of Commerce was incorporated last year, and under provisions of al recent Kentucky statute councils are empowered to appropriate funds to supplement that raised from business and professional men. Under plans chamber formed of at a con- I terences of Monday night, the commerce -cam- this week will be one of the most systematic and ten- sive ever conducted.
A list of achievements of the business and professional men's of organization is being compiled, it stated. Democrats Move Office To Hotel Madison Bldg. Democratic headquarters has been moved from the office of B. L. Nisbet to the first floor of Hotel Madison, according to announcement Tuesday by Roy L.
Vannoy, county campaign chairman. Mr. Vannoy said the voters, both men and women, are invited to visit headquarters, frequently! and take the facilities for rest and mingl.nz with friends. NOTICE, MASONS Masons will meet in regular: stated meeting Tue dry, Sept. 17, 1929, at 7:30 p.
m. Work in third degree. Come. BAILEY PRIDE, Master. Zella Will Answer Questions Addressed to The Messenger Zella, mental wizard, who hasting answered over 80,000 questions since she came to Kentucky a few weeks ago from Illinois, will place her talents at the disposal of Messenger readers all next week during which time she, will answer any query addressed to her in care of this office and to which the full name the question tioner has been signed, together with his or her address.
Readers need not fear that their intimate problems will be revealed to the newspaper reading public, since only initials will be used as signatures to questions appear- RAILROAD PUTS ENGINEER ON 41 CHANGE T. E. Brooks Advices Mes. senger His Company is Ready to Take Action. TO SPEND NEAR $2.000 CORRECTING DRAINAGE Hughe't Says He Fas Au.
thority to Start ghway, Cress on the Job: Oakland, and fretty Helen A. Keyser, now Mrs. Maxan. They got their license and were mare ried- even though they Icoked like this when the preacher formed the ceremony. TWELVE PLACED UNDER ARREST OWENSBORO, Sept.
Twelve men and two women had been arrested in connection with a mob attack Sunday on officers following the arrest of two men at a. roadhouse near Central City. They were brought here and arraigned before Untied States Commissioner Arthur D. Slack. They were held on bonds from $500 to $5,000 for hearings Friday.
None had been able to give bond today and were held in the Daviess county jail, Those held under bonds of 000 on the charge of consp racy to rescue prisoners were Kenneth Ashby, Joe Mahan, Talmage Ellis, Sarl Quisenberry, William Powell, Pascal Powell and John Tucker. Interference Charged. Raymond Edwards was held on 88,000 bond for interfering with government officers. On the charge of violat ng fedFeral, prohibition laws, Robert Burr ney, Owen Boone and Robert Mason were held on bonds of $1,000, as were the two women. Rosa Williams and Bil Stobuck.
Sam Elliott, negro, was held on $500 bond on the same charge. The prisoners were brought here by United States Marshal James Bales, Central City officers and prohibition agents. The arrests followed the report by a prohibition agent, Pat Sullivan, Louisville, and two under cover men, that a mob of 150. persons attacked them, wrecked their automobile and freed two prisoners. The undercover men were Jphn Dalpher, Owensboro, and John Brown, Re, no ds Sta- Savers," watchmen financed by contributions from citizens of Hopkins county, went on guard duty at, Deadman's Curve as a safeguard, against a continuation of personal and property damage to tourists, arrangements have been made for elimination of the dangerous conditions of the curve.
The following letter. was. received Tuesday from T. E. Brooks, general manager of the Louisville Nashville Railroad Company: Mr.
Woodson Browning, The Messenger, Madisonville, Ky. My dear Mr. Browning: Referring to our conference on Saturday, the 14th instant: I have today authorized our chief engineer to join the state highway commissione in making changes in the highway crossing on the road near Como, west of Madisonville. Yours very truly, T. E.
BROOKS. Estimated Cost $2,000. The change in routing agreed upon calls for connecting the portions of the highway north and south of tthe railroad tracks with a gradual curve, so as to do away with the sharp. turn that now exists. Mr.
Brooks said his company would be put to capital expense approximating $2,000 in changing drainage. Large culverts will have to be placed through the All. to care for the flow of water from the extensive surrounding shed. Relief Is Promised, L. Hughett, representative of Gov.
Sampson, told a reporter for The Messenger last Saturday: "I have necessary, papers in my pocket authorizing highway crews to begin rerouting highway 41 at Deadman's Curve. just as soon as the" railroad, company agrees on That is to indicate that work will start immediately in view the letter from Mr. Brooks saying he has authorized join highway commission company's chief engineer to making changes. Guards On Duty, Meantime, day and night guards- have been on duty-at the curve since last There have been no crashes ands the watchmen report that, -almost without exception, all automobile drivers respect their warning flags and lanterns. When rerouting at the curve starts, not only the, peopie of Hopkins county, but tourists from all parts of the country will breathe a sigh of relief.
Tourists have furnished the principal diet into the hungry maw of the death trap. When one party of tourists met with injury, their friends and relatives wherever located soon learned of the location of -the With all kinds of promises regarding relief on record for year or more, it is again demonstrated that when the citizenship becomes sufficiently aroused, results can be obtained. concerning the case was brought to his attention, the trial judge, Carlos S. Hardy, late Monday dered the Rev. Mr.
Shuler brought before him for an explanation. If it is unsatisfactory, it was said, the preacher will be held in contempt of court. Denies Mother Drunk, "Mother wasn't drunk. There wasn't the slightest trace of liquor on her breath." Pretty, exotic Carmen Pantages held all eyes as she tes-; tified as to her mother's sobriety, after the automobile crash in (Planse Turn to with answers in the columns of The Messenger during visit in the city. Zella's In every city she has visited, Zella has found her newspaper question and answer column her most popular feature.
She appears all next week at the Kentucky Theater in a of mental wizardry, but as in the case with other cities, she expects to find many who are unwilling to, ask their questions and have answered in public, so she is conductin qua column in The (Please Turn Judge Logan Receives Title at Houston Meet HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 17:44 (AP) -Delegates to the world or Odd Fellows met today to confer the title of grand sire on Judge M. M. Logan, of Bowling Green, a member of the Kentucky court of appeals, and also to select his successor '88 deputy grand sire, for, which office prominent Odd Fellow oned..
