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1, 1928 15 Cents Per Week TWO EDITIONS DAILY in liillni LfoF ft 1 HOOVER SETS FOOT Central America Hails Goodwill Tour DESKS ARE GLUTTED WATER COMPANY IS ACQUIRED BY NEW UTILITIES COMBINE TRADING PULSES ARE STIRRED BY ADVENT OF HOLIDAY SEASON KING GEORGE WORSE AS TEMPERATURE CLIMBS UP AGAIN British Monarch Fights Malady With Conrage But Nation Is Worried. -'n jSfm At', t''-z Csi Rica, and bottom shows the U. S. Legation of San Jose where the Hoover party will visit in one of their stops in their goodwill tour on the U. Maryland.

IntraUonl Newmel) 1 'All the sleepy little Central American countries are waking to find themselves entertaining President-elect Herbert Hoover, inset, at least those wh are on his Upper picture shows street scene in San Jose, Costa RACKETEERS AFRAID AS SWANSON TAKES COOK COURT REINS Gangsters and Gunmen Anticipate Hot Time Under Regime of New Official. WITH ROUTINE LEFT FROM LAST LABOR Fate of Campaign Promises Is In Balance As Members Head For Capitol MEMBERS MUST WRESTLE WITH PATRONAGE CALLS Boulder Canyon Bill Is Waiting In Senate; House Will Argue Tariff. .1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (IP). Returning to the capitol to pick up where they left off last May, members of the seventieth Congress today found their calendar of unfinished and routine business for the concluding short session beginning on Monday complicated by new demands of campaign promises.

Even before the arriving Congressional hosts could get into their desks today to bring out old bills neglected In the press of the last session, conferences were being called to take up the fate of legislative promises born in the intervening national campaign, principally tariff revision and farm relief. 7 Monday afternoon as soon as the opening session of the House is concluded, Republican members of the ways and means commit tee will meet to discuss the much discussed question of whether tariff revision is to be undertake. Unfinished work presents a real problem in the. Senate which starts off almost as soon as the gavel falls with the resumption of debate on the Swing-Johnson Boulder Canyon Dam bill. Besides a batch of executive nominations to be acted upon, the Senate also has before it the administration's naval construction measure and the new Kellogg anti-war treaty.

While its leaders and commit tees are studying over the prospects for farm relief and tariff revision prime issues in the campaign of President-EIect Hoover the House will plunge into its annual task of appropriating the money to run the government during the approaching fiscal year. Leadership Is Question. However, the ever-present problem of farm relief and the new one of tariff revision is holding the attention of the pre-session discussions along with a friendly contest in the Senate as to who is to succeed Vice President-elect Curtis as Republican leader of that body. Senator McNary, Republican, Oregon, the chairman of the Senate agriculture committee, has drafted a new farm marketing bill, establishing a federal farm board designed to cope with the surplus crop, problem. Ho will ask immediate action on it.

So far as the tariff revision la concerned the action yesterday of Chairman Hawley of the House ways and means committee in calling Republicans of the committee together on Monday for a discussion of this question go a long way in clearing the atmosphere. If there Is to be an extra session and only the far-away President-elect who comes Into office on next March 4, can decide that opinion is divided as to when it should be held. Speaker Longworth of the House, and Senator of Indiana, a prospective Senate leader, say next fall. Meanwhile the Senate has some investigations pending. The elec- (Turn to Page 9, Column 7.) PRESSTIME BULLETINS By ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON1 The Senate committee investigating the Vare-Wllson senatorial contest in Pennsylvania decided today to check registration lists with other lists In the six disputed counties.

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA A dispatch to La Nacion from Santiago says that nnmbers of persons are reported to have been killed and injured in an earthquake today in the region south of Santiago. Persons arriving in Santiago by automobile reported that the town of Santa Cruz wits in ruins and that the cities of Cnrlco and Talca were damaged severely. ON SOIL OF LATINS FIRST TIME TODAY President-Elect Makes the First Official Stop Off Ship, at Guayaquil. GOES FOR CRUISE ON CLEVELAND, IN GULF Next Executive and Mrs. Hoover Are Guests of Ecuador's President.

TJ. S. S. MARYLAND, OFF GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR, Dec. 1 OS5) Herbert Hoover planned to set foot on South American soil today for the first time on his present good will tour.

His pro gram included a landing at Guayaquil and greetings by President Ayora and other officials. He will spend the night in Ecuador, returning to the Maryland Sunday. Mr. Hoover was scheduled to transfer to the cruiser Cleveland early in the morning for the cruise across the Gulf of Puna and up the river to Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest seaport and city, about 100,000 population. It was arranged for the welcoming committee to be picked up during the run across the gulf and be the President-elect's guest at luncheon.

The Cleveland was due in Guayaquil, about 2 p. m. and everything was in readiness to take the distinguished guest for a tour of the town, including a visit to Guayas University. lt Mr. Hoover and members of his party were to be guests of the Ecuadorean president at dinner.

Mrs. Hoover was. to xetura to the Cleveland Jor-thB-night but oth ers of the party intended to remain ashore at a hotel. Pern On Schedule. Sunday the president-elect and his party are to board the Cleveland for the trip back to the Maryland and anchor will be weighed late in the day for Cal-lao, Peru, the next port of call.

From Callao the president will go to Lima, the capital city, to be greeted and entertained by President Leguia. Time limitations will not permit the President-elect to visit Bolivia, but nevertheless, he may be greeted by Foreign Minister Palacclo and other cabinet members. After the gentle ministrations of King Neptune's court on cross ing the Equator many of the Hoover party are somewhat stiff and sore. Maryland's equatorial veterans outdid themselves in their initiation, knowing that Mr. Hoover would be a spectator.

Associates of the President-elect say he indicated that never in his fourteen previous passages of the Equator had he seen better "Nep-tunlng." MURRAY HOST TO DISTRICT TEACHERS IN 1928 SESSIONS First District Association Has Big Attendance, Hears Good Speakers: (Special to The Sun.) MURRAY, Dec. 1. An attendance of fourteen hundred teachers, principals and county superintendents of schools of tho thirteen counties of the First District Educational Association, was here yesterday with Murray State Teachers College, its officers, faculty and the citizens of Murray as hosts. Miss Clyde Vaughn presided and with five hundred college students In attendance the total attendance was brought to nineteen The convention closed shortly before noon today after a short session in which committee reports were received, an address was made, by Dr. W.

R. Bourne and the election, of officers. Music for the morning session was furnished by a combination of the Tilghman, Mayfleld High and the Murray State Teachers band. Murray did itself proud yesterday in welcoming the delegates and visitors, a large part of whom arrived on a special train from Par ducah at ten o'clock. Hundreds of automobile were arranged for at the station to convey the visitors to the college and throughout the, day were at their, disposal to carry them where they wished to go.

Dr. Taylor Speaks. Outstanding on the program during the two day session of the meeting were addresses by Dr. William I. Taylor of Lexington, T.

Russ Hill, Mlddlesboro, Doc- Turn to Page 9, Column 6. Merchant Ready For Tremendous Drive and Public Gets In Mood to Buy. BANKS RELEASE SAVINGS MONEY TO MANY CITIZENS Pouring of Concrete Is Begun On Roadway of New Bridge Across Ohio. Bank Week endirur today Merchants today were engulfed In the early holiday buying drive. Signs-of Christmas are already In the air, and stores expect to be swamped with shoppr from now until the waning hours of Christmas Eve.

-Paducah's prospects for a- tremendous volume of Christmas buying are bright. Every store is prepared for the big drive, and the shopping public is getting Into the mood which means purchases. Many Paducahans have, already done their Christmas shopping, or a part of it. Thousands of dollars will be distributed to Christmas Savings Club members in the next few days. The.

banks 'have announced that they are ready to mall out the 1928 checks to Savings club members. The release of this money to the public will put a tremendous sum into trading channels at time when business will appreciate its appearanee. The savings clubs are opening jtheir books to new members. Pouring of concrete for the Iloor or tne new raaucan-crooit-port bridge across the Ohio river began this week and is advancing steadily. The cement is being nauiea 10 ine Driage Dy motor The concrete floor, of the bridge will be seven and one-fourths- inches in the center and will slope to a six-inch fill on (Turn to Page 9, Column 8.) CURRIE TO SPEAK TO MEN4T J.C.A.

All Men of City Invited to Attend Sunday Service. The Sunday afternoon mass meeting for men, which will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the M. C. A. building at Seventh and Broadway, will be addressed by the Rev.

Armand L. Currie, who will speak on the subject of "The Man in House." Robert H. Scott, soloist, will sing several selections, and Mrs. Ethel Sheehan, will present several piano numbers. The Sunday afternoon meeting for men is a national feature of the Y.

M. C. A. and is practiced by branches in all parts of the world. Dr.

one of the most noted Y. M. C. A. speakers, has charge of the largest Sunday afternoon session in the country at the Brooklyn chapter building.

He addresses two thousand men personally each week, besides countless thousands of others through the medium of a radio network. Dr. Cadman can be heard every Sunday afternoon through W. G. The water in the Y.

M. C. A. swimming pool was tested this week by the Riverside hospital laboratory, and pronounced satisfactory. WEATHER Full Market Eeport Page 9 KENTUCKY-TENNESSEE: Fair tonight; Sunday increasing cloudiness and warmer, probably rain in west porti-n.

Weather Outlook for Week Beginning Monday: Ohio Valley and Tennessee Rain, turning to snow and much colder Monday followed by fair Tuesday and Wednesday, with slowly rising temperature. Rain or snow Thursday or Friday, followed by colder at end of week. Today's Temperatures. 199 JL3 It I Maximum 54 45 Minimum 36 27 The day Clear and warm. Sun and Moon.

Sun rises Sunday .7:01 Sun sets today 4:38 rises t. .9:19 North American Company Sold to Atlantic, Incorporated, of Boston, Mass. BECOMES PART, OF BIG PUBLIC SERVICE GROUP No Change In Management Is Made Locally Burnett Will Continue. News of the sale of a controlling interest (the North American Waterworks Corporation, present owners and operators of the Paducah Water Company, to the Atlantic Public Utilities, Incorporated, of Boston, 'by the North American Waterworks' Corporation, was confirmed- to The Sun today by Mr. William Cairns of the latter company.

consideration was not made public. The North American company neads a group of diversified public utility interests, aggregating forty-five capitalization. Among its subsidiaries are: the Main State Water and1 Electric company; Central Atlantic Water Works and Electric Corporation; Eastern Carolina Service company; Western Reserve Power and Light company; Southern Public Service Corporation; Atlantic Public Service Corporation West Virginia Water and Light company; Carolina-Georgia: Service company. The North- American Water Works Corporation becomes th largest single subsidiary holding company in the system. The operating management of the Atlantic Public Utilities is, Jin tksr-fcaards -trf -eiratte-Tina GttiJBrtr Incorporated, a Boston engineering firm.

The financial background for the new company is exceptionally including such houses as Byllesby and company; the Continental National company; Emery, Peck, and Rockwood of Chicago; and Henry D. Llndsley and Company, of-New York. Form Strong Combine. This banking group has advanced ten million dollars for the purpose of financing acquisition and consolidation of the properties just mentioned. The securities of the Atlantic Public Utilities are now being offered the investing public.

The main group are listed on the Chicago board and the Paducah securities are listed on the Louisville There will be no change in management or policy of the Paducah company, it was stated. Mr. Mus-coe Burnett will continue as local manager of the company. Mr. Cairns will be in Paducah the first of the week to complete the work, of transferring ownership to the new group.

SELL MOONSHINE TO TOT, AGE 7 i.i High School Boys Arrested For Beer Delivery. CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (fl5) Sale of a pint of moonshine to a -7-year-old boy, uncovered yesterday, has led police to Increase the of their Investigation into sale of liquor to school children. Four high school boys also have, been arrested on charges that they were engaged in the delivery of liquor to customers to a "beer flat" owner. John Bellis was arrested after a 7-year-old boy had made a purchase of liquor In his place.

The liquor was for the boy's father, and the purchase was made while police waited outside. The four boys, the oldest 16, the youngest 14, were arrested as they were pushing a "coaster" of beer along the street. Acting on information from the boys, police arrested Mrs. Mary Hammond, who was charged with violating the federal prohibition law. Football Results First period: Georgetown 13, Detroit 7.

Third quarter Stanford Army O. Second period: Newport Naval Training Station 10; Quantico Marines 0. RULE LADY LAWYERS SHOULD REMOVE HATS CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (JP) Lady lawyers will please remove their hats in the courtroom, the Illinois Bar Association today suggested. A recommendation was made that Supreme Court rules be extended' to compel Portias to take off their headgear when appear ing In court.

CALL FOR PRAYERS IS SENT OUT IN EMPIRE Prince of Wales Is On His Way to Zanzibar, Will Come Home Speedily. LONDON, Dec. 1 (JP) A slight rise In King George's feverish condition was i announced in the Medical Bulletin Issued 1 at Buckingham Palace this morniflg. The nation had been hoping that his majesty would make a steady, although necessarily slow, progress toward recovery. The knowledge that his fever was if only slightly, gave ft tinge of uneasiness to public feeling.

The king was stated to have passed a fairly comfortable night, however, and his doctors announced that there was no change in his general condition; in which some improvement' was announced yesterday. Queen 1 Mary left the palace twice during the day, once spending nearly three hours in private visits. A call for prayers for the speedy recovery i of the king was made by the new archbishop of London. He urged the prayers be offered not only tomorrow but until all cause for anxiety had been removed. Wales On Way Home.

The Prince of Wales is not expected to arrive back In' Eng- 1 11 1 1 .1 MA iana earner iuaa j.o- re-ejrrTOH owing in lentaunt plan outlined by the admiralty (Turn to Page 9, Column 7.) ARMY SCORED ON BY STANFORD IN OPENINGQUARTER Leland Stanford and Western Eleven Grip On Yankee Stadium Field. I BULLETIN. Final score: Stanford 28, Army 0. By BRIAN BELL, Associated Press Sports Write. YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORK, Dec.

1 (IP) With a crowd estimated at 86,000 cramming every crevice of the huge baseball- home of the world champion New York Yankees, the army sounded taps for the Eastern football season today with Stanford furnishing the opposition. Good football weather smiled on the clash of the two good teams representing the East and the west. Captain Hoffman kicked off to Murrell who came to the 19-yard line. Murrell took 3 yards at right guard. Cagle failed to gain at center.

Murrell punted to Stanford's 43-yard line. Hoffman completed a forward pass to Preston on Army's 80-yard line. Stanford made another first down on the second play when Wilton ran to the 20-yard line on a cutback play. Wilton plunged through center for 4 yards. On a fake double pass Fleischhacker added two more yards at Center.

Hoffman gave the ball to Simms who plunged to a first down on Army's ten-yard line. Hoffman added five yards off right tackle. Fleishhacker got two yards at center. Hoffman on a fake pass failed to gain. Fleischhacker was stopped cold, Messlnger making the tackle and the ball went over.

From behind -his own goal line, Murrell kicked to Army's 34-yard line. Hoffman passed to 'Wilton for a gain of yard. Hoffman's pass was grounded Hoffman passed to Muller for a first down on Army's 22-yard line. An Army substitute was Gibner for Nave. Nave was hurt.

Post failed to gain. Post was hurt on the play and Stanford took time out. He was up in a moment Hoffman plunged two -yards at center. Hoffman passed to Muller on Army's 13-yard line. It lacked inches of making a first down.

Fleischhacker made it first down on Army's ten-yard. Wilton fumbled for a five-yard loss. Hoffman's pass was batted down, another pass was Incomplete. Stanford was penalized five yards. Hoffman attempted another pass.

Gibner knocked It down and army took the ball. Cagle from his own 6-yard threw a long pass which was grounded Turn to Page 9, Column 4 ELKS WILL HONOR YEAR'S DEAD AT ORPHEUM SUNDAY i Paducah Lodge No. 217 to Pay Memorial Tribute; Orator In Breathitt. Tribute will, be paid to their dead of the past year, and the dead of former years, by the Paducah lodge of Elks, No. 217, on Sunday afternoon.

The impressive memorial service of the B. P. O. which is an annual event, will take place in the Orpheum theater at 2:30 o'clock. All Elks are expected to attend the service, and the public is cordially Invited.

Members of the lodge will have seats on the stage. James Breathitt, lieutenant governor of Kentucky, will deliver the memorial address. Mr. Breathitt is an eloquent speaker and Is one of Kentucky's best known Elks. He is a member of the Hop-kinsville lodge.

A beautiful pr gram of music has been arranged under the supervision of Mrs. Mayme Dryfuss A number of the city's most talented artists will take part in the program. The Reverend Brother Custis Fletcher will give Invocation from the Elks Tltual. Following is the complete program for the memorial service: Order of Services. Processional, Andante (La Glo-conda) (Ponchleui) Leutenmay-er's Orchestra.

Introductory Ceremonies Bro. Jos. Gockel, Exalted Ruler. Invocation from Ritual Bro. Custis Fletcher.

Quartet, "Send Out Thy Light" (Turn to Page 9, Column 7.) Goodfellows are Urged to Hurry Up Their Gifts Need For Prompt Response to Annual Yule Call is Emphasized. Goodfellows, we are losing valuable time. Less than four weeks remain in which to collect funds for the Christmas baskets and get them properly distributed. We should not delay this important task. Past years have always witnessed a ready and generous response to The Evening Sun's Good-fellow call.

Old friends, true and tried, have come through with many splendid gifts. Many times, Goodfellows have even sent in a second gift after making their initial donation. The spirit of the Goodfellows is like that. Money contributed to the Christmas fund through The Evening Sun will be expended in the most careful and practical way possible. The Sun relies upon the judgment of -experienced and capable workers in the dissemination of the fund.

Baskets which the gifts of Goodfellows will make possible on Christmas morning contain necessities and articles of comfort and worth, first of all. None of the money is wasted on trifles, The first care Is real comfort and well-being- the needy, families we try to serve. You may- rest assured that your donation will ba wisely used. Goodfellows, let's step up right now and do our duty. You may bring or send your donation to The Goodfellow Editor at any time during the day.

Cash or checks in any amount will be welcomed. No gift is too large and none, too Bmall. If you send a check, it should be made payable to the Goodfellow Fund. sibilities of chorus work astound-ingly. The -program Is splendidly balanced.

Sacred music, opera, folk songs and comics are all there, and one as pleasing as the other. To the audience last night the most satisfying numbers were Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and the worn but ever welcome song of the Volga boatmen. The symphony is handled as if the choir were an. orchestra and the sound of violin and even the rumbte of the drums is reproduced by these adept people most faithfully, and with a sweetness of tone that is intoxicating. We shall be ever in debt to President Ralney T.

Wellq of the Normal for the cordial invitation that drew us to Murray last It would have been worth going much farther to hear. E.C.M. CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (Crime's "big three" gangsters, racketeers, gunmen face a rebellious electorate's drawn sword when John A. SwanBon becomes state's attorney of Cook county Monday.

Swanson was swept into office November 6, at the crest of the rebellion that had its inception with the bombing of his home and that of his political sponsor, Unlt ed States Senator Charles Deneen. The bombers never were caught. Neither have police been able to find the perpetrators of more than 100 other bombings during the past 11 months. Murder followed. Octavius Gran-ady, Negro lawyer who' opposed Morris Eller, city collector, as candidate ot committeeman in the "Bloody Twentieth" ward' was "burned down" with machine gun fire on primary election day.

Poll watchers were kidnaped, slugged and intimidated, and there was stuffing of ballot boxes. Fifteen men, including a policeman and a state have been convicted fined on conspiracy charges. Days of violence continued, causing the wave of public indignation, which evidenced itself at the primary, to grow in size to defeat what was called the "unholy alliance" of politics and crime. There was the shooting to death of "Big Tim" Murphy in his own dooryard; the spectacular slaying on one of the world's busiest thoroughfares of Murphy's friend, Tony Lombardo. Neither crime has been solved.

Pledged Fight Crime. It was on a platiorm that promises to stop such crimes in Chicago' that Swanson, a judge of the circuit court, was nominated and elected. Al (Scarfare) Capone, whose name frequently has been linked with gangland, remained in the background but the special grand juries, their investigation of primary day Then followed the slaying, of a cab driver, the bombing of several cab' company garages, and' the destruction by fire of the racing sta- (Turn to Page 9, Column 8.) KATTEH.TOHXS FINISH CONTRACT AT JACKSON Mr. George W. Katterjohn, Jr.

has returned from Jackson, where the firm of George W. Katterjohn Son recently completed the erection of a large bridge and culvert. The new bridge was built over a stream near the city limits of Jackson. Mr. Katterjohn, also returned from Jackson, where he and his son supervised the construction oi.

the bridge. Russian Symphonic Choir an Amazing Group of Performers One who has not heard the Russian Symphonic Choir has missed something in music, something unique and altogether wonderful and not to be substituted for. At Murray Normal last night this remarkable group of. singers under the direction of Basile Klbalchlch gave a concert that for sheer- beauty cannot be excelled. Twenty splendid voices, men and women, are under the control of M.

Kilbalchich to such a degree that, it is as If he were sitting at a great pipe organ, commanding it to his will. It Is possible to close your eyes and believe that you are listening to one great voice, possessed of every tone- from flute to bassoon and capable of going from the slenderest thread of sound tova great rolling crescendo of song. No description could do Justice to this choir. Its performance is perfection and it reveals the pos SANTIAGO, CHILE. At least 22 persons were killed in an earthquake which shook the Chilean coast early today.

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