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Last week, to stop the cry, Assistant Prohibition Commissioner Alf Oftedal, acting in the absence of Commissioner James M. Doran, announced that Federal enforcement officers everywhere had been cautioned to refrain from spectacular raids which might in any way be thought politically motivated. This announcement came only a day or two after Nominee Hoover's return to Washington...
...Limber Quartet, three-fourths made up of Uncle Alf's sons, crooned native spirituals. Old-time fiddlers jiggled out old-time favorites. A quartet of Negro bell hops shuffled, sweated, grinned...
...Bogart's Knob, just before midnight, more than 100 blooded hounds pointed long noses into the crisp, still air, sniffed, caught the scent, were gone. At their head, gallantly leading his last hunt, ran "Old Limber," Uncle Alf's famous fox-follower, whose picture once adorned in Nashville the State Capitol's walls. Baying excitedly, their notes cutting through the silent woods, the dogs circled. They closed in, relentlessly, on their furry, red prey...
Meanwhile on top of the Knob in a huge circus tent crowded with a thousand guests, steaming with the warm smell of barbecue, Southern style, Uncle Alf held court. The baying of the hounds grew fainter outside. Uncle Alf rambled on until dawn, delighting the merrymakers with reminiscences. Scores of uniformed Negroes bustled about, serving the immense banquet to which ten sheep, ten pigs, 500 pounds of beef, had contributed. All "the fixin's" were there...
Tennessee's McKellar and Tennessee's Tyson had slipped home from the U. S. Senate to be there. Governor Horton and Hill McAllister, his political antagonist spoke, not on politics. No-one thought but of old-time "Uncle Alf" Taylor, who used to spin yarns over 40 years ago, and was still going strong...