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...from sending the blackamoor to his legal death. Protestant churchmen concurred. Nevertheless, soft-hearted Sheriff Thompson sighed: "I suppose I will spend the rest of my life forgetting-or trying to forget." Would she lose her nerve at the last minute was the big question last week at Owensboro, scene of the hanging...
...front rank were the whiskey men-Seton Porter of National Distillers with more than 50% of all U. S. whiskey in his saddle bags; Lewis Rosenstiel of Schenley Distillers with about 25% and the cream of the imported liquor agencies; the Thompson family with their huge distillery at Owensboro, Ky.; Emil Schwarzhaupt who quit National Distillers to branch out for himself in Bernheim Distilling Co. and who last week shouldered forward by purchasing at government auction 24,000 cases of liquor seized on the high seas; Harry C. Hatch who had come down from Canada to build a huge distillery...
...Soon the trust was after him, too, giving away tobacco to his customers when he refused to sell out. Big and hearty, "Wood"' Axton had enough friends to stay in business. He formed Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. with a partner, George H. Fisher, now dead. They moved from Owensboro to Louisville and began selling smoking and chewing tobaccos throughout the Ohio Valley, prospering in a comparatively small...
Discontented murmurs rose to muttered threats, curses. Prominent beside the auctioneers stood W. G. Crabtree, 50, vice president and general manager of Owensboro Loose Leaf Tobacco Co., operator of six of the seven '"floors" in the town. Farmers rejected bids right & left, began to mill about excitedly shouting. "You can't take our tobacco that way!" In the confusion someone began throwing apples at six-foot Mr. Crabtree, who dodged handily, but the auction, now a riot, was called off. Only 78,000 lb. of dark leaf tobacco, mostly for export to Europe for making cheap cigars, have...
Afterward the farmers held a mass meeting in Owensboro's public square, passed some resolutions. Most important were: 1) no crop to be planted next year; 2) a committee to go to Washington to confer with the Federal Farm Board on a tobacco pool. The farmers expected aid from the Board since its stated purpose has always been "to further co-operative marketing." Besides this, the Board's much-criticized chairman, James Clifton Stone, once organized southern tobacco growers into the Burley Tobacco Growers' Co-operative Assn., saw it become inactive, would know from experience what...