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“From Press to [lome Within the Hour” The ar's carrier system - covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 102,509 WEATHER. ather Bureau Forecast.) sasing cloudin. tonight fol lowed by showers fomorrow, not much chan=e in the temperature. Highest, | pm. vesterday; lowest, 39, at m. today, Full report on page 7. * 91| e T Star. *mer Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 14 Entered post offi CHINESE PRESIDENT DEPOSED T0 MAKE WAY FOR GEN. WU Peking Executive Held Vir- | tually a Prisoner by His Opponents. No. 29.929. » COUP BRINGS FREEDOM TO IMPRISONED TSAO, Tuan-Chi's Bodyguard, Unpaid, | Tamely Lays Down Arms and Joins Kuominchun. By the A PEKI April 10 was deposed today President Tuan Chi Ju in a coup tat which had as its basis th I- | T the Chihli | wders of the national | the political sit tive was placed | consequence of | n. Wu and onal army, ment hetween minchun, or n coup was executed quietly early The hodyguard of the -utive was disarmed. ed From Prison. ident ao0-Kun sleased from imprisonment circumstance which may have | the peaceful disarming zuard, the main reliance of the chief ex: e, is the fact t S00.000 taels tly pro Tsao-Ku As | mer Pre | rec pay s ned of the guard ributed, but alle the executive. The bodyguard apparently tamely ihmitted to removal to other qua in the southern part of the im- ial city, where they enrolled in the ominchun. he coup, which bhegan at 2 ock | morning, with the surrounding | he chief executive's residence, was | u sequel to the conferences of the | week between Wu Pei-fu and the lead- | of the Kuominchun. Both the| Kuominchun and its opponents had | seen bidding for Wu's support. Means Split in Alliance. His decision to take control here means a split in the anti-Kuominchun | 1liance, and presumably severe | Blow at the ien-Shantung com- | hination, since his army will consti-| t a menace on their left wing om the direction of Paotingfu. Al | gh the Fengtien (Manchurian)| including a contingent of \White | issians, is reported within striking ance of Pekif'to the north of the entsin railway, it is regarded as ubtful whether ous capital is contemplated ers eni i The delegates to the extraterritori-| bty conference, including Silas M strawn, the American delegate, were | urnes way by Chinese pickets when hey arrived this morning at the build- | ing in the imperial city designated for their use and in which the records | of their deliberations are kept. | The guards refused to listen to their | pleas and the delegates were obliged | to confer elsewhere. | Proclamation Aftacks President. the disarming of the chief | rd a_proclamation | Gen. Lu Chung-lin, one of the most prominent of the Kuomin- chun military chiefs and commander the unsuccessful defense of in. proclam since chief »h detrimental After executive's hod was posted b; tion said that Tuan | his assumption of the executive had done to the people and country. THis worst offenses were | ing of the gold franc settle- | of the French hoxer indemnity, | ~dly without the approval of the | e. and the recent shooting by pards of ident demonstrators. was surrounded, the proclama- | dds, by members of the Anfu | who abetted him in ignoring | furthering his own interests | up warfare | s carried out with great | the city were| the telephones eral_hours and uan Chi-Jui -was | 1 otherwise there wa that impoertant events \\N'wl ui of the the alle peo; his w, up W gates of MINE UNION LEADER | International Official in West Vir-| ginia Area Bitterly Attacks United Workers' Organization. | can | R the Associated Pre ! MORGANTOWN, W. Va., April 10.| +R. M. Williams, international rep resentative of the United Mine Work ers in the Monongalia County bitu- minous coal field, yesterday announced that he had resigned at the request ot union offi and that he had ne tifiegl them he would attempt to “hust the local following of the organization.” Williams sign by V f: 1s wide Indianapolls id he was asked to ittner, in_char worthern West acted upon instructions from John L. Lewis, international president Williams in a statement said, “The miners in this section have been too long inisrepresented, misinformed and misled by the international organi- | zation and its representatives.” H> declared the “importance of Rittne and those like him was a big mistake and pvents of the immediate furnra will prove this true. *I have served notice on Bittner and his assoclat that they have .’1% last trampled on West Virginian Who will fight back anford Snyder of the Ohio union organization, has been -sent here to veplace Williams, who. for vears had been an active union leader. At one time he was vice president of the| State organization of the mine work- | ers. Two miners’ mass meetings are! scheduled for today and Sunday in! this field. Williams said he was go Ing to “start the battle Sunday at the meeting of miners in Sesit Runs’ open | !is to be hoped that this will soon de- | | velop | nation. ! matter C. | | | | was ready for report to the {evsTane | I result being a net ine ve: Marshal Tuan-Chi Jui, presi. | of the Peking provisional govern- was deposed today to make | en Wu Pei-Fu (below). ment, w w for | | NEW WORLD PRESS URGED TO JON IN. | EXCHANGE OF NEWS Journalists Told Co-operation Is Vital—Cost and Other Problems Taken Up. Turning to the broad subject of the thering and distribution of news | from all over the world, the first Pan- | American Journalistic Congress, re-! suming its sessions this morning in the Hall of the Americas, took the first step toward realization of a plan | that it is hoped will develop at sub- sequent conferences into a more defi- | nite and thorough exchange of news between the newspapers of Latin America and North America. The congress had under discussion | | the third topic of its program, which | included consideration of the cost of | gathering and distributing news and | the transmission of news by cable, wireless and mail, together with rates, | space limitation and facilities avail- | able for these various methods of | transmission. | A report on this subject was pre- | sented by Senor Don Ernesto Monte- | negro, editor of EI Mercurio, Santi- Chile. It was discussed at fur- | length in papers by Frank B.| president of the Associated | and of The LEvening Star Com- pany, and J. H. Furay, vice president f the United Press Associations. Would Unite Americas. i Senor Montenegro pointed out that | just as the pupers of North America | now have a complete svstem for ex- changing news between themselves, | he hoped this plan could be extended to the newspapers of Latin-America, | and that eventually, through the! work of future meetings of the Pan-| American Journalistic Congress, this | interchange of events could be ex-! tended as completely between the! dailies of all the Americas. | “The cables today link humanity in | a common thought and a common | feeling,” the speaker said. ““With the | development of radio news, the great- st newspapers in the world have come to depenG more and more on one | another. The solidarity of the life of | the world has brought about, as a| first conscquence, co-operation in news | gathering. No individual newspaper, however powerful, can boast of being seif-sufficient. ince the whole world is the field which a modern newspaper must cover, there is no other way to do this than by the establishment of re- lations of reciprocity between the or- gans of the press, first in one coun- try, then in a group of countries, and finally extending until interchange of news items throughout the world is attained. Co-operation Already Started. | “This tion, now pres South Amer tem of mutual co-opera- ooted in the North Ameri- | is beginning among us in ca with satisfactory re- | ults. A great daily in Latin Amer- | ica serves the more or less remote ideal of the race in the practical way n which journalism confronts all its problems, by establishing services from one daily paper to others, and it into a service from nation to “To conserve the _independence which journalism requires, it is es- sential that all international co-opera- | umn 4) (Continued on Page 4, Two Features Of the 12-Page Graphic Section of Tomorrow’s Star i A full page of Pan-American Journalist Congress Photo- graphs, including a picture of the opening session Wednesday evening. » A full page of photographs of the Roosevelt-Field Museum Expedition — remarkable pic- tures of the search for the world’s rarest animals. In Tomorrow’s Star Order -your copy from your | | newsdealer tod: { ¢h ‘SCHOOL ITEMS cuT IND.C.BILL TOPUT MORE INTO STREETS | 345,400, as compared with $2,096,6 | school | the Senate committee reduced to $1, WASHINGTON D. C, SATURDAY, Senate Committee Reédy to Repoit Measure Carrying $33,697,771. WATER RA'I:EMIVNVCREASE PROVISION IS CUT OUT Sweeping Changes in Highway Al- lotment Made to Provide for Many Resurfacing Projects. Carrying less money for school and | more for streets than the House | allowed, the District appropration bill | Y nate to ¢ with a total of $33.697.771, which | 0 under the House bill The Senators struck out a number of st and school items app by the House and added othel for work about $260.000, nd decrease in the school building program of approximately $£370.000. As predicted yesterc the Senate committee granted. the plea of the citizens of Washington for the elimination of two ' objectionable features of the House bill which would have increased water rates 25 per cent and restricted the purchase price of a school or par per cent in excess of assessed value. Street Repairs Urged. The sweeping changes in the high- way allotments were made with a view to permitting the repairing of many worn-out _streets, and in accomplish- ing that purpose the committee | crificed some of the items for the | vimg of new streets. | The bigeest single change in street| funds was an ins e from $600, to $1,000,000 for repairs to streets. total amount for highway operations of all kinds in the Senate bill i street net the House bill. The House bill carried $1,900,000 for | building construction, which | 5.000. The Senate made no change in the list of proposed school sites to | be bought, aggregating $703,500. The Senate committee ~did mot| change the House provision for af $9,000,000 lump sum contribution frem the Federal Government. It is under- stood members of the Senate subcom- mittee, of which Senator Phipps of | ‘olorado is chairman, felt they should not o into that question pending out-| come of legjslation being framed ini the House providing for an inquiry into fiscal relations. s Fund Asked for July 1. The Senate committee decided, how- ever, to offer ah amendment on the floor which would make the $9,000,000 from the Federal Government avail- able on July 1, which ‘would assure the District of a working fund to meet | monthly expenses until the first install- | ment of taxes for the fiscal year come | n. | "ine committee also will offer an amendment on the floor of the Senate | placing a limitation on the price of electricity for street lighting purposes. | The amendment provides that rates | paid for street lighting shall not ex-| | feed §7.5 per cent of the rates here- tofore fixed by law, and that current | for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt hour. R. Pierce, chief clerk of the Fire Department, would be given the grade of battalion chief by another' (Continued on Page 9, Column 2.) TWO FLYERS RESCUED AFTER FALL INTO SEA Italian Steamer, in Port, Brings| Details of Saving Men and Plane in Pacific. By the Assocfated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, April 10.—The Italian steamer Piave, with two Ta- coma aviators, K. L. Jones and C. L. Langdon, on board, arrived here ves | terday with details of the rescue of | the airmen by the Piave after their hydroplane had been forced down by a broken crankshaft, 300 miles south of Aberdeen, Wash. The men were in danger of drowning in a choppy sea when their flare made of a shirt soaked in gasoline from their reserve supply, attracted the| lookout on the Piave. The steamer took the two airmen and their sea- plane on board. Jones and Langdon were on a flight | from Tacoma to San Francisco, when the mishap occurred. WALES TO VISIT IRELAND. Will Make Trip in 1927—Possible | Dangers Q:e Seen. LONDON, April 10 (®).—A visit to Ireland in 1927 is known to be on the program of the Prince of Wales, Irish- men who met the prince in London at St. Patrick’s day celebrations have confirmed reports to this effect. The prince has been inyited to Ul- ster for an official visit next year, but he is understood to be anxious to ex-| tend his visit to southern Ireland also, | mainly for reasons of sport. While | there Is believed to be no chance of his making an official visit to the Free | State, it is considered possible an un- | official journey there may be arranged. ‘The prince is personmally popular in southern Ireland, but responsible quar- ters feel the time has not arrived when a formal visit would be free from em- ! barrassment and even possible danger. EQUIPS LANDING FIELD. Government Radio Ap- paratus Near Cumberland, Md. | Special Dispatch to The Sta: CUMBERLAND, Md., April 10.— Nearly three tons of meteorological and radio equipment have been re- ceived for the Government airplane ! landing field to be established at Mex- ico Farms, four miles east of Cumber- land, along the Potomac River. Installation will start in the near future. Cumberland is in the Eastern radio net, which includes Mitchel Field, N. Y.; Langley Field, Va.; Phil- lips Field, Md.: Fort Monmouth, N. J.; Uniontown, Pa., and Langin Field, W. Va. | Places | retary | Feder. | ing | pense to the Government if annuities | to be paid retired employes are to be ! ammunition | yesterday, APRIL WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g 10, OH,JoY! MeBpe L P— w7 i 1926—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. * 74 COOLIDGE CONFERS ON ANNUITY PLAN Discusses Retirement Prob- lem With Work and Green of A. F. of L. Retirement legislation was discussed at two White House conferences to- day between President Coolidge, Sec f the Interior Work and Wil- en, president of the American on of Labor. The Interior Department head and Mr. Green call- ed at the White House separately discussed details of pending legisla- tion for liberalization of the present retirement law. Secretary Work took with him to the White House the Stanfield bill, which provides for « maximum retire- ment annuity of $1,200. On his re- turn to the Interior Department, John liam G i 8. Beach, chief of the retirement divi- sion of the Pension Bureau, was called into conference to go over some of the of the report on the Stanfield ire, Secreta Work is under- stood to have virtually decided to rec- ommend a maximum annuity of $900. He wald he expects to complete the report on the Stanfield bill early next | week. Believes Bill Will Pass. After his conference With the Pre ident, Mr. Green said he feels satis fied that there will be some form of liveralized retirement legislation enacted at the present session of Con- & He intimated that the Pres ident gave him the impression that | he wants to see this legislation passed | but before he will give it his unquali- be made clear cost the Gov- it must it will fed sanctic exactly w ernment. Mr. Green stated that he left the at | White House with the impression that | it is now merely a matter of satisfy- regarding the ex- | the President substantially increased. He said he discussed the principles involved as well as the more important features of the Lehlbach and Stanfield bills, which are now pending in the House | and Senate. The $1,200 maximum annuity which is provided for in both the Lehlbach and Stanfield bills is con- sidered by Mr. Green as entirely fair and not too liberal. There is some doubt in his mind about the minimum ages for retirement being entirely practicable. He intimated that he was inclined to agree with the President that these age limits specified in the retirement legisla- tion might prove to be too low. He said, however, that the 60, 62 and 5 limits provided in the bills for optional retirement could serve as a basis for arrlving at a more satis- factory arrangement. Mr. Green said that he told the President that the A. F. of L, I8 interested in the legislation and would like to see the present re- tirement law_liberalized. He also said he told the President that what ke and his orggnization want to see is a retirement liberalization bill that is thoroughly reasonable and fair to all concerned. | BLAST SINKS SHIP, 79 SAVED, 1 KILLED Cartridges in Sealer Explode, Set- ting Vessel Afire—Men Driven to Ice. By the Associated Press. ST. JOHNS, New Foundland, April 10.—One member of the crew of the sealing steamer Seal lost his life when the vessel burned in Bay de Verde vesterday after an explosion of in her magazine. Five others suffered serious burns. survivors arrived here today on board | the steamer Eagle. The men were driven onto the ice when the cartridges for shooting seals exploded. The Seal caught fire and sank at sundown. The men were able to get off with the small boats and later started for shore, eight miles away, over the ice floes. was visible on shore when the fog lifted momentarily. The Eagle, which began a race to the rescue last night, reported that she was bringing the rescued crew here. The Seal, which left here Thurs- day for a second trip to the hunting grounds, carried a crew of 80 men. Radio Programs—Page 30 and | The ; The blazing ship behind them Women Who Work First to Wed and To Be Cast Aside By the Associated Press. CHICAGO. April 10.—Women who have job the first to get husbands here and the women with the best jobs get married first of all, Judge William L. Morgan, Domestic Court, disclosed today. Many husbands complain in his urt, the judge s: that after marriage their wives quit work and then the husbands quit the wives, “I don’t think women should work,” said the court. “I think that men have no business getting married until they can take care of their wives. When there are children, a woman's business is with them, not out doing a man’s work.” AMUNDSEN ‘NORGE OFF FOR TOULON Ceremonies Mark Departure of Dirigible, Which Will Try Pole Flight. By the Associated Press ROME, April 10.—The _dirigible Norge of the Amundsen-Ellsworth orth Pole expedition left here at 9:30 o'clock this morning for Toulon, France. The departure of the airship was witnessed by Rolf Thomassen, pres dent of the Norwegian Aero Club, the staff of the Norwegian legation, many Ttalian officials and the wife and daughters of the commander, Um- berto Nobile. | Before the departure representatives |of the Italian Aero Club presented | Comdr. Nobile with their colors, which | they asked be planted at the North Pole together with the Norwegian, Italian and American flags. The short ceremony was applauded by the great crowd. “Vivas” Fill the Air. As the Norge rose into the clear sky her crew shouted “Viva, Italia!" and were answered by those on th ground, many of whom added “Viva for Norway and the United States. The Norge, flying the Norwegian flag, executed maneuvers over Rome, escorted by two Italian airplanes, be- fore pointing her nose toward France. The population of the city was out in full force to wave farewell. While passing over the capitol Comdr. Nobile dropped a note for Signor Cremonesi, the govérnor of Rome, and also sent a wireless message to Premier Mus- solini aboard the dreadnaught Conte di Cavour, bound for Tripoli. Will Fly to Spitzbergen. It is the intention of the navigator of the Norge to fly her to Oslo, Nor- way, and thence to Spitzbergen, where a great hangar has been erected. The flight over the pole will begin probably next month. The ship is in command of Comdr. Nobile of the Italian navy. On the flight northward to Oslo the dirigible will cross Switzerland, Ger- many, Poland, Sweden and Norway. Capt. Roald Amundsen and his co- director in the Arctic flight, Lincoln Ellsworth of New York, will not board the Norge until its arrival at Kings Bay, Spitzbergen. They hope to have everything in readinesSs for the Norge, including a mooring mast, when the aircraft arrives. Today's Flight 360 Miles. ‘The Norge, formerly an Italy navy craft, recently made several success- ful trial flights. King Victor Emman- | uel last month inspected the dirigible. The distance between Rome and Toulon by air line is about 360 miles. The. Nerge, formerly the Itallan N-1, was built in the state airship factory at Rome under the directién of Comdr. Nobile, who commands her on her present flight. She is 348 feet if heigh! f 85 ECUADOR BANKS CLOSED. Finance Ministry Acts Against Three Which Spurned Its Checks. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, April 10 (#).—Three banks have been closed by the minister of finance and their man- agers sent to prison. ‘This action was taken on the refusal jof the banks to honor checks drawn lagainst them by the ministry of finance in favor of army officers. The ibanks are the Chimborazo Banking 1 Society, the Commercial and Farm Bank and the Itallan Bank. MILLIONS OF BEER VOTES ARE HELD UP JTruck Load Headed for Capi- | tol Hearing Runs Afoul g of Traffic Laws. | | | | | Chairman Francis Clay Harley of the National Liberal Alliance and his truckload of 12,000,000 votes for light wines and beer twice ran afoul of as a resuit the big cereflony which was to have taken place in front of the Senate Office Building is vet only an idea. Harley, who is former mayor of Astoria, Oreg., is all wrought up over the Capital's “ridiculous” regulations and he let the whole Police Depart- ment, the Commissioners and a num- ber of members of Congress know it, two. Sign Cause of Trouble. Tt was all because Mr. Harley in- sisted on setting up on the truck a large sign with the inscription: ational Liberal AlMance Pre- sents Voice of 12,000,000 People Be- fore Congress Favoring Light Wines and Beer." When the truck, pulled by a trac- tor, paraded down Pennsylvania ave- | nue past the Traffic Bureau this morning, shortly before 9:30 o'clock, the hour set for the presentation of the votes to the Senate judiciary committee, Inspector Brown looked out his window and rubbed his eyes. Lieut. Ben Lamb, at his side. glimpsed it about the same time and ran to his car. He caught up with the truck sev- eral blocks away and brought it back to the Traffic Bureau. Chair- | man Harley was notified at his hotel nearby and he rushed to Inspector Brown's office. Mr. Harley was very vigorous in his protests, according to the inspec- tor. He used the latter's phone to call Commissioner Rudolph about it, and Commissioner Rudolph referred him to Police Commissioner Fenning. The latter was out, but an assistant promised to look into the matter. In course of time Maj. Hesse learned of it and called Inspector Brown. It was agreed that the sign must come down. Chairman Harley, still protesting, took it down. Arrived in the vicinity of the Senate Office Building, how- ever, he put it up again. He had missed his engagement with the Sen- ators, so he settled down to wait until noon, when they would come out for lunch. Sign Back in Place. In the meantime some one informed Maj. Hesse that the sign was back in place again, in violation of the regulation which prohibits the use of a vehicle for advertising purposes. He notified Capt. Reilly of No. 6 pre cinct to investigate. An emissary soon located the truck on Delaware avenue, Senate Office Building, and had a little onference with Mr. Harley. After the parley Br. Harley ordered the sign removed and instructed the driver to take the truck to a garage. “It's an outrage, that's all,” Harley declared. “We've had similar trucks all over the United States and we haven't been stopped until just now. in the Capital of the Nation. It's an outrage.” |WET-AND-DRY FIGHT | cially Washington's traffic laws today and | near the entrance to the | () Means Associated T Lifeboat Compass Alcohol Is Drunk | By Ship Passenger By the Associated e, YARMOUTH, Nova Scotia, April 10.—Soon after the passengers dis embarked an officer of a steamer from Boston discovered that a spirit compass on one of the life- boats had been removed from .its position and emptied of alcohol The actions of a passenger dur ing the night prior to the arrival of the steamer here led the ship's officers to suspect he drank the aleohol. He had taken a train out of Yarmouth, however, hefore he could be questioned. RACE FOR SENATE N ILLINOIS .10 B | Brennan to Give Contest Lig- uor Flavor—G. 0. P. Seems to Have Edge. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Staff Correspondent of The Star. CHICAGO, Til.. April 10.—George { Brennan is the “wet hope’ He also is to be the Democratic | | nominee for. United States Senator fter Tuesday, when the primaries | | are held. As both Senator William B. | | McKinley and Col. Frank L. the candidates for the Republican senatorial nomination, are labeled | "dry,” and have both been indorsed by the Anti-Saloon League, the cam- paign for the Senate election gives every promise of being a “wet and | dry” fight. In fact, Mr. Brennan, who returned | here Friday from Washington, where he submitted a mass of anti-prohibi- tion arguments to the Senate investi zatfon committee, said today that he intended to keep the campaign strict- | Iy upon the issue of modification of | ‘he Volstead act. State Firmly Republican. There's no getting aw fact, however, that the e of lizht wine and beer in this State would | stand a far better chance of victory | if its standard bearer were a Repul lican instead of a Democrat. Iilinois is a Republican State, overwhelmins. | Iy so. A glance at the more recent election fizures proves this hevond & doubt. In 1924 President Coolidge car- ied the State with 1. 1 votes to for Davis, the Democrat, and for La Follette, the Progres- Senator Charles S. Deneen, Re publican, defeated his Democratic op ponent, Col. Sprague, in the same vear | by 1449,180 to 806,702. There has been | nothing to indicate In the vear that 1lUnois is any less strongly Repub. | lican, The Republicans, including both the candidates for the Senate, are little at this time about the pro: of a fight over the “wet and dry sue in the election campaign which must follow the primaries. They say | thev will cross that bridge when they come to it. It is expected that which- | ever wins, McKinley or Smith. he | will take a stand for “law enforce- ment” and seek to carry on his fight | against Brennan on other issues. This may or may not be possible, but not with Mr. Brennan's consent. VI have asked leaders in all the camps what would be the result of a straightout “wet and dry” fight. with all personalities and partisanship left out? What would be the result of State-wide referendum, for example, on the modification of the prohibition laws so as to permit wines and beer. | State Voted Wet in 1922, ¢ from A more recent guide to the senti ment regarding light wines and beer is to be found in Illinois, however, | than in any other State ex cept Ohio. In 1922 a referendum was held in both these States on the subject of | light wines and beer. The vote in_this referendum in Tili. | nois was 1,065,242 for wines and beer and 512,111 against. In Cook County -—Chicago—the vote stood 4 to 1 for wines and beer, and in the rest of the State the vote was 1 1-3 to 1 for ines and beer. In fairness to the rys,” however, it must be said that the” Anti-Saloon League announced it would not take part in the referen- dum some weeks before the vote was taken. More than a million and a half votes were cast, nevertheless, in that | referendum, in an “off yvear." The| total vote cast for President in 1924 was 2,462,000 in round numbers. ! The “drys” here claim that if they brought out thelr full strength in a referendum on wines and beer they would defeat the proposal. But the | politicians, are not so sure about this. I the State Legislature should ai | its next meeting provide for another | referendum on modification of the Vol- stead act, and the “wets” should win would it have the effect of mo | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, I, April' 10.—Women candidates for political office here are showing the men a thing or two.in the way of campaign advertising. ‘While “one woman candidate was sending a wagon load of empty beer kegs through the loop to advertise her stand for prohibition modification another was tacking up a campaign slogan in which the more aristocratic beverage, champagne, was given a word. . “Blue stockings and blue laws ar out of style; public opinion is cham- pagne colored,” is the battle cry of Mrs. Laura Mullendore-Buchholz, seeking 'the Republican nomination for State representative in the fifth district. 2 The fifth district covers Hyde Park, an ultra-aristocratic South Side resi- dential neighborhood, containi: the University of Chicago. - One of Mrs. Buchholz' opponents.is Mrs. Catlferine Goode,- the incumbent, and wife of J. Paul Goode, an instructor in the Uni- versity of Chicago. Mrs. Buchholz is a teacher of history in a high school. “From the outset I have expressed myself unequivocally against profes- sional reform and in favor of a con- @ressional lnvestigation into the fall- Chicago Women Seeking House Seats, | Use Beer Kegs and Champagne as Ads| ures of the Volstead act id Mrs. | Buchholz. “The act seems {o be re. f;:rd:d"ns a jo]keiand ‘Wwe cannot brook e failure. It is better to abrogate | e s tter to abrogate | In another aristocratic ig - hood, the Gold Coast of ?:;Lh':l)m North Side, the fight between Repre. sentative Fred A. Britten and Mrs. Bertha Baur, soclety woman, for the Republican congressional nomination, is producing seas of lava-like language. It was in favor of Mrs. Baur's | campaign that the beer kegs made their ghostly loop pilgrimage hearing the legend, “Beer and light wine de- livered to your door. Vote for Bertha Baur for Congress. The Baur managers have just made public & letter attacking Mr. Britten's war record, written by Willlam B. Austin. Britten immediately replied with a zetort that Austin is a “social climber * Who is seeking to use “Little Red Riding Hood's campaign as a social stepladder.” Concerning the beer wagon stunt, the Representative said: “It now appears that this wealthy society woman is going into the saloon | mith, | i next | had drunk liquor i | got it now! business by parading over the North Side a big beer wagon filled with empty beer barrels.” CEN CANADA'S FAILURE Press.” TWO T'S. INPROFIBITION LAID BEFORE INQUIRERS Manitoba and Quebec Lead ers Tell of Futility of Provinces’ Dry Laws. LIQUOR FOES MAY GET PROBE FLOOR MONDAY Presentation of Other Side of Case Seen in Walsh's Attitude at Session Today. unoff wet s as It he Senate inquiring in d Manitoba and Quebec today came to the aid of sentiment in the United bei laid before judiciary subeommittee moditication of the Ve without presuming to dicts committee what chang in should” be made, forcefully their failure to handle the g the Dominion which ted act and the 1a ihe s the res { ultimate_ggoption of regu 1g the traffic and consumpt o T am Russell. president of t tion Leazue of Winnipeg, ¢ Sir. William_ Stav for T of the Quebec Liquor Comn unmistakably impressed the commi of the > law elabor Leader Is Heard. The Canadian support of the cause of the wets came on the hee parting shot taken at the Vol ranized labor, which 3 in large numbers, plea the committee to modify rder that the working m: wine and beer with hi though three of the nine nes inally scheduled to testify were unheard vesterday, the attitude of the American Federation of Labo: on the question was closed today John Sullivan, president of the New ate Federation of Labor, wh alf of 1,000,000 men asked fc ation. that the presenta the wet arguments would be today and the dry forces would before the committee Monday loomed when Senator Walsh of Monta ing chairman of the subcom intimated that the promise to opponents of modification tha could appear Monday would have to be kept. - Julian Codman, attorney for the wets, asked time to discuss the subject with his witnesses and he in of | dicated he would be willing to halt his case now, let the drys prese their arguments and wind up wit the witnesses he planned to present week The matter is to be settled following the close of today's session early this after n Recites Own Experience. Prefacing his testimon: statement that “I intend to experiences we had in weste with prohibition and the e came with it,” Mr. Russell s the province of Manitoba prohibition law by a large m In 1919 the people began ve to regret their action, he said, : that “they were filled with t bitlon was affecting me country “The province was covered with a network of sfills. After two vears there were 40 convictions for stills anc in 1923 there were 300. The stills were debauching the towns, vi and hamlets. The psychopathic wards were filled with wrecks of humanity who fancy bottles, the voung people went wild. Crime We were told that prohibition would emove it. We never had so much crime after we got prohibition Bandits descended on villages, and we had the same crime waves you are having now. Thank God, we haven It was the result of the rum runners and bootleggers Municipalities Hard Up. The municipalities in Manitoba. continued the witness, were hard up hecause of the loss of revenue from liquor licenses and the inc pense of enforcement. Mr. told of the formation in 1921 o moderation league with the view of creating temperance sentiment throughout the province and the ac tivities of this orzanization resulted in . clecting - delegates to the House who were unanimously in favor of a referendum, which read: “Are you in avor of government _control _of Sont! slumn 1) nie cor “(Continued on Page PLANES COLLIDE, 5 BRITISH FLYERS DIE All Believed to Have Been Killed by Impact and Burns—Machines Fall 300 Feet. By the Associated Press. HENLOW, England, April 10.—Five members of the Royal Flying Corps were Kkilled today when two airplanes collided over the airdrome here. The planes fell 300 feet and burst into flames, burning the occ ts, two of ficers and three enlisted men. The disaster is described as the worst affecting the Royal Air Force since the war. One plane v ficer C. V, Lace: piloted by Flying Of nd carried three en listed men, ann, B, H Young and J. W. Simmonds. It col lided with a plane piloted by Flying Officer W. Scott. In_the opinion of experts who witnessed the ci impact alone was considered cient to have killed all the men, their deaths being caused by terrible burns. The disaster is described as the worst affecting the royal air force since the war. One plane was piloted by Flying Of- ficer C. V. Lacey and carried three en- listed men, R. R. Germann, B. H. Young and J. W. Simmonds. It col- lided with a plane piloted by Flying Officer W. Scott. In the opinion of ex- perts who witnessed the crash, thc impact alone was considered insuff. cient to have killed ail the men, their deaths being caused by terrible burns.