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~ LIGUOR PROBLEM SOLUTION OFFERED David J. Lewis Suggests Con- stitutional Convention in Platform. Special Dispatch to The Star. #q9+ CUMBERLAND, Md., August 12— | sdDavid J. Lewis, former member of the xiHouse of Representatives and former 5smember of the Tariff Commission, simade known his platform yesterday in rihis reply to a call signed by prominent sADemocra‘’s of Montgomery, Frederick “and Washington Counties/that he be ; & candidate for the Democratic nomi- nation for Congress in the sixth Mary- land district this year. The call came ¥to Mr. Lewis as the result of his record of accomplishment in the Maryland State Senate and a member of the House of Representatives from this dis- trict for three terms. Last week he filed papers of entry into the coming primary in the five counties of the dis- trict. Mr. Lewis is nationally known for his statistical ability and as a student of public affairs, having always been interested in legislation pertaining to international matters, railroads, taruf, mining and labor generally. New Prohibilion Move. Reaffirming his attiiude of two years | 0, when he was a candidate, making old-age pensions and tte World Court | his leading issues, Mr. Lewis takes what is regarded as an advanced step in the solution of the prohibition question by suggesting a_constitutional convention, saying “its decisions and recommenda- tions would likely possess sufficient weight with the States to carry a solu- Tariff and unemployment are ‘sub- Jects for considerable attention, while one of great local import is what he terms “the plight of the Maryland min- ing industry,” just now much discussed in Garrett and Allegany Counties. He charges the trouble to' “discrimmination in the freight rates,” Mr. Lewis in his unger days worked in the mines and e has always been in touch with mat- | ters periaining to miners’ relief and coal transportation. Mine Conditions Concerned. Mr. Lewis professes to feel much en- eouraged because of the spontaneous desire of leading Democrats in other counties for him to be a candidate and by the encouragement he has received from many sources here at his own home. - The unemployment situation. the result of the impoverished condi- tions at Maryland mines and because of other conditions, has been a matter of much concern w him. Mr. Lewis touches on the Republican situation in the sixth district in con- nection with the congressional candi- date of that party who is under in- dictment in the District of Columbia with other officers of a bond and security house for alleged fraudulent use of the mails. Mr. Lewis says tle party leaders of the majority party misunderstand the meaning and appli- cation of the legal phrase “‘presumption of innocence,” which, he declares, “is a defensive plea which belongs to the criminal court room.” Mr. Lewis will be opposed in the pri- mary by former State’s Attorney Fuller Barnard, jr., who has come out in favor of the repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment. With the view to simplfying the Democratic _situation, some “of _the Democratic_leaders in the county have asked Mr. Barnard to withdraw, but he says he will pesitively remain’ in the race. FOUR HELD FOR JURY IN STREET SHOOTING Bond of $2,000 Imposed in Firing| = From Car in Front of Home in Southeast. Four persons arrested Sunday morn- ing after a shooting in front of the home of Vincent Giardina, 1003 Third street northesst, were charged with assault_with a dangerous weapon in Police Court today and held for grand jury action under $2,000 bond. Giardina declared a large sedan drew up :}; front of his home about 11 o'clock Saturday night. A revolver was poked from a car window and a volley of shots poured in the direction of the Giardina home. The man and friends standing in front of the home were forced to fall to the street to escape injury. Several hours later Detective W. B. Satterthwaite of the ninth precinct ar- rested five men on Eighth street north- east. One of tne five escaped. The remaining four were booked at the pre- | cinct station house for investigation. Po- lice found an empty revolver on Thomas F. Elam, alias “Snaky,” of New York. | Others sent to the grand jury today were H. E. Bell, Thomas F. Dorsey and C. C. Gibbs. ‘They were tried before Judge Ralph Given, with Assistant District Attorney ‘Wilbert McInerney as prosecutor. SPECIAL NOTICE! 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GIFFORD, SEEKING JOB EARLY, WROTE TO WRONG FIRM, BUT ACCOMPLISHED PURPOSE Sought Employment With General Electric, but Land- ed With Western Electric. PAY WAS $10 PER WEEK 10nly Asked Position With Chance to Rise if Deserved. This is the eighth of a secies of 18 articles on the boyhood of famous Ameri- cans and telling how they got their start in life. BY J. V. FITZ GERALD. College students, if they are ambitious and need to make their way in the world, begin to hunt jobs in the Spring before their graduation. Walter S. Gif- ford was in this class. He decided, in his senior year at Harvard, he wanted to work for the General Elec- tric Co. He sought no friends to find an open- ing for him. Instead he sat down and wrote a letter applying for a job. He directed the envelope to the Western Electric Co. by mistake, He received an | application blank from that companyn | reply. While embarrassed by his erfor in writing a letter to General Electric, dressed to Western Electric, he forgot about it when he was hir~d as a clerk | by the latter company. His pay was | $10 a week. Might Serve as Model. His, letted of application might well sérve as & model to young men today who are seeking to get their start in the business world. He wrote, in part: “It is my wish to enter some good business as soon as possible after I leave here. Now if there is only some position (no matter what, provided there will be a fair chance for a rise if 1t Is deserved) in the General Electric Co. 1 should like to try it and would endeavor to suit. “The fact that for two years out here, I studied a great deal on the WHILE WIS (COMPANIONS WERE PLAYING BASE BALL. FOOT BALL AND OTHER GAMES,, HE WAS COLLECTING v BUTTERFLIES bright student, and was able to enter high school when he was 11 years old. Not Husky and Robust. ‘The future head of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. was not & very husky and rotust lad. When his companions were playing base ball, foot ball and other games he was generally off getting his exercise and recreation by collecting butterfiies and other in- sects, He had a notable collection when he was a high school pupil. They were all catalogued under their Latin names. His mother had been a school teacher before her marriage. While she had other children, se was able to_devote much time to teaching her son Walter. ‘The lad’s memory was not of the best when he was a schoolboy, and as a re- sult he learned eafly to dig out the facts. He was able to remember them by not attempting to clutter his mind with non-essential details. It was an excellent lesson for the youngster to learn. Perhaps much of his success in the business world can be laid to his ability to eliminate unim- portant details and get down to the bed rock of a proposition. His college course was a success. It didn’t give him an inflated idea of his knowledge or ability, as_his letter of application for his first job shows. He had learned that a man has tq begin at the bottom to be of real value to himself or to a business. He was willing, as he wrote, tg fake anythiug, N -4 He completed his course at Harvard in | three years. | — e M Fon — HE ENTERED HiGH SCHODL WITEN § HE WAS ELEVEN |as long as it offered an opportunity for | advancement if he made good. Watned to Stand Alone. | He could have gone to work in a | Salem bank when he was graduated. His father would have obtained him a position_but the youngster had other |ideas. He wanted to stand on his own feet. He did so when he took the $10- | a-week job with the Western Elec- | tric Co. His first job called for him to make the trip to Chicago. He borrowed money to pay his fare rather than to accept it from his father. He was de- | termined to imake his own way from the | very outset of his business career. Wi es of $10 a week didn’t go very far even in 1904. Young Gifford man- ed to make it do somehow. He lived Hull House in Chicago, where he had comfortable and congenial sur- roundings at little expense. Needless to say, on his meager wages, he had little chance to do anything but work. He rose from a pay roll clerk to a position as assistant treasurer in a short time, with a good increase in salary. It wasn't long before he was chief statis- ticlan of the American Telephone & ‘Telegraph Co. In that position he at- tracted the attention of Theodore N. Vail, -then head of the concern, and gained further promotion. When Mr. Vail retired, the man, who as a college boy had made the mistake of misdirecting his letter of application for & job, was made the head of one of the world's greatest utility organizations, (Copyright, 1930. by North American News- paper Alliance.) (Next: John J. Raskob.) mechanical side (mathematics, chem- istry, etc.) may help as to the kind of a position I could fill. I began with the intention of becoming a mining en- gineer, but for several reasons have abandoned it. “If you wish any references, etc., I think I could ?et them, fdr, of course, you know nothing about what sort of a fellow I am.” ‘Walter S. Gifford was born in Salem, Mass.. in 1885. He wrote his letter of application in 1904. the year he was graduated from Harvard. His early education was received in the public schools of his native city. He was a | Hands of Boy, 15, Injured in| Experiment, Will Prob- ably Be Saved. Rajph Lowe, 15-year-old amateur chenist, learned at Emergency Hospital today that all 10 of his fingers prob- ably will survive the explosion which shook Ralph’s home. at 3429 Oakwood terrace, yesterday afternoon, an instant after Ralph made a laboratory test in the basement. v Although Ralph's father, Dr. Clifton D. Lowe, is an animal husbandryman the Department of Agriculture, Ralph himself is more interested in chemicals and their mysterious, if | sometimes violent, reactions. | . When Ralph closed out his term at | ‘Western High School last June he was so proficient in chemistry that the in- structor allowed him to clean up the laboratory. The instructor also per- mitted Ralph to take several odds and ends off the sktelves—leftovers and | such from the closing term. | With them Ralph equipped a lab- | oratory in his basement. He liked to | experiment almost as much as he liked swim, and while he wasn't swim- JOSEPH D. NEVIUS, Recently promoted from deputy com- missioner of customs to general counsel | of the Bureau of Customs. | ming Ralph was experimenting. Prgom time to time he added to his stock of chemicals by purchases from | the neighborhood drug store. | Ralph’s mother was somewhat dis- | tressed by the strange compounds which | Ralph concocted and sought to divert hin. to other pursuits, But at every op- ] Ttunity Ralph went back to his base- ment. | The doctors say, however, that Ralph's experiments probably will cost| him no more than several days in the | hospital. His left hand was badly lacer- | ated, but his fingers likely will be| saved. | Ralph explained he had been making a torpedo by pouring a chemical com- | bination of his own invention into a copper tube, which he sealed. | Ralph, being only an amateur chem- | ist, wasn't sure it was a good torpedo mixture, so he hit it with a hammer. | It was an excellent torpedo Ralph learned. Barograph Sent Here May Prove Parachute Leap Establishes Record. | By the Associated Press. | COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., August | parachute jump from what he believed an altitude of 28,000 feet, a new world | record. A seal barograph was carried and will be sent to Washington for cali- bration. The former record, held by an Army fiyer, was 26,000 feet, Donohue said. ~ | THREE MEDICAL OFFICERS| ARE ADVANCED IN RANK Lieutenants on Duty at Reed Hos- | pital Promoted by Order to Captains’ Grade. at Walter Reed Hospital from the grade of lieutenant to that of captain was an- nounced by the headquarters of the 3rd Corps Area, United States Army, toda; The officers are: Willlam H. Lawtol whose home is in Garrett, S. C.; James E. Yarbrough cf Spring’ Hope, N. C and Abner Zehm of Minneapolis. | Capt. Lawton was a graduate of | George Washington University in the | class of 1927. Capt. Yarbrough gradu- | ated from Jefferson Medical College jn !1927, and Capt. Zehm graduated from | the University of Minnesota in 1928. No Tags for Parkers. PITMAN, N. J., August 12.—A police tag of another kind awaits visiting mo- torists here. It reads: “Welcome to Pitman. This card entitles you to pnli'k Promction of three medical officers | CUSTOMS MEN CUT | LIQUOR IMPORTATION Commissioner Describes Work in Radio, Address Over N. B. C. | System. ‘The alertn-ss of customs officers has brought about a dropping off in efforts to bring liguor to this country from | Canada, F. X. A. Eble, commissioner of customs, said in a radio address last | night, Speaking over the National Broad- | casting Co. system from Washington, Eble said that among the 46,000,00 | persons who entered the country from Canada and Mexico by automobile and year were many who sought e the law, without success. A force of 700 inspectors and 600 patrol officers are located at the various | nation! highways, Eble sald. He em- | phasized that their dutics are not con- | fined to detection of contraband, but | include compliance with those ~pro- visions of the tariff law having to do with customs. RECEIVES BORDER REPORT The State Department last night re- ceived from the American embassy in Mexico City, the report of the Inter- national Boundary Commission, on | adjustment of the course of the Rio Grande. It is expected that a statement will be made on the subject this week, after consultations with the division of Mexi- can affairs, the assistant secretaries | and the solicitor's office. Will Rogers BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Today is another primary day. In the old days when Senators were Senators, why the State Legislatures picked out the ones that were to Tun. Now they pick themselves. You put an ad in the papers saying “you be- lieve that youare needed.” Maybe it's an original idea with you, but there is no way of keeping you from run- ning. There is no qualification out- side of an intention necessary. And by the way, we lost a mighty good ex-Senator out here this week, James Phelan, a philanthropist, your ~car as long as you please in Pitman. Never mind the time limit, but do not park in safety® or near fire hydrants, or block Wileys, above all, our speed laws.” scholar, & patron of the arts and tleman. With these qualifica~ , naturesly a Democrat. A fine fellow was Jimmy. DESERTED WAIF'S PARENTS SOUGHT Helpless Child, 8 Months 0id, Left With Nurse by Wom- an Who Vanishes. It is hoped her parents will relent and come for “Mary De Clare,” the most forlorn, the most helpless of all the waifs. The 8-month-old infant was left to board at the homg of a professional nurse in Takoma Park, Md., by a wom- an, who never returned. Five weeks have nd no word has come from the woman—five weeks in which the chiid has never smiled, has never recognized her nurse, Mrs. Edith Rickard. Mrs. Rickard took the child in be- cause she saw it was affiicted and be- cause the woman pleaded with her. The woman paid $7.50 for the first week's board and drove off in a large taxicab. While Mrs, Rickard was making in- quiry, learning that the woman had given a flctitious address and name, the chiid lay in its crib and rolled its vacant head from side to side. Authorities Seek Parents. The child never utters a sound un- less hungry, her head never ceases roll- ing until she sleeps. Doctors say her im- movable, great black eyes may have vis- ual power, although she gives no sign of seeing. Maryland authorities and the Mont- gomery County Social Service League in particular, have made every effort to locate the parents. They have no in- stitution which can receive the waif, no funds to provide her board. Mrs. Rickard herself has a large family. The little waif she is caring for takes much of her time, which she can ill spare from her other duties. ‘The waif often is sick and only cries and rolls its head until exhausted and unable to do so longer. The child kl,s 1swlnhy, black-eyed and has black air, Physiclans are of the opinion she is possibly a gypsy. A man with a foreign accent tele- phoned Mrs. Rickard a week after the walf was left at her home. He inquired anxiously of the infani’s health, and then gave a fictitions name and address. Address Found Non-Existent. ‘The woman who brought the waif Poris of entry and along the inter-|Said she was “Mrs. J. P. Johnson” of an ;:Adfl‘i;s lube"l;llnund non-existent. She e mother was outside in t) too 1l to come in. SHen voman explained the mother y for her health, and would Mrs. Rickard accept the infant for only & few weeks. They didn't bring the child’s clothes, she said, because of fear the child would not be accepted. Those would be sent tomorrow. The woman further said the waif's father was a tailor, living at an ad- dress which never existed. Doctors say the child’s faculties might be restored in a measure by prolonged hospital treatment and perhaps an operation. But all that is expensive, Without any comprehension, without any feeling save that of hunger, with- out any home and without any place to g0 or even a name, the childs single | hope seems to be that her parents will have a change of heart, will come and get her and help her to lve. Arrival of Heir Of Young Couple By the Associated Press. SOUDERTON, Pa., August 12.—Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Kenneth Moyer, who were married here on January 2 after | signing a contract that either was privileged to obtain a divorce withou consulting the other if there was no issue within two years, today announced the birth of & son. Mr. Moyer, who is a free-lance writer of Chicago, said the child weighed 81; pounds and_arrived at 3 o'clock this morning. The father and mother were | delighted. ‘The baby was born at the home of Mr. Moyer’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ab- ner Moyer, prominent residents of this to was Sun marria wn. Mrs, Moyer before her s et Anmtelia Oen o Ethel Olyette Prairie, Wis, ] TUESDAY, AU FIVE STATES PIGK | NOMINEES TODAY Voting Holds Political Fate of National Figures in Senate Races. (Continued From First Page.) 1 lief and attacked Robinson as a “friend of the power trust.” ‘The senatorial campaign was marked by vigorous thrusts at Senator Robin- son’s candidacy by J. A. Comer, grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Arkan- sas, who urged support of Campbell on the ground of Robinson’s inclusion on the 1928 presidential ticket with Alfred E. Smith. Comer was barred from the primary. Gov. Harvey Parnell is seeking the Democratic nomination for a second term. Brooks Hays, Little Rock at- torney; County Judge John C. Shefield of Helena and Thornberry Gray of Batesville are his opponents. LIVELY CONTEST IN OHIO. Five Democrats Run for Senate With Dry Law as Issue. COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 12 (#).— Except for a lively five-cornered con- test for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator, in which pro- hibition was one of the chief issues, | Ohio’s primary today created only nominal excitement. On the Republican side balloting was virtually a formality. United States Senator Roscoe McCulloch was unop- posed. Gov. Myers Y. Cooper also was without opposition. Prohibition was made the issue in the Democratic senatorial race when one of the candidates, former Repre- sentative Robert J. Bulkley of Cleye- land, came out for repeal of the eight~ eenth amendment and a second, George 8. Myers, also of Cleveland, for modi- fication. Former State Director of Agriculture Charles V. Truax of Buckyrus and W. ‘W. Durbin of Kenton kept silent on the question. The fifth candidate, former Representative John McSweeney of Wooster, was supported by the Anti- Saloon League. Only a small percentage of the 3,.- 1000,000 eligible voters were expected to cast ballots. COURSE OF BOLTERS IN DOUBT. More Than 165,000 Expected to Cast Ballots in Alabama. MONTGOMERY, Ala., August 12 (#). —Approximately 75,000 Alabama Dem- ocrats, who supported the Republican presidential nominee in 1928 and brought the State within 7.000 votes of the Hoover column, had the choice of returning to the Democratic party in today’s primary or withholding their ballots for independent cardidates headed by Senator J. Thomas Heflin. Estimates of the vote ranged from 165,000 to 200,000. ‘While John H, Bankhead, Jasper at- torney, and Frederick I. Thompson, Mobile publisher, have fought for the Democratic nomination for senator, Heflin, for 34 years an office holder as the State urging voters to remain away from the polls, or at least cast their ballots in the county races only, PERSONALITIES INJECTED. Oklahoma's Democratic Run-Off Elec- tion Ends Bitter Campaign. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., August 12 (). —Table manners and mode of dress were among the issues in Oklahoma's Democratic run-off primary election today, - ‘The election ended a brief, but bitter campaign. The principal contests were between William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Mur- ray and PFrank Buttram, gubernatorial spirants and T. P. Gore and C. J. Wrightsman, seeking party designation as senatorial pominee. Gore and Wrightsman has concen- trated their campaign about each other's alleged ineligibility. Gore and his sup- porters have charged that Wrightsman | spent excessively in - the campaign. Wrightsman’s partisans have charged Gore's candidacy has violated a “gentle- man’'s agreement” as to representation from different sections of the State. The winner will oppose Senator W. B. Pine, incumbent, in November. PARTY WILL BACK NORRIS. Bolting in 1928 Will Not Cost Senator Support of Machine. By the Associated Press. Bolting the party fold in 1928 to sup- port Alfred E. Smith for President will not cost Senator Norris of Nebraska sup- port of the Republican national machine if he i his_party's renomination. This edict was given out late yester- day by Senator Fess of Ohio, the new chairman of his party's national com- mittee, following a conference at the ‘White House. “The National Committee can make no discrimination among candidates,” Fess said. “It is interested only in the principles involved. It is the duty of the committee to support the nomi- nees chosen in party primaries.” The statement was made in reply to a question on whether Norris would be supported. At the same time, Fess, leaving for & 10-day vacation on the Great Lakes, said immediately upon his return the national organization would be ready to open a vigorous campaign for the renomination of the party's nominees to Senate and House seats. He outlined as outstanding issues of relief. He discounted both prohibition and the World Court issue as campaign topics, saying both questions cut too and Democrats. | paign Funds Committee said in a state- ment yesterday he expected to prove that influence was brought to bear on George W. Norris, grocery clerk, to file Senator Norris. Senator Norris was barred by the courts Senator Norris had intended to run as an independent in the event the grocery- man was allowed to enter the Repub- lican senatorial primary, asserting iden- tical names on the ballot would cause hopeless confusion. hearings in Nebraska September 1. Nye's statement took notice of charges made in Nebraska that his previous in- vestigation cf the candidacy of the sec- ond Geoige W. Norris was a result of prejudice. “The charges of prejudice are base- less,” Nye said, “and the committee will be able as a result of the scheduled hearings to demonstrate that it is not true George W. Norris of Broken Bow was a candidate as a result of his own or lone choosing and will be able to prove others :ing him to announce himself a candi- a | didacy was not one in good faith.” ‘The place for the Nebraska hearings has not been determined. Nye expects Senators Dale, Republican, Vermont, and Wagner, Democrat, New York, to attend. After the Nebraska hearing the com- Tilinois primary in Chicago. Sun Tan “Carried Too Far.” thing of getting a tan can be carried too far. So decided some shocked resi- dents of Pomona when they came upon four young women and seven young men ! | who had carrled the idea quite far, in- deed. As a result a fine of $5 was on each, JGUST 12, 1930. POLICE MARKSMEN GIVEN AWARD! Leaders in the police pistol matches were awarded medals today. In the photograph, left to right: S. T. Schwartz; Policeman E. C. Moore, first prize winner; Policeman S. R. McKee, second prize winner, and E. F. Mitchell, man- ager of the police division of the National Rifle Association.—Star Staff Photo. NARCOTIC HEADS a member of the party, has stumped | successful today in obtaining || the general campaign President Hoo- |/ ver's administration, the tariff and farm || j deeply into both parties to become a | source of conflict between Republicans | Chairman Nye of the Senate Cam- || as @& candidate in Nebraska against || The clerk's attempt to contest against ||| on the ground that he filed too late. || Nye sald his committee would resume || ere instrumental in caus- || for the Senate and that his can- || mittee will resume the hearings on the | RAMAPO, N. Y., August 12 (#)—This || | SEEK HIGHER-UPS Anslinger Tells Plans of Bu- reau to Conference of Drug Manufacturers. By the Associated P Both the Prohibition and Narcotic | Bureaus plan to concentrate on the | proverbial man “higher up.” ‘The policy of the dry unit was an- nounced recently and today H. J. An- slinger, acting commissioner of nar- cotics, ‘old a conference of drug manu- facturers the new bureau would center | its attention on eliminating larger sup- plies of illicit narcotics. Government officials and scientists also were present at the conference, called by Surg. Gen. Cumming. - An- slinger told them he needed their as- Isls!lnce in determining the legitimate narcotic needs of the United States, Figures showing annual importations of opium have increased about 21,000 pounds during the past four years were given by S. H. Breidenbach, statistician of the Narcotic Bureau. He said about 14,000 pounds of this went into co- deiene manufacture. The conference was informed all drugs seized in control work were turned over to- the War Department for storage for an emergency. Diversion of drugs from medical to illegal channels, it was | said, was comparatively unimportant. The need for a thorough study of narcotic separations exempt under the laws was urged by Dr. Robert L. Swain, deputy food and drug commissioner of the Maryland State Health Department. —_— e SHELBY WILL ADDRESS WASHINGTON OPTIMISTS Metropolitan Police Detective Head to Speak on General Problems Confronting Officers. Inspector Willlam S. Shelby, chief of | the Detective Bureau of the Metro- | politan Police, will be the principal speaker at the weekly luncheon meet~ | ing of the Washington Optimist Club | tomorrow afternoon in the grill room of the Hamilton Hotel, it was an- | nounced today by Wash B. Williams, | president of the club. Inspector Shelby will'speak generally on the problems that confront police | in Washington and in other large cities, it is_announced. » Herbert B. Nevius, governor of the | Optimist International, sixteenth | district, and a member,of the Washing- ton club, on Thursday will visit the | Baltimore Optimist Club, taking with | him David Wolf, Washington club's 15~ year-old orator, who recently won the Optimist International oratorical con- test at the convention in Erie, Pa. A delegation of Washington Optimists will also make the visit. SISTERS BURN TO DEATH Lose Lives in Fire Which Destroys Farm House. LODI, Calif., August 12 (#).—Mrs. Claud Hall, 65, Los Angeles, and Esther Bu:ch, 22, and Josephine Bunch, 11, sise were burned to death in a fire :;l;lcl destroyed the Bunch farm house ay. Argentina sent nearly $1,500,000 worth of fox furs to the United States in the last 12 months. | | | 0 QQMQW CHEAGDG0PASES ORY REFERENDUM 18th Amendment, Volstead Act, and Seizure Law . . Named on Petition. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Tl August 12.—The Cook County Republican Committee petitioned the secretary of state today for a dry law referendum. Three " petitions, bearing the names of approximately 400,000 voters and sent from Chicago last night under guard, called for the inclusion on the ballot of three guestions: Shall 7thz eighteenth amendment be pealed? S’hlll Congress modify the Volstead act? Shall the Illinois search and seizure act be repealed? Bernard W. Snow, chairman of the Cook County G. O. P. Committee, who headed a group of Chicago party lead- ers in presenting'the petitions, said the | greater majority of the signatures had been obtained “in Chicago and Cook County, but that by request many of the " petitions were circulated down- State. “The Republican organization of Cook County recognizes that prohibition has not only been a failure in accomplish- ing the object sought, but has been attended by a long train of evil conse- quences that threaten the stability of government administration.” Snow said. Under the Illinois law, the names of 310,000 voters must be had before a public policy question can be placed on the ballot. If approved, the questions will be voted upon at the November general election, in which Ruth Hanna McCor- mick, the Republican nominee, opposes James Hamilton Lewis for the Senate. Lewis, the Democratic candidate and a former Senator, is opposed to the dry law, but Mrs. McCormick has taken no stand on the prohibition question. re] Lesson Costs Henry $4,000. BALTIMORE, August 12 (#).—With Henry Benson it was merely a case of swapping a stomach ache for a head- ache, Suffering with the former, he gave a Gypsy woman $4,000 in bills to make a plaster out of them to cure him. He wore it five days-and then discovered the $4,000 had shrunk to $9. That's | when Henry got the headache. UR Special Holstein Nursery Milk is produced in co-operation with Dr. J. Thos. Kelley, jr. Our files contain many unsolicited letters of praise. Consult your physician, or any of the mothers we have served. Wise Brother: CHevy CHASE DAIRY Phone WEST OI183 \ leyled | \ Five Good Reasons \ Why - Washington Prefers Superior Quality Milk 1. Because it comes from_carefully selected farms regularly inspected by the District of Columbia Health Department. 2. 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