$100,000 Worth of Champagne in 400 Cases Labelled "Coloured Earth New York, Mar. 12.
A daring attempt to smuggle Yiquor into the United States was revealed to-day when the Customs (fiicials announced the seizure of champagne to a value exceeding! {$100,000 on the basis of bootleg, Prices on board two well-known} American liners engaged i the-world tourist traffic.
The champagne totalled over 400 eases, Tt was in two hundred] barrels marked "coloured earth."
The discovery of the contents was made accidentally when one barrel fell to the floor and broke open, The others were immediately opened and] each was found to contain two eases of liquor secreted under layers of The Customs officers then awaited!
1 of the other steamer, ich were unloaded about one hundred barrels similarly marked.
The Desire to Change the Law Mar. 13.
An unprecedentedly spirited fight between the "Wets" and the "Drys" has come to a head with the announcement that the "Wots" have secured a ten to one majority in the revealed newspaper "straw vote" on whether the Volstend Law—shall} stand or be amended to permit the vale of light wines and beer.
The "Drys" assert that they warned their supporters not participate in the ballot. Neverthe-toss they have requested an audience with President Coolidge to urge a vigorous maintenance of the law, The Senate and the House of Representatives have daily to listen ASeputati sohes, " The Judici" ary Ci of the Ser At modification, Several Senators have threatened that if these measures are pigeonholed, they will raise the question on the floor of the Senate Reuter's American}
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