Three petitions containing a total] of 400,000 names, each petition calling for repeal of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) Amendment together with the modification of the Volstead Enforcement Law and the repeal of the Illinois "search and seizure law," were sent to Springfield to-day by the Cook County Republican Committee, Cook—County includes Chicago, like all the large American cities predominately "wet."
'The Committee obtained the signatures through canvass of its] territory. Unless the signatures are challenged, the petitions' demands will be voted upon at a general election—United Press.
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