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Vare. Grimiest of the three is the case of Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania. The James A. Reed investigations showed that he used a slush fund of some $700,000 to win the primaries last spring. Recent researches purport to reveal frauds in the November elections. In many wards in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Mr. Vare's Democratic opponent, William Bauchop Wilson, did not poll a single vote; in 119 city districts in Pittsburgh, Mr. Wilson received less than ten votes in each. Mr. Vare received the votes of one dead man, of one 5-year-old girl...
...detachment of well armed operatives, arrested the "laborers," seized the trucks which contained 400 Springfield rifles, 155,000 rounds of ammunition. On examining his captives, Mr. Hopkins dubbed General Enrique Estrada, onetime Mexican Secretary of War, "ringleader" on the basis of documents found on him which seemed to purport conspiracy with revolutionaries in Mexico. "I do not think that the religious troubles of Mexico had anything to do with this," said able Agent Hopkins, "I believe it was simply an attempt of the 'outs' to get 'in.'" General Estrada, unable to furnish $20,000 personal bail...
Meanwhile the British Trade Union Council announced plans for a "general strike," to take effect unless the owners "withdrew" their so-called "lockout" notices-the purport of the Council's manifesto being, of course, a threat to strike unless employment was offered to miners at a higher rate...
Last week at Paris a Franco-German air compact was signed. Its purport was to smooth out the more embittered points of contention between France and Germany, while leaving in effect the drastic Allied restrictions upon purely military German aircraft...
...purport of this document was highly satisfactory to both men and to the world at large. It provides that all legal disputes which may arise between Austria and Czechoslovakia are to be submitted to an impartial commission chairmaned by an appointee of the Swiss Government. Should this commission fail to resolve the difficulty, then the signatories bind themselves to carry their dispute before the international judicial machinery at The Hague...