The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05
(By stan Corresrondent)

Washington D. C., July o. - a
complete reorganization o. the Hi
nois prohibition enforcement office
was forecast here this week. when
] it was announced by Senator Nc
Kinley that the name of G. A Greg
ory of Lovington, Moultr.e county,
would go to the senate as the ap-
pointee for federal prohibition en-
forcement d;recto, foT the state.
: According to word given out at
the Offices OF Senators Mckinney
and Mccormick here, a clean sweep
viii be mada of ali the Offices I'M
der Gregory.
! The corps of prohibition officers
/ for the state during the coming year
win include il addition to the di-
rector a CHEZ clerk. paying sal
airy of $500 per year, a chief in
spector paying $4,000, and 100 en-
! forcement agents for downstate
4: Illinois, whose salaries range from
81. 200 TO 81, S3o.
: The appointments Of all the OIL
! ciaIs named will be controlled by
the two senators although the di-
rector will be consulted in the nam
ing of his aides.
/ It is understood in Washington
that the agents, clerks and inspec-
/ tors now holding Office will be re-
lieved and that except in a few
cases new appointees will be named
to fill all the offices.
| Closely knit with the prohibition
enforcement question, was the anti
| h. 80 IyDIcfood
which was passed in the house last
week with the support OF major
| ity of the Illinois delegation. The
amendement was designed to pre-
vent the sale of beer, under the re-
cent ruling of Attorney-General
Palmer declaring beer could be
prescribed and sold as medicine.
Many members classed as ''wets"
voted for the amendment, so that
the roll-call did not reveal the en-
tire sentiment in the house favor
| ing a modification of the prohibit
| ton act
Representatives. Richard
Yates, Springfield, was the only Hi
noisan to speak in favor of the
amendment Representative Adolph
! D. CdDdILlv ShlSS1SOs wac OAO VI LA1C
leaders against the amendment, but
did not himself take the floor in OPP
POSITION.
Representative Yates spoke brief
! ly, declaring that he had voted for
all the prohibition measures
/ brought forward i'll the house, and
regarded his reelection as repre-
sentative-at-large from Illinois as
viltication of his sta,.d
! Downstate Illinois will be the in
land center of dirigible aviation in
the United States as the result OF
| action taken here this week by Sec
rotary OF the Navy John w. Weeks,
in approving the plan for erecting
hangar at Scott Field, near Belle
vile, at a cost CT more than $780,
0O0
| Secretary Weeks directed that
the funds should be made available
out of a surplus that remained in
the air service fund out of money
appropriated for the fiscal year
1920.
E. A. Daley, secretary of the
| Belleville board of trade left here
= thursday for Philadelphia en- route
to Illinois, after spending a week in
Washington i'll the interests of the
Scott Field project.
| Secretary Weeks announced his
decision to approve the building of
the hangar after conference early
in the week with Representative
William A. ROdenberg, who took
the position that unless steps were
taken at the present time to COM
plete the work at Scott Field. larger
expenditures would be required at a
later period. Scott Field was pur-
chased is months ago as lighter
than air aviation experiment
/ ground, at a cost exceeding $780,
| 600, Representative Rodenberg
pointed out to the secretary
Under the plan approved by Sec
rotary Weeks, work will commence
on the hangar not later than Sept
1. The plans to be followed in con-
( struction were drawn up by engi-
neers and air service officers in the
war department who had been back
ing the project from the first.
The specifications call for
hangar 220 feet wide. $50 feet high
and 910 feet long. The landing IA