The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-19
Dove Of Peace Has Flown
By RAYMOND CHAPTER

u4eased Wire To The Age-Herald.)
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-Prohibi- ltion storm clouds are gathering as T a result of the atmospheric disturb 'aglce set off when Governor Pinchot charged that dry enforcement is be- tHg .hamstrung by politics at Wash i4gton. Tension is growing as the time for the Presidents conference ,wlth the governors draws near.
 The official White House list of accep ptances included all of the head liners in the booze row.
 !eWet batteries will be Al Smith, of New York, Silzer of New Jersey Richie of Maryland and Parker of 1Ruisiana. Richie fought the wet flight single-handed at Hardings S gpvernor's conference. But he will haSe some able :sistance this time i1y Al Smith and Silzer. As all sReeches will be made in public after tke conference, it is certain that these pfo fotagonists of the wet cause will take full advantage of this oppor- tRnity to get their case before the t0untry from the White House sound ifs board.
 The Stormy Petrel.
 fwPinchot will be the stormy petrel ofsthe conference, fighting both the wfets and the administration. He will opine face to face with Secretary of T~easury Mellon, his fellow Pennsyl- vAnian. Pinchot has demanded that the prohibition commissioner be re- moved from Melons jurisdiction so he may have a free hand and be re- sponsible only to the President.
 lxThen there will be heavy batting list of drysAamong the thirty-five or 50 Governors who will be on hand. i2President Coolidge had hoped to skip rather lightly over the prohi- btion enforcement question and talk about imm grafton and dope sup pfession But Pinchot has stirred ubf such a storm that ts:s will be Impossible. If President Coolidge sSttles down after dinner Thursday night to read the yellow book"-the scrap book of newspaper clippings made up each day by the White Honse staff, he will find these signi-
 Brockton, Mass.,-One thousand women at the Massachusetts w. c. tTg U, convention cheered when a speaker denounced Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. They demanded Ly resolution that prohibition units be removed from the treasury depart ment.
 Takes Rap At Mellon.
 9. Los Angcles,-Virgil G. Hin shaw, chairman of the national com mittee of he prohibition party, issued
 
 ton, December 12 to lay plans for ralfying dry votes in Congress. He attAcked the administration attitude toward prohibition and criticised Secretary Mellon as an eX-distiller.
 3. New York-District Attorney Hayward declares that 2,000 saloons in New York are selling liquor open lymand has filed injunctions asking toAclose 54 against which he has evidence.
 A. Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair delivered affidavits by former prohibition agents charging viola tions of the law by Lieut.. o. T. Davis. coflimander of the local vice squad, Sergt, James F. McQuade, assistant chief and formerly on duty at the White House, and Privates Bauer and Vermillon.
 The local liquor situation has been frequently referred to as scandal, first by members of Congress last spring, and a few days ago by Gov ernor Pinchot. Four federal prohi- bitfon agents assigned to the dis trict were suspended here recently and their counter charges have led to the present investigation of the police situation. Although the White House has kept silent, it is believed here that President Coolidge at a recent conference with the district police commissioner, ordered him to clean I'D the city.