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Show SPEAKER TELLS OF LIQUOR PLOT I 'Flying Squadron' Closes Three-day Sessions in Ogden Today 1 The "Flying squadron." n party of five prohibition orators, will close their three-day series of meetings In tho I'lrsi Methodlfll Churtsh today. Oliver V Stewart, pre,i.rit ol ih. I'lylug Squadron foundation, and the Rev Norma C. Brown, former chaplain of the Illinois senate, were to penk at 3 l. m, today and again at 8 P. m. James H, Woertendyke, minister and lawyer of Cfhlcaco, was the principal speaker Monday. He charged that a united effort Is being made by me wet forces in evtry section of tho country to bring about a complete ro-lurn ro-lurn of the liquor traffic by i:2G. The camp.ilKo for the abolition of the KU'liti' nth .hit i I id nt. he said, in bo-Ini; bo-Ini; waited f fhn National mxoci:i t ion Opposed to Prohibition, with main offices of-fices In Washington and branches tu 28 .states. "Contrary to tho general opinion home-madi' whisky forms but a small jiortlon of the liquor that is being sold by llcl1 dealers, Most of It comes from thr bonded warehouses of the nation. na-tion. Many dealers use a still merely as a camouflag foi their real whisky W hen the officers raid the place I hey want the still to be found In order to divert attention from the real whisky, which the have m hiding The arrest ar-rest and conviction of the offenders, with the newspaper publicity which they tct. is merely advertising for: !them unci when Ihejf are able to return re-turn to their plaee of operation their patronage Is materially Increased be cause of the publicity given them. "ilany people" have the Idea that' prohibition l now here m stay Jt perpianency 's threatened, however, unless the prohibition forces are cor.-itantly cor.-itantly on the alert It requires an act of congress to make operative a provision of the constitution of tho United States. Such a law Is found In the Volstead a t so far as the eighteenth eigh-teenth amendment Is concerned ' Should this act be repealed there would be nothing to bnek up tl)e amendment and prohibition would .... Inoperative." |