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COACH DISASTER

SAD END TO A HOLIDAY OUTING

THREE WOMEN KILLED

Three

London, Yesterday. women were killed, and

30 people injured, many seriously, owing to a motor coach in which they were taking an outing getting out of control when on the top of a steep

hill near Whitby, York- shire. The party was organised by the Hull branch of the British Legion.

The conch somersaulted when it reached the bottom of the hill, then overturned. Reuter..

HEAT IN EUROPE

THOUSANDS OF PERSONS PROSTRATED

YEAR'S HOTTEST DAY

Berlin, July 22. Yesterday was the hottest day of the year, the thermometer reaching 98.2deg. Fahrenheit.

Eight deaths are reported from heat and drowning, and there were 100,000 bathers at the Wannsee establishments.

5,750 heat cases received first aid treatment at Nuremburg-Reuter.

The Committee of Danish Scouts has chartered a British steamer bound for Liverpool to convey 1,500 boys whe will represent Denmark at the forthcoming jamboree,

Beauties

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Ewo Cottons....T14.10 b 14.40 s [14.20/14 sa Oriental-Cottons

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Left. Mra. Olive M. Johnatn, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Socialist-Labor candidate for Mayor of New York City, who'disapproves of the policy of welcoming foreign celebrities and beauties in elaborato style, and vows she'll eliminate it if she's elected. Below, Grover Whatan, Palice Commissioner of New York, who's always there, silk hat, sarnation and all, whenever there's a member of royalty or an international beauty to be welcomed to our shores, Right, Miss Lorraine Reasel, young San Franciscan, who is Familiarly known as the "Grover Whalen of San Francisco, Cal.." chesan, to this position because of her great charm and personality. Incidentally she's in New York just now studying Now York methodo of "official" greeting.”

SOCIALIST CANDIDATE

FAVOURS MACHINE FOR HANDSHAKING

New York, June 12. Too much parading, too many hurrahs for bathing beauties and foreign potentates and an excess of sartorial elegance in the Police Department are evils which Mrs. Olive M. Johnson, Socialist-Labour candidate, promises to eliminate if she is elected Mayor of New York next fall.

"I would draw the lines at wel- comes for bathing beauties and for eign potentates,” she said,

office as a man. On the other hand, if she has particular qualifications for the job, why shouldn't she have! an equal chance 2"

The Mayor of New York will have a six-hour day and a hand-shaking machine for social requirements if Mrs. Johnson is chosen in the com- ing election. This would be in ac cordance with the principles of her party, which advocate a six-hour day for the labouring classes, she explained,

Educate the Masses

A medium-sized, smooth-faced, bobbed-haired, woman who looks younger than her fifty-four years,

Mrs. Johnson is a veteran runner. "I feel that there has been too for office. For thirty years she has much parades, too much dressing up been an active worker in her party attendant on the office of Mayor; She isn't thrilled at being a candi- and although I can shake hands date in the coming election. She with the best of them, my' idea, takes it calmly, even lightly. Should would be to strip the job of much of its front,

"When a Lindbergh comes home, or some one who really achieved something, then the working masses are the first to acclaim him. The line should be drawn somewhere" Speaking of her general policies, she saida e

Amendments Futile

she win, no one would be more sur- prised than Mrs. Johnson. She is going into the campaign to educate the masses as to what her party is striving for. However, she feels It her duty to put up a good fight.

Having a Mayor at home would be only one of the minor changes if she were elected, Mrs. Johnson painted out. There would be an entire change in the social system, a mora critical survey of city issues, and she would strive to give the labouring classes of New York a

"I don't believe that any slight reform would change things at all. What we absolutely need is to face fundamental issues. Amendments don't mean anything. I think better break. Prohibition is a part of the present Mrs. Johnson was born in Swe upheaval, People won't go to the den. Arriving in this country at root of the evil, which is the whole the age of seventeen, she worked system. So they try to amend until she earned enough" money to things and the more they amend enter Hunter College, New York, the worse it gets. Prohibition has where she took her degree, As, a proved that

very young girl she became inter- ested in labour problems, making a special study of it. Joining her forces with the Socialst-Labe Party, she has been an outstanding 1918

"I have never been the type of femmist that believed in a woman getting public office simply because she was e weinan,'' she commented,

'I do not believe that a woman will figure for necessarily clean up politics. She she was their andidate for Gov- Tazas liable to be corrupt in public i ernor of the State.

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