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"GIRLS AS EFFICIENT AT LIFE SAVING AS MEN," SAYS WOMAN CAPTAIN OF RESCUERS jyjgyMMK Los Angeles. Mrs. Aileen Allen, high and fancy woman champion diver of the Pacific Coast, who will compete for the national champion ship next summer, organized and captains the only woman's lif e saving team in the United States. The team, consisting of eight girls, all expert swimmers, organized last summer, has made numerous rescues at the beaches here. "In spite of opinions to the con trary, women make as efficient life savers as men," said Mrs. Allen. "To rescue a drowning person does not require so much strength as skill. It would be the greatest folly in the world for a man, no matter how powerful he might be, to attempt to save a drowning person unless he were an expert swimmer and knew how to break the holds of a victim struggling in the water." o o HAMILTON GETS GOOD JOB Sam Hamilton should worry if he was beaten in the Republican pri maries for alderman in the 25th ward. Yesterday he was appointed ass't cor poration counsel at a salary of $3,600 a year, which has Aid. Link's salary as alderman beaten by a six-hundred dollar margin. o o TODAY IN ILLINOIS HISTORY March 16, 1785. Rufus King moved a resolution in congress to prohibit slavery in the western ter ritory. The resolution was not made effective until its incorporation in the ordinance of 1787, but it is one of the Tery earliest blows aimed at slavery. Carranza's advice to Gen. P. Elias Calles, re the proposed invasion of Mexico by the TJ. S. troops, indicates that his whiskered excellency has not yet made up his mind whether tp grapple with the devil or plunge into the deep blue seaj teiiMaaMittfiiMilMiftiMMMIlMaftiaHiiiiliflH