POLITICAL NOTES: Governor to Governor

At Springfield, Ill., Oklahoma's Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray met Illinois' Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson last week. Later Governor Murray said he had said: "We have a world of moonshiners in the hills of Pushmatana County. If the oil ever plays out, we'll hook their stills to the pipe-lines."

Said the Governor of Illinois: "I want to get in on that hookup."

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