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Montreal, Dec. 1J.?The provincial Government of Quebec is facing an election on the liquor question and the outcome of the contest will give as much.concern to some folks in New j York us to the Canadians. The real ' issue to be decided will be the price of whisky sold by the Government through the crown's commission. This liquor offers the main source of supply fir the American bootlegger. 4 Administration of the liquor law ft being challenged through the province and it js understood the Government, of which Premier Taschercau is the head, has decided to risk an early election. The oflleiuls evidently believe it would be wiser to have tlie tUlllUDl UUl ?-?! lUC! WJiy I c1?l II*; I UIU.ll wait for further growth of the opposition. Quebec, uncjcr the crown's charter grants, has absolute autonomy in deciding its liquor and all other sumptuary laws. All tho other provinces and the whole British Government combined cannot vote Qilebec dry If Quebec Itself votes wot. Tlirro is no question about the province staying wet. What the opposition wants Is to make It a little wptter, not dryer, tind, further, that the public be permitted to share the golden harvest of the American bootlegger's dollars. While the issue will not be framed I quite so badly anil boldly, the fact is that the election will be to determine whether the Government Is to keep the tremendous profits pouring Into the province through tho Illicit whisky trade with the States, or return to commerctal sales unuer Government supervision so that the. public may got Into the business and make money. The .Government s making millions annually out of the trade. The 'aw makes the Government the recognized distributor and salesman of all Hqdnrs. The business Is carried 011 through commissions which regulate the importation, sales, prices and other details. All kinds of distilled liquors, brews and wines from England, .Scotland, Ireland and Franco are handled through the commission's stores. The law allows unlimited sale of beer and wine, but restricts the distribution of whisky to "one bottle at a time." It Is posslhlf to go Into the store many times, so that In reality this sup| ply Is unlimited. < Under the original law sales were coni ducted by the public, with Government supervision. An agent was stationed in I each liquor store. Irregularities were I charged. Whisky was cheaper anft there j was more drunkenness. The Government now has its own officials in cliaria j of each of the commission's stores. Unrkrr Very Prosperous. Quebec has been shooting: ahead of ' the other provinces, which have been watching this new prosperity with envious eyes. There are reports that wet sentiment Is spreading and that some of the other provinces may swing back. Officials in charge of the liquor administration are getting big salaries. The province Is building more and better roads ar.d other Improvements than the ! others. It is reaching p. slate of affluancc never dreamed of. | Opposition to ths Government charges | that the commission In Its eagerness to I make money Is getting too much for ! whisky. The price at the* stores has been from $3.75 to If.90 for rye and ; Scotch. In order u> get that much from 1 the American bootlegger It is necessary I to charge the Canadian the same price i and the latter, with his average wage 1 of $2 to $2.50 a day, cannot afford to j pay It. As u result, the local consumption of Whisky and brandy has been reduced | to a minimum, while the sale to the bootlegger for the State trade has | reached big proportions. The natlvs drinks ale and wine, which he can get without restriction. But he does nof like : the Idea of having all the whisky pass I him and be unable to touch It because | of the high prices, which are made nec1 cssary only because of the official deI sire to swell the public treasury. Complaint |s made also that the dls! tillers are making too much. There are ! undefined and unconfirmed reports, heard quite often, that certain officials have great opportunity for private trafficking In enormous amounts of liquor and the opposition Is .continually Inquiring how the Imports and sales compare. More on Gov eminent. The liquor dealer who has been shut out of the legitimate business, and v ho j ha? been compelled to turn bootlegger t or go to work. Is one of the chief aglI tators for return to the system which 1 will permit htm to sell Instead of th? Government. He contends that the change would mean cheaper whisky. If there were a change in the law tha Government would atlll retain strict super] vlsloq. There Is a'so a growing moral resent ; ment amonr some classes against having their Government engaged In liquor trafficking. It la known that a large pnrt of the whisky put out by the commiastortg stores la going to the bootlegger to bo smuggled goroaa the NewYork border In violation the American law. There are thoao who inalat the proffte. big aa they are. do not compensate for the reaction of this Illicit trade on the public. Boys between the atea of 17 and SS i iiave iieen drawn by the hundreds Into I the liquor trade; draw n by the lure of i quick and easy money. Young incn have given up their positions In stores, factories. banks and offleea to help the Canadian Jobber In the dally task of procuring Ida cargo of whisky for transportation to the border; to drive a sleigh or automobile and eventually to steal an automobile and go Into the business himself. There are many auch cases. One young man who gave up his post In a hank In Valleyfleld to learn the rum trade was arrested recently. He tama from a fine family. V THE NEW '/ | Court Returns Liquor to Convicted Bootlegger , THIRTY cases rh v.hlsky and an automobile truck seized more than a year ago yesterday were ordered returned to ; Antfiony Cassesse., alleged million- i. aire bootlegger, under sentence cf two years' imprisonment and a line of $10,000 for violating the Volstead law. Judge Harmon B. Howe I of Vermont, sitting In United j States Court at Brooklyn, entered I the nrrter Tor return of the Seized good s. Judge llowe tried the case, in which Mary White. Catincsse and others were charged with conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. The whisky and truck were ordered ret timed after C'asscsse and the other defendants had j been acquitted of that charge. PARLEY ON DRY LAW. IS SET FOR JANUARY P j > ; President to Issue Call to Governors Early in the Month. , ! 7~7".. .. < j&'pr'ia/ iJlspat'h In Tub .mw iokk iihtalp. j j N>* York Rfnili) Burrs ti. V Wn>hln(tnn, 1>. Rw. 12. r The einference of State Governors to t bo called by President Harding to con- ,1 s!d?g ways of enforcement of the prohl- j! bition amendment and Volstead act will take place here in January, probably < near the end of the month. The President expects to Issue the call early In f the mor.th. Coincident with tbia announcement c there was an unexpected flareup In the ' Senate which threw new light on the ' situation with which the conference will c deal. ' In the debate on the Treasury appro- c prtatlon bill Senator Broussard fLa.) t made a frontal attack on the Antl-Saloon League. He quoted Dr. Pcrley A Baker, general superintendent, of the ' league, as stating recently In New Orleans that 2il per cent, of the Federal ^ Judges should be In the penitentiary at r hard labor or impeached for violations of the dry laws. ' He quoted Wayne B. Wheeler, general r counsel of the league, to/the effect that. 1 the percentage of prohibition agents j killed on duty Is greater than the percentage of American eoldiers slatn dur- * Ing the world war. senator Jiroussara | quoted Dr. Baker a* saying: "These pooundrt Is who pit on the bench, and I use the term advisedly, are drunkards themselves. 1 hold them responsible for the shooting down of 300 splendid law enforcement officers during; the last year." Benator Brousaard then said; "Now It seems to me that no man holding a | responsible position has a. right to arraign 20 per cent, of the Federal .fudge's and call them scoundrel* and drunkards. I If that he assisting In creating respect | for the law, then f am much mistaken." ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE PREPARES MORE BILLS | Outlines Demands to Be Made on State Legislature. i Tim Antl-Snloon league of New York issued a statement last night, signed by David James Burrell as president and George Caleb Moor as secretary, saying that, at a recent meeting of the Board of Directors the following legislative program for the coming session of the Legislature at Albuny was adopted: "To endeavor to secure the passage of (1) the enabling triplets, three bills to authorize cities, villages and towns i to enact ordinances In aid of tile en 1 foreemcnt of any statute of the State or I of the United States; (2) the Hooch{ Murder bill, making a person who sells j what purports to be drinkable alcoholic , liquor which kilks the purchaser, punish- , ' able for murder. j "To oppose: (1) the repeal of the I Mullxn-'iaxc State enforcement code: i (2) the passage of any resolution which | fslsely and unfairly represents the peoI pie of the State of New York as in fa! vor of modification of the Volstead act; | (3) the submission of any sham referenI dum which amounts merely to a straw I vote and binds nobody and nothing. "The board advises further: 1. That the constltutncy of the league demand' that their State Senators and Assemblymen support the proposal to restore the ' direct primary for State offices; 2, that the friends of law and order throughout the State demand that their > Republican reprensentatlvcs In both i Houses of the State legislature insist j upon a party caucus whenever the same Is necessary to prevent the Republican ! party from being betrayed Into seem- lng advocacy of beer nullification In de- I fiance of the overwhelming sentiment I of the party mcmljership, and 3, that j every pastor who stands for observance ( of law engage in the concerted dlsous: slon of the Legislative program and the j prohibition enforcement situation as rc| spects New York State on January 14, ! which coincides with the nationwide observance of the third anniversary of the ratification of the eighteenth amendment." COURT FINES SIX MEN BUT DOUBTS GUILT Attorney Pays $2,100 Levied in Liquor Case. " After telling the prisoners he did not l>elieve they were guilty of the charges upon which they were convicted. William F. Rleakley, Uounty Judge at Whits Plains, yesterday assessed fines totaling 12.100 against six seamen from the yacht Bat, recently seised at New Rochelle with a $50,000 liquor cargo. The fines i were naid bv Mortimer C. O'Rrien. attor ney for the prisoners. When O'Brien offered the money. Judge Bleiikley asked him whence It came. "It is my own money." replied O'Brien. "I cannot assume." said Judge Bleakley. "that you are conducting a charitable Institution. I believe you men are Innocent of the charges. You are tools of men higher ug>." AGENTS Ml/ST DRY UP BROOKLYN OR RESIGN New Chief Gives Ultimatum as He Starts Drive. .More rigid enforcement of the .Volstead law In Brooklyn was ordered yesterday by James S. Uieen. new chief i of the Brooklyn enforcement staff Dry j a cents In the department received on i ultimatum saying that unless they produced results they would be dropped I from the force. Mr. . Ureen succeeded William B. Lord, who becomes a general agent a^tor serving a year as head of the Brooklyn office. E. C. Yellowley. director for New York State, has promised additional men for the Brooklyn staff The force, he said, may be Increased to twanty-flva men within the .next two day* YORK HERALD, WE LIQUOR PLANES TAKE 75 CASES EACH TRIP Dry Watehi Forces Boats on Long Island Coast to Lie Close. ARMADA GOING SOUTH Airmen Alone Successful in Deliveries for Whisky Syndicate. \ SP\; SYSTEM ELABORATE Bootlegger Offers JST,20ft to Girl Operative to Relax Vigilance for Day. Vessel.? of the "whisky armada," tarrying thousands of cqses of Balaina bootleg liquor intended for New fork holiday trade gradually are withdrawing their "barrage of bottles" 'rom along the Long Island coast and ire cruising southward, hopeful that here they will enjoy better luck In llsposlng of their contraband cargoes. Small boats employed- by whisky tyndicates to run the dry navy blockule from tho "liquor flotilla-' to the toast are becoming Inactive because >f the vigilance of Frank J. Halo and Tames K. Kerrigan, chief Intelligence >fficers for the Federal Prohibition Snforcement Department. Sloops and lories are anchoring for the winter in ho scores of inlets, creeks and slips ilong the coast in the Great South 3ay district. Accompanied by a rgpor^er from The New York Herald, Hale and Ker igan yesterday completed a cruise hrotiah Lone Island waters in search >f small vessels attempting to bring 11 whisky from' the "mother fleet" ylng in the offing four Co seven miles rom shore, in automobiles the partv nded its survey of bootli>gging condiions on Long Island. Admittedly forestalled in their con erted campaign ?o swamp tfce Long sland coast with Christmas wet goods, he whisky syndicates are resorting to he extensive use ot seaplane* for brlngng their contraband ashore*, Two seailanes. known to be bringing heavy ihlpments of whisky from Che "whisky irmada," aro stationed near New York. Cacli craft carries a cargo of seventy'Ive cases per trip from the fleet of Iquor laden vessels. '"Not a single case of whisky has >een landed by a boat on I<oug Island n the lam two weeks," Mr. Hale said ipon his return from the Ix5ng Island TUlse. "The fishermen on the coast ire not willing to r^sk the solsure of heir boats. They have deserted the vhtsky syndicates, because they know federal operatives ore sticking close o the little towns on Long Island. iVIth the aid of the Coast Guard Service and the police department we lave si?ceeeded In stopping the. great low of Bahama liquor that has been mmlng Into New York. Prohibition nforcement has become a heart breakng reality to the Long Island booteggers." So eager have been the whisky syndi:ate representatives on I/ong Island to learn the daily whereabouts of the Iry navy boats that they have staloned "loukouts" in each town between S'ew York and the coast. At Far Rorknvay yesterday emissaries of the vhlsky ring sought Information from I*he New York Herald reporter as to vhere "Hale and Kerrigan are headed.' "Where are you going?" queried a pier lounger as the dry navy boat carrying the party hove off from Far Ftockaway. "Going to Freeport? Gong to Freeport?" "Yes," Hale yelled at him, explaining o the party on the boat that this In'ormation?which was Incorrect?would 5e "flashed to Freeport before we get >ut of sight." Miss Isabel Premm. working with !~ *4<g? nrnir; holi ^ brings its i evening function! be more desired gift of a lovely Dinner Gown? Wraps of Justrous velvet collared F~ and cuffed with Jv|j rich furs?#125 W1 up. J Metallic Urgencies I in Wraps and Capes with trim- J mings of magnifi- l cent furs?#165 up. Gowns of velvet, crepe and metallic brocades, many together with those $95 up. I L ' Wj.'*- <i'i. Jm. t J'--: 1 i iDNESDAY, DECEMBER ) Halo and Kerrigan, received word In ' Bayshor^; that the two operatives were | "working in Jfreeport." Joining the party at Long Beach a fefl- hours aQer the drv navy craft left Far Rockaway, I I Miss frenim declared she had been j offered a bribe If she would "duck out of Bayshore for the day." j "Hale and Kerrigan a re in Freeport," . the bootlegger is quoted as having said to her. "Iy you'll get in your ear and j duck out of Bayshore for the day I'll j pay you six dollars a case on TOO cases." Browsing, along the creek* at Lang 1 Beach late last night the dry agents encountered a number of "boatmen.'' who ' willingly chatted about "how Cry tills coast is getting to be." (| Arrival of the dry agents yi the bank | of a creek tv^i mties from Hong Beach , was expected* "lookouts" by means'of 1 no lanterns na.i nmm ... -. - , their approach. Two men with a lantern were awaiting the operatives when their automobile drew up at the "liquor pier." | . "Weeks are freezing tip." commented one of the men. "Havens pulled a load in her in a. week. This ice knocks us for ; a goal We'll have to anchor up for the winter." Krom wireless stations controlled by | the whisky syndicate men on Long IsSand Instructions apparently have be.n? rent to the "whisky .armada" to cruise southward toward Brunswick, da. The1 matter of provisioning the vessels in the ; "liquor flotilla," one "boatman told the agents, is becoilling more acute, "be- j cause we can't slip our dories to sea | without being watched." "That's why the 'mother'ships' have I got order to play south." continued the seaman. "The game has become pretty ! l ard along here, f'oli -e have been grab- j king trucks that'carry thr st urr into; N'cw York. Naturally, thr bis boys 1 can't stand thr expense of transporting j the stuff ashore and then take the risk ' of losing It." 1 Activities of the prohibition navy next week will be extended to the New Jersey | rnrst. Mr. Hale raid. Three new boats I will be put Into service to catch block- 1 ado running craft that attempt to bring j In cargoes of whisky from the "mother sbips," he asserted. CLUBS' LIQUOR SUPPLIES j LAID TO ONE DEALER Federal Grand Jury Con-1 tinues Investigation. u The Federal Grand Jury yesterday j continued Its examination of witnesses to! determine the ?ouree from which chain-1 pagne and whisky Is said to have been procured by many fashionable clubs. ' Five witnesses were, examined by John 1 Holle.v Clarke, Assistant United Htates Attorney, during the bearings. ; Investigation in*o the clubs was begun, I ; It was binteil by Federal court attaches, , after the holding up of a Federal official's application for mcmbersnlp. Many | I of the members objected to acceptance ; of a Federal official as a member of the i organization. A firm of former wholesale, liquor j dealers is alleged to be the source of supply for the alleged "liquor parties." Three hundred cases of wine and champagne owned by the firm recently wore seized by Federal prohibition enforcement officers. The concern is said to have U7.000 cases of whisky In a bonded warehouse. Much of the liquor, it Is al leged. Is Faking but at frequent Intervals. BARTENDER FAILS TO FILE ASSAULT CLAIM Rachowsky Under Indictment for Alleged Assault. Stephen Rachowsky, a bartender, I struck In the face by John It. Kerrigan, | a prohibition agent, for an alleged atI tempt to walk out of the prohlbtion ! prisoners room at the Federal Building, | failed to appear yesterday 'before John At. C'ashln, Assistant t'nlted States At| torney, and file a complaint against his assailant. Rachowsky Is one of three men al- | ; leged to have attached dry agents WillI lam MeC'ay and Peter Rcager when they ' ! raided his saloon In East Thirty-first 1 I street Friday. DON EG AN LOCKED UP ON COURT DECISION Had Appealed Sentence of 10 Years and $65,000 Fine. The United States Circuit of Appeals handed down a decision yesterday confirming the conviction of Edward Dun?gan of 8321 Twelfth street. Brooklyn, wiio was sentenced to ten years in the Federal prison at Atlanta and to pHy a fine of 165,000 about a year ago. following his conviction of grand larceny. He was accused of stealing the records In the office of the chief prohibition officer for this district. A bench warrant signed by Judge J^hn C, Knox of the United States District Court was served on Donegan last night, and he was locked up. ! ??# DAY SEASON ound of brilliant s and what could and useful than a Evening' Wrap or copies of imports, of origin.nl design?... " 13, 1922. START SECRET QUIZ T ON STUDENT PARTY Munasquan Officials Propose to Learn Source of Liquor j ait Beaeh Affair. ? Sptnal Pispattli to Tub New Yobk Ileus:.e Ma.vasquan. N. J., D?. 12.?Yielding to the pressure of paternal Indignation, the Town Council here to-night started an investigation to determine the rouro of liquor alleged to have been consumed, hy eleven high school students In a \ 'heach party" Saturday night. Veiled in secrecy was the hearing. Not even the parents "f the stuile.tits involved , were permitted to enter the room during I tile course of the preliminary Invii-tlgi-1 tlon. The or.iy outsiders admitted were I I -ester Meserole. superintendent of tlie I school; th? father of one of the girl* who Vas taken home from the party by ; a patrolman, and John P. Cornelius, the patrolman who. at the behest of persona | residing near the beach, broke up the party. Patrolman Cornelius refused to-night to say definitely that any of the eleven boys and girls who attended the "bench otgy" actually were intoxicated. Jliine Cornelius, his seventeen year old son. In said, was a member of the party. Angered by the publicity that has been given the affair, parents of the! students w ho attended have declined to l make any statement regarding tf:r al- j leged drunkeness of the youths and j girls. Refusing to talk about the con- ! ditton of a girl who was carried home ! by Patrolman Cornelius, after the other I members of the party hud fled, John ' Rice declared that "whisky is being I sold almost openly all around here." j In ] Hon, j The death ( brings one < tile careers t o rv /\f # epoch in a leadership v and respect* merchant, I and progresj and the two left behind delphia, are stores that v h < n r*%*> 1 11IO tArtlllplw quate tribute the benefits the burden ? I / p | / ,65.4% WORLD READIES 5 " / x |i Greater New York mar ! be divided into 73 buyinr ' centers. 1 The mercbanta tranaact I in* business in these centers supply our tremendous metropolitan population with food, clothing, end countless other articles entering into eeery! day life. They constitute the largest group of business men enfaged in commodity distribution. BThe World reaches 65.4% of these merchants in Greater New York. 1 mti Tiffan \ I'ictu A\rnx:iTP i f Fine Ch Glass i My Years or By JOHN Oliver Herjord says of it in Life age of American Drama is ha of this narrative whose valuab)< together with the directness and place it at. the head of all the late years." Fijllv illustrated, $5J At All bookstore* E1 P IIIIT1 or direct from L# l/t/I 1 Memory of f lohn Wanai }f the Hon. John W af America's greates :o a close. It mark* i life and the chart field of industry \ vas universally ackti ;d. He was not alo; nit a princely pione >ive policies of mercf great retail instituti< him, in New York ^ but two exhibits in a rill long continue tc . And no such whe ^ as this can ever do of his leadership n< of his loss. The Real \ \ It would probably be c number of people in tl never had a proper J Street". The miscon existed were not by t remote parts of the cc Hundreds of thousan York?even those of have failed to realize Street" is represented tutions conservative ir dependable commissic A great change in r opinion has been broi tew years. The New pany with other news] in no small measure t to its readers. 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