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The New York herald., 1922-10-07
COMPARES DRY LAW
TO GEORGE III. RULE
sCol. r. III. Gillett Says 1t In
wolves Principle Of Battle
of Long Island.

1--WE are against the Eighteenth
Amendment for the same reasons that
our forefathers were against the King
Of England The principle we are fight
ing for is the same principle that
inspired your ancestors in the Battle
Of Icing Island
These sentiments were uttered last
night in the Garden City Hotel by Col
Ransom II. Gillett, general counsel for
the Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment. at a meeting arranged by
the women's division of the association.
Mrs. William F. Hofstra presided. Miss
Alice Carpenter, director of the women $
division. introduced Col. Gillett
The Colonel told the assemblage he
had polled the candidates for Congress
n this State and found but nine of
them avowedly dry. Forty-pine, he
said, were vets by their own admission
and platforms. Twenty-four have re-
fused TO go on record for or against
the prohibition laws.
'In such Congressional districts where
both candidates are dry we shall put
an independent wet in the field" said
Col Gillet. II know of one such dis
trict-the Thirty-fourth. This district
includes Binghamton. John d. Clarke,
the Republican candidate, and Clayton
ID. Wheeler. the Democrat. are dry. We
shall put n wet in the race. In dis
tricts where both candidates are wet
we are out of il. We are concentrating
upon the districts where the drys APP
pear TO have the upper hand.
That is our way of fighting Vol
steadism. I'VE don't propose to tear
down without building up something
much better and more useful. II won't
be hard work to build a law better and
Gal -. ~,
Is just what we are doing now.
1--WE are securing information and
opinion and figures from every reliable
source available. We are marshalling
these facts, statistics and opinions in
form that will be useful and avail
able to our Congressman in their ef-
forts to draft a law that will take the
place of the present lying, unenforce-
able statute known as the Volstead act
and will carry out the express direc-
tion of the Constitution prohibiting the
use of intoxicating liqsor Not alcoholic
liquor, bear in mind. Intoxicating
liquor the Eighteenth Amendment
reads.
ITO that end we are engaged in elect
ing wet candidates to Congress over
dry candidates in every Congressional
district in the United States. 1t doesn't
make any difference to us what their
politics are. If they are wet we are
for them. If they are dry we are
'agin' EN- That is the only test
This is not regular in a political
sense, but it's necessary. because so
far neither of the two political parties
who run our Government for us have
seen fit to express their convictions on
the subject. If they have any.
The Republicans are wet In the
South and dry in the North The
Democrats are dry in the South and
East and wet In the North So it's
no great wonder that we. the voters.
have some difficulty in being regular
Republicans or Democrats on this pro-
hihition question"
The New York herald., 1922-10-07
CALLS TAKING BOOZE
SHIP MONEY PIRACY
Judge Hand Doubts, However,
if He May Order 1t
Returned.

The question as to the right OF the
dry navy 60 seize money that it finds
on rum ships and of the customs officers
to hold it came yesterday before Jucge
Learned Hand of the United States Dis
trict Court. After hearing argument,
the Judge, said. regarding The se>.e e,
ITO my mind this is an act OF .'iracy." !"
But. expressing doubt as TO his power to
order the money returned upon manda-
tory injunction, he reserved decision.
Such an injunction was applied for
by Edward ]. McCrossin of Fielder. Cho-
rosh & McCrossin, 165 Broadway, in be-
half of Capt. John Sims OF the British
ship Buema and Capt, Ronald Belts
and Supercargo Henderson Butler of the
British ship Gardner. These vessels
We're captured off the New Jersey shore
by prohibition and customs men last
month. From Capt. Sims S21,793 was
taken. from Capt Setts $36.886 and
from Butler $4,000. The cash and per-
sonal effects of the men are in the Gus
tody of Acting Collector of the Port
Stuart, The complaint against Sims was
dismissed by United States Commits
sioner Stanton in Jersey City last Mon
day. Belts and Butler were indicted on
charge of violation Of the prohibition
law.
In court yesterday Mr.. McCrossin ex-
planned that the raiders seized not only
Capt. Sims's money but his eye glasses,
keys to his Nova Scotia home. clothes
and other personal effects. After Mr..
McCrossin and Assistant District AT
torney McGuirci< told of the impound-
ing of the money by the Collector of
Customs. Judge Hand asked Mr.. Nc
Guirck: "By what right did you seize
this money!" Mr.. McGuirck replied that
when the customs men boarded the
Buema and asked the captain how
much money he had he told them he
had 5000. whereupon they followed him
to the hold and saw him there with
$4,000 in bills in his hands. The captain
explained, Mr.. McGuircll said. that he
had hidden the money because he didn't
want the crew to know he had ii.
How does that give you any right to
take the money away commented
Judge Hand.
Mr.. McCrossin contended that all the
seizures of money and personal effects
were Illegal. At the end of the ar
gument the Judge made his remark
about piracy. He took briefs from the
lawyers.
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Continued from First Page.


said, they found $50 barrels of whisky,
ten barrels Of champagne, about 1000
five-gallon cans of alcohol and 2,S00
cases of whisky.
1t was not by guess work. however.
that the agents discovered the location
of the secret cellar. fn cropping their
way about the main cellar. one or two
of the agents came upon wire cable
running along the floor They followed
this and discovered that II vanished into
the brick wall at the rear. 1t was then
that the agents began sounding the
walls and some of them were convinced
that hollow noises rewarded their tap
pings with pick and sledge. Then they
began the job of cutting through.
Once in the secret cellar. the agents
made rapid inventory of the booze
found there. then began searching for
the entrance to the place. Their flash
lights revealed nothing, so they meas
ured the floor of this cellar. and found
that even with the figures added to those
of the main cellar the street floor of the
building was larger. New soundings
were made at the rear end of the room,
and when a hollow noise was heard, this
wall also was dug through.
Blind Stairway Found.
After severe work the agents say that
they picked and sledged their way into
a second cellar a place about IL is
feet. There was no booze in this place,
but the flashlights of the agents showed
them in far corner, a wooden stair
way that started at the floor and ended
at the ceiling. At neither end. they
said was there any sign OF door or
any sort of an opening. But their meas
urements now showed them that they
The New York herald., 1922-10-07
AGENTS TUNNEL MASONRY
TO GREAT LIQUOR HOARD

/ were underneath the garage, so half a
dozen of the agents went into the place
The garage appeared to be a garage
and nothing else, and the agents
searched for some time without finding
anything that seemed to be an opening
in the floor Then they had the men
still in the cellar tap on the ceiling
above the stairway with hammers
This, the agents said, revealed hollow
sounds under a large table, so con-
structed as to conceal the outlines of
trap door in the floor. On the table was
q heavy dynamo, to give the appear
ance of permanency, and around the
table legs were heavy wooden SASH
boards. These also helped to hide the
cracks in the door.
But the soundings had revealed that
something was there that should not be
there. so an agent crawled under tne
table and the trap door was disclosed.
The door itself was massive and heavy
and had bees partially cemented down
around the cracks so that from a dis
tance of even a few feet it prevented
the appearance of solid floor. With a
block and tackle the dynamo was lifted
and the table was moved.
Door Between Found.
Then the cement was Clipped away
from the cracks and the agents found
two iron, hinged doors which led into
the second of the secret cellars discov-
cred by the agents. This cellar in turn
had a door in it, which the agents did
not discover, however, until later. That
door opened into the place where the
booze was stored.
All of the liquor conSscated by the
Government was taken from Ahe cellar
by the enforcement agents and sent in
trucks to the storage warehouses.
The New York herald., 1922-10-07

SHE SWALLOWS A NEEDLE
FINDS 1T IN HER BABY
Three Years Elapse Between
the Two Acts.

STOCKTON, Cal, Oct. 6.--Three years
ago Mrs. Frank J. Schwlng, who then
was Miss Ethel Frihck. swallowed a
needle two inches long. Two months
later she was married.
Charlotte. her twenty-two-month-old
baby began to cry yesterday. Mrs.
Schwing inve stigated the little girls re-
peated rubbing of spot on her left
shoulder and felt n foreign body under
the skin She dug in and found the
needle. the head of which had dis
appeared. Tho blunt end of the needle
finally protruded and the mother with
drew II.
Neighbors were present when she
Withdrew the needle. The mother and
daughter had never suffered pain from
the needle until the girl felt II in her
shoulder.
The New York herald., 1922-10-07
VERDICT JUST GUILTY.;
COURT SETS 1T ASIDE
Grants NetO Trial Because
Jury Didn't Fix Degree,

Speciai Dispatch 10 THE>NEw YORK HERALD.
TnENroN, Oct. 6.--Failure Of "A jury to
designate the degree of murder Of which
it found Antonio Turco guilty led the
Supreme Court to-day to reverse the
finding and order a new trial The YER
dict consisted Of the single word
Guilty"
Turco was convicted Of killing Albert
Roster on the road from Newton to
Andover in June Of last year and was
sentenced to die, but the appeal stayed
tho electrocution. Two alleged accom-
plices were Angelo Carlino and Ottarlo
Sparacio. The former was sentenced TO
die and Sparacio was sentenced to life
imprisonment on recommendation Of the
Jury
The New York herald., 1922-10-07
TO Mr.. Lasker.

MY DEAR CHAIRMAN LAsKER:
! am in receipt of the opinion of
the Attorney-General in response to
a formal request for a ruling on the
application OF the Eighteenth
Amendment and the Volstead Act to
the sale of liquor on American ships
and the transportation of liquors on
any ships in the territoElal waters
Of the United States. The Attorney
General. in a review of the decisions
handed down by the Supreme Court,
holds the opinion that the carrying
or the service OF Intoxicating liquors
on ships under the American flag.
whether privately owned or operated
by the United States Shipping Board.
is contrary TO the Constitution and
the law, and that foreign ships are
prohibited from possession or trans
portation of Intoxicating liquors
within the three-mile limit Of our
shores,
In view Of this rule l am writing
to direct the discontinuance of the
transport and the service of intoXi-
eating liquor on all ships owned.
operated or leased by the United
States Shipping Board. The service
should be prohibited at once and all
transportation. either as cargo or
ship stores. must cease at once on
ships now in home ports, and on
ships at sea or in foreign ports i'm
mediately after docking in home
ports. This will enable the disposal
of ship stores for the lawful pur-
ooses contemplated under the stat
utes. The Secretary of the Treas
ury will issue equivalent notice to
American ships under private oper-
alton.
Very truly yours.
WARREN c. HARDING.
The New York herald., 1922-10-07
NEARLY HUNDRED of BAIL.

ATLANTIC CITY, oct. G.--Nearly 100
dc efendants named in indictments charg-
ing violation OF the liquor laws, returned
by the Grand Jury during the last week,
appeared before Judge William W.
smathers yesterday and to-day and
posted bail for their appearance when
wanted Bail in most cases was axed
at $500.
The New York herald., 1922-10-07

formulation Of regulations for the
enforcement of the law, and such
notice TO the agents of foreign ship
ping lines touching American ports
or docking therein as becomes the
circumstances and commits us to full
enforcement of the law.
Very truly yours,
WARREN G.. HARDING.
The New York herald., 1922-10-07
Intent of the Law.

intent OF the Law.
This intent is a living part of the
Eighteenth Amendment and the national
prohibition act" adds Attorney
Daugherty. buttressng this opinion
with n quotation from Justice Brown,
and" continues the Attorney-General,
speaking Of the Eighteenth Amendment.
ut is really law itself, as well as
declaration of an organic constitutional
principle. From its terms alone flows
the real prohibition. Palpably. there
fore, since by the force of the amend
ment prohibition is carried everywhere
within the confines of the sovereignty
of the United States, the national pro-
hibtion act, passed to facilitate It's en-
forcement and punish its violation,
would be coextensive Herewith.
The open oceans, outside the terri
torial waters of nations, have long been
regarded as the highway of all, wherein
all nations share the privileges of ten
ants in common. If. then, the United
States shares the high seas as a tenant
in common with other nations of the
world, the Eighteenth Amendment
would be broad enough to comprehend
the sea- as territory of the United
States in so far as. and where. and
when. II is used by American bottoms.
An examination of the national pro-
hibition act by itself leads to the con-
clusion that its operation is extended
to American vessels on the high seas,
since its terms are absolutely general
and have no limits of any sort.
The Shipping Board has frequently
sought to punish offenses committed
against its property on the nigh seas by
maintaining the applicability of general
criminal statutes. 1t would be incon-
sistent for American vessels to enjoy
the protection OF laws of general juris-
diction and fail to be governed by the
prohibition Of one of similar jurisdic-
ton
1T is n long established principle of
municipal and International law" says
the Attorney-General in answering Sec
retary Mellon, that a nation has the
right to make and enforce laws cover
ing it's territorial waters as well as its
land
"If then the bringing in of liquors
by foreign vessels as ship stores or other
wise constitutes transportation or pos
session contrary to the Eighteenth
Amendment and the national prohibit
tion act it is clearly a violation Of the
law that no executive or administrative
officer of the Government has the power
TO- permit
The New York herald., 1922-10-07
Embassies Will Receive
Liquor, but Not So Easily
New York Herald Bureau.
Washington. ID. C.. Oct. q.
SpeciaI pispateh % rnr Nrw YonK HrnAln.

SPeriHs DispGtch 70 AE NEW ORk HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington. ID. c., Oct. q.
IT HE dry ship ruling by At
torney-General Daugherty
means, in the opinion of
State Department officials. that for
eign embassies and legations in
Washington will have more diff
Guilty than usual in getting intoM-
cants. but Will not be shut off en-
tirely from their liquor supply.
The opinion seems TO be clear
that even diplomatic liquor cannot
be carried aboard merchant ships
entering American ports, but the
way is still open for shipments by
rail from Mexico and Canada.
Some State Department officials
thought 1t possible that at least a
few Of the foreign diplomats might
take advantage of the opportunity
OF getting liquor into the country in
a diplomatic pouch which of
course cannot be searched. Others
felt. however, that this would be
an evasion of the law and not to be
countenanced in diplomatic circles.
The New York herald., 1922-10-07
MEXICAN BATTALION
AT MEXICALI MUTINIES
Ordered to Fight, Joins Rebels,
Stays Loyal Officers.

MExicALr. Lower California, oct. e.
Men OF the Twenty-ninth Mexican Bat
TALON mutinied cnd killed those OF their
officers VINO refused to join them I'm
descrtlng to the rebel forces Of Gen.
Juan Carrasco. when The battalion was
sent from Mexioall 20 fight In Sinaloa
two weeks ago. and arc now IN rebellion.
according TO delayed advices received
here to-day
FOUND ANYTHING? II
IL so. see " II Is advertised IN the I,oet and
Found columns ~ t0-day's New York Herald
The New York herald., 1922-10-07
In Interest of world.

1T is not. however, right that the
burden Of taking the necessary action
should fall on the British Empire alone
The prevention OF war and massacre in
Constantinople and the Balkans Is not
especially of British INTEREST," it is Ia
the interest OF the world. We are at
the straits and in Constantinople not by
our own action alone. but by the will
o. the Allied Powers which won the war.
and America is one of these Powers
What then, in such circumstances
ought we to do?
Clearly, the British Empire, which in
oludes the largest body of Mohamme-
dams In any State. ought not TO show
any hostility or unfairness to the Turks.
lE an agreement arranged with the
Allies at Paris by Lord Curzon pro-
posals we're made to the Turks which
are fair to them. and beyond these
terms, In my opinion, the Allies ought
not to go.
IL see rumors in different newspapers
which do not credit. that the French
representative with Mustapha Kemars
forces encouraged them to make impos-
sible demands. The course of action Of
our Government seems to be clear We
cannot alone act as the policeman Of
the world. Financial and social condi-
tions In this country make that irnpos-
sible.
ut seems to me. therefore. that our
duty is to say plainly to our French
allies that the position Of Constantinople
end the straits is as essential part OF
peace settlement as an Arrangement
with Germany. and that II they are not
prepared to support us there we shall
be unable TO bear the burden alone but
shall have no alternative except to imi-
tate the Government of the United
states and restrict our attention to the
safeguarding of the more immediate in
terests of the empire
The New York herald., 1922-10-07

Amendment grew. it is equally clear that
the words territory subject to the juris'
diction' Of the United States carry the
intent 10 extend its provisions over every
spot where the flag of America flies.
The New York herald., 1922-10-07
The Presidents Letters.

After reading the opinion, Presiden
sent the following letters i'm
the first 20 Secretary Mellof
and the second 20 Chairman Lasker:
MY DEAR Mn. SEcRETARYs / have
asked the Attorney-General to place
IN your hands his ruling relating TO
the application Of the Eighteenth
Amendment and the Volstead act to
the service and the transportation OF
intoxicating liquors on American
ships at sea and the transportation
Of intoxicating liquors on all vessels
within American waters. The ruling,
you will note, holds all transportation
IN American waters to be contrary to
u recent decision OF the Supreme
Court and transportation and traffic
on American vessels 10 be wholly
contrary TO law.
have directed the chairman Of
the United States Shipping Board to
order immediate observance OF the
law on all Government vessels, and
desire you TO give like notice TO the
masters Of all privately owned ships
operating under the American flag.
You viii not that the ruling holds
the possession or transportation Of
all Intoxicating liquors by foreign
ships in Americr y waters to be con-
trary TO the ison OF the court
You win. therefore proceed TO tho
The New York herald., 1922-10-07
Law Cannot BE Evaded.

The Constitution prohibits transporta-
tion. which has been defined as the TAX
ing up persons or property at some point
and putting them down at another That
the innocence Of any intent to put them
down or use them in the United States
is not material in determining whether
the transportation is a violation of the
law is determined by the Walker and
Anchor Line cases. where the court de-
cided that intoxicating liquor stored on
one British ship could not lawfully be
removed TO another British ship in the
New York harbor, although 1t was ad-
mittedy destined for beverage uses out
side of the United States
Furthermore, the national prohibition
act prohibits possession as we'll as trans
portation OF intoxicants for beverage
purposes, irrespective of where they are
to be put to such beverage use. Under
the reasoning of the court in the Walker
and Anchor Line cases it is no argument
for the legality of foreign ships possess
sing and transporting intoxicating IL
quors in and across our waters. that they
do not intend to use the liquors until
after leaving the Jurisdiction of the
United States.
Are we then to argue that such in
flexible provisions of law, declared by
our Supreme Court as the Constitutional
policy or our country shall apply to
our own citizens, but be abandoned
when we deal with ships of a foreign
nation? To do so would be a grievous
surrender of our sovereignty. And Il is
outside the province of an executive
or administrative officer of the Govern
ment TO read into the law and the Con-
stitution an exception not specifically
contained therein. Particularly should
II be avoided when the results of grant
ing the privilege to foreign ships would
be TO produce manfestly unfair condi-
tions of competitions for our own citi-
zens and shipping interests.
THE court carefully considered this
whole question in the Walker and An
chor Line cases and went so far as to
hold that the Eighteenth Amendment
and the national prohibition act re-
pealed a prior existing treaty with Great
Britain.
Prior to the sweeping and compre-
hensive construction placed upon the
prohibition law In those cases, II might
possibly have been argueable whether
liquors forming part Of the ship stores
on vessels within territorial waters
might be regarded as an implied ex-
ception to the national prohibition act.
Whatever doubts that may have pre-
viously existed have been swept away
by the language Of the majority opinion
i'm those cases"
The New York herald., 1922-10-07

Shipping Board. who held that it was
legal. This opinion was rendered be-
fore Justice Holmes handed down his
decision IN the Walker and Anchor Line
cases. and It was largely upon this de-
cision that the Attorney General based
his opinlon
The New York herald., 1922-10-07
SAYS BRITAIN AkONE
CAN'T POLICE WORLD
BOnar Law Serves Notice on
France She Must Support
England.
CALLS HER DUTY PLAIN
If She Declines England Will
Initiate Z. S., Leaving
Europe to It's Fate.

Special Gable TO THE New YORK HERALD.
,opvri0kt, 1922, by THE New YORK HERALD.
The Washington times., 1922-10-21
ttWHEN KNIGHTHooD WAS In
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1t Will Begin an Engagement al
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TOMORROW
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0THE sweetest love story ever told the!
L have always called the romance O.
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Every girl would be Princess, yet Mary
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costumes alone represent the expenditures
for an ordinary picture. Never has there
been such cast as supports Marion Davies;
never such elaborate settings as those de-
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such direction as that of Robert G. Vignola.
"When Knigkthood Was In FlolDer" is, in
fact, the super picture; the greatest of them
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Victor Herbert will personally conduct
orchestra on Monday and Tuesday.
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The Chilkat post., 1922-12-08

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The Chilkat post., 1922-12-08

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The Chilkat post., 1922-12-08

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The Chilkat post., 1922-12-08

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