The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-03


 to us!" Little Ned Gnome said, q would like to see how your magic liquor from the United States, valued up in the millions of dollars.
 For what purpose? To export for non-beverage use. Where?
 On the publ. ? count 1T f one of those establishments the investiga- tors, while waiti = to see an official of the firm, found a pad or printed order and affidavit forms evidently intended for Ise by pIrchas, of whisky. The affidavit, printed on the bottom of the form, read as fol- lows:
 l (nemo in fulp, ...:, address ...., occupation .. do solemnly declare (1) that l am a citizen O. and res ding in the United States of America.
 CD That the said liquor will be forthwith transported by me without the Province of British Columbi?
 (3) That the said liquor is solely for use and consumption without the Privince of British Columbia.
 And l make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and knowing that it is of the same force and effect as if made un- der oath and by virture of the Can | ada Evidence act.
 Declared before me tt Vancouver, b. Nt., lnlS gay Ol A. L., lJA . (Signed) ....
 A Notary Public in for and for the Province of British Columbia.
 An affidavit in that inGentical form, but bearing a different address, had been found two days before in boot legger's car loaded with whisky and SC cd near Colville, Wash.
 During the courts of their business at Vancouver the investigators were asked if they desired a copy ol the fo.n. of affidavit used by the firm in exporting taX-paid liquors from the province. Upon receiving a positive reply an official If one of these CX- port houses left the room and re- turned with what he represented to tention being called to the varation from the wording of the form Of af- fidavit on ths public desk:
 I (name in fulD, ...., address ..., occupation ...., do solemnly declare CD that am a citizen and residing outside of the Province British Columbia.
 (2) That tho said liquor will be forthwith transported by me without the Province of British Columbia.
 (3) That the said liquor is solely for use i.nd consumption without the Province of British Columbia.
 (D Tn. the said liquor, known as American bourbon, is used solely for medicinal purposes.
 The rest of ne affidavit is identi- cal with that cited in the first in- stance, and the italics in each meas ures are mine.
 'T'or Non-BeveraGe Use."
 Subsequently, these investigators in- terYiewed the manager of one of the companies rocking, at the time, to 1l,t cases and 14,00V ~allons of American whisky. The affidavits the com pany's manager and of the American distillers c Jiring to export this liquor would be useo purely for non- beverage use.
 The manager told the investigators that he previously had received inn portations of American whisky from the United States and that he had disposed of such whisky by sale to the various liquor control stores of the Provinces of Alberta, .Saskatcha- mal., >Ganitobr and Ontario, and by sales to persons in the Orient who had made affidavits that they would export such whisky out of the Prov ince of British Columbia for non- beverage uses.
 He also said that there was con siderable non-beverage demand fol American whisky in various parts | of Canada and that the demand was increasing; that he expected to sell further importations to the govern ment rovinces named above, and that he expected more non beverage business 'rC~l the Orient. Investigation has previously dis closed that none of the liquor con- trol stores in any of the provinces had purchased for years a single quart of American whisky from any (Nana1izn
 While tne investigators were were talking w4-n the anager of this company he was interrupted by a telephone call. Addressing the man at the other end of the wire by the name of a man who had before United States of 'iolating the Ma tiinal prohibition act, the anager wrote down on an order blank under ths name certain quantities ,o1 whisky.
 An order sheet of the company similar to the one employed by the manager during his telephone con- - of Seattle, Wash, of 50 cases of whisky. was taken from the pockets of bootleggers who were ar rested in Seattle in November, 1922, convicted and sentenced for viola ton of the national prohibition act. With the order sheet were taken two copies of customs export entry slowing exportation to one of the bootleggers at Seattle, Wash. by this company from Vancouver "via gas boat" of 50 cases of assorted liquors. The customs entry purport- ed to have been signed by the man ager of this company.
 The investiga tors, of course, said nothing of this to the manager. In- stead, they addressed a letter to him,