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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1921)
TIIE SUNDAY - OREGOXIAX. PORTLATO), MAHCIT 27, 1921 VANCOUVER IS DRY BUT DISCONTENTED Bootlegger Alone Satisfied , With Situation. ILLICIT SUPPLY AMPLE lgislatnre "Works to Bring Torth Scheme to Xift IJd Liquor Trickles Over Border. VANCOUVER, B. C. March 26. SpeclaL) The liquor condition In the province of British Columbia is In that indefinite state between prohi bition and moderation, bootleggers and legitimate dealing when the peo pie are holding their breath and awaiting the decision of the gods at 'the provincial legislature. The pro hiMtion act Is mill in force, a large part of the populace still deals with the ubiquitous bootlegger, and all, ex eepting the latter, hope for a law that Will guarantee his elimination. There is plenty of liquor, good, bad and indifferent, to be obtained. There arc many supplies both in Canada and the United States. . Only recently a Scattic outfit offered 6000 cases of Old Pcbbleford at $25 a case, with no buyers, because good whieky could be obtained elsewhere at lower rates. Wholesale prices are not very high and even some retail dealers are low ering the rates. Doctors Reap Benefits. Meantime, the provincial legisla ture, now in session, is wrestling with the problem. At the last election the people in a very decided tone in lorracd the government that the ex isting law was neither desirable nor satisfactory. It was framed by the prohibition party, and it provided for sale of liquor on physicians' prescrip tions, the government . maintaining all wholesale stores but permitting Arug stores to honor physicians' cer tificates. The result was that many medical men made large sums of money. In the early days of the law doctors who had gone to seed and were down-at-heels provided gener- nsly for their declining years by - Bitting all day long in hotels fre quented by loggers, miners, and Waterfront workers. Certificate Cost fS Each. The general citizenry disapproved the enforcement of the act and vio lated it many times with no feeling r guilt. The law was, and is, under the direction of the prohibition com missioner, and is enforced by pro vincial and city police forces. Boot leggers sprung up in every nook and corner. Whisky, importation of which was permitted for private stocks, was brought in thousands of cases from Scotland, England, United States, t'hina, Australia and Japan. . Every 4eep-sea ship that arrived in the port bad more or less liquor on board, consigned to these "private stocks" buyers. These supplies were retailed cut by the varied underground chan nels of the bootleg fraternity. Allowance la Cot Radically. But. in spite of the activity of the Illegitimate liquor merchants and peddlers, the government vendor stores did a rushing business. They supplied all who purchased legiti mately in wholesale quantities, such as druggists, dentists, physicians, veterinarians, churches, scientific and industrial establishments. In addi tion, they dealt largely with many f the public who bought retail quan tities through the means of physi cians' certificates. The profits of the liquor department of the province for the year 1920 was an even million doliars--and this in spite of the fact that an amendment to the act turned thousands of people from the vendors to the bootleggers. Thia amendment was the one whereby the quantity clause was altered from two quarts to eight ounces. At first the statat permitted the sale of two quarts on a. doctor's pre scription. This was abused, and the quantity was cut to eight ounces. The Underground dealers benefited large ly. The sales of the government vendor stores arc decreasing, but there is just as much liquor bandied through the transportation compa nies, so it is inferred by this that the illegitimate trade is harvesting the crop. The shipments from Scot land, Hongkong, Australia, Ireland and France still continue as large, but the goods act like silver sent into India they come, and then they are not. Where they go to is not known. IU Savers Arc Busy. Perhaps sailors on steamers and vessels plying between Vancouver and United States ports could cast some light on the subject. They are occasionally caught loading whisky oa southbound craft and are strongly suspected of intending to sell the goods at high prices to a thirsty pro letariat in Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Los Angeles or San Francisco. Swift power launches carry mysterious car goes across the sound from Vancou ver, and sometimes such vessels are caught with capacity loads of intoxi cants. Every highway across the in ternational boundary is an artery which the bootlegger successfully and unsuccessfully attempts to utilize In the effort to relieve the gasping pub lic in the desert south of the 48th parallel. There are 15 wins and spirit com panies In the city of Vancouver. Their business Is export. They can legally ship to any foreign country excepting the United States. There is a good business with Mexico, Japan, China, Australia and the Yukon. Un til February 1, 1"21, there was a very active and extensive Interprovincial trade carried on. It was legal to deal between provinces.-. These firms had stocks in each province. An 'Alberta buyer would go to re Alberta office, express bis desires, pay the price which was reasonable and the order would be wired to British Columbia. The goods would be expressed that day and arrive at destination within three days. Sometimes they came overnight. The same plan was adopted with British Columbia buyers. In some instances it is said a buyer could get serviee In an hour. His order would be wired to the put-of-provlnce office and the latter would wire back, "Fill this order out of stock you hold for us." Order Is Take to Court. On February 1 the provinces for bade this traffic. Interprovlnclal dealings In liquor fell to nothing. The whisky companies fought the matter, and rt Is now in the courts. It has passed successively, through tbs dif ferent civil trials to the supreme court af Canada, and will be argued before that body in May next. The T'nlted States phase of the sit uation is one which permits all neces sary stretches of imagination in re spect to quantities. Customs and other boundary officials declare there are thousands of bootleggers working. There is no export ef liquor permitted to the States. Any drop that crosses the line southward is Illegal. The cus, toms authorities will pass nothing. They cannot. The transportation com panies refuse to carry it. Yet there are cases upon cases smuggled ever on ship and launch, auto and train. Every vehicle which crosses the boun dary line is a potential smuggler's van. Their methods are legion. Two recent cnes will serve as illustrations. A great ship, discharging freight from Seattle or San Francisco, lies at the dock in Vancouver. Cases and bales enme out of the holds In a steady strea'm. A truck from uptown eomes along, dumps a load of Innocent boxes. A longshore foreman or ste vedore superintendent might wink at the mate who is on duty supervising the discharge of the freight. That honest seaman will glare at the P'l of boxas, and demand in salty phrases, COR V A I, I. IS WOMAN DIES AFTER I.O.VG IM.MSSS. Dancing Tonight Columbia Beach Tew Floor Sew Music Taks Vancouver Car .- ' - , " ' " j r K ' ; - ' f ! I i ' - l i I 4 ' J'i : I Mrs. Rebecca J. Rir haras. . CORVALLIS. Or., March 26. (Special.) Mrs. Rebecca Jane Richards, wlfe of the late J. C. Richards, died March 15 at her home In Corvallis after an ill ness of several months. Mrs. Richards was a daughter of Susan Jones of Corvallis and was born near Independence December 25, 1864. She passed practically her whole life in this state. Corvallis had been .her home for the last 1& years. Mrs. Richards is survived by her mother, Mrs. Susan Jones; three daughters. Mrs. C. W. Ra ker, Mrs. C. E. McCready of Corvallis and Mrs. W. McClaran of Lewiston, Idaho. 'What blessed Innocent sent that dun nage on shore? Shove it back where it belong in No. 2 hold." So aboard it sjgos, and down to American ports for distribution. There are Vancouver men who have made hundreds of dolr Iars a month on this business, in a 50-50 split with colleagues on the ships. Only today a railroad scheme was nipped in the bud at Blaine, Wash. V carload of second-band furniture from Vancouver to Seattle was inves tigated. Twenty thousand dollars' worth of liquor was found in the drawers of the old bureaus, in the nonow legs of the tables, in the springs of the davenports, in the mat tresses and Morris chairs. It is know that airplanes have taken liquor across the Jine, and the number of automobiles which have been forfeit ed to the government by bootleggers total Bundreds. Scores of launches have been seized, and even large pas senger steamers have suffered the rigors of the laws. Yet the trade continues. When one channel is blocked another is opened somewhere. There is said to be no other ex planation of the disappearance of the quantities of liquor which come into Vancouver. Some goes to the nrairies by new underground routes, but the greater quantity, it is said, flows southward. There are hundreds of miles of wild, mountainous country to watch along the international boundary, and there are hundreds of vessels plying the coast. The author ities find it impossible to watch every avenue, and the result is that the persistent and bold smuggler of illegal liquids is at present still win ning. The people of British Columbia look on the question with a large toler ance. The majority does not want tns old saloon or hotel bar baek again, but also they object to abser lute restriction of the rights of in dividuals. They were very much displeased with the unsatisfactory en forcement of the prohibition act; its petty annoyances; its injustices; its cumbersome and allegedly impractical machinery. They were not glad to see the bootlegger-flourish to riches and "swank" around in high-priced cars at the expense of the public who wanted liquor and was forced to pay three or four prices to obtain it. They wanted something new, and told the government so in the last elec tion. The latter is now endeavoring to carry out the order. Boloas Popder Over Flan. It brought In a legislative child at the opening session which pro vided the sale of liquor in sealed par cels to the public, entirely through government stores and at a reason able profit. Purchases could only be made by holders of permits which would cost to. Transient permits were to be issued visitors from other countries or provinces. This statute has now been torn and worn and twisted and changed so that its par ents scarce know it, and the worry ing Is still going on. Just what will come out of the travail of the solons is as yet conjectural, but the public knows it will be something that will Derm it a respectable citizen to pur chase liquor respectably should he desire to do so, and that is at pres ent all that is required by the ma jority. . There Is some impatience noiea 10- ORIENTAL CAFE Cpatatr BraSwsy and Wswh. Its, SstTlraa C . Opem It A. M Chinese Dlaae to a A. M. Why not get sway from o--f Inary dishes once in a while and try onr hmeh or dinner, strved 4siy from 11 A. M. ts IP.U.1 Prices rang from 3e to 75c and Include soup, vege tables and beverage a U tarte service at all hours. lkuo and Evening; HHalff Wn4 liancloat From 13 to 1(30, ta io. ao t m. 'Jerrr tU Jsii Orcneatrsu Special Bandar thicken as Mkmv Vlmmm. fOm plats Confidence- f Of all gainful callings known to men none rests for its material success so wholly upon the quality of absolute con fidence on the part of the patron as that, of true pharmacy. The man, or men, who having through years of careful, painstaking effort attained the standards required by society and permitted under our, laws to follow the responsible vocation of a pharmacist, must above all else secure and hold the con fidence of the community. It is with no false pride that we point to the record of over half a century of active continuous business life, in support of the single word ..which prefaces this brief message one of appreciation to the public who through five, decades have turned to us for sick-room needs. Our dispensers are men of experience, trained in their calling qualified in every way for the profession which they honor and its responsibility for life and death. Thus it is that our business during all these years has ever shown a continued growth, even through periods of financial stress. Woodard, Clarke & Co. ward the government and its failure to aerree speedily on a satisfactory statute, but it Is not pronounced. It is generally understood, However, tnai If the new law does not work out satisfactorily, the residents of British Columbia may arise .and demand an absolute "bone-dry"'Cond!tlon of af fairs. It (s believed that the moderation bill, as the new order will be called, will provide much increased revenue to the province. All of the municipali ties groan under heavy taxation bur dens. The province itself is carrying a limit load. It is the hope that tne liquor business will relieve this. The provincial government proposes to keep half of the liquor profits for provincial use and allow the munici palities the other half. AH the large centers anticipate very satisfactory financial results from this source. CHILD INJURED BY AUTO VIVJAX H.EXI.Y BCX POWX BY D. R. WUEELESS. Mrs. R. Mallich Hurt by Car Driven by Thomas T. Todd; Two Other Drivers Are Arrested. As the result of an automobile ac cident in which 4-year-old Vivian, daughter of Mrs. Ruth Henly. 1384 Union avenue, was slightly injured last night, David R. Wheelees is under jloO bail to appear in mu nicipal court Tuesday morning to answer to a charge of passing a street car while it was Btopped to dis charge passengers. Wheeless t'd the officers that he was following a street car near Union avenue .and Portland bouTevard when another, automobile cut in ahead of him and obstructed his view of the car. His machine, after striking the girl, skidded into the forward side of the street car and was put out of commission. Mrs. R. Mallich, 209 Fourth street, was struck at Eleventh and Morrison streets about 8:45 P. M. by the auto mobile of Thomas T. Todd, a musician living at the Trinity Place apart ments. The machine ran over her ankles, causing a bad sprain, and her face was bruised when phe was thrown to the pavement. Todd was charged with reckless driving and re leased on recognizance. Mrs. Mallich, after examination at the city emer gency hospital, was sent home. F. T. Concapnon and C. H. Topling. driving cars, collided at Third and Alder streets. No one was injured, but a motorcycle patrolman who hap pened by arrested Concannon for failure to signal and Topling for hav ing improper lights. Both were re leased on their own recognizance. H. TAYLOR HILL IS DEAD Oregon Plooecr , and. Member of 1. Famous Family Succumbs. H. Taylor; Hill, old-time Oregon pioneer and member of the famous Hill family which was so closely linked with the early history and de velopment of the state, died shortly before noon yesterday at his residence of recent yiars, 535 East Thirty-fifth street. The end came after a linger ing illness of nearly a year, which gradually sapped and consumed his vitality. Mr, Hill was born in Missouri June 17, 1847. With his parents, the Rev. Reuben C. and Margaret Lair Hill, he crossed the plains to Oregon in 1853. The family locacted in Benton county near Albany, where 'Mr. Hill's father was a leading physician, minister and teacher and wielded great influence for good in the formative period of the section. After attaining manhood, Mr, Hill migrated to eastern Oregon, where Doors Open 8 A. M. Doors Close 6 P. Af. "ALDER STREET AT WEST PARK Double Trading Stamps Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Photo Department DEVELOPING PRINTING ENLARGING TINTING Developing and Printing Received at 11 A. 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Edlcfsen's. Adv. News- mm I mm 7: !..3U'-':r-- y- Mir "Hi u ,m m& niw fit, . - That Will Make You Glad Our showing of clothes for spring has now. reached a splendid assort ment in both model and fabric, with good worsteds strongly in evidence. The prices are so much lower than last season that buying is now a real pleasure. Suits & Topcoats $25 to $60 Good Worsted Suits s35 to $45 What's New in Neckwear? Stripes are decidedly popular. Silk cravats that are hand made, or the attractive knitted tie, v- $1 to $3-50 MEN S WE AH Corbett Building , Fifth and Morrison Hats and FurnUnings 1st Floor Men's Clothing 2d Floor I Every service, whether' I large or smalUs worthy I of our best efforts. I Edward Uoiman And Son I Fvnerai Directors J) . THIRD AND 5ALHCN STREETS V, HIPPODROME DOUG FAIRBANKS in "The Mark of Zorro" Come Early! one of those Fairbanks thril lers that makes you hang on " to your chair I Continuous 11:30 A. M. to 11:30 P.M. M Today fK T3