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FRIDAY, OPTORER 3, 10.10
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON
REINSTATEMENT
OF DISCHARGED
AGENTS FORCED
'Continued from page 1)
especial: y patronage. And by my
experience as lone supervisor I
know that the same condition ex
ists everywhere in the country.
UISHtS THOKOKiH 1NQI IRY
What a story the 26 prohibition
administrators could unfold If
called before ft congressional In
vestigatlng committee ( But It will
never be done. For every senator
and representative U Interested In
patronage, especially he is of the
administration party.
The case I related of Senator
Curtis forcing one of his men back
Into the service Is an Incident in
point. There Is Senator Norrls,
too. mho opened his dry campaign
before the Epworth League In Lin
coin, Nebraska, last July 26 with
the declaration that "prohibition
enforcement has been and still Is
honeycombed with partisan poli
tics.' He cited examples from
Major Mills' revelations about New
York. But he carr fully refrained
from showing up conditions among
his own constituents in Omaha,
which Is quite as wet and corrupt
as New York.
All this is quite apart from any
Individual bribery. Your politician
doesn't see favoritism as corrup
tion. That's the way his mind
works.
And- the men who campaign
against prohibition and criticise the
enforcement ranks, notably Rep
resentative La Guardla, are among
the most insistent in forcing their
henchmen into the service.
An immense volume of thto po
litical maneuvering with prohibi
tion goes on locally. But much of
It is backed up through the pro
hibition bureau In Washington.
REINSTATEMENTS ORDERED
When I left Washington to as
sume the post of administrator In
New York in July. 19-7, I had neat
ly tucked under my arm the per
sonnel folders of seven prohibition
agents whom my predecessor, Ma
jor Mills, had dismissed. I had
been Instructed immediately to re
instate them.
They were Isaac Freidenburg,
Emil Manzello, David Levy, John J.
Kerrigan. Louis J. Obicl and Frank
A. Nelson. Most of these men were
republican political workers In New
York and all were strongly backed !
by Representative La Guardia and
Samuel 8. Koenig, republican lead
er of New York county. j
After their dismissal by Major,
Mills, at the Insistence of Koenig
and LaGuardia. Assistant Secretary
Andrews ordered the circumstances
of their dismissal inquired into. A
board of four other agents was ap
pointed. The result was that all
seven were recommendrd for rein
statement. That was the situation
when I took hold of things. I
didn't know how much of a white
wash the inquiry had been.
Before I left Washington both
Assistant Secretary Lowman and
Commissioner Doran talked very
candidly about the political situa
tion in New York and were anxious
that I should try to smooth it out. I
I looked very carefully over the i
seven folders, whose contents were
later to be made the subject of
Major Mills' revelations in Colliers.
LOWMAN BACKED NELSON
I deckled I might best be war
ranted In recommending the rein
statement of Nelson, but before I
had taken any action 1 received a
letter from Mr. Lowman, dated
July 30, reporting that "strong
pressure ' was being used for Nel
son and "as I understand It Nel
sons' record was all right. Some
people tried to frame him, but he
was acquitted by the courts.'" He
enclosed a letter from Frederick
Oppikufcr, a member of the rcpub-;
lk-an state committee, to himself,
about Nelson:
"This Is the matter about which i
Ogdtn Mills and Charles D. Hilles
have rorres)6ndrd with you. You I
are doubtless very familiar with it.
Mr. Nelson has not heard anything!
for some time. " I presume that j
you are overwhelmed with matters.
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IDEAL CITY TO
HOUSE BOULDER
DAM WORKERS
Washington UV The ideal city
from the, viewpoint of the prohiol
uonist and moral reformer soon
will be la:d out by government en
gineers near the site of Boulder
Dam, out in the once "wild and
woolly west.''
This community, minus the boot
legging, racketeering and dens of
iniquity that supposedly cling with
barnacle-hke metropolises, is to be
erected to house the thousand and
more workmen and engineers who
will labor for 10 years building the
mammoth dam.
A modfl to the country and to
the world, the city, a name for
which has not yet been chosen.
will be situated on a gently slop
ing ridge overlooking the dam site
and nearby Boulder Lake, about 8
or 10 miles from Las Vegas, Nev.,
once the rendezvous of the west's
notorious "bad men."
To insure actual prohibition. It
is' the government's plan to rent
plots in the ton rather than to
sell them. Thus if any unlawful act
is found to have been committed,
a clause in the lease provides that
the land shall at once revert to the
government and the lease termin
ated.
It was with great difficulty that
site for the town, which when
completed w;ll probably house some
4.000 to 5 000 inhabitants, was de-
cidtd upon. Reclamation Commis
sioner Elwood Mead called upon S.
R. De Boer, consultant citv plan
engineer of Denver, to make a
study of all available sites and
with the help of Walker R. Younir.
resident engineer for Boulder Dam.
make a final decision urxn one of
them.
ttons In New York and he said
that was right.
"You knvw, Hilles la my boss,"
ne adaea.
I made no comment to this.
though it sounded strange coming
from the assistant secretary of tlie
treasury, but It explained a lot of
things.
X soon had a list of twentv-five
for dit missal and sent It to Wash
ington. It included a number of
political appointees, but the list was
approved otfor the politicians
found it out. There was some pio-
tet, bJt nothing serious.
LMPLOVED IN OTHER
DISTRICTS
But I soon found that some of
the men were working In Newark
and neighboring districts. It Is
awfully hard to get rid of men
when Washington has its ear to the
political ground.
In 1927 Mr. Lowman complained
to me that two of my agents. Geis
ler and Mannix. were involved in a
brawl and shooting scrape In a
speakeasy near Hudson, N. Y. Af
ter an investigation they were
dropped from the service. GeMer
was strongly backed by Koenig. He
came to see me a number of times
trying to get reinstated.
Finally Geisler as reinstated in
the Albany district, and on the last
day I was in office I received a
telegram from the commissioner
instructing me to employ Geisler in
my district as a special employee. I
did not do it. Whether it has been
done since I retL-ed I do not know.
Copyright Press Publishing Co.)
i New York World 1930
Tomorrow Major Campbell re
lates his eiperirnces with Wash
ington on the Palmer Canfirld ap
pointment and the La Guardia
Bruno epitodc.
ANDREE BEGAN
ARCTIC FLIGHT
DEFYING DEATH
ML HOOD RESERVE
MADE SCENIC PARK
Letter from state committeeman seeking reinstatement for agent later
sent to prison for "shakedown".
of this kind, but this case is ex
ceptionally meritorious."
I decided to reinstate Nelson. Of
course, I never had much confi
dence in him. but I knew his politi
cal connections and decided to
could not Rccept them. I never
recommended them.
Kerrigan came back Into the ser
vice and after a short time was
continually In trouble. Kerrigan
was indicted In Brooklyn on a
charge of convoying a truck load
of smuggled liquor over the roads
of Long Island. The truck: was
captured by my men in Huntington
and Kerrigan and another agent
were found In the party. Kerrigan
also was acquitted.
During my first winter In New
York an incident occurred which
gave me some Insight into what
was then the wtuation. I drove my
car up In front of the prohibition
headquarters at 1 Park Avenue on
a cold, snowy day. The policeman
came up to me from the corner.
Say, give me a slug, win you;
he said. "I'm cold."
I assured him I dldn t have any
whiskey.
Beg your partion, ne sam. i
thought you were a prohibition
agent."
it it l lit: s ohl.-n tii-i-t.KLij
But, as I have said, my men were
generally conscientious. Often my
agent? reported that pressure was
being put upon them, tl.'t, bribes
had been offered. The following
case Is tvpicul of scverul:
On November 3, HtL'fl, the head of
r.iy investigation section reported
ih-if Awont r. A Mullanev had
I had been approached by a certain
way I could balance my budget was
to dispense with some forty or fif
ty agents, whose salaries at that
time were about $2,000. Judging
on merits It would have been an
easy Job to weed these out. but
since most of my force had political
backing, it was difficult.
In handled the matter by petting
lists of the men in whom politicians
were interested from the republican
chairmen of the five counties com
prising greater New York: Samuel
S. Koenig of New York, Jacob A.
Livingston of Kinps, Albert D.
Brunner of the Bronx. Joseph De
Hrgi;a of Qneein and Clin'on J.
Sharrett of Richmond. Representa
tive Hamilton Pish, Jr., also gave
me a lit of the men in whom lie
was interested. This proved a
masterstroke, as It thoxed the po
litical strings on my men.
I revised my list again and
again, determined to keep every
good agent who lacked political
backing, and at the same time tread
on as few political toes as possible.
HAD CRIMINAL RECORDS
Investigation at this time showed
that two men had criminal records
and would have to go. Koenig
pleaded very hard for one of them,
who was high on his list, but I
dropped him just the same. Later,
however, I learned that the man
was working in another district.
I went to Washington August 12
and Assistant Secretary Lowman
instructed me to submit to him the!
list of men I was dropping before
taking final action. He told me he
was flooded with requests from
New York, particularly from Koenig
and Charles D. Hilles.
I told Lowman I was trying to
co-opera:e with the political fac-
Mt. Hood forest reserve ha? been
chosen by federal officials as a sce
nic park for Oregon, under plans
for creation of natural forest parks
in national forest domains by the
federal government, it was learned
here by Lynn Crornniller, state for
ester. "Preservatto of typical areas of
virgin forest to be maintained in
perpetuity for their educational,
historical and research value, is the
objective of the new program of the
federal forstry service," Cronmlllcr
said.
Stockholm '7 Salomon -Auguste
Andree, Swedish explorer, whose
fcody was brought home by the eai
mg ship Bratvaag, went into the
Arctic with his enthusiasm for the
expedition shattered by the death
of his mother.
When she died a few weeks before
the start of his Ill-fated balloon trip
into the north in 1897. he wrote that
he had lost all personal Interest In
his exploit. Apparently his frame of
mind was quite fatalistic.
That has been revealed !n some
of his personal writings here.
"There Is not a trace of personal
joy any more." he wrote. "The only
thread that bound me with a wish
to live has been severed."
Andree always had been strong'y
attached to his mother, and she in,
turn did everything to encourage
his interest in Arctic exploration.
She was the daughter of a professor
of mathematics and had bten a
teacher hers?R.
No other woman could take his i representing the state s Interest and
mothers place as a source of in-! principal payments on highway and
spiration. for Andree was opposed soldier s bonus bonds, was forward
to the idea of marriage. He believed 1 d by Treasurer Kay to the state's
a wife would hamwr his freedom lorx nscai aecnw
tend It. and I feel women are easily
satisfied in that respect,
Another tune he wrote In his note
book: "Thef (women) are at first sight
interesting, then they become tire
some, next unpleasant and fiiiaUly
, . . unbearable."
Andree did have an academic In
terest in women, however.
He believed industrial progress
had done more to liberate them
than all political measure (or equal
ity and wrote several magazine ar
ticles on the education of women.
'I am told." he once wrote, "that
those who have done most in liter
ature for the emancipation of wo
men are Francois Fourier (French
socialist'. Marquis de Condorcet
i early French advocate of state ed
ucation) and John Stuart Mill
English economist).
"Against Fourier I offer Ark
wright. inventor of the spinning
machine. aRainst Condorcet, Cart
wnght, inventor of the economical
loom, and against Mill I place Howe,
inventor of tlie sewing machine."
$2,200,000 PAID
ON OREGON BONDS
A -fat" check for 12.200.033 91
to engage in scientific work. etjK
cially his balloon voyages, his sis
ters recall.
Since the explorer was ttll. hand
some, brilliant in speech and decid
edly masculine, he had many wo
men admirers, but he deliberately
kept them all at a distance.
"As soon as I feel a few heart
leaves sprouting" Andree once wrote.
"I take care to pull them up by the
roots ... but I know that if I al
lowed such a feeiing to live it would
become so strong I would not dare
surrender to it. j
"I am supposed not to 'under
stand love.' but I have not yet seen
a man love in uch a way as I in-1
The highway debt now has
passed its peak and payments year-
ly will grow less. Indebtedness
amounts to $28,966,750 following re
cent payments.
A total of $937,500 in principal
and $690 800 In interest was paid on
the bond? this year. Interest on
the soldier's bonus bonds totaled
$691,753.73.
CJeark Lake Harold Dutoit left
for Hopewell Wednesday evening to
slay with his brother, Ralph, and
work in the wood over there.
Silverton Mrs. Robert GourMe
of the North Side addition has been
in Portland this week wherp sh
had most of her teeth extracted,
Mrs. Gourlie has not been aii for
many months and it was thought
the extraction of her teeth m.. k
improve her health.
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been started in China,
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place him where he could not do republican assembly district leader,
much harm. whom I shall not name at present.
About a year after his reinstate
ment Nelson was cauKlit in his off
hours shaking down a speakeasy in
Mount Vernon, N. Y. He whs con
victed and on April 18. 19-9, wa;
and had boon request? d to
easy" on a prisoner arretted in the
seizure of a still near Pouchkecp-ie.
I have Mulianey's affidavit on the
matter. He was invited to the s-
sentenced to serve from two to five i triot club and there told to -lay
years at hard labor in Sing bine
prison.
Shortly after rciaMating Nelson, 1
had the other six riLwikvscd aticnts
In to see me and certainly was not
Impressed with any of tliem.
The record of one of them as
later sumimd up by Tlie World as
lollows:
JOHN J. KEKKIGAN
Nov. 2. 92: Was one of a party
which shot Joseph Morris in course
of a raid.
July 3. 1H22: Arrested for pointing
pistol at John Devlin, director of
public safety at Bayonno. N. J.
Jan. 1. 1924: Accused of beating
up Charles Goldberg and Edward
T. Bellow, Jr., youtlw in course of
raid.
Oct. 4, 1925: Involved in quarrel
which resulted In shooting and kil
ling of Owen Boyle by Patrolman
p. p. DiiKAn. At trial admitted he
had told false story to detectives on
the arrest of Dugan.
Oct. 7, 1926: Arrested for having
In his puiwession a set of burglars'
tools. Arraigned, he said he came
Into possession of them tn course of
his official duties, and was re
leased. Nov. 10. 1926: Dismissed for "In
efficiency.'' That was the record as a news
paper had it. Of course there was
plenty more in the personnel files
on their conduct and activities.
Kerrigan was a protege of Koenig.
Becaive of particular pressure for
him. I decide i to reinstate hira. i
After considering the records of
the other four backed by Kornig j
and La Guardia and pitted by a t try to keep t politicians pacified.
vtiTntnent Inquiry, ho a ever. II had a llOOOo deficit and the only
off In the matter of testimony
when the case came to trial. Wlvn
he refund he was aski'J how irrach
he wanted.
I complimented the ag?nt on his
honesty, and told him to go ahead
as thoimh nothing had happened,
and I would back him up.
Then I telephoned Koenig and
told him about the Incident. He
promised that the district leader
would be called otf, and such pro
ceedings would be stopped. The
next day the district leader came
to see me and said he had been
sent by Koenig. I told him there
would be unpleasant consequences
if there were a repetition of this
occurrence. He admitted every
thing Mullaney had told mc, and
I could not argue with the man.
because he could not see that he
had done anything very terrible.
That's a politician's viewpoint
and Koentg's was Just as surprising
While he condemned the action of
this political leader under him, tlie
very next day he called on me and
asked me to reinstate an agent who
had been dropped from the service
because of Ins proven criminal rec
ord. PU1ITK S MEAN A PROTECTION
But do you suppose Agent Mul
Jnney would have been so straight
forward if he had been a political
heeler? Politics means protect mn J
and It is useless to expect a pout?
ally appointed agent to make, a pro
hibition case when hls political
leader nays- lay-off.
Nevertheless. I ,ifw then I came
to New York V.A I would have to
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