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Show MV POLICE CHIEF WARNS FRIENDS TO OBEY LIQUOR LAW v 4 Charles- BecKltvgham (Special Correspondemre) Seattle, Wash-, April Of) Charles Becktngham, new chief of police In Seattle, where ohieflns has been a rather stormy occupation, has issued a unique manifesto to bis friends. Many of his- dose associates -are former saloon keepers, who, since Washington hit the dry column, have become drugstore owners. -"My friends must learn," he said to them as warning, that they cannot put the dollar ahead of me or of the mayor. If they think more of making an Illicit dollar than of letting me make good on this job they are not my frienda and will be treated accordingly. "The past 1b past, I know neither friend or enemy in. my determination de-termination to wipe out the unlaw ful sale of booae In Soatde. Beokingham, -wfeo has held a number of political posts with the city, was appointed to succeed Louie Lang, recently deposed by Mayor Gill for arresting without warrant a man who had purchased liquor at a drugstore and wouldn't disclose the name of the clerk making mak-ing the sale. t |