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Headman of the Los Angeles County Defense Council is Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz. He can call into almost instant action some 200,000 operatives. His force includes regular cops and 15,000 emergency deputies, Legionnaires, Boy Scouts and air-raid wardens, Red Cross doctors and nurses, an air squadron of civilian flyers, who furnish their own planes...
Started in 1931 by politically-minded Eugene Biscailuz, Los Angeles County Sheriff and unofficial gladhander, dude-riding posses gained momentum after San Francisco, not to be outdone, formed a mounted posse for the opening (1937) of its Golden Gate Bridge. Today, nearly every self-respecting California sheriff has a posse of gentlemen riders...
Consul in charge of any relations which Luxembourg may have in seven Far Western States, Alaska and Hawaii is one Prosper Reiter. Last month Sheriff E. W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles County, Calif., said his vice squad visited the white, rambling Reiter residence and office near Hollywood. The Sheriff subsequently complained to Attorney General Earl Warren of California that the place was "an alleged gambling establishment," added that diplomatic immunity protected Prosper Reiter and prevented his arrest so long as he stayed in the consulate. "If the evidence warrants my doing so," continued Sheriff Biscailuz, "I am going...
...Kansas City, County Prosecutor W. W. Graves Jr. raised the stock objection that courtroom evidence of police brutality usually moves juries to acquit. "No policeman is justified in using brutality simply for brutality." declared Police Commissioner Theodore J. Roche of San Francisco. "It strikes me," declared Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles, "as a little bit theatrical to stage a strong-arm act every time you make an arrest." Only Denver's Police Chief George Marland would go part way with Commissioner Valentine. "Dead right," said he of the New Yorker's dictum that police should shoot first...
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