Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1923, Page 10

SAYS GUN S CURE FOR “RUM FLEET Federal Dry Official, Visiting Oases Off Jersey Shore, * Talks With “Buzzards.” Ty the Assdolated Press. NEW ORK, ‘April 20.—A govern- ment expedition, sent from New York to - discover the Isles of Rum, re- turned successful, with six oases of- ficlally chartered off the Jersey shore, twelve miles southeast of Am- brose channel. When the Associated Press several months ago first reported extensive lquor smuggling off Highlands, fed- eral prohibition officials were in- clined to scoff at the presence of a sizable liquor fleet. Palmer Can- field, new federal prohibition director for -New York, decided to get first- hand information and took a band of newspaper men with him down the harbor on the coust guard cutter Manhattan. - Canficld 1y inspected the vunk from sev declined flagship Ista by one of her officer the way home rum eraft at the h flee tion. He held th, for the smus- 0 of liquor 4 year. and decla the smugglers it essary to have atrol, supplemented nd force. “I expect to use the information obtained,” he said, “as a basis for formulating a practical plan of oper- &ting to eliminate liGuor y or reduce it to_the smugkling of Chines a 5 hiave an ablding faith that the pre: situation will be met ultimately in an aggressive and combative manner that the real job of stopping smug- &ling will e delegated to some agen- cy of the government, and that proper equipment for water operations sup- plemented with a land force will be provided. Snys Gun Is Remedy. “There is only one thing that will stop smugghine. That is a xun. There ix only one thing that will stop it any quicker. ‘That is two guns. An intir by a suffic Goelet conveyed to her t. Byron L. Reed heading co guard forces In New ork. who made the trip on the hattan today. Hafling the Istar, he asked how present anchorage. for a couple of The British consul wants to come down and see you.” “Very good, sir,” replied the British in. Canfleld, accompanied T ford H. Cohen, a: aftorney, found a men_awalting him when he hoarded ilie Manhattan. As the cutter steamed down the bay she passed another government hoat towing two dories which had been captures The rum fleet finally was sighted. The crews displayed no anxiety litzle curiosity as the cutter, p legs under international law to be the alien craft, hove to. The Istar was the first craft visited. Her crew officers—the latter in uniform, thp former giving indications of strict dircipline—lined the rails and Waved affably to the Manhattan. “Queen Among Beggars.” From .a_distance. the Istar with her graceful lines stood out as a queen among beggars, but as the Manhattan proached, those aboard the could see 'that the black Dbeen chiseled off the Istar the waves. The fundamental showed through here and there, Her superstructure was a dingy gray, her bowsprit was gone and a together she looked as dismal a summer camp in winter. The Manhattan passed under the Is- tar's stern and came next to the hooner Catherine M., of Yarmout S. Alongside her was a Sandy ook motor boat labeled K-12208. The cutter’s skipper, Lieut. Com- niander M: J. Ryan, sharply inquired what the American t was doing. Two men In the launch—which was equipped with an engine capable of twenty knots an hour—replied that they had broken down outside the hook last night and that the wind ha blown them out twelve miles along- side the Catherine ~'0dd wind,” commented Commander yan, but he Manhat- n's bow, could see that the open boat had no Hquor and there was nothing to be done. The Catherine Mary of Nassau, an- other schooner, was the next craft encountered. 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I'd do what I was paid The biggest of the fleet next was | vIRited. he was the 3.000-ton | tanker Warszawa, out of Londd Only a_few men were visible aboard er. They were busy painting ship. | ‘hen the Manhattan ran upon an old q M. Gardner of Lunen- Like anothe he purser grinned and fiddded. How would you 1 hibition agent?” “They'd get nothing by me." | s 3¥hat do you mean; would you st | them when you argived here. “an you give us the amount?” | could, but I won't. eign ship must be seized outside tie tellalx How ‘andohtiy| three-mile limit = Finally the cutter returned to the | ot Istar and an amusing repartee oc- | Is Dnainesst curred on the high seas. | Capt. Reed, addressing the yacht's commander, exchanged a num- | ber of questic and Canfield, who had declined to gq aboard after the Istar had barred newspapermen, con- | sraed through a megaphone with the ip's purser. This purser was far from the conventional picture of a | rum craft's officer. He was nattily | in biu ey strung | n from the sel with indisputable | His diction was that| ow Who are your owners?” T another question y t ask. A Glasgow firm.” - “Can you tell us what message ¥ just received by radlo?” He Tells Too Much. “The only messages we got wel the press reports You sent ashore.” Here the captain Interrupted: his v “How are your provisions?’ co; accent. tinued Mr. Canfield. asked k'l\l)l.‘ ¥t ing plant the reply. but plenty i Did skipper. ou been here?” you k: “How long ha “Three weeks.” “I3ut before that fortnight. | There the conversation ended, fthe Manhattan drifted away and t Flstar captain We went away to | With a camera to L ere did you coal?’ anada. at Duane of C Cargo of Lemonade. o in then n with the tail i U X IS ‘.\\\3\‘ D. A. R. 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