Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1926, Page 41

CANADA CONDUCTS SMUGGLING PROBE Amazing Facts Revealed Re- garding “*Bootleg” Trade With United States. By the Consolidated Pre: NTREAL. Que June 19 A kind of liqu good enouga for the United Sta They take u send them and ask no ques s the testir mder oath of dlan boot or liquor he choose Al himself conducting an inquiry into nuggling operations—not of wet goods into t but the smugglin testimony structive. It would secmn among other thin that the C: i have a queer but Iy resent the in- sinuation that they might violate the | laws of their own Dominion as well When such a suggestion is made the for the hootleggers imme- ed iIn the United States?” “Because I have my customers and got_their money.” “We get $30 more a case in the United States than we could get here. We are out after the dollar, the good old Américan dollar. We are bring- ing it to Canada and we need it. We are mnot working for love. We are working for dollars and cents. I get my orders, my customers get their nd I get their money. That is is to it. argoes billed to Yokohama, Japan, 1dom et farther than Buffalo, N. Y, “Then to this extent you deceived the government. even if you did not deprive it of dollars and cents?” “You can't be too scrupulous in the liquor business. The breaking of gov- ernment _regulations is no new thing. All_of them are doing it. “Nobody would take the trouble of importing raw alcohol from the United States. There is no market for it. Canadians are different drinkers to those In the United States. They know what to drink. “It is not a violation of the Canadian agreement with the United States to liquor clearances to Detroit dian railways have learn- ed they can take shipments billed to e United States without violating | the treaty.” It was suggested the railroads had undertaken not to ship liquor to the United States, fearing their cars would be stopped. Witnesses replied this was | not true; that today the railways are taking cargoes billed direct to the United States. One Canadian skipper testified he d made as high as two or three okohama trips” a month—to Buf- falo. Bootlegging, after all, is apparently an international art. THE SUNDAY STAR, CAPITAL REPRESENTED AT PHILADELPHIA FETE Military Service Legion Attends Flag Day Celebration—Applause Given During Parade. The National Capital was repre- sented at the Flag day celebration in Philadelphia last Monday by the i Military Service Legion of the Dis- trict of Columbia, the members of | which were escorted by the Corcoran Cadet Corps—Company A, 121st En- gineers, D. C. N. G. Maj. C. Eu- gene Edwards headed the service le- gion, while Capt. Roy W. Keesee commanded the Corcoran Cadets. Applause greeted the visitors from this city all along the line of march, the members of the Service Legion appearing in continental uniforms and the Corcoran Cadets in the well known distinctive attire of white coats with blue and gold trimming, white trousers and helmets of blue with flowing white plumes. The rict of Columbia delega tion the only “outfit” in the parade other than those representing the thirteen original States. Maj. Edwards and Capt. ee received medals from the Gate City Guards of Atlanta, Ga., and were guests at a banquet given by Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in honor of the governors of the thirteen original States and the officers of the visit- ing organizations. WASHINGTON, D. 0, JUNE 20, 1926—PART 1. Seventh and' Eye Streets. Demonstration Weel( in REFRIGERATORS Our stock of Refrigerators 1S unusually complete. having’ been selected to meet the re- quirements of every family and every purse. 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