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REVENUE INCREASE REPORTED BY LUCAS $148,000,000 Gain Shown for Year Ended June 30 in Bureau’s Compilation. ‘The Federal Government's Internal Revenue receipts for the fiscal year ended June 30 amounted to $2939,- 054,375, an increase of $148,518,837 over the preceding year, acocrding to figures submitted to the Secretary of the ‘Treasury yesterday by Robert H. Lucas, Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Mr. Lucas’ statement represented a prelimi- nary compilation of Bureau of Internal Operations for the year and showed that it had cost the Government an average of $1.17 per $100 for collection, or the same as last year. Mr. Lucas' statistics disclosed that there had been a gain over the preced- ing year iin only four of the nine major items under which internal revenue re- ceipts are classified. The increases from taxes on incomes, estates, tobacco and stamps and playing cards was more than sufficient to overcome the losses recorded in admissions and dues, cor- poration capital stock and other speial taxes, distilled spirits and cereal bev- erages and miscellaneous levies under which collections of delinquent taxes assessed by provisions now repealed are classified. $190,000,000 Refunded by U. S. The detailed figures showed that field investigations and office audits had re- rulted In adding_$405.855.475 to the total shown on first returns of tax- payers. Against this sum, however, the Government was compelled to refund $190,164,359, including interest, on taxes which had been illegally collected in prior years, Interest on the refunds ag- gregated $40,905,057, the figures showed. Refunds were made on 137,897 claims, as follows: Capital stock tax, $2,408,- 247; estate, $17,234.384: income, $165.- 363,940; sales, $4,996.960; spirits and narcotics, $113,314: tobacco, $1,841, and miscellaneous $45.671. | Taxes on incomes showed the great- est gain over the preceding year, with a net addition of $156,701,325, but to- bacco taxes also were higher than 1928, The statement showed a net gain of $37,994,502 over the preceding year, to- tal receipts from the levy on all forms of tobacco being $434,444543, or more “han two-thirds of $615962,434, col- lected from miscellaneous taxes. Miscellaneous Revenue Increases. The miscellaneous levies ylelded roughly $8,000,000 more in the last year | than in the 1928 fiscal year, a fact| which disclosed the importance of to- bacco taxes to the Government's rev- enue. i amps taxes, with which the tax on | playing cards is included, produced | $64,173.530, or almost $15,000,000 more ! than the year before. — e NEW BOOK DESCRIBES EARLY IDAHO DAYS)| SR | “Making of State” Deals With| Political Life of Former ! Senator Dubois. “The Making of a State,” recounting | the events leading up to and following | the birth of Idaho as a full-fledged member of the States of the Union, has Just been written by Fred T. Dubois, territorial delegate and first Senator from Idaho, who is now a member of the International Joint Commission. The book embodies a political auto- biography of former Senator Dubois from 1880 to the present. The portion covering the first 10 years of Senator Dubols’ career is being published in Boise, and the whole autobiography | Will be published serfally in the Sunday Statesman. Rich in tales of the trials of the em- bryo State, and the disputes which en- livened its coming into statehood. the book also gives & vivid picture of fron- | tier life and early political battles, em- | bellished with the rough humor of | cowboys and frontiersmen. Fred T. Dubois went from Yale into the sage brush plains of what is now Idaho in 1880. He recounts that his capital when he arrived in Bingham County was $34, and that he worked as a cowpuncher, butchered for the Indian reservation at Fort Hall and performed other as rough tasks to eke out a liveli- hood. He went through the battle with the State of \Washington over Idaho's northern counties, the so-called Mor- mon dispute and test oath, thp consll- tutional convention and the jockeying in Congress before Idaho was lifted to statehood and was a leading figure in all those events. Gen. Winslow, Diplomat, Dies. HAMMOND, Ind., August 17 (P).— Gen. Alfred A. Winslow, 75, veteran American diplomat, died last night at Crown Point. He was in the consular service of the United States for 36 years, with ranks varying from consul to consul general. He served in Bel- glum, Nicaragua, South Africa, Chile and New Zealand before he reached the age of retirement. He is survived by his widow i WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE F debts other than those contracted by myself. H.CAHN. 3602 Park ol 2001" N AND AFTER THIS DATE WILL N e responsible for any debts or obligations other than those signed by myself person- ally, J. E. CROSS, M. P.. 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Once out for business and backed by propriation the Coast Guard smashed of emforcement officers, namely, the routing of rum an eleven-million-dollar ap- the enemy line.) BY MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT. 1 have heretofore sald so much about the failures, defects and “leaks” of prohibition enforcement, that it would be surprising if I were not accused by ardent prohibitionists of attempting to prove that prohibition is an utter failure and not capable of enforcement. I have detailed the failures of prohibition enforcement because without facing them improvement is impossible. At various points along the battle front prohibition enforcement has suf- fered defeats and been checked. The war of Federal forces against the liquor trade has been in progress nearly nine years. In that time the Government has not won every battle, it is true, but very steadily and surely the prohibi- tion forces have moved forward, gaining ground and attaining their objectives. I have referred previously to the fact that at the time the prohibition law took effect the annual output of whisky in the United States was 1144,- 000,000 quarts, and, of course, there were also large impoytations from abroad of various liquors. I do not think even the most rabid anti-prohibitionist will attempt to deny that there is far less liquor sold and consumed within the United States now than prior to prohibition. prohibition forces have won their greatest victory. But to one who is aware from intimate bition cannot possibly be enforced.” In this single achievement the It is easy to say, “Prohi- contact with the problem of enfortement what can be lecommhhed when there iis a real will to enforce the law, backed and suplemented by telligent, co-oper- ation and co-ordination of forces, and legal authority, the statement carries no Victory After a Year’s Delay. For a long time newspapers featured operations of “Rum Row.” Ships with valuable cargoes of choice liquors “hovered” or “lurked” beyond coastal waters to supply bootleggers who could run the blockade of Coast Guard vessels to these conviction. shores. The most notorious rum rows were located along the coasts of New Jersey and Florida. Cities along the | eastern seaboard received practically their entire supply of foreign liquor | from such sources. At one time it was | quite apparent that no real effort was being made to put an end to such open deflance of our laws. Liquors runners operated off Florida practically in the open, in broad daylight, with little or interference from prohibition | agents. Such cases as reached the | courts were handled by ¢orrupt or evasive agents or “soft-pedaled” by the United States Attorney’s office. On September 15, 1925, I recom- mended complete reorganization of the United States Attorney’s office in Florida. It has taken until April 25 of this year to see that happen. The United States Attorney has left. Men from my office, Mr. Morrison and Mr. Hughes, are taking charge and clean- ing up the docket of an accumulation of 800 cases in Miami alone. It just takes hard work and a unloosening of the political strangulation to make improvements. In Florida for years the prosecuting office and the prohibition agents en- gaged equally in the game of “passing the buck.” Prohibition administratives placed responsibility on United States attorneys and their assistants, whom they charged with dereliction of duty and participation in the graft that all too plainly existed in some quarters. | On the other hand, prosecuting officers attempted to place responsibility upon | the agents and prohibition directors whose eyes were closed apparently to open violations of prohibition. Both of | the principal law-enforcing agencies | had a perfectly grand alibi for condi- tions that were a national scandal. Coast Guard Does Its Bit. My own conviction was—and still is— that prohibition can and will be en- forced whenever and wherever there is | the will and determination to enforce it, and the full and proper use of the ' legal authority, man power and equip- | iment avallable. Accordingly, early in my term of office & conference was a ranged between the head of the prohi bition unit, the Coast Guard and Cu: toms Service and those in the Justic Department who were responsible, un- | der my supervision, for prohibition | prosecutions. My opinion that “rum row” could be swept out of existence was changed to absolute conviction by my contact at that conference with the officers of the Coast Guard. After much discussion | by representatives of the various bu- | reaus and units as to the difficulty and | intricacy of the problem, and the dis- play of a general feeling of hopeless- | ness by many of those present, I turned to the representative of the Coast Guard forces. He was a fine, clear- | eyed, courageous looking man of the | type who have battled with the storms that sweep our coast and imperil ship- | ping. With an economy of words and forcefulness of utterance that gave me renewed confidence, he sald, when asked what co-operation could be ex- pected from his service: | “We've got enough to do. We don't | want the job, but if the Coast Guard | gets orders to ‘clean out rum row,’ it'll | be cleaned out.” The orders were given. Even Con- gress was aroused. An additional $11,000,000 was appropriated for boats and equipment. Coast Guard boats have been break- ing up icebergs, chasing smugglers and | performing other perilous and hazard- | ous work since the early days of our | Government. It is a splendid service marked by efficiency, courage and high morale. In eliminating rum row they mobilized, kept quiet, risked their lives, took punishment and misunderstanding, but accomplished results just the way they have performed every other duty assigned to them throughout the history of their service. The Battle of Primary Ninth. Florida remained a prohibition scan- dal until men from my special assistants force could join forces with the Coast | Guard two years ago. We held council | and determined to mobilize and cut off | the bootleggers’ supply of imported | whisky for the Winter trade. | I dispatched- as legal adviser to flle' captain of the flagship of the special patrol_of the Coast Guard, John H. | Ford Taxicab Safety | Triplex Glass | 4-wheel Brakes Comfort Transverse Springs Hydraulic Shock Absorbers SWAN BOAT Sailing over the Tidal Basin White the moon shines from above And headuights fiicker like fireflies Neath the cherry trees we love, Bewltchml shadows come md‘.o, Obver there the Bureau's lights of Tgreen, A, but it is beautiful, Tis just like in & dream. OPERATED FOR BENEFIT OF CHIED WELFARE SOCIETY ON HOUR AND WALF PO TR BEGINNING AT 10 AM. Adults, 25¢ Children, 10c Smith, one of the staff of attorneys under Arthur Henderson, chief of the Bureau of Border Cases, in my division of the Department of Justice. At midnight January 9, 1928, the marine and aerial bootleggers of Florida found the east and west coasts of that State lined with a secretly dispatched special fleet of eleven destroyers, ninc 125-foot and twenty-five 75-foot patrel boats, eight 36-foot picket boats, two cutters and two amphibian planes, and a plane tender, manned in all by proximately 120 commissioned and wa rant officers and 900 men, all of whom and which had been withdrawn from the East Coast and sent to Florida ‘waters to co-operate with the land and sea forces regularly stationed there. Immed cial armada swung into vigilant patrol action. The destroyer fleet was divided into squadrons of fours, each squadron maintaining & four-day patrol of the waters beyond the 12-mile lmit. The intervening waters—namely, those within the 12-mile limit—were foot patrol boats and cutters, and the coast line by the picket boats and smaller speedy inshore craft stationed there. The duties of the aerial patrol included detection of illegal air and sea activity and in assisting land enforce- ment agents in locating stills. More Booty. ‘The first liquor-laden vessel to fall into the armada’s net was the Amer- ican lettered and numbered motor boat V-16734. Within three hours after the fleet’s arrival, this vessel was observed about 3 am. June 10, 1928, in Bis- cayne Bay, running without lights to- ward Miami. Upon her arrival at the foot of Seventy-first street, about eight men were observed in the act of un- loading her cargo into six automobiles, minus back seats, which were parked near the boat. In emerging from be- | hind a high wall, covered along the top with barbed-wire entanglements, where they had taken concealment, | Coast Guardsmen caused considerable commotion which served as an alarm to the bootlegger longshoremen, and at which they all attempted to esc: One of the two bootleggers who pened to be in ‘the water unloading, was captured, but the other effecte his escape by .submerging and swims This Grand Pia ‘You can't tell this piano from new. It has been used only in our studios to demonstrate its wonderful tone. Reduced $600. Now priced interest or extras. Chas. M. 1340 G Street N.W. ded by the 175 and 75- | INGTO ming away under water. Not being as young and as fleet of foot as the others aiding him in placing the liquor in the automobiles, & second man was captured as he was attempting to run away. A search of the boat disclosed a cargo of about 200 sacks of choice as- sorted liquors, later appraised at a value of $4,506. ‘Three days later brought the capture of one of the speediest rum-running vessels then operating in Florida waters. At the time of her capture in Biscayne Bay, this vessel was returning from Gun Cay with a $7,000 cargo of liquor. | It developec from investigation of this case that the smuggling venture had been pre-arranged and the liquor cargo purchased by one of the most flagrant marine liquor laws violaters in Florida. This man had left Miami for Gun Cay by airplane prior to the vessel's departure. He supervised the unloading at Gun Cay of the liquor cargo into the motor boat from one of three schooners which were regularly and ex- clusively engaged in bringing liquor cargoes from Nassau to that place. Cay is one of the three chief distribu- tion places from which American ves- sels obtain contraband, which ‘they attempt to_smuggle into Florida. A desperate effort to escape was made by the ex-Coast Guardsman in charge of this rum-runner. From the time he had been signaled to stop until capture, he was continually changing his course and proceeding full speed in the dark- ness under a volley of machine gun bullets. When questioned to the reason why he refused to stop when signaled, this rum boat skipper said: “Oh, I knew they had me spotted and were after me, but I figured I could zig-zag them shots and get away | easily. But when those bullets came through the wind-shield over the steer- ing wheel and singed my hair, I thought it was time to quit and give up.” ‘The Fall of “Spanish Marle. About 4 a.m. March 12, 192! torious rum-running queen, Marle,” was discovered on the beach at Coconut Grove by Coast Guardsmen supervising the unloading by nine of her bootleg employes af the liquor cargo | of her rum-running vessel, “Kid Boots.” | | Marle had fallen heir to the marine | rum-running _business established by her deceased husband, whose corpse, it was reported, had been picked up in Biscayne Bay in 1926. She was report- ed to have accumulated considerable wealth out of the bootlegging business and of owning and regularly operating a fleet of motor boats and automobiles in the liquor, dope and alien smuggling | business. Not being too certain of the honesty of those to whom she had ia- trusted the land delivery of this liquor cargo, Marie left her home and two sleeping babies that morning in response to & telephone call telling her of the | safe arrival at its destination of the | rum vessel from Bimini. Having em- ployed a special pilot boat to scout the | coast near the landing place to “spot” | Coast Guardsmen, and to direct the landing movements of the rum boats | crew by means of flashlight signals, | she entertained, 1t appeared, no doubt as to the rum boat’s safe and unmo- 1lested landing. Overcome with emo- | tion during her interrogation on the flagship after her arrest, she pleaded imploringly for her- immediate release to enable her to go home to her chil- | dren, whose safety and protection she stated she feared. Under the circum- stances we released her on a $500 bond, | [ USED FORDS and Other Light Makes Because we are Ford Dealers our prices on cars of all are low. No “price paddin, make up for excessive trade-in allowances. See our stock and secure demonstration without | obligation. HiLL &<&S>TBBITTS | 301 14th St. N.W. 24-Hour Service no Reduced $600 $1,650. New guarantee. No Stieff, Inc. Dr. Copeland Says: “Drink Milk to Quench which she furnished for her appear- ance for a preliminary hearing the fol- lowing dl‘. On the appearance day, however, she was absent, but was repre- sented by an attorney, who moved for a continuance of the hearing as to her on the ground that she was at home,in bed suffering from nervous prostratfon, Had not her attorney forgotten to ob- tain & doctor's certificate showing her health to be as represented, and had not Marie met and talked with a special undercover customs agent over in Bimini the night before, it is quite possible that a continuance would have been granted and the embarrassment of furnishing a $3,000 bond in place of the $500 bond avoided. Booze Prices Mount. The effect of the special patrol's ac- tion was being keenly felt at this time both by the bootleggers and the thirsty Florida tourists. Prices for running in liquor had jumped from $50 to $150 a load, cash money for release on bond in case of arrest being demanded in ad- vance of the trip. Liquor prices had soared from $35 to $125 a case and notices reading “closed for business” were to be found posted on & majority of the notorious land bootlegging places throughout Miami. A check of the Bahaman customs- house statistics disclosed that during three months’ operation of the special patrol, January 1, 1928, to March 31, 1928, there was a decrease of 43,288 | pounds_sterling on liquor imports into the Bahams and a decrease of 43,928 pounds sterling on liquor exports from that place during that period. . A total of 110 liquor-running vessels were seized during the special patrol's four months’ operation in those waters. Arrests aboard these vessels, or made in connection with the seizure of them, totaled between 300 and 400. Practically all the seized vessels and their cargoes were condemned. Conspiracy indict- ments were returned against nearly all those arrested. On pleas of ullty to two of these indictments, one defendant was sentenced to 14 months in Atlanta Penitentiary and another awarded a sentence of six months in jafl in consideration of his having furnished the Government with valuable information and having al- ready spent four months in jail await- ing a trial because of the failure of the man for whom he was running the liquor to furnish the §3,500 bond re- quired for his release. This is merely ont piece of evidence as to what can be done if there is & real will co-operation between Govern- | ment forces and determination to en- | force the prohibiilon law. Bul it »| far from being the only evidence or proof of that fact. (In her next instalment Mrs. Wille- brandt will discuss an unusual prohibi- | tion victory.) Copyright, 1929, by Qurrent News Features, , AUGUST 18, 1929—PART 1. 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