New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 3, 1928, Page 2

LEADVELLE PROBE 70 GET UNDER WAY Preca-Day Invesigaton Glls Buck 0K Nemrie Leadville, Colo., Dec. 3 (®—The roaring old days of this colorful “cloud city” mining camp, federal | dry agents claim, are not as passc | as would be supposed under the Vol- | stead act, and a federal grand jury | at Pucblo has summoned nearly the | entire city administration to testify | regarding the alleged present condi- | tions. i Bereft of Officials T'he investigation was slated to get under way or tomorrow ‘ and the city was 1y bereit of | officials today. Eighteen subpoenas served by the United States marshal called for thg | appearance of the entire city coun- | cil, county sheriff, city attorney, i police captain, and owners of sev- eral alleged saloons along Harrison avenue, the principal thoroughfare. Vederal officials said all had been subpoenaed to act as witnesses but | that they are wunder information | which, if the jury sces fit, may re- sult in federal indictments Although the nature of the charg- | es was not learned, it was said the government is making a stand against alleged liquor activities here and against malfeasance of officials | while in office. Federal investiga- | tions, active for more than a year in making sweeping investigations ot liquor conditions claim that some of the 63 saloons doing business here when the state went dry in 1916, | did not accept the mandate in the proper spirif, and that many glisten- ing mahcgany bars were not folded | up. Find Bars The agents claim they found many bars stood idle for only a short time, | then were brought back into service in “soft drink” parlors, and that the serving of liquor on a reduced scale, | soon was resumeq in a half dozen | parlors. 8 It was alleged conditions had be- eome such that on the occasion of & recent appearance of federal men, an unidentified resident galloped | down Harris avenue, a la Paul Re- vere, and passed the word that “the federals are coming.” The officers found the town closed up. Prior to 1916 prohibition lacked | popular approval in Leadville, prob- | ably Colorado’s richest mining camp, | which nestles among the bleak crags | of the high rockies nearly 11,000 feet above sea level. The city, then about 10,000 popu- lation, voted heavily against prohi- | bition in the election that year. In 1908 when Gov. Buchtel sought Dis- trict Attorney Hogan's aid in en- forcing & Sunday closing law here, the district attorney refused his as- sistance and wrote the Governor that Leadville never had been “dry” on ,md in commendable fashion. | Berlin Sunday, and that any effort te make it s0 then would be combatted by 99 cut of every 100 persoms. Henry Ward Beecher, following a visit here many years ago, called Leadville “the wickedest town in the world.” The town then was a rip- roaring settlement founded about | gold and silver discoveries of fabu- lous value in California Gulch, and | mecca for adventurers of every stripe. Its population was about 30,- Crimes Frequent Lynching, murders and crimes were frequent occurrences, but Leadville bore its “henors™” meekly, and not entirely without a sense of piety, or of humor. In 1886, following a particularly bloody period, the town declared an unof- ticial Christmas holiday truce, and turned to celebrate the holiday per- 000, |claus’ appearance was arranged for |and the churches whill all held all- night services Christmas morning were packed with temporarily formed “worshippers.” The Lead- | ville Chronicle, a daily, decided to run no front page crime stories, and the truce was so well ohserved that | no crime of interest developed over the three-day period. Under the state law in effect be- fore prohibition became effective sa- loons finally were prevented from opening before 7 a. m., but the fed- eral investigators claim that some of the alleged present day bars opem up at 5:30 a. m., and continue business at night as long as a lone { customer remains. Musician Calls Jazz A Fountain of Youth Rerlin, Dec. 3 (M—Jack Hylton ot London, wn as the “jazz” King of Europe,” has discovered the se- cret of eternal youth. Arriving in with his jazz orehestra for an extended stay, he said: “There is nothing that keeps a fellow so eternally young as playing in a jazz band. Jazz is an expression of youth, of joy, of bubbling en- thusiasm. Anybody who plays it can- not help but keep young. “More than that, our men can for the most part play six, seven, or eight instruments. All sorts of different muscles of the body are invoked in the process of playing them, so that a man keeps in good athletic training if he joins a jazz band.” | Pacific Flight Plans Fail to Win Funds Tokyo, Dec. 3 (A—The failure of the ambitious plans of the Imper- ial Aviation society for a Japanese trans-Pacific flight has been publicly acknowledge in the resignation of all the officers and directors of the soclety except one. This was Lieutenant-General Gaishi Nagoaka, one of the directors, | who from the start had opposed the flight plans and hence was not called on to accept responsibility for the failure. Baron Yoshiro Sakatani, former minister of finance, chair- man of the society, was first to offer his restgnation. other | Santa | re- | BORDER SMUGGLING STILL UNSOLVED {Dept. of Justice Submits Anaual Report ‘Washgton, Dec. 3. #—The light | against the smuggling of liquor from | Canada into the United States which has been a major problem of the prohibition enforcement authorities during the past year was declared to be still unsolved in the annual re- port of the Department of Justice | by | transmitted today to Congress Altorney General Sargent. The Canadian situation was dealt with by Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- brandt, assistant attorney general In charge of prohibition enforcement, | whose report was incorporated in the Attorney General's report, She said that, while the federal authori. [ties were successfully combatting | the illegal entry of liquor from the ‘mgll seas, approximately $2,000,000 | worth of liquor a month was smug- | gled across the Canadian border. Mrs. Willebrandt quoted statistics issued by the Department of Traae and Commerce of Canada which she declared showed that there were 1,169,003 gallons of whiskey alone, valued at $18,883,541, exported to the United States in 1928. “These figures given, cover the exportations of whiskey only,” Mrs. Willebrandt said, “and the same records show that the total of all alcoholic beverages exported to the United States from Canada during the year ending June 30, 1928, amounted to $24.397,950. As observ- ed heretofore these records show only the liquor which was regularly cleared through Canadian customs. Some of it may be short circuited for consumption in Canada. On the other hand, it is believed a substan- tial amount of liquor enters the United States across the Northern border of which the Canadian cus- tems has no record.” E Illegal Traffic Increases Mrs. Willebrandt said that the fig- ures showed that the volume of tne illegal traffic had increased more than 75 per cent in three years. In explaining the decrease of smuggling from the high seas the woman assistant attorney general said that effective work by coam guard, prohibition and Treasury De- partment forces had decreased the number of vessels hovering off the coast to furnish liquor to fast craft which would dash to safety of se- cluded spots to unload. The number of vessels of this sort seized, sh® added, had ‘decreased from 31 in 1927 to 22 in 1928 and in the lasy vear 28 such vessels had been for- feited to the government. In 1928 a total of 370 domestic craft were seized as rum runners, Mrs. Willebrandt continued, and of that number 174 or 47 per cent were captured off the coast of Florida with cargoes for the most part di- rectly from the Bahama Islands. During the year Mra Willebrandt reported, there was an increasze ov 15,020 in the number of criminal prohibition cases instituted by the Department bringing the total for the year to 55,729, Of these she sala the department secured 48,826 con- victions, with jail sentences totaliny 7,700 years and fines, penalties and forfeitures aggregating $7,303,.6a. There were 34 convictions for each acquittal, she added. Use of injunction under the pad- lock provisions of the Volstead zec was freely used by the departmens in the last year. There were a totat of 3,999 permanent {njunctous granted under this provision. Urges Consolidation Attorney General Sargent espe- cially urged Congress to consolidate all legal offices under the Depart- ment of Justice, reiterating his ree- ommerdation of a year ago thay proceedings to remove persons charged with violations of the fed- eral law from one district to anoth- er, be simplified. The attorney General also trans- mitted the report of tHe report o the conference of district judges In which congress w; urged to In- crease the number of district judges in the Southern District of New York by three and in the eastern district of New York by two. The report sald that the condition of the dockets in Brooklyn and New York cannot be bettered unless such action is taken. The conference likewise recom- mended an additional district judge for Florida, an additional circuit judge in the second circuit and an- other in the ninth circuit. The conference reported there were 147,142 cases on the dockets at the end of the fiscal year, a decrease of 2,160 over a year ago. Of this number civil cases in which the United States is involved amounted to 18,546, an increase of 2,359; criminal cases to 30,375, =« decrease of 4,921 over a year ago. Among other cases pending were civil cases in which the United States was not involved which num- bered 39,351 an increase of 981 over a year ago, SHIPPING; BOARD'S REPORT 15 FILED Ray of Optimism Conained in 10th Annual Statement Washington, Dec. 3. (A—A shaft of optimism today was shot througn the Shipping Board’s picture of the operations of the American mer- chant marine during the year. With the nation’s shipping in & comparatively low state, the board manifested assurance in its annual report over the prospects for suc- cessful privately - owned lines through the provisions of the Jones- ‘White merchant marine act passed last spring. 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Cannot Stand SUll Declaring thnt the Americgn ship- ping industry cannot stand still the report said that for every ocean go- ing ship laid in this country, fifty are laid in England, ten in Germany, five in France and Italy each and four in Japan. Total loss on operations and ves- sels laid up during the fiscal year ending June 30, amounted to $17,- 391,000, including the loss of the United States Lines of $465,000 com- pared with the net profit of $371,- 000 during 1927. Exclusive of the loss of the United States Lines, the net loss for cargo and combined passenger| and carge services for voyages and inactive vessels amounted to $16,926.00w, which is a reduction of $1,364,000 from the 1927 figure. The report attributed the losses partly te increased cost in preparing the vessels for service, compared with simiiar costs in previous ye~rs, and to the fact that thers was mot as great a demand for American bottoms in the cotton and graint ea- port trade. 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