New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 20, 1929, Page 12

Paris, June 20 UM—It looks like Germany against England in the European sone final of the 1529 Davis cup campaign. The semi-final ties, one of which got under way yesterday, arrays the Germans against Czecho-Slovakia and England against Hungary. Thus far the Germans have been the sen- sations of the Davis cup season, al- though Czecho-Slovakia covered a| serious threat in yesterday's opening | match of their tie. Hana Moldenhauer, leader of the German team. is regarded this ycar as ranking nearest of any Europeun player to the three French muske- teers, Borotra, Lacoste and Cochet. He won both of his matches against Italy in the quarter finals, beating Baron Humbert De Morpurgo, 1923 sensation, in/five sets and De Stefani in three. Yesterday he added an- other straight set triumph, defeating Macenauer of Czecho-S8lovakia by 6-3, 6-4, 8-6, Menzel upset the dope for the Germans by giving Czecho- Slovakania the second singles match with a five set triumph over Lr. | Landemann. Moldenhauer and Dr. Prenn con- stitute a strong doubles team that is expected to carry Germany into the final. Dry Army and Navy Seck fo Stem Booze lavasion | rum war, whi customs bors Detroit, June 20.—The greatest prohibition army and navy ever brought together under the Ameri- can flag have made the once rip- Bela Von Kehrling of Hungary is the only dangerous man that ring.|able and law-abiding a stretch land must fear in the lower half of | the draw’s semi-finals. “Bunny" Austin, however. may defeat him | while Gregory and Collins appear a| 10 to 1 shot in the doubles. | The interzone finals are to hc played in Parls at the Roland Carros | stadium July 17 between th= Uaitad | States and the winner of the Luro- pean zone fin; NEWSPAPER PARTY Herald Employes men of the Press” as Guest of Manager Barrett of Strand. Manager Carlyle G. Barrett of the Strand theater will be the host to 65 employes of the Herald Friday eve- ning when the local newspapermen will see the movie “Gentlemen of the Press,” a newspaper story with & punch. The local members of the “fourth estate” have all heard their brothers in the profession discuss the picture and are counting on a #ala evening as the guest of Host Barrelt who gives out free paper as in duys of yore when newspapermen couldn’t afford to attend a per- formance unless they were ‘“sugar- ed” up by the managers. Those were the days when entertainments were not “so hot” and a play really need- ed support of newspapermen. We, of the Herald, are informed that to See “Gentle- | The jend |agents or other government forces | roaring Detroit river into as peace- | of water as the North American conti- nent can show. The “big push” tion forces has made of its campaign a huge runners are not coming across at Detroit now. The De- troit spcakeasies are closing right left. Th highways leading | cut of the city no longer resound to the roar of bhig truck carrying booze for distant cities. There's a reason — several rea- sons, in fact. 500 Agents on Duty hundred prohibition of the prohibi- success, Five serving in that capacity are on duty | here now. The coast guard has five of its snappy 75-foot cutters, each onc mounting a_one-pounder rapid-fire the opening | trains | g | situation was almost NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. |more Canadian liquor than they Egol before. Turn to Unguarded Spots Chicago's supply, for instance, [is being brought across the upper end of lLake Erie and landed in obscure coves and inlets on the | Michigan shore north of Toledo. | where heavy trucks wait to re- reive it and take it overland to the market. Similarly, some op- erators are bringing their cargoes over tne line north of Detroit, se- lecting landing places on the shores of lLake 8t Clair or the Huron river. y—not now. But Detroit itsself isn't Up until a short time ago th: unbelievably | bad. Lowman not only estimated that §5 per cent of the country's booze through Detroit; he had furnished by the Canadian customs men, to show that since Jan. 1, the runners have landed 1,523,750 gallons ot liquor’ in De- | came in figures, gun, a couple of machine guns and a squad of expert rifle men. It| has a dozen more cutters on the | way here, and is building a whole | flotilla of high-speed motor boats | for use in patrolling the river. | Thus Detroit, through which | Assistant Secretary of the Tre | ury Seymour Lowman once esti- | mated that 85 per cent of the na-| tion’s imported liquor supply | found its entry, is being dried up. | The rum runners are not trying to | get across. ;) “Aw, what's the use?’ re-| marked one smuggler. “We don't | need to take a chance. Detroit | ain't the oply place in the United States where they drink booze. We troit. And that Millions of were cleared the in Windsor isn't half of it gallons from for getting | addition | Seventeen coast mnard cutters like the CG-236, shown at the right, have been assigned to the Detroit h is blocking 85 per cent of the nation’s imported licuor supoly. patrol bout is preparing to tie up a liquor boat overhauled in the Detroit river. shown the houses and boat shelters bullt over the Detroit river where much liquor is unicaded from small craft with outbourd motors like that shown in the picture. At the left, above, a fast Below are such places as Cuba, Mexico, and the like. Actually, of course, they !all went to Detroit — but the cus- toms men didn’t include them in their list of exports. Carey D. Ferguson, collector of | internal revenue here, recently re- signed after his handling of the smuggling situation had been criticized. Then the fun began, E. R. Norwood, recently ap- pointed co-ordinator of all the prohibition forces in this area, jcame on the scene and studied the | situation, under cover. He sent a | report to Seymour Lowman. A few days later Lowman himself came. At that time there were 144 customs border patrolmen on duty i here, 40 prohibition agents and 40 | coast guardsmen to man the cut- | ters. The day prohibition after Lowman's visit, | agents began pouring linto the city from all directions. | Prohibition headquarters in the Buhl bulding were swamped with them. At present there are 500 of them, with more on the way. Bribery Arrests Follow Elmer J. Lewls, chiet” of the | special treasury agents in the mid- Youthful Loveliness of SKIN and HAIR RETAINED by using Cuticura Soap regu- lacly every day snd Cuticurs Ointment as sequired . . . Begin today the regular use of Cuticura for the toilet, bath and shampoo. ‘There is nothing better for keeping the skin western ares, sent one “Mr. * a high-powered under cover man, here to investigate the brib- ery situation. Mr. X, posing as 1 prohibition officer, soon made 2 number of very interesting con- tacts. He stayed on the job six weeks and then turned in his re- port. As a resalt, 20 customs pa- trolmen were arrested for bribery, three were locked up for perjury and 19 “big shot™ rum runners were indicted.. Eleven of the government men either pleaded guilty or were con- victed, and the indicted rum run- ners have cleared out for the Cana- dian interior, Mr. who testi. fied that he had collected $1700 in bribes in six weeks, has been identi- fied as Lawrence Fleishman, a naval chief petty officer especially loaned for the investigation. Bribery wasn't the only thing that enabled the rum runners to bring their product in, however. Easy for Smugglers. The geographical set-up on the Detroit river seems to have been made to order for the smugglers. Detroit's river front sprawls along the bank for miles. At no place is the Canadian shore more than a mile away. All along the river there are slips, piers, coves, docks and inlets, offering countless places for the reception of contra- band cargoes. The rum runners had a fleet of speedboats—rakish little craft that could come across from the Canadian shore” in less than two minutes. There would be signal men on each bank. On the Detroit side, the signal man would keep an eye on the customs patrol boat. When it had gone to the other end of its beat he would flash a signal to the Canadian side. Instantly a speed boat would dart out and tear madly across the river. The customs boat would wheel and come back—but by the time it would reach the scene the liquor boat would be curely docked, hidden by some pro- jecting boathouse or pler. Sometimes the runmers selected shallow inlets, which their boats THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1520, could enter but which were too shallow for the coast guard cutters. Sometimes, when the govern- ment boats were patrolling too clésely, the runners would send out a “decoy.” A hoat would dart out from the Canadian side and draw the ggvernmeat boat after it. After extending the chase as long as pos- sible it would allow itself to be overtaken. The coats guards would find it empty—but, while the chase was going on, a fully-loaded rum boat would quietly sneak across and land its cargo. Liquor meant -for Detroit con- sumption reached the speakeasies a short time after it was landed. Cargoes for out of town were placed on trucks and taken overland, with Detroit's notorious “Purple Gang” riding in front and behind, armed with machine guns, Now, however, all of this activity has ceased — as far as Detroit is concerned. Most of the speakeasy proprietors have closed up. 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