The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-22
MICHIGAN CHECKS
j RUNS FLOOD FLOW
state Constables Take New
Grip in Stopping Smugglers
at the Ohio Border.
INJUNCTION SUCCESSFUL
$1,000, 1000 in Liquor Taken in
Motors and Tr0lleys From
Toledo to Detroit.
Special pespatcA to Tnn SUI.

DETROIT, Feb. 2l.--Arrhed with
blanket Injunction State constabulary
took the road again to-day to wage
more drastic fight than ever before on
rum runners, and $50 mounted police are
patrolling the southern border OF the
state tonight In an effort to turn BACK
smugglers from Ohio and Illinois.
The injunction, according to the Attor-
ney-General, was in the sense riot act
designed to fit the emergency created by
the overthrow of the Damon act py the
Supreme Court last Tuesday.
The programme includes the posting
of copies OF the notice at various points
along the border. Persons who persist
in violating II will be arrested for con-
tempt of court and their liquor confs-
Gated. Those who choose to abide py
the Injunction have no choice but 10
abandon their liquor before crossing the
State line.
Detroiters Keep Up Pilgrimases.
In spite Of the activity Of Federal
agents in Toledo and of the police In De-
troit against the running of liquor De-
tween the two cities thirsty Detroiters
to-day continued their pilsrimages
across the Ohio line. News OF arrests
although the Toledo bound cars were
not so congested as they were yesterday.
Nevertheless all southbound lnterur-
bans were packed with persons carrying
the telltale suitcases.
A conservative estimate places the
value of liquor carried openly across the
Ohio Michigan border during the last
three days at $1.50o,ooo. An ofnciai es-
innate placed the number or persons
travelling over steam and electric lines
between Detroit and Toledo yesterday az
1880. This, of course, does not include
the seemingly never ending string OF au-
tomobiles, estimated at an average OF
seventy-five an hour both night and day,
that made tho round trip Of t2o miles
A light snowstorm last night and
thaw to-day left the Dixie highway In
very treacherous condition. Many auto
mobile drivers took chance on speed
with the result that many wrecks were
added to last nights exceedingly large
number. Every turn in the road dis
closed at least one crippled motor driven
vehicle.
Wrecked Cars Are Stripped.
wrecking crews are reaping harvest
and charging exorbitant prices, but Tor
every haul they make two or three more
cars are ditched and II abandoned are
stripped clean by road vultures." Ev-
erything from tires to spark plugs IL
taken.
Forty miles an hour Is the average
mace and the driver with slower desires
either drops out of the procession or
stands an excellent chance Of accident
on the ls foot highway. Gaselene sta
lions are hard pressed In their enorss
TO supply the demand ana every one mas
q 80 10
August Marxhausen. publisher or q
German language paper, whose objection
10 the raiding of his summer home by
booze sleuths resulted In the Supre me
Court decision which opened the gates
Of Detroit to a flood Of Toledo liquor
appeared in Judge Dlngman's court and
made successful request for the return
Of 6.0l5 bottles OF beer and lessee
Quantity of other liquors when nae
been carried away from his place by the
raiders. All his wet goods will be re-
turned to him at once.