The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1920-01-03
PARACHUTE BAR" is SOLUTION
ON SHIPS.
Buffeis to Be Dropped At 3-Mile
Limit; Picked Up on Return.

A Washington special to the New
Orleans States says the parachute
travel if the the off hand verdict of
Bar" may become a feature of ocean
of Deputy Commissioner Gaylord of
is sustained by the legal department
of the government.
The question comes up in connec-
ton with the sale of liquor on the
| high seas on privately-owned AM
art"an steamers. It is conceded that
these ships cannot be prevented from
selling the forbidden juice when they
are outside the three mile limit. They
would, of course, stock up on the
other side, the supply springs on this
side having been dried up by war
time prohibition and the eighteenth
amendment.
Whether the ships could bring IL
quor into American ports is, howev-
err, still to be determined. Under the
law whenever the commissioner shall
discover any person In the act of
transporting, in violation of the law,
Intoxicating liquors in any wagon,
buggy, automobile, water or aircraft
or any other vehicle, it shall be his
duty to seize any and all Intoxicating
liquors found therin being transport
ed contrary to law
Moreover, there is provision for
the seizure and sale of the carrying
vehicle.
To Leave Buffet Behind.
When asked what could be done by
prohibition enforcement, officers N
The case of American ships that come
into our ports with liquor on board,
Mr.. Gaylord said:
= think cf1 hind it would h.e Vii N
cur powers tC seize the liquor"
He admitted that the legal depart
ment Of the government would have
to pass on the question. If the decis
ion is upheld the parachute bar" is
due to eventuate. Incoming ships
will unship their buffets, suitably bot
toned, and they will be taken in tow
by a stationed tug, which will take
care Of them until after the liners
turn around, when they will be hoist
ed aboard for the return voyage.
May Bequeath Liquor.
Another corundrum that has been
1een put up to the enforcement O4fi2-
ais is the fate of liquor apertainiHg
20 the estate of a deceased person.
AS liquor cannot be sold it cannot be
appraised and 50 will be without pro
bate status. No definite verdict will
be obtained at either the department
Of Justice or the internal revenue bu-
~eau, but it was unofficially guessed
that it could be bequeathed and so
| long as the heir remained in the same
state as the cellar of his ancestors
| here was nothing to prevent his TAX
.ng possession.
AS to whether Californian falling
| heir to his fathers collection in New
York could carry the precious stock tC
the Pacific coast, that is beclouGed by
the same fog that clings around the
whole question of personally-posses
sed liquors.
Chairman Volstead, author of the
enforcement law, is inclined to think
that so long as a man is permitted tC
possess liqnor for his own use he has
a right to carry it with him wherever
he goes, but there is distinguished
senator with an equally distinguished
! stock in Maryland who is worried
over ways and means Of bringing II
within the District Of Columbia
! where the police are still proceeding
on the theory that bootlegging is
! hcotlegging whether the logger wants
o drink it himself or dispose of it
al $14 quart.