Bisbee daily review., 1921-08-30
OLD SALTS FAIL
 I ] CH FER 0VER. OCEAN SEARCHES
Even Cod and Haddock Are Now Under Suspicion
 Says One Skipper

NEW 1ORh, Aug. ~. - Stdld OlQ salts aren't taking kindly to all the prohibition inspection, official and unofficial, that's going on inside and out the three-mile limit.
 "Gettin' so you can't drop mud hook without some lubber whispering you're a rum runner" said one sun tanned skipper who recently breezed into port with his schooner aglitter with fish scales.
 According to this captain and oth- CTS ot hIs calling, numuerless sleuths Who play ed the 'chase-the-spy" game during the war now are bent as ZeaI- ously on tracking down liquor-laden cralC in postwar days.
 Even Fish Suspected
 There were spies during the war and there probably are rum runners now operating off the coast, but skip pers innocent of more than a strong tea breath are complaining that even their cod and haddock now are fall ing under. suspicion and that reflec- tion is being cast on the ancient and honorable calling of fishermen.
 Several months ago, strange fan tastic tales began coming in from the Atlantic of vessels mysteriously miss ing and of other vessels as mysteri- ously sighted-the phantom craft that bobbed up out of fogs, circled merch- ant craft and scooted away as silently as they had come. Pirates was the tIrst verdict.
 Then, in July, off Hatteras, was found stranded schooner, so batter Q hxy hnf hn, had been ground off her stern. She never was identified, but before she was destroyed by coast guard cut ter as a menace to navigation, there was found ill her hold a cargo of rum
 This set folks thinking and when there came from Montauk Point, on the tip of Long Island, reports of an English schooner, that lay off the three-mile limit and dispensed for bidden drinks to all corners, there were persons afloat and ashore who gave credence to the story.
 Man Mysterious Stories
 Atlantic City, too, contributed a tale of liquor schooner that lay off shore sold liquor and tauntingly signaed to prohibition enforcement officers to come and get it.
 Other Schooners were reported, from Tampa north to Cape Sabe, and each was suspected of rum running In many cases, it was reported that the two-stickers had ignored signals, refused all advances and kept snob- bishly on their courses.
 Now hardly day passes that some vessel reaching port somewhere does not report encountering these baf-I fling strangers, until it seems as if the entire merchant marine of all countries must suddenly have turned to rum running for a living.
 Then seizures began and to date more than half dozen schooners are being held on technical charges. At Philadelphia, Gloucester, New Haven, Atlantic City and New York there's lying a schooner under suspicion.
 The case of the Henry l.. Marshall, seized off Atlantic City and brought to New York by coast guard cutter, has aroused perhaps the greatest furry. For she was flying the Brit ish flag outside the three-mile limit when the cutter swooped down On her, and now official Washington has been called upon to decide what is to be done with her and the liquor founr aboard her. Great Britain has indi- cated she will enter formal protest, just by way of showing, without ani- mostly, that she cant apprope of oth CT nations grabbing her vessels on the high seas. Her British registry, however, has been challenged.
 Conspiracy Charged
 Federal officials claim to have eyi dence of a conspiracy involving prom inent men in ports along the Atlantic seaboard, who are believed to have put up hundreds of thousands of dol lars to sell liquor to their thirsty fel The Bahamas is al legged to be the home port of a rum fleet. Others are believed to sail from. St. Pierre, Miquelon, the French island south of Newfoundland
 Federal agents hold that evidence of conspiracy to smuggle liquor in to the country entities them to seize craft of other nations even in the international safety zone''
 On the other hand, contention is made that it is perfectly legal for alien shippers to drop anchor outside the theoretical line and sell liquor to their hearts content to dories putting off from shore. The illegality, it is | comes when the owners of these small craft don't drink up their purchases but attempt to bring some l ashore for more arid moment.