The Cordova daily times., 1921-09-16
FISH CAPTAINS AREPEEVED
 INSPECTIONS
By Associated Press)

salts aren't taking kindly to all the prohibition inspection, official and un- 1 official, that's going on inside and out the three-mile limit.
 "Gettin so you cant drop a mud |. hook without some lubber whispering you're rum runner" said one sun. tanned skipper who recently breezed into port with his schooner aglitter with fish scales.
 According to this captain and others of his calling, numberless sleuths who played the "chase-the-spy" game dur ing the war now are bent as zealous- ly on tracking down liquor laden craft in postwar days.
 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 hallock now are falling under suspicionn and that a reflection is being cast on the ancient and hon orable calling of fishermen.
 Several months ago, strange fantas- tic tales began coming in from the At lantic of vessels mysteriously missing and of other vessels as mysteriously sighted-the phantom craft that bobbed up out of fogs, circled mer- chant craft and scooted away as sil- ently as they had come. Pirates was the first verdict.
 Then, in July. off Hatteras. was found a stranded schooner, so battered by the waves that even her name had been ground off her stern. She never was identified, but before she was de stroyed by q coast guard cutter as menace to navigation. there was found in 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 forbid, den drinks to all corners. there were persons afloat and ashore who gave credence to the story.
 Atlantic City, too. contributed to a tale of liquor schooner that lay off shore, sold liquor and tauntingly sig. nailed to prohibition enforcement of ficers to come and get it.
 Other schooners were reported. from Tampa north to Cape Sable. 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 q day passes that some vessel reaching port somewhere does not report cncountering these baf- fling strangers. until it seems as if the entire merchant marine of all countries must suddenly have turned 1 to rum running for living.
 Then seizures began and to date more than half a 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 1 New York by coast guard cutter has aroused perhaps the greatest furry For she was flying the British flag l outside the three-mile limit when the cutter swooped down on her, and now upon to decide "hat is to be done with her and the liquor found aboard her | Great Britain has indicated she will | enter a formal protest, just by way of showing, without animosity, that she cant approve of other nations grab | ping her vessels on the high seas.
 Her British registry, however has been challenged.
 Federal officials claim to have wi 1 dence or conspiracy involving prGml- nent men in ports along the Atlantic 1 seaboard, who are believed to have put up hundreds of trourands of do!- | lars to sell liquor to their thirsty tcl- low countrymen. The Bahamas is al legged to be the home port of rum running 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 into the country entities them to seize craft of other nations even in the "interna- tional safety zone"
 On the other hand, contention is