Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-07-25

Commissioner II aynes
declared today.
Discussing po S slb lie
navy cooperation MIR. Haynes said he
would consider seriously any offer the
naval department might make for the
use of submarines or other naval
craft in the chase
Blame Fishing Smacks.
New York, July 25.-Federal officers
along the Atlantic coast redoubled
their vigilance over tramp ships today
following disclosure OF evidence in
diCating the existence Of at least two
gigantic international whiskey snug
Cling rings, one having headquarters
in this city and one in Atlantic City.
Aid of the navy department also was
being sought in an effort to build up
rum hunting fleet capable Of coping
with the mysterious ships and their
allied fishing smacks which are al
legged to have anded hundred of thous-
ands of dollars worth of contraband
liquor at secluded points under cover
of darkness According to Leroy w.
Ross, United States district attorney
of Brooklyn, foreign and domestic
dollars is behind the whiskey SNUG
Cling conspiracy.
Keenest watch was being kept by
revenue boats off Montauk Point
toward which, authorities were tipped
large vessel was bound from the
Bahama Islands with a cargo of $4,000
| to 10000 cases of choice Scotch and
| Irish Whiskey. The conspirators,
| learning that word of the sailing had
reached federal officials were reported
| trying franctically to get in touch
with the whiskey runner to direct her
! to another point less carefully watch
| ed. A tramp steamer cruised saucily
outside the three mile limit off At
lantic City according to reports re-
ceiyed here and tainted federal
agents by breaking out pennants say
! ing:
Lay down your money and come
and get it,
The tramp slipped away as night
fell and it was thought she was head
ing for some deserted point where
| fishing vessels could work unhamper-
ed at her task of lightering her cargo
ashore A three masted schooner
suspecting OF being rum ship also
| was reported off Atlantic City. Fish
! ermen along the coast according TO
| Mr Ross are reaping a rich harvest
running the forbidden cargoes ashore.
! They work almost entirely at night,
Il 70,
| known to be free from surveillance.
/ Their compensation is said to be $l5
! for every case of whiSkey landed and
| many Of the fishermen are declared to
| have abandoned entirely their regular
| trips to the fishing banks in favor Of
! the more lucrative smuggling. The
smugglers are met on shore by auto
mobile tuckmen who Whisk the
whiskey to secret warehouses,
Efforts of federal agents to check
whiskey running along the coast had
/ have so far to seizure of two vessels.
| They are the schooner Curlew taken
! last week off the coast of Florida and
| the fishing smack Jennie T seized
| Saturday at New Haven. Government
men have also boarded the British
schooner Pocomoc at Atlantic City
but as the vessels paper show her
wet" cargo to be consigned to Cana"
da. no action has been taken against
her or her crew, A part OF the RO-
comOke's cargo was jettisOned off at
Atlantic City. her captain admitted
but this was done he declared because
the vessel was in distress and not be-
cause of any design to get the cargo
ashore there Emanuel Katz, an At
antic City hotel man was to be ar
raigned in the Cape Hay county court
house to day on a charge OF violating
the state prohibition enforcement act
Katz was arrested last week in con-
rection with the seizure Of 1872 cases
Of whiskey alleged to have been SNUG
gled IN.