New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-14
Flood of Liquor
FeOurs Overtime
Into Michigan
Despite Reports of Mobili-
zation of State Police,
Canadian Rum Runners
Ship Beer by Truckloads
Cars Camouhaged as Hay
Resorts Near Detroit Said
To Be Getting 90 Gents a
Bottle for 9 P. C. Brew

WINDSOR, Ontario, Aug 13.-Cana-
dian rum runners seemed to be trying
to establish record to-day after word
was received here that Michigan state
police, armed with rifles, had been
modified to prevent them landing
liquor manufactured in Ontario.
Beer was hauled to the docks in both
Sandwich and Walkerville, truckload
after truckload, and it was estimated
by waterfront observers that nearly
dozen boats had pulled out every hour
since 8 o'clock this morning.
The hustle along the docks continued
even when unconfirmed reports were
received that Michigan state police,
embarking in three high-powered mo-
tor boats, had run two liquor laden
craft ashore near Ecorse and seized the
cargo.
At the present moment it is reported
the smugglers are concentrating on 9
per cent. beer Reports were current
to-day that not only had beer been
shipped this week to Detroit by water,
but that more than a dozen carloads,
camoufaged as hay, had entered that
city by rail.
Beer 60 Cents a Bottle
According to reports at the water
front, the rum runners had increa sed
their efforts to get liquor across the
border to satisfy demands of Michigan
roadhouses, which were reported to be
expecting an unequalled weekend
trade. Word was received here that
these resorts were charging so cents
bottle for beer According to infor-
nation at hand, some Canadian liquor
has got as far as Toledo and Port
Huron
Reasonably fast motorboats are the
craft most used in the liquor traffic
These boats carry 1000 cartons OF
beer. Each carton contains two dozen
pint bottles
Windsor Ruling Permits Export
DETROIT, Aug 13-Federal, state
and county authorities Joined hands
this afternoon in an effort to halt wha+
is said to be an effort to food the
United States with intoxcants from
Canada, following a Windsor court
ruling that the Ontario temperance
act does not prohibit export of liquors
First results of the vigilance of the
officers came to-day when Federal Of
hcers raided house in Ecorse, a
suburb, and seized 1900 pints Of beer
and twelve quarts of whisky Ecorse. in
the opinion of Charles P Campu, chief
inspector of the State Department of
Public Safety, is the center of the
traffic in illicit liquor brought across
the border. Campau last midnight
brought seventy-tive state troopers
here from Lansing to patrol the water
fronts of Detroit and suburbs.
To Stem Flood Across Border
WASHINGTON. Aug 13.-Examina
ton Of the customs laws is to be made
by The Department of Justice, officials
said to-day, in an effort to find means
of stemming the tide Of liquor pouring
over the Canadian border into this
country.
Prosecutions of rum runners under
the Volstead act, officials asserted. ap-
parently has not been an effectual
method of keeping out illegal liquors,
and other legal weapons are sought by
the government authorities charged
with the duty of keeping spirits from
crossing the line.
Dry Enforcement at Standstill
SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Aug. 13-
Federal prohibition enforcement ma