New-York tribune., 1922-09-26
10000 Idle Chinese
There and Fees for
Smuggling Them Into
u. S. Are $500 to ST.. 900
Fake Marriages
Get Women I'm
Rum and Drugs Also
Flood Florida Coast,
Federal Inquiry Shows

WASHINGTON, Sept rs (By The
Associated Press) Smuggling of Euro
peanaliens into the United States from
Cubs, surreptitious submerging tempo
rsrily in the waters off the Florida
coast of large quantities of liquors by
international bootleggers," and mock
marriages designed to insure entry
into this country OF women barred by
immigration laws, form the basis of
report submitted to Secretary Davis by
the Bureau of immigration.
This report, Commissioner General
Husband said to-day, is the most com
Jrehensive review of smuggling condi-
tions ever prepared by immigration Of
fciais, and is expected to be considered
By the Treasury, Labor and Agriculture
departments in connection with the
proposed coordination of border patrol
forces.
Government Investigators, by direc-
sion Of Mr. Husband, visited Jackson
vslle, Tampa, Tarpon Springs, Miami,
Key West and Havana. They mingled.
u Is said, with the kings of the snug
Cling industry and talked with aliens
OF every nationality who sought entry
30 the United States. The data gath
cred, it Is stated, will prove invaluable
to the government in coping with sit
uation which has taxed the ingenuity
Of Federal agents.
Ramifications in Europe
The smuggling ramifcations. it is de-
clsred, extend to the capitals of Europe,
and involve Greeks, Spaniards, Poles,
Rumanians, Russians and Chinese.
The report states that the fayorite
method of gaining entry to the United
States from Cuba for certain alien
women has been for them to enter into
take marriages with naturalized
American citizens, who, for certain
eonslderations, so through mock cere-
eonles and then accompany their
Wives to some Florida point. Ere
groonls" have been paid as high as
s290 for their part in the scheme.
The principal smugglers in Havana,
the Investigators declare, do not con
fine their activities to smuggling aliens
into the United States, but also handle
Shlskey and narcotics. The majority
OF the leaders are said to be natural
lied Americans.
great many of the smuggling craft
which, it is declared, land and depart
from MatanZas. are of Cuban registry
and DO not enter or clear at the Gus
tom house there. Names used by the
schooners and power launches, it is de-
clared, are inscribed on plates, readily
removable, and some vessels are said
to carry sa@eral name plates. Destina-
tons of such craft when leaving Cuba
are not always fixed, the inspectors
report, adding that majority of the
bigger schooners anchor outside the
customs limit off the American coast
and send theit load if aliens, ashore a
sew at a time in small boats.
If liquor or narcotics, the cargo is
often subra erged at predestined point
and grappled up subsequently, at leis-
ure. Probably no fewer than four or
goods cross from Matanzas to the
United States each week, the report
states.
Operations in Havana
In Havana, according to the report,
hundreds Of aliens throng Central
PARK in the afternoon and at night, and
constantly a dozen or more men, OBJ
operate among them, going from group
to group. These men, it is explained,
ere runners for the smuggling
"kings."
There is TO employment in Cuba for
thousands Of the Chinese and Euro
pean aliens now there, it is reported,
Yet since the present passport and
amended immigration restrictive act
became operative in this country last
May at least 1000 aliens are said to
have arrived in Havana with the ulti-
mate hope of gaining surreptitious
entry to the United States. There are
at present it is estimated, approx
~. l. nl@ C,1ha
for whom there is no employment. In
fact The report AYERS, the Orientals
Will not accept work under any circum
stances except to earn sufficient money
with which to pay passage to this
country or Mexico. The usual fee
charged for smuggling aliens, it is
learned, ranges from $500 to 81 900 for
each Chinese and about $3.50 for an
European alien.
~ Many of the "master smugglers" In
Havana run shops as blinds, the re-
port discloses, and conduct their illegal
operations on the quiet. One of the
,aYorite routes fer the smugglers, it is
learned, is from Havana to Long Key.
thence up the coast past Turkey Point
% % Miami through Hope Sound, past
talm Beach, then through the inner
waterway and finally into the ST. John
Ever. Aliens and liquor are unloaded
+ ~ various points en- route. Launches
are used, having speed ranging from
niteen to twenty-five miles an hour, it
sald' and carry up to forty aliens.
$50 Miles of Coast Smuggling Ground
From Miami to Jacksonville. a dis
iisnce of $50 miles. the whole coast line
10 said to be wide open to smuggling
operations, Both Chinese and Euro
pean aliens, it is declared, are being
smugged in at Mobile, Pensacola, Tar
gon Springs, and at dozen places |
SStnln short distance of Tarpon
ppprlngs. such as Clearwater, Crystal |
Seacn, Dunedin and Cedar Keys. Small |
vessels are understood frequently to |
ent IN at Tarpon Springs for "sup- |
pnes or repairs" the inspectors ex-
EaanIng that at such time large num- |
Ssrs OF aliens and quantities Of liauor |
org landed. Liquor at this point, it ia |
s@saefted, is openly sold over soft drink |
iarpon Springs appears to be used as
gateway principally by ineligible |
ssnens, mostly Greeks, Italians and /
sl, sslpsnlards, the inspectors assert, while
bSaanggling of all descriptions seems to
~ ~ eenterIng at Tampa and points on
ri near Tampa Bay, in the vicinity of
s'sarWatsr and st. Petersburg.