Evening star., 1923-01-14
WANT GRAND JURY PROBE.
Federal Officials Deny Stories of
"Bottle Fishermen"
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 13-o6shore
all was quiet today among the rum
runners who have been landing large
quantities of liquor along the Jersey
coast since Thursday.
Ashore prohibition officials declare ed
a twenty four hour investigation
convinced them that dispatches tell
ing of feet transferring liquor to
swarms of bottle fishermen" at
Highlands, n. j., were unfounded, and
announced they would seek a special
grand Jury investigation OF the whole
affair.
All day a stiff noreaster blew along
the Jersey coast, kicking the Atlantic
into sizeable seas, and the rum run
ming feet sedately rode the waves.
The heavy weather kept the landing
parties, operating from shore, In their
hidden coves, while captains OF the
mother ships" paced briny decks,
on the lookout for the dry navy.
Fleet stiil Visible.
At sundown the fleet was still visi-
O4C AEOAh A4iS SolAlO VI ~ rum
at anchor with canvas turled, and
others with slight spread-but all
were standing by just on the edge Of
the three-mile line.
The stretch of angry sea between
the shore and the anchorage was
desolate tonight-a somber course
compared to the running ground ii
nights and days, when small craft
swarmed about the big ships, fitting
to and from shore with alcoholic car
goes.
Desolate, too. was the water front,
that night before had echoed to the
tread of strange men carting away,
in heavy auto trucks, touring cars
and wagons, load after load, of liquor.
The little ports that dot the coast, all
In hubbub since the big feet arrived,
were dark early, as is the usual Gus
tom. and the sea-faring folk, who
their shutters early to block out the
harsh wind.
Whether the smuggling will be con-
tinued so openly when the sQuaH
subsidies was speculated upon tonight
at the coast firesides- There was
news of q dry navy blockade to halt
the traffic, but the fleet of two
steamers and six two-masted schoon-
ers off Ambrose nghtship and four
two-masted schooners off Asbury
Park spelled hope" to the rum
runners.
Meantime, E. C. YelIowley, federal
prohibition director for New York
state, announced that he had been in
formed by William b. Moss, who holds
the same position in New Jersey, that
personal investigation, covering a
night and day, had convinced him
that description of the rum-running
activities carried In the Associated
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tion.
Called "Wet" PropaEanda.
Mr.. Moss announced he would ask
at Newark to call before q special
grand jury persons responsible for
the dispatches.
ain taking this STEP" said Mr. Moss,
"it is not my intention in any way to
cast reflection on the news organiza-
ton (the Associated Press) which
handled the story, nor the reporter
or reporters OF that organization who
got this story, as I believe that they
were victimized and would not have
printed such yarn IL they had known
that it originated. as since believe it
did, with bootleggers in spreading
wet propaganda
my sole object Is to arrive at the
truth. If we find that the story is
true. all well and good. However, If
we learn that II Is not true, we want
the public to know about 1t, as that
story has spread all over the country
in a very harmful manner. In re-
questing that the reporters who got
the story be summoned before the
grand jury we hope to discover it's
source, and IL we do we intend to
prosecute"
Mr.. Yellowley reiterated his declara-
tion of yesterday that "all of these
statements are very much exagRer-
ated and inflated, and some of them
have no basis in fact whatever. 1t
is simon pure propaganda given out
by the bootleggers who want to dis
pose Of quantities Of synthetic and
bad whisky"
At Hoboken, N. J., Emil Schwinn
and Ole Lund, who have been living
in a Brooklyn Y. M. c. A, were held
in $4,000 bond each for a hearing
January % on charges of rum-run-
ming. Enforcement agents said they
captured them in a motor boat OFF
Highlands, N. j., when they tried TO
make shore with cargo from the
rum-running feet.