New Britain herald., 1925-07-18
DRY UP CONNECTICUT,
 GEN. ANDREWS OBJECT
Prohibition Enforcement Chief to Dam Up
 Stream of Rum
BY GEoRGE II. MANNING

Washington Bureau of N. E. Hural5.) Washington, |. C., July 1S-As an effective means of reducing the flow of liquor into Ccnnecticut, Lincoln 7C. Andrews, assistant secretary of the treasury, in charge of all 1 branches of prohibition enforcement, iplans to make the Vermont and New York boundary lines a stone wall against all importations of rum" ! from Canada.
 He will effect this even if 1t takes the entire customs service and coast guard forces to accomplish it. and requires complete reorganization of the personnel of the present cus- toms force along the American side of the border north of Maine. Yer mont and New York.
 He is going to make scouting" tour of the entire northern New York boundary line. starting at the farthost east customs house at Rouses Point, N. Y, and ending at Dunkirk, the customs office farthest west in the state.
 As a preliminary step 10 this in- spetcion tour General Andrews left Washington yesterday for St. Albans, Vermont, for a conference with Gus toms Collector Whitehill, and Rouses Point, N. Y, where he will confer at length with Customs Collector John C. Tulloch.
 He wants to have a talk with Whitehill and Tulloch to get their viewpoint, "see what they are made of," and see if he can get them to put more pep" Into the checking of rum-running across the border. Gen. eral Andrews stated before leaving.
 Putting a stop to this smuggling across the Canadian border is one of the biggest problems we have be- fore us" continued Mir. Andrews. We must put up an absolute im- penetrable wall against liquor along the Canadian border on the New York state line before we can put down traffic in booze in New York state, New England and other states bordering on those states.
 "Every prohibition director and field agent in the northern states with whom I have conferred tells me of the constant annoyance and the enlargement of his problem by importation of liquor over the Can adian line into New York and Yer mont and then on south," General Andrews continued. We have got to stop the leak on the, border before We can dry up New York, Vermont and other northern states.
 'The customs officials along the Vermont and New York boundaries are doing pretty good work now, but there is room for improvement. IL may be necessary to increase the force there, but we are going 10 stop the leak. You can depend on that" asserted General Andrews, an old army man, with q significant snap of his jaw.
 No recommendation for changing the area which will constitute pro- hihition district No. 2, under the re- VI SolllA~1AiOi Pldli tO SO lulU tlltCl about August 1. has been received from Senators Hiram Bingham or George P. Mclean, General Andrews asserted today.
 Under the reorganization plan Connecticut and the southern and eastern judicial districts of New York will make up prohibition dis trict No. .. There has been some discussion Of changing the outline Of this district and of the first district 10 he composed of the New England states north of Connecticut. but no recommendation in this connection has come from either of the Connec- ticut senators or other Connecticut people Of prominence, General An tirews said.
 General Andrews is still strongly