Evening star., 1925-07-18
Giant Ring Broken-Lake
Runners Warned-Ships
Again OFF Coast.
ANDREWS AT CANADIAN
BORDER TO STOP LEAKS
New Treaties to Help Stop Flow
VETS Counter With Series
of Blows.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK. July 1S.-Uncle Sam
has started an intensive Midsummer
drive against rum, and the liquor
forces are making several counter
moves.
In today's news there figured. on
the side of prohibition enforcement:
1. Eight arrests in New York as
the result OF heavy shipments of
liquor to inland points in trunks.
2. Tour of Assistant Secretary Of
the Treasury Andrews to Canadian
border points TO repair leaks in the
roof.
8. Reports of warnings to Canadian
rum runners that they will be fired
upon in American waters on the
Great Lakes.
4. Completion of formalities on a
treaty between the United States and
Canada regarding smuggling.
8. Impending shake-up under which
all prohibition agents will lose their
jobs and many will be hired over
again.
Rum Fleet Reappears.
In behalf Of the vets there de-
yeloped these moves:
l. Reappearance Of rum fleet of
the north shore of Massachusetts.
.. Efforts to hold up salary OF Pro
hibition Commissioner Haynes be-
cause of his employment of a woman
lecturer on prohibition.
A sales organization that retailed
liquor at the rate of 80 trunkfuls a
80. 20 IN nOa nustop,erS tbrpuphOut
the country has been smashed in
men comprising the head Office force
were arrested Yesterday.
Customers, upon receiving a liquor
consignment, forwarded payment here.
KEYS were then mailed TO open the
trunks The customers shipped the
trunks back here. A field force of 40
men worked the Midwest. Federal
prohibition officers late yesterday
raided the suite of offices here.
Federal Attorney Buckner described
the organization as the biggest boot
leg ring uncovered since the prosecu'
ton of Mamie Kessler."
Kessler on Way Home.
Kessler was on his way to his home
here today from the Atlanta Peni-
tentiary. after serving two years and
paying a $4,000 fine for illegal with
drawal of more than S50o.000 worth OF
liquor from bonded warehouses.
Mr.. Andrews, determined to check
the flow of liquor at its source, is
travelling through Vermont on his way
to the Canadian border. There he will
confer with his field men regarding
the flow of contraband liquor over the
international boundary. It is expected
that he will be aided in this work by
the ratification yesterday of four
treaties between the United States
and Canada. one Of which deals with
smuggling.
Today's Toronto Globe says that
rum runners operating out of Port
Colborne on Lake Ontario will be
fired on by American rum chasers
If they attempt to escape into Amer
lean waters Harry Smith, collector
of customs of the port of Buffalo, the
Globe says, issued the warning after
comforting with officials in Toronto
Visiting New York yesterday, Pro
hibition Commissioner Haynes de-
scribed plans for a big shake-up OF
his forces. All agents are to be dis
charged. but some will be reappoint-
ed. The entire dry organization Will
be redistributed in unfamiliar terri
tory, including. presumably, 1Zzy
Einstein, picturesque New York
raider, who has operated under many
disguises.
Asked to Withhold Haynes Salary
The Association Against the Pro-
hibition Amendment has addressed q
letter to Controller General McCar
requesting him to withhold the salary
of Commissioner Haynes until the
Treasury has recovered about s11,-
$50 paid to Miss Georgia Hopeley.
The association charged that Miss
Hopeley. who recently resigned, had
been employed as a prohibition off,
Ger, but had been assigned to tour