The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-05-07
COAST GUARD
HOLDS BOOZE
SHIPS AT BAY
Blockade of Liquor Row Said
To Be 100 Per Cent Effec-
tive BY Dry Agents
START CLEANUP INLAND
U. S. Officials Open Great
Offensive Against Rum
Law ViOlatOrS
(By The Associated Press)

(By The Associated PreSS)
New York, May 7.-On sea, on land,
and in the air, forces of prohibition
enforcement today continued their
way of determination against rum
row and its satellites ashore. Dur
ing the night the fleet operating
against rum runners mad the added
task of battling against a forty-five
mile gale.
With the blockade of rum row said
by federal agents to have been made
100 per cent effective in less than
two days, prohibition agencies in
New York and surrounding counties
have initiated a cleanup which they
say will make it impossible to pro-
cure liquor inland. Padlocks are
rapidly mopping up liquor that seep-
ed ashore before the blockade.
One development expected to be
helpful in dry law enforcement was
the discovery that persons who in
form the government of violations
leading to the arrest of dry law Of
tenders may receive Is per cent of
the fine as a reward from the gov
ernment and may obtain a quarter Of
the proceeds from the sale of confis-
Gated boats.
Federal Judge John c. Knox, in
closing soft drink stand for six
months, said owners of such proper
ty should be held equally guilty with
the seller and Vossesser of liquor.
Some Canadian war veterans are
all stirred up over the blockade. At
a meeting in Victoria, B. c., speak,
ers said that the big fleet operating
against rum row was violating the
Washington conference agreement
for limitation of naval ornaments.
More than sixty boats are now
patroling rum row. The fleet is di-
+rected by wireless from Washington
and is aided by a detail Of thirteen
airplanes. The United States mar
shall here is to destroy $4,000 bot
ties of Scotch whiskey and 1000 gall
Ions Of alcohol seized from rum-run-
ming ships and valued at $l5O,OoO.
Eleven chasers and four cutters
sailed from the coast guard base at
Clifton, Staten Island. today. to join
the rum blockade. In all. 25 chasers
and 8 cutters have sailed from Cliff
ton since Tuesday.
UNDER CLOSE GUARD
New York, May Two observers
from the New York Evening World
took seaplane trip over the scene
of warfare between the coast guard
and the vessels of rum row, that
newspaper says today. and observed
approximately thirty liquor ships at
anchor from 18 to 35 miles from
shore. Each of the rum boats was
under close scrutiny of the two rs
footers of the coast guard which cir
cled closer and closer to the sides
Of their respective wards as the
newspaper seaplane circled overhead.
the observers reported.
On advice of the pilot, Arthur Cap
erton, the newspaper men had mott
fled coast guard officials in advance
of their flight to prevent the posi-
bility of being fired upon. 81 have
been shot at several times by coast
guard crews that assumed l had no
business over rum row because |
was not flying a government plane"
the pilot said.
Some Of the government boats.
however, apparently had not received
word of the newspapermen's visit for
they kept close watch of the plane
and scurried toward the ships they
were guarding in evident apprehen-
sion that the fliers would attempt
to get message to the belagured
rum boats, said the observers.
A stiff westerly wind was blowing.
the seas surface displayed heavy
swell and the smaller government
boats, converted submarine chasers
and patrol boats seemed to be having
anything but an easy time of the
adventure in the raw, bleak day.
The newspapermen estimated that
at least thirty rum runners were on
the job.