Evening star., 1925-05-26
|DRY FLEET PLANS
| WIDE EXPANSIONS
Will Increase Activity on
Pacific and Great Lakes.
Land Forces Busy.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Extension of the operations of the
dry fleet to the West coast and the
Northern lake frontier and then a con-
verging movement upon liquor law vio-
lators up the inland rivers is planned
by prohibition officials.
Commissioner Haynes asserted today
that many problems were being
worked out" which he declined to dis
cuss on the ground that "a little pre-
mature publicity might destroy months
OF planning and hard work.
Fast Boats for Detroit.
K. G. Yellowley, chief of general
prohibition agents, announced that a
neet of IL fast chasers would be
ready within 80 days to reinforce the
Detroit River forces, operating be-
tween Lakes Erie and Huron. The
situation there was described at en-
forcement headquarters as serious.
with from 80 TO 40 boats needed to
furnish an adequate patrol
Mr.. fellowley said that four 35-knot
chasers were under construction and
that others are being repaired TO
build up land fleet as an auxiliary
to the Coast Guard. One boat on
IS,
he declared, was doing effective work
against island moonshiners and SNUG.
glers.
In making his announcement re-
Sarding the work of his forces. Mr..
Haynes broke his long silence regard.
ing the drive of the dry infantry in
following up advances made by the
prohibition navy.
"BOOtleggers on Run"
There is no question that the
oootlesgers are on the rum" he said
and with all branches of the Gov
ernment working together in a CO.
operative, co-ordinated effort to the
same end, every indication is that the
outcome will be satisfactory to every
one interested in law enforcement"
An illustration of that the land
forces are doing good work. Mr.
Haynes said, is shown in statistics for
April, when 81 conspiracy cases were
reported, establishing a monthly rec
ord this year and bringing the total
of such cases to 236 since January /.
He declared the large number of
conspiracies uncovered as the most
significant feature of the general pro-
hibition agents campaign.
For some time" he said, this
class of violations had been concen-
trated on, but because of the length
of time required to work out a con-
spiracy charge, ranging from six
months to two years, the real results
are just now beginning to be seem
Probed 1884 Cases.
In concentrating on conspiracy
charges, however, he added, other in
yestigations have not been neglected.
the first four months of 1925 showing
a total of 1874 Investigations, an
average of 4,093 cases per month.
These included inspections of permits,
Investigations of breweries for sus-
pected violations, transportation, sale
and possession cases.
THE poorness of enforcement
the country has been i'm
measurably helped by the Coast
Guard blockade" Mr.. Haynes as
serted with less liquor coming in
along the coasts it is possible for the
Federal land forces TO concentrate on
the inland problems, that is, large
conspiracies which have developed
for the purpose of distributing liquor
from various sources into devious
channels. With the cutting off of the
foreign supply, activities of these
rings along the coasts has been tenn
porarily slackened, with a consequent
increased activity in other sections,
which, however, is being met effec-
lively"