Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-07-18
us. DRIVE ON
RUM RESULTS in
COUNTER MOVE
Dry Agents Make Many
Arrests; Big Company
Supplied Customers by
Trunkfuls, Is Claim
INV The Associated Press.h

CRK, N. Y, July 1S.-Uncle
Sam has starter ar intensive mid sum
mer drive against ILE, an1 the l.qnCI
forces are making several counter
moves.
In toiay's news there figured, on the
side of prohibition enforcement: eight
arrests in New York as the result OF
a heavy shipment of liquor to inland
ports IN trucks.
Tour of Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Andrews to Canadian border
points to repair leaks in the roof.
Reports Of warnings to Canadian
rum runners that they will be fired
upon in American waters on the Great
Lakes
Completion of formalties on a treaty
between the United States and Canada
regarding smuggling.
Impending shake-up under which all
prohibition agents will lose their jobs
and many will be hired over again.
In behalf of the vets there developed
these moves
Reappearance of a rum fleet off the
North shore of Massachusetts,.
Efforts to holdup the salary of Pro-
hibition Commissioner Haynes because
of his employment of woman lecturer
on prohibition.
A sales organization that retailed
liquor at the rate of 80 trunkfuls a day
to 10000 customers throughout the
country has been smashed in New York.
one woman and seven men comprising
the head office force were arrested yes
terday.
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 4O
men worked the midwest. Federal pro-
hibition officers late yesterday raided
the suite of offices here.
Federal Attorney Buckner described
the organizations as the biggest boot
leg ring uncovered since the prosecution
of Mamie Kessler.' Kessler was on
his way to his home here today from
the Atlanta penitentiary after serving
two years and paying $1,000 fine for the
illegal withdrawal Of more than $780,
900 worth of liquor from bonded ware
houses.
Ne Andrews, determined to check
the flow Of liquor at it's source, is
travelling through Vermont on the way
to the Canadian border. There he will
confer with his field men regarding the
flow of contraband liquor over the in
ternational boundary. 1t is expected
that he will be aided in this work Sby
the ratification yesterday ff four
treaties between the United ates and
Canada, one of which deals With SNUG
Cling.
Today's Toronto Globe says that run
runners operating out of Port Colborne
on Lake Ontario will be fired on by
American rum chasers if they attempt
TO escape into American 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
hibiton Commissioner Haynes describ-
ed plans for big shakeup of his forces
All agents to be discharged but
some will be reappointed. The entire
dry organization will be re-distributeG
in unfamiliar territory, including, pre-
sumably Izzy Einstein, picturesque New
York raider, who has operated under
many disguises.
The association against the prohibi
tion amendment has addressed a lettel
to Comptroller General McCarl re
questing him to withhold the salary O.
Commissioner Haynes until the treas
urv has recovered about Sll,250 paid t
Miss Georgia Hopeley
The association charged that Mis-
Hopeley, who recently resigned, had
been employed as a prohibition office
but had assigned to touring the countr.
lecturing on prohibition.
Three rum ships driven off New Eng
lands rum row by the recent dry block
ade have returned with fresh supplies
and four destroyers supplemented by
flotilla of smaller craft have swung int
action. The latest arrivals are far a
sea off the north shore of Massachu
setts. a considerable distance from tn
summer White House.