The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-03
UNITED STATES
CANADA LIQUOR
ILLS UNSOiVED
approximately Two Million
Dollars Worth of Rum Snug.
gled Each Month
HIGH SEAS ENTRY LITTLE
Criminal Prohibition Cases In.
crease $4,000, Mrs. Willie.
brandt Says

;. Washington, Dec. 3.-(AP)-Thc
tight against the smuggling of IL
auor from Canada into the United
States which has been a major prob
lem Of the prohibition enforcement
authorities during the past year was
declared to be still unsolved in the
annual report of the Department of
Justice transmitted today to Con-
gress by Attorney General Sargent.
The Canadian situation was dealt
with by Mrs. Mabel Walker WILLIE
brandt. assistant attorney general
in charge of prohibition enforce
ment, whose report was incorporat-
ed in the Attorney Generals report.
She said that, while the federal au-
thorities were successfully combat
ing the illegal entry of liquor from
INC nigh seas. approximately $2,OOO,-
QUO worth of liquor a month was
smuggled across the Canadian bor-
der.
Mrs. Willebrandt quoted statistics
issued by the Department Of Trade
and Commerce Of Canada which She
declared showed that there were
l,l69,0O2 gallons Of whiskey alone,
valued at $1S,883,541, exported to
the United States in 1928.
Vets Spend $24,397,958
These figures given, cover the ex-
portations Of whiskey only" Mrs.
Willebrandt said, "and the same rec
ords show that the total of all al
coholic beverages exported to the
United States from Canada during
the year ending June 80. 1928.
amounted to 24,397 1858. As OBJ
served heretofore these records show
only the liquor which was regularly
cleared through Canadian customs.
Some Of t may be short circuited
Tor consumption in Canada. On the
other hand, it is believed q substan-
't!al amount OF liquor enters the
United States across the Northern
border of which the Canadian Gus
toms has no record"
Mrs. Willebrandt said that the
1!gures showed that the volume Of
the illegal traffic had increased
more than Is per cent in three
years.
In explaining the decrease of
smuggling from the high seas the
woman assistant attorney general
said that effective work by coast
guard, prohibition and Treasury
Department forces had decreased
the number of vessels lowering off
the coast to furnish liquor to fast
craft which would dash to safety of
secluded spots to unload. The num-
Der of vessels Of this sort seized,
she added, haG decreased from 81 in
1927 to % in 1928 and in the last
year 28 such vessels had been for
felted to the government.
80 Ships Seized
In 1928 total of $40 domestic
craft were seized as rum runners,
Mrs. Willebrandt continued. and Of
that number ia or AZ per cent were
captured off the coast of Florida
with cargoes for the most part d.
rectly from the Bahama Islands.
During the year Mrs. Willebrandt
reported, there was an increase of
5000 in the number of criminal
prohibition cases instituted by the
department, bringing the total for
the year to .55,7 ,7c9. OF these she said
the department secured 1926 con-
victions, with Jail sentences totaling
100 years and fines, penalties and
forfeltures aggregating $7,303, 1868.
There were 81 convictions for each
acquittal, she added.
Use OF injunction under the pad
lock provisions of the Volstead act
was freely used by the department in
the last year. There were . total Of
S,999 ornament injunctions granted
under this provision.
Attorney General Sargent espe-
cially urged congress to consolidate
I'll legal offic IS under the depart
ment Of .-stice, reiterating his
recommendation Of Z year ago that
proceedings to remove persons
charged with violations Of the fed
eral law from one district to another,
Be simplified.
More District Judges
The attorney general also trans
mltted the report of the conference
OF district judges in which congress
was urged to increase the number
Of district judges in the southern
district Of lew York by three and in
the eastern district Of New York
BY two. The report said that the
condition Of the dockets in Brooklyn
and New York cannot be bettered
unless such action is taken.
The conference likewise recon-
mended IN additional district Judge
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