Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-21
BY NORMAN KLEIN.

1Ve-got-you-Jack Dalton variety, thu
border patrols daily reports make tn,
Canadian Northwest Mounted Polio,
look like bunch Of Broadway choru.
boys.
Only, instead of 1--WE got you, Jacl
Dalton" the border patrol man is more
likely to say, I've got you, Lung Sing,
or I've got you Stephen Wojcieschow.
SKI, or I've got you, Pheidippides Pap.
paconstantinou."
Refugees from the poverty -embitterec
provinces of Europe and the Far East
at least 100000 of them-have sue
cessfully slipped across the American
borders and are now lodging de-
portation
Their kinsmen today are streaming
toward these same borders. 1t is the
duty of the TAT men of the border
patrol, pitifully small band, protect
ing this beleaguered land, to apprehend
the aliens crossing the $3.50 miles OF
Canadian border and the l,744 miles
along the Mexican line.
Jobs Crowded With Adventure.
The job is crowded with blood and
thunder adventure.
Six border patrol men have been
murdered. Others have engaged in run
ming gun fights with the smugglerS.
! All must endure night watch on lonely
beats in mountains and deserts, in
frozen marshes and Sweltering semi
tropics, trailing struggled aliens, regard
less of the threat Of ambush at the next
turn of the trail.
Patrol Guard Charles Gardiner
watching a mountain pass in the South
west, encountered a suspicious character
with a burro load that proved to be
liquor, not aliens. Although the men of
the patrols daily face the worst breeds
OF border outlaws they are under orders
not to shoot except in self-defense.
AS Gardiner stopped the man with
the burro another smuggler shot him
from behind some sagebrush. Gardiner,
one of the bravest of the Mexican
border guardsmen, had been threatened
often with death for his activity against
the smuggler Syndicates.
This time they got him.
Although fatally wounded, Gardiner
drew his revolver and killed the decoy
smuggler, and killed the burro It was
the only way he had to leave evidence
behind for his fellows.
Slouching weakly on his horse he
rode mile and half toward a ranch
house. Forced to diSmount to open a
wire fence, Gardiner slumped to the
ground, weak from loss of blood. He
then crawled to the house. There was
nobody at home. When the ranchman
returned he found Gardiner dead.
Guardsman Run Down, Killed.
The rancher back-trailed along the
route Gardiner had come, found the
dead smuggler and the burro. He in
formed other patrols, and they obtained
lfYal AaaI I,
notorious gang.
A few nights before this murder of a
patrol man. another guard on the road
leading north from Tia Juana saw q
motor car approaching.
He had been tipped of that this car
had left Tia Juana with half dozen
smuggled Italians aboard. He stepped
in the road, waved the driver, but the
smugglers ran him down, killing him.
So yigilant have the border patrol
men become that Sn1ugglers' rings work.
ing In Florida waters have been COM
PEELED to resort to roundabout tactics.
On February the Jacksonville, Fla,
immigration authorities announced that
they had broken up ring which had
made fortune smuggling aliens into
Florida from Porto Rico, Haiti and
Santo Domingo.
Nineteen aliens were seized on boat
making a night landing at Tampa and
swiftly l6 others were apprehended In
Porto Rico as they were about to sail to
the United States.
The owner of costly yacht. the
yacht and its skipper also were taken in
custody. On the same day, in New
York, immigration officials were pre-
pairing to deport IA aliens, men and
women, who had entered the country
Illegally.
"As soon as we catch a bunch of
them, three times as many sneak across
the line" complained an immigration
man. ''It's like stopping the Mississippi
Hood with sponge"
Aliens Deserted in Deserts.
The worst type of alien smugglers
tormenting the patrol flourish on the
Rio Grande border. They induce aliens
from Europe to pay them $3.50 to 81, coo
and frequently desert the bewildered
aliens in some empty mountain canyon
in Sonora, or else lead their charges into
the Shallow Rio Grande and there con-
front them with revolvers and take away
all the money the aliens still possess
Since much of this territory on the
border, in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico
and California is desert waste, or un-
ending miles of lonely ranch country, OF
mountainous, the alien smugglers easily
can defy the small numbers of border
patrol guards.
Nevertheless, the patrol men, working
in pairS-for one must follow the trail
while his mate travels on the alert
watching for the enemy in ambush
manage to trail the smugglers through
the Arizona hills and New Mexican
desert.
Sometimes their peasant captives are
sent to prison, sometimes they are de.
ported
Last year the patrol captured 1905
smuggled aliens, 800 smugglers, patrollec
over 100000 miles, questioned l,345,
600 border travellers.
In another year the border patro
captured 10000 smuggled aliens, caugh
300 Smugglers of aliens and patrollec
100000 miles by rail, foot, motto
cycle, horse, airplane, dog sled and boat
They also turned back LAT aliens ans
handed over more than 1900 men ant
women for investigation.
Lonely Trails Guarded.
Often the best chance to catch thes
alien undesirables being led into tn
United States by smugglers' agents a
a price of $3.50 to 81 900 head, is b.
patrolling lonly border territory afoot
watching the trails, spending nights a
fords and in mountain passes. In on
year these guardsmen covered almos
400 miles by walking.
The border patrol was organized fol
lowing the passage of the immigration
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