The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-26
Greatest Force in Border His.
tory Is on Duty as Big
Push Is Launched
BIGGEST LIQUOR PORT SHUT
Rum Runners Abandon ST. Clair
River for Other Points
Of Entry to y. S.

Windsor, Ont, June 2j.-(F)-
Guns famed again early today
along the upper reaches OF the
Detroit river - rum smugglcrs
cssayed another dash through the
United States blockade.
Heavy firing was reported from
off the foot Of Capon avenue In
windsor, and 1T 5 o'clock this
morning there was . general
movement Of speed craft In tho
East Windsor sector followed by
the intermittent roar Of guns.
The rum runners, ~ far as
could be learned today, did not
engage In battle. The firing cvi-
IDENTIFY was done by American
prohibition enforce ncnt officers
chasing the suspected craft back
into Canadian waters. There
were no known casualties.
Liquor valued In Canada at
$4,000 and in Detroit at $4,000
was seized carly today by the
United States customs patrol,
who intercepted = speedboat at.
tempting to land near the mouth
OF the Clinton river in the Mount
Clemens area, II vas reported.
Windsor, Ont. June 26.-(F)-
tCanadian Press)-Canadian GUS
toms returns for the current
month should show q significant
drop In the exports OF liquor from
the Essex border docks, according
to reports Of the United States
authorities.
Imports at the one .time motor
ious liquor receiving depot of
Ecorse have been cut TO . frac-
tton. according to customs patrols,
while the occasional rum boat on
the American side Of the Detroit
river Is more or less Of an oddity
these nights, they say.
Considerable liquor, however, is
getting through below Ecorse on
the Trenton front. The rum boats
are shooting out from Amherst
burg into the lake and there arc
mot government beats In adequate
AunberS TO stem the tide.
Detroit, June 26.-(NEA)-Th,
'reatest prohibition army and nav,
ver brought together under tn,
American flag have made the ono,
ip-roaring Detroit river into a
and law-abiding a stretcl
I water as the North American con
incnt can show.
The big push" of the prohibition
orces has made the opening of 1t;
q huge success. The run
lers are not coming across at Detroi
low. The Detroit speakeasies arr
losing right and left. The highway
eading out Of the city no longer re-
ound to the roar of big truck train
arrying booze for distant cities.
There's a reason-scvcral reasons
n fact.
500 Agents on Duty
Five hundred prohibition agents o.
ther government forces serving IL
hat capacity are on duty here now.
The coast guard has five of IT
nappy 75-foot cutters. each on'
mounting a ne-pounder rapid-fir'
un, . couple Of machine guns ant
squad Of expert rifle men. It ha'
dozen more cutters on the way here
nd Is building q whole flotilla o.
ligh-speed motor boats for use II
'atrolltng the river.
Thus Detroit, through which Assist
mt Secretar..' Of the Treasury Sey'
nour Lowman once estimated thai
S per cent Of the nations imported
Iquor supply found its entry. is bein(
ried up. The rum runners are mo-
rying to get across.
law, what's ,he use?" remarked ONT
I'VE don't need to take I
nance. Detroit amt the only place
n the United States where they driill
ooze. We can find another market.
Thus. while Detroit is growing
'arched and arid, other cities such Al
'hicago are getting even more Cana
Ian liquor than they got before.
Turn to Unguarded Spots
Chicago's supply, for instance. L
eing brought across the upper enc
( Lake Erie and landed in obscure
owes and inlets on the Michigan
hore north Of Toledo, where heav.
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