New Britain herald., 1929-06-19

Washington. June 19 UP)-Cn- detsrred by protests growing out of killings incident to prohibition en- forcement. the administration con- tinued today to struggle with the problem of choking off the flow of liquor from Canada.
 President Hoover was expected to reply today to city officials of Inter- national Falls, Minn., who protested against the tactics of federal cus- toms agents which resulted in the killing of Henry Virkula.
 Expects Aid From Cities
 He already has indicated, how ever. that he expects border com- munities to stand behind the fed eral government in it's effort to sup press international liquor smugsleIs Assistant Secretary of Treasury Low man has reports which he says indi- cate an unprecedented concentration of rum smugglers on the Canadian border. Federal agents are to be used at strategic places, he said, as soon as the situation at Detroit im- proves to permit the release of agents mobilized there.
 Tho presidents law enforcement commission is completing organiza- tion and expects about October to begin public hearings at which gov ernment officials and crime special ists will present their views, Chair man Wickersham has announced. He said that no plans have been made to send investigators to Detroit, h. ternational Falls or other places where there have been special diff culties as the commission is inter- ested in the general problem and not in specific instances.
 No Official Notice of Killings
 It was made plain that that the commission will take no official notice for the present of the various enforcement shooting and protests growing out of them.
 In Wisconsin a new problem has been raised by the introduction in state senate of a proposed amend ment to the state constitution to per- init the state to manufacture and sell intoxicating liquor. State Senator Gettelman, author of the resolution, believes 1t will be permissible. He does not think the eighteenth amend ment applies to the states as such.
 Prohibition officials here attach To importance to the proposal. They feel certain it cannot stand the test of the courta Prohibition Commits sioner Doran said the United States supreme court. in the Rhode Island case. had held that the eighteenth amendment applies alike to all legis- latur9s, courts and citizens. The same view was held at the depart ment of justice.
 State Expected to Prosecute
 It appeared today that the prose- cution in the Virkula case would be left in the hands of the state of Minnesota rather than a federal court. The county attorney at h. ternational Falls was proceeding to- day with preparations for a state trial. He expects that Emmett J. White. border dry enforcer, charged with the shooting, will waive pre- limtnary examination when ar- raigned July ?.
 Unable to make any headway with his John Doc inquiry into the fatal shooting of Arthur Gordon, boy bootlegeer. near Mooers, N. r.. by two customs men a few days ago. District Attorney B. Loyal O'Con- nell has adjourned his inquiry until Monday.
 O'Connell has been unable to ob- tain report of the shooting from federal authorities or to obtain the presence of the four customs men said to be present when Gordon was shot.
 A report on a new prohibition in- cident with international aspects,- the firing by United States coast guardsmen on a speedboat contain ing . Canadian woman and two American men in Canadian waters,- was expected to be in the hands of Canadian officials at Ottawa tody. The chief of police in Windsor, Canada. forwarded the report yes-