Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-17
BELIEVED
DRY TEST CITY
Auto Metropolis Presents All
Prohibition Problems
Confronting U. S.
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present included Seymour Lownan, AS
Sistant Secretary of the Treasury, in
charge of prohibition enforcement; DR..
James M. Doran, national prohibition
commissioner; Bernard Wait, chief of
special customs agents, Thomas E.
Stone, Michigan prohibition administra-
tor, and Capt. Martin w. Rasmussen in
charge OF this Coast Guard district.
The battle ground studied by these
chiefs is 100 miles of border, extending
from point above Port Huron on Lake
Huron to Lake Erie with the ST. Claire
River, Lake st. Clair and the Detroit
River intervening.
1t was decided that there should be an
immediate increase in the dry army's
three units, the prohibition, customs and
Coast Guard branches. Mr.. Lowman
stated he had ordered every customs
officer who could be spared to report
for duty at Detroit. Several hundred
additional men we're available and will
be modified here, he said.
More Autos and Boats.
More automobiles, the Treasury's pro-
hibition chief said would be supplied to
take the army of enforcement agents
at Detroit. as well as more speed boats
and cutters. Mr. Lowman has ordered
Capt. Rasmussen, whose headquarters
are at Buffalo, to send 81 more patrol
boats to the west end of Lake Erie and
to the Detroit River to augment the
land forces.
Ten Of these boats are fast 75-footers.
whose normal compliments are eight
men and rapid-fire gun each. The
other IT are patrol vessels carrying six
men and a rapid-fire gun each.
Just what proportion of the dry
forces OF the Government is to be in
cluded in the Detroit concentration the
Federal official refused to reveal. An
estimate may be afforded by the num-
Der of customs border patrol agents
used in Detroit in a drive a year ago
Testifying in Washington before the
House appropriations committee, E. w
Camp. commissioner of customs, and
DR.. Doran revealed that "a per cent
OF the entire customs border patrol was
then stationed at Detroit, or nearly -four
times the number of men stationed al
any other point. Twenty-seven pei
cent of the total funds allowed for the
patrol was ordered to be spent in the
Detroit district. Thirty-nine per cent
of all the automobiles and 81 per cent
OF all the boats operated by the patro
were in the Detroit district.
Exports Of Liquor Heavy.
Despite that concentration OF veal
ago, 1t was stated by Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt, former Assistant Attorney
Teneral in charge of prohibition en-.
| Iurcement. In her report to the Attor-
ney General, submitted to Congress last
December. 1,l69,002 gallons of whisky
| alone. valued at $18,883,54l, we're ex.
ported from Canada to the United
States in 1928.
Her authority for the figures was
statistics issued by the department OF
trade and commerce of Canada.
These figures cover the expectation
of whisky only" Mrs. Willebrandt said
and the same records show that the
total Of all alcoholic beverages exported
to the United States from Canada dur.
ing the year ending June 80, 1928
| amounted to $24, 1897, 956."
Mrs. Willebrandt added that It wa:
believed Substantial amount oil
liquor enters the United States across
the northern border Of which the Can
adam customs has no record"
The total given by observers here is
| $35, 0o0, 900.
(Copyright, 1879, North American Newspaper
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