Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-18
HOOVER APPEALS
TO BORDER TOWNS
TO AID DRY DRIVE
President BIameS Enforce
ment Troubles on Interna-
tionaI Criminals War.
FIRING ON BOAT LAID
TO u. S. COAST GUARD
Slayer of Youth Is Guarded From
Mob; 8 Rum Runners Seized; State
Can Try White, Lawyer Says.
Py the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Hoover today called upon
the communities along the Canadian
border to help the Treasury to prevent
the systematic war being waged by
international criminals against the laws
of this country.
Mr.. Hoover expressed the opinion
that all the trouble encountered in the
enforcement of the law along the bor-
der was due to mechanism of GRIM
tnals who were trying to violate the
law.
Hoover Deplores Killing.
SCI deeply deplore the killing of any
persons" the President said. The
Treasury is making a constant effort
to prevent the misuse of firearms. l
hope communities along the border will
help the Treasury to prevent the sys-
tematic war being carried on by in
ternational criminals, which, believe,
is the root of all our troubles.
The Presidents statement was in
answer to questions submitted by press
correspondents about the killing OF
three persons by customs border patrols.
Treasury Shifts to Meet Rings.
Confidential reports to Washington
were said today by Assistant Secretary
Lowman to have disclosed an unpre-
eedented mobilization of smugglers along
the Canadian border and he declared
the Treasury had shifted It's men TO
meet the situation.
This development today was the
latest in a series of events which nave
focused attention on prohibition en-
forcement and aroused vets in Con-
gresS to a denunciation of the activl-
ties of Federal agents in enforcement
of the statute.
Iowman disclosed the Virkkula case
at International Falls, MINI, had re-
suited in receipt of $50 communications,
among them the one from citizens OF
that city to President Hovoer protest.
ing the shooting Some of the COM
munications condemned while others
i'm ed, he said, the action of the
Gt ment agents.
over Has Not Asked Report.
LcWman said President Hoover had
not asked for a report on the Virkkula
case nor for any report concerning
smuggling or prohibition enforcemenJ.
He added he had not conferred with
the Chief Executive on the question.
The Assistant SecTetary's announce
naent on the concentration of agents on
the Canadian line read:
Confidential reports of our agents
show an unprecedented number of boot
leggers and smugglers gathered along
the Canadian side of the border from
Vancouver to the Atlantic seaboard pre-
pared to run liquor into the United
States. We have strengthened our
forces all along the border in prepara-
ton to meet this situation"
Commissioner Doran of the Prohtbi-
ton Bureau, meanwhile, took cognlzance
of utteranccs in Congress by Represent
ative Clancy, Republican, Michigan, on
the recent Detroit shooting that a
threat had been made to cut OF the
heads of officials in Detroit who did not
agree to follow his policy in prohibition
enforcement.
"The statement is entirely erroneous"
Doran said. 81 not only never have
transmitted such orders, but could
not issue such orders to the border pa
troll, as it is under the jurisdiction OF
the Customs Bureau and not under the
Prohibition Bureau. Prohibition agents
have nothing to do with controlling the
border. Mr.. Clancy was mistaken in
what he said about the Prohibition
Bureau and was misinformed IN his
facts"
Commissioner Doran also said that
''there is too much beer of illegal al
coholic content being sold in the AL
bany. N. Y, district to suit me and
because of this / am not satisfied with
conditions there"
Doran said Palmer Garfield, admins
traitor for the Northern New York dis
trict, was summoned to Washington be-
cause reports of special agents showed
unsatisfactory conditions in that area.
''I am checking up with Mr.. Garfield
and going over the entire situation" he
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