Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26

The three officers returned two and q half
days after leaving their base, and in a period
of SIS hours during which they had four hours
sleep, they had covered 400 miles and appre-
hended 80 aliens and two smugglers. Those in
the wagons had gone about 240 miles through
the desert. they told their captors, and bad
spent nine days on the road.
NOTORIOUS as very popular point Of entry
for rum-running craft. Florida represents
also the land Of opportunity to hundreds Of
aliens waiting in Cuba and the Bahamas 70
crash the gates. It is estimated that at one
time many as 100000 were in Cuba alone
waiting to be struggled in.
Activities Of the Border Patrol have made
inroads into the business" during recent years,
and rltes have correspondngly scared as high
as $500. Aliens, incidentally, pay prices rang
ing from SIS TO $1,000 to be struggled in, de-
pending on the job and on their ability to pay.
Victims Of lawless men, frequently engaged
In the liquor trafic as a main '1ine," many
OF these alien men and women have played
roles Of dramatic tragedy. Twenty were found
on a small island of the coast where they had
been dumped by the crew of q rum-running
craft after paying the high rates exacted.
They had been told that they were on the
Florida shore, and when rescued were In a
deplorable state In gratitude to the American
officers one Of the women In the group, who
had been taken to a hospital upon reaching
the mainland, went the rounds with an oficer
for a week, pointing out boats and individuals
engaged in alien running.
The runner seldom loses when his ships hold
conceals human contraband More than once
evidence has been destroyed by dumping the
aliens overheard. Nine died like rats when q
boat was fumigated, because the sailors re-
sponsible were afraid to tell that they were
aboard. Patrolmen found seven unconscious
Cinnamon hidden under the coal In . boat That
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had been buried at sea.
On the northern border, smuggling centers
are at Detroit, Buffalo and Seattle, but the
TOW Is felt at all points, particularly where
there are farms to serve as stations for the
underground railroad" or towns where an
alien can hide in the foreign sections Auto
mobiles, motorboats on the Great Lakes and
on the Detroit, ST. Clair and ST. Lawrence
Rivers bring them in.
Into New England, over the international
highways. down as far as Worcester, Mass,
and Burlington, vt, come aliens in public cars,
operated by rings-a regulation taxdcab ad-
vance. Omcers watch the roads and trails
and know every inch Of them. They pick
aliens from the head ends of locomotive
engines at night, out of the "dogholeS" on top,
from behind the water and coal tanks and cut
Of the blind baggage" They take them from
box cars and refrigerator cars, scrambling all
over incoming trains. Nine out Of ten are
caught, but still they come.
AT Detroit and Buffalo the patrol officers
face difhcult situation, because smuggling Is
by fast motorboatS which make landings ut
isolated points along the great sweep Of lake
and river shore. Without boats. the inspectors
try to catch the alien runner on foot q most
eacklsh proposition. However, their ears have
become attuned to the put-put Of smuggling
craft snd telescopes come IN handy, too.
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