Prohibition Director Says
Law Getting Upper Hand
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(Bv Associated Pi'ess)
SAN FRANCISCO. Mar. 16.—The
United States will be one vast Sarah
so far as liquor is concerned, within
ten years, because of the maritime
activities of Uncle Sam’s ruin-chas
ing fleet, is the optimistic prediction
of Samuel F. Rutter, federal prohi
bition director for the state of Cal
ifornia.
Rutter predicted that with rum
chasers aldeay in use, building or
projected, the Atlantic and Pacfic
coasts would iu a comparatively
short time become almost impassa
ble barriers to the smuggler with a
case ol liquor, and that with plans
now going forward for policing the
Mexican and Canadian international
borders, there will be no way for
smugglers to operate on land.
“But we’re not afraid of working
ourselves out ol' our jobs by the
plans we are carrying through to
completion, now,” he said. “I be
lieve that prohibition must be en
forced until a generation now per
haps in the making is willing to
drink water or something else the
law does not prohibit.”
The laison between the prohibi
tion officer on land and the coast
guardsman afloat, now being devel
oped to a point where 100 per cent
efficiency can be confidently pre
dicted, is the answer to the smug
gler. Despite the popular approval
of the liquor men’s methods, which
takes the form of fictitious tips giv
en the law officers and “aid and
comfort” to the smuggler, prohibi
iton is destined to win. Rutter be
lieves.
Prevention of smuggling on the
Pacific coast will be borne by a
fleet of 100 fast chasers, twenty-five
of which will be ready for service
July 1. They will be assigned to
ports along the coast and their
range of duty will be as much water
as they can cover. This fleet of 100
guard cutters and other craft which
may be assigned to the service from
time to time.
In combatting the rum runner,
Rutter points out, it has been nec
essary for the government to build
boats as seaworthy land as swift as
those which the runners operate and
to procure when possible, seaman of
ability equal to the “enemy.” The
runners use small craft of the best
type capable of high speed, able to
cruise well out to sea and take off
contraband for shore landing. The
elaborate system they use is being
met with one just as elaborate by
the coast guard.
One disadvantage suffered by the
coast guard is that its cutters must
comply with all maritime regula
tions, carry lights and all the rest
of it, while runners calmly operate
without regard for other craft and
even cigarettes are lighted below
decks. Sailors chosen by the run
ners are paid what they demand,
which is a good figure, and the
best men obtainable are secured for
the work, Rutter has learned.
Recent successes of the coast
guard, such as the capture of the
rum ships Quadra and Coal Harbor,
the idleness enforced upon the Stad
acona, another Canadian rum ship,
which was held off rum row for
weeks until her fuel was exhausted,
and the capture of the Peseawha,
off the Washington coast, are point
ed to by Rutter as indications 01
what an augmented coast guard fleet
can do, and straws to show which
way the wind is blowing. That
much liquor still is being landed
prohibition officers do not deny, dul
they assert that it is nowhere near
tile Quantity runners formerly con
veyed to land..
Reorganization of land forces in
California, market for the majority
of liquor brought front Canada and
Mexico, has aided sea enforcement in
driving dependable whisky from the
local market and increasing the activ
ities of still operators, who are suf
fering from the drive recently started
by Charles Goff, and W. W. Anderson,
heads of the eighteenth and nineteenth
enforcement divisions.
Captain August Anderson, of the
coast guard, recently summed up the
situation, when he said that runners
and hijackers are inspired by greed
and that only a combination of forces
and attention to duty on the part oi
law officers could match and outweigh
that unlawful inspiration.
THREE BOYS TAKEN
AS STORE ROBBERS;
OTHERS ARE SOUGHT
BELLINGHAM, Wn„ Mar. 16.—
Three boys, ages 10, 11 and 14. were
taken into custody by Chief of Pol
ice Nick Rust, this morning as a
result of an investigation that brot
their admission of guilt in the rob
bery Sunday evening of the Outdoor
store, and the implication of three
other youngsters who will be taken
into custody by police sometime this
afternoon.
Some of the boys, according to
Chief Rust, have cleared, themselves
of the charge of burglary. Practical
ly all of the articles stolen from the
store, which included pocket knives,
hunting knives, flashlight and a pair
of field glasses, have been recovered.
The boys said they entered the
store through a rear window high
on the wall of the building by lean
ing a board against the wall.
SHERIFF CLEARED ON CHARGE
OF MISTREATING PRISONER
SEATTLE, Wn„ Mar. 16.—From
the bench in superior court here
today John T. Donald, the veteran
Judge, told Matt Starwich, sheriff
of King County, that he did just
right in putting John Soudas into
a small, strong cell by himself.
The sheriff, at the instance of
Soudas, who murdered Blanche
Coleman with a knife, broke jail,
was recaptured, was sentenced to
the penitentiary and was pardoned,
was heard by the court yesterday
on a charge of contempt by cruelty.
Soudas is held for trial for jail
breaking. The judge suspended de
cision until today, so that.he could
visit the cell.
“Soudas is getting just what he
deserves,’’ pronounced the court. “If
more young men were punished
there would be fewer in trouble.
I find Soudas’ cell sufficiently ven
tilated and clean enough. It has
light. He should remember that he
is not in a hotel, but in a cell.”
The judge directed the sheriff to
burn two mattresses in the cell,
and the sheriff announced that he
would give Soudas a cot.
HER RING RETURNS
Five years ago Mrs. James Crory
lost a signet ring in a plum thicket
near her home at Syracuse, Neb.
Recently her husband shot several
prairi chickens near the Wyoming
state line, 500 miles distant. In
dressing one Mrs. Crory found a
black, corroded ring which when
cleaned and polished was found to
be the ring she had lost years ago.
The initials were plainly visible.
Troubles are a blessing to some
people. They keep them too busy
to worry about their sins.
RATS EAT $2000 TICKET
A Barcelona laborer, who bought
a ticket in a Spanish lottery, hid
it in a pump. The Ticket was drawn
for a prize of $2,000, but when the
man sought to recover his paste
board he found that rats had torn
it to bits. These small pieces he
carried to the lottery management
and may yet collect the money.
MURDERER MARRIES ON EVE
OF HIS DEATH, THEN LIFE IS
SPARED BY THE GOVERNMENT
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, March 10.
—While the scaffold on which he
was to have been hanged was being
erected in the yard outside Harry
Teterniak, condemned murderer and
father of four children, was married
in his death house cell in the pro
vincial jail at Winnipeg, Canada.
Two hours after the wedding, • the
government decided to spare his
life and commuted his sentence to
life imprisonment.
When Teternick stood beside the
mother of his children while a
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Greek priest performed the marri
age rites he had no hope of escap
ing the hangman’s noose. He could
not keep the tears from his eyes;
he was to die.
He was marrying Sarah Kupek,
with whom he had lived the last
ten years, so she could benefit by
the annuity the government pays
the widows of executed criminals.
During the ceremony, which was
witnessed only by two prison of
ficials, the chanting of the priest
was at times inaudible above the
noise from the hammers of the
scaffold builders.
When the rites were completed
the bride fainted and Teterniak fell
to his knees, weeping and numbltng
incoherent prayers. Then the ham
mering ceased, and the man was
told he was not to be executed.
Why not place the license num
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evidence?
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