Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 272, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1929 — Page 5

APRIL 3, 1929-

DRY OFFICIALS MAP OFFENSIVE ON ROM RINGS Hire More Men for Border Patrols to Stop Smuggling. B’i Time* fipcciol WASHING i ON. April 3.—Government officials today completed plans tor increasing prohibition enforcement torces and starting anew offensive against organized smug gling rings which have been bringing in liquor from Canada and Mexico and on the Florida coast. Prohibition Commissioner James M Doran said that hiring of 270 agents and one hundred special investigators wtih the $1,710,000 adrfi tional funds voted for by congress has already commenced. “The new agents will be pul on just as soon as the administrators In the various districts submit their recommendations,’’ Doran said following an inspection trip in Pennsylvania. Ohio and Indiana. Some fifty-five or sixty new agents and Investigators v ill be added in these three states. Customs officials have completed plans for assigning 203 more men to the special border patrol which is operating against smugglers of narcotics, silks, jewelry and other dutiable articles, as well as of liquor. “Effective July 1 the customs service will have $700,000 additional, which will enable the border patrol force to be increased to more than 700 men.” Frank Dow. assistant customs commissioner, said today. Dow said that about 130 of the new agents would be assigned to duty along the Canadian border,

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Pretzel Luck Pi I niti ft Pm* SANDUSKY, O. April 3 Edward Sprau, local grocer, has good reason to believe he was born under a lucky star. For years Sprau wore a valuable diamond ring. One day he noticed it was gone from his finger. All efforts to recover the ring were futile. Sprau's son, Edjvin, called on his girl friend one night. The young lady's mother passed a bag of pretzels around the guests. One of the girls present put her hand in the bag for a pretzel, but withdrew a diamond ring instead. It belonged to the eider Sprau.

about forty to the Mexican border and the remainder to Florida. Special attention will be given to attempting to stop the flood of liquor coming in through Detroit from Canada. Forty of the new agents will be assigned to Detroit alone. 17,000,000 GALLONS TO FEED GAS HORSES Estimate of Aut-o Fuel for' Year Made by Scientist. Hu Unit> it Pr--a HARRISBURG, Pa.. April 3.—lt will require 17,000.000,000 gallons of asoline and 400,000,000 gallons of oil to feed the 750 million “horses” tied up in the 25,000,000 automobiles in operation in the United States during 1929. This estimate was made by Dr. Gustav Egloff, chief technologist of the Oil Products Company of Chicago, while attending the Pennsylvania Independent Oil Men's Association here. Egloff pointed out that the average automobile is only 20 per cent efficient in fuel consumption and that approximately 80 per cent of all its fuel is wasted.

REPORT ON RUM SHIP Coast Guard Upheld in I’m Alone Sinking Affair. Ru Unitrit Prrns WASHINGTON, April 3.—The department of justice report on the sinking of the Canadian rum smuggler I'm Alone by the United States coast guard was on Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson's desk today. The justice investigation substantially supports the report of the incident supplied by the coast guard and which was transmitted to Canadian authorities. Washington expects Canada to make the next move in the case.

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