Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-14 | Page 18 | Rum Row Ships Move to South

RUM ROW RO SHIPS MOVE TO SOUTH r Firmly irmY Established I Off Florida Coast r- r ATLANTA ATLANTA LANTA Ga Oct 14 By the ther Au Associated Press Rum Rum row that 1 r tT mart for Illicit trade IQ lA I f forbidden beverages Is now more or or less Jus firmly established In southern south south- ern un Present activities there are so 50 extensive It tt Is believed the I trade includes most of those former oi operators who managed to escape k tho sl rout coast guardsmen's I campaign to break up flourishing business of or New York Boston and andI I h Atlantic City shores runners Rum have havo accepted literally liter ally the admonition of ot Colonel Luke Lukel l Lea Ifa ea of ot Tennessee to Come south fellow paraphrased from lip t lee ce Gre Greely's Greely lys ly's s famous advice to young oung men he of And they have come fleets come fleets them tem l em Many Inny have been lured to 1 b by tales of fabulous riches and of an nn orgy of spending by win wIn- winter wInter ter tourists Others have been to Florida by Uncle Sams Sam's In- In enso emio efforts in to other southern wa wa- M ers era t Three branches of Americas America's com com- t service are represented In Flor Flor- daby Colonel B. B I. I Simmons re retired rc- rc 11 tired red army officer state prohibition prohibition prohibition tion administrator Commander P. P F F. retired navy officer r his assistant and Captain John G. G Karry active I commander of the coast guard forces Colonel Simmons has set up headQuarters headquarters head head- quarters at Tampa with branch offices office's of of- Cle fice's is at Miami Jacksonville and Pensacola I Key ey West Nest est Is headquarters for the coast guar guard Commander Hambsch has discovered i ere ered that a n. gigantic English rum- rum rumi i running syndicate Is 19 operating in I Florida waters In the syndicates syndicate's fk edt t are ships carrying cargoes of to cases valued at I and retailed In Florida for I There are seven vessels I six six schooners and a converted w- w t in In ln th the g 4 fe fleet t. t which n. n keeps Its I w- w g 4 n. n keeps supplies replenished by fast motor beats capable of outdistancing any Jr ft in the coast const guard service r r ere Tt ere was a time when Jacksonville Jack Jack- sonY sonville lie and vicinity were favorite taunts haunts for tor the smugglers but these n now now v i have transferred to Miami Tampa and Key West Nest y In Norfolk the blockade has been made nude effective With many ships coming in dally from foreign ports considerable rum is landed in small quantities but there is nothing to Indicate any wholesale deliveries The story is virtually the same nt at other Atlantic coast points down t fl l Savannah where a big rum ring was uncovered a short time ago Six ps were confiscated and seven B iT rs iF leaders sent to too the federal p iten