Show ii Rum Bo Boat Retreats Under I Heavy Coast Guard Fire I MILWAUKEE WS' WS APril April 20 AP The AP-The The federal coast guard again has said It with bullets In its activities against rum ruin runners on the Great Lakes Rifle and pistol fire Ire from a federal federal fed ted eral cutter chased a mystery motorboat motorboat mo- mo supposedly laden with cases of liquor from Milwaukee harbor late yesterday It was the second time the Milwaukee coast coastguard coastguard coastguard guard had fired tired on rum rUnners I while similar tactics recently were I used by government agents at Cleveland and Buffalo N. N Y V MANY SHOTS Two shots from a n high powered rifle were vere fired from the bow of the cutter and the six coast guardsmen guards guards- men who manned the craft sent fifty pistol bullets att after r the fugitive tug fug tire tive boat which sped to the north Much speedier than the cutter the boat easily shook oft off pursuit and did not return the fire After Arter returning to the harbor Captain William Kincaid of the coast guard declared War ar against smugglers who attempt to to unload cargoes here We Ve are prepared to fight right he said and we will shoot it out with liquor runners The Invading craft a white forty foot gasoline launch equipped with powerful motors first made its appearance north of or the harbor In the late afternoon Apparently the tho boat WAS at at- at tempting to make a landing on the rocky shore Through glasses from the coast guard station it could be seen that it Jt was loaded with mn many momy boxes Five men men moved bout on It They worked their way landWard landward landward land land- ward slowly and when it appeared that they were to make mak a sate safe landing Captain Kincaid and six coast guards set sot out The cutter able to tc develop a speed of ot thirty knots an hour was within a mile and a a. quarter of ot the vessel when th the the- themen men on the l launch decided to run away HAD NO EFFECT The co cost st guardsmen n n brought their weapons Into pla play but apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap without effect Last autumn a a. c coast ast guard cutter cutter cutter cut cut- ter crew opened fire with pistols on a a. craft which was loaded high with boxes apparently filled with liquor The craft turned out into the lake lalee and outdistanced the coast coastguardsmen guardsmen The rum running activities along the Wisconsin shore during the win winter ter months have kept kepf the coastguard coast coastguard guard on t th the alert lert Only a few rew weeks ago rw m m runner under the ago of ot W ss ss succeeded I in landing 8 at Shorewood a fashionable i U si waukee suburb The coast guardsmen set et out for tor forthe forthe the landing place in an aU automobile arriving a few moments after a truck heavily laden with liquor had sped Aped away |