Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-20 | Page 29 | Radio Newest Enemy Facing Rum Runners

Radio Newest Enemy Facing Rum Runners BUFFALO United Press Radio Is being used by the Buffalo coast guard fleet ill in the latest offensive ot- ot against rum runners run on border waters Powerful radio transmitting and receivIng sets have ha been Installed on fifteen of the seventy foot coast guard boats that call Buffalo the home port and have ave been sent out through Lake Erie and Ontario to traCk down the contraband smug smug- The ships will be In constant communication with strategic coastguard coast coastguard guard poInts along the American border The ships equIpped with radio will patrol the lanes most frequented frequent frequent- fl ed by the smugglers who dare dar the elements and the coast guard bul lots lets to keep Americans supplied with wet goods The patrol boats wm radio to home stations on sIghting rum ruin runners and the smaller anti and speedier cutters at these stations will then be disPatched dispatched dis- dis Patched in nn an effort eUort to corner the wet goods B t according to rUmOrs here her the bootleggers refuted reu ed to b be topped stopped The rumors have It that they Intend to match radio with radio MAY REFUSE PERMITS An InaccessIble point m an the Canadian Canadian Ca- Ca nadian shore has been be n tentatively selected as a site for an interference interference ence station it Is rumored Flow lIow- A 1 eV ever r. r the technical detail still remain re- re main to be ironed out Then too there Is 11 the question ot of the dominion dominion domin- domin ion radIo permit hermit and it Is more than likely that the government of- of i will frown upon any such I project of the Interference typo ot of I station I Provided n a permIt Is obtained to operate an n interference station the station may be able to drown out aU all messages sent by the rum chasers chasers chas chas- ers to shore points Tl The e coastguard coast guard sets will carry only mlles miles even when reception Is at Its lest However the building of ouch a station by a s syndicate of rum runnels run run- nets nels is extremely unlikely and It begins to look as if they will have to chance their shipments across to the American side the same sam as heretofore INCREASES DIFFICULTIES If they do do the their r chances chanc s of of landIng landing land land- Ing contraband are a great deal less than formerlY with the new system put Into effect by the coast guard Instead of escaping one patrol boat the rum runners will be forced torun to torun run a t. t blockade of a a. number ot of boats due to the fact that n a radio message can be flashed to other boats to come to the tho scene and help helpIn In the locating ot of a rum runner Americans who thirst for cool Canadian Canadian Ca- Ca nadian ale labeled 9 per cent will find that the new system will affect af- af affect them In the nature of increased retail prices Liquor runners of course wIll be beat beat at a 3 disadvantage In ht that they will not be able to listen in on the broadcasting of rum ruin running news which Is done ov over r low wave wa length sets The coast guard employs s 's a code that is not known to the rum running gentry