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Show DAUGKERTY PUTS AMERICAN SHIPS ON 'W' BASIS Latker and Mellon Take Im-- Im-- mediate Steps to Enforce Ruling of Legal Dept. on Strict Prohibition i BOOZE BARRED IN TERRITORIAL WATERS i Foreign Vessels in U. S. Trade Expected to Fight Decision or Drop Liquor '" Stocks at 3-Mile Limit i j WASHINGTON, Oet. 7 (By A. P.) i Masters of shipping board vsssls i were ordered today by Chairman ' Latker, by direction of th president ) and in aecerdanc with Attorney i 0fral Daughrty's liquor opinion, - to remove and surrsnder to treasury ; department offieiale all intoxicsting i liquors sbosrd such ships. ! ' WASHINGTON. Oct. 7 (By A. P.)--- j The executive branch of the govern -i ment today proceeded to enforcement ( Immediately of th. Inlrj.m... !... f j th prohibition uniendrncnt and the enforcement en-forcement set by the legal branch ns prohibiting the transportation or sale of liquor on American veireels,-wherever operated, and the presmre of liquor on foreign ships within American Ameri-can territorial waters. Acting nn onlfre Issued bv President Presi-dent Harding Immediately after publication pub-lication yesterday of the opinion handed hand-ed down by the department of Justice. Chairman Tjiaker of the shipping board moved to atop the sale or transportation trans-portation of liquor on government ships, while Secretary Mellon proceeded proceed-ed to give due notlc to private owners. th prohibition. as to both to take ef- fore Chairman Voletead'a Judiciary committee, representatives of American Ameri-can shipping lines contended they could not compete wllh foreign vessels, ves-sels, nn which liquor waa enld. Offlcera of the Anttsaloon ldftgu vigorously opposed the measure, declaring de-claring It wua their Intention to extend ex-tend the American drought to th seven sev-en ses. After the hearings the fight for the bill suddenly ended, the explanation being made privately that the "problem "prob-lem had been solved" by th action of the shipping board In atocklng Its ships with th things a thirsty traveler demanded. Immense Cache Taken by Agents NEW YORK. Oct. 7 (By V. P Th e.'rret cellar storehouse of a great International In-ternational JjootlegriIlg htld by- federal authorities today as agente continued an Inventory of a million dollar haul of Illicit liquor. Th cache waa discovered when agents under Federal Zone Chief Appleby Ap-pleby hored through the cellar walls under the Standard Carpet company last night. Of even greater value than the liquor aelsed.eaccordlng to Appleby, Apple-by, la th evident- that may convict men high up In a great rum smuggling plot. Canadian Ports Offer Solution I-ONDON. Oct. 7 (By V. P.) Pending Pend-ing receipt of full Information concern- rect at once, or as soon aa vessels reach home port. The treasury secretary secre-tary also was charged with me formulation formu-lation of regulations for the enforcement enforce-ment aa to foreign shlpa. to begin as aoon as they can be promulgated. FOREIGN MOVE EXPECTED. The next development awaited In th situation, as foreseen by both Attorney Ceneral Daughrrty and Chairman linker, was a move by foreign lines t" secure a final determination In the" ntirts of the application of American dr laws to foreign ships entering American territorial wuirra. In the opinion these were construed to In-ciuoe In-ciuoe waters not only within the three-anile three-anile limit of continental Cnlted States, but also of th Philippines, the Hawaiian Ha-waiian Islands, Porto Klco. the Virgin Islands and Alaska, the Panama canal sone being exempted because of Its specific exemption In th enforcement ststnt Itself. . j With the government already ad- t 'd that U case la shout to h. filed which would bring th Issu aa to foreign ships to th supreme court. Chairman Leaker was of the opinion , thst the foreign lines would first seek j to restrsln enforcement by th law by an Injunction, which he said It was reasonable to suppose th court would grant. Mr. Laaker also expressed the opinion opin-ion that regardless of th decision of the supreme court, .unerkan shlpa would be placed nt a permanent disadvantage, dis-advantage, citing as an lllustrstlon that even though the interpretation a !to foreign ships were upheld It would not prevent their selling liquor up to the three-mile limit, where remaining remain-ing stocks could b dumped overboard. U. 8. SHIPS HAMPERED. The shipping board chnlrman expressed ex-pressed the opinion that tne enforcement enforce-ment would undoubtedly hamper the board's efforts to build up American hipping to the orient and South America. The dlsadvantagfs which he believed would result to the American merchant marine would make more necessary, he said, enactment of the ship subatldy bill if the American flag was to stay on the high seas. There was a sugsestlon today that congress miaht be asked to take up the bill .introduced more than a year aao by Representative Kdmonda of Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, ranking Republican of the house merchant marine committee, which would permit American pas. enger ships engage,! in forergH commerce com-merce to sell liquor beyond the three-mll' three-mll' jmlt- At hearings on the bill be- mK no sweep. na orner or Attorney (general IauKhrty, which bans liquor from foreign ships entering American ports, government officials and shippers ship-pers cautiously refrained from commenting com-menting today. ' Ptinled resentment over the order. howffT, was snsed In Government and shipping circles. There Is possibility that Brttsh ships will drop their cargoes of liquor at Canadian Ca-nadian ports on the way to'the United Htates and then pick the liquor Stores up on the way back. American tourists were shocked by the order of the attorney general. They are speculating on whether the order will become effective at a sufficiently early date to prevent homeward bottle bot-tle toting across the ocean and the usual party before the ahores of dry America are reached. |