Show El ElPaso Paso Center of Booze Fights Fight's I Bloodiest F Front rent in War on Rum j jf I k I v W c 1 f t c 1 1 1 i r 1 r 9 f e eS ec 4 c S S 9 p. p d I Above a liquor smugglers' smugglers outpost along the Rio Grande near El EI Paso The men were engaged in in target practice when the cameraman happened along Below officials flooding the streets of El EI Paso with hundreds hundreds hund hund- reds of barrels of confiscated tequilla a Mexican wine EL PASO Tex Jan 14 By N.E. NE N N. E E. A Service Servi The Servie-The The e-The The northern bank banko o of the Rio Grande has become the battle front of the southwest's rum war It It is the scene of f weekly even daily gun gui fights between between liquor smugglers and government forces Revolutions o s on the other side of the intern inter international l border may Jay come I and go but the booze clashes on the American side go on incessantly inces inces- Inces Twenty one men have been slain and twenty-three twenty wounded in clashes with liquor runners within a few miles of- of ofEl orEl El Paso since the act became effective And these figures do not include some smugglers known to have been killed but whose names never have been recorded officially And how v many more smugglers may have crawled home to die after atter run ins with Uncle Sams Sam's agents agents' is difficult to ascertain ARREST PATRONS I The murder of ot Dave Orr a prohibition prohibition pro pro- agent and Frank Clark immigration inspector within prO prO-I 48 hours has aroused the apathy of ot ofEl ofEl otEl El Paso Paso citizens citizens S' S SA A new cr cry cr Get the man back of ot the bootlegger h has s gone one up Every case case C of smuggled liquor quor is bathed in blood says George GeorgeJ J S. S Harris Hard district supervisor of ot the federal immigration service The man for whose money the smuggler risks his life is as much to blamo as the smuggler himself The responsibility realI really is his Taking this stand the government government govern govern- ment meat has arrested several purchasers ers era of hooch on charges of Ot conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws Hundreds of smugglers are wadIng wadIng wading wad- wad Ing across across- the river dally daily and nightly with booze obtained In Mexico Most of the traffic however however however how how- I ever is carried on tinder cover of ot darkness I Life is cheap to these men mostly most most- ly Mexicans 1 They know the risk I they are taking but they go ahead with It just the same ADMIT THEY'RE HELPLESS Walk Valk down near the smelter Sitting Sitting Sitting Sit Sit- ting under the yellow leafed trees on the old Hart estate an ancient Spanish domain you jou ou will see a little lit little lit lit- tle tie group of ot Mexicans basking Inthe in inthe inthe the sun Here comes a brown face languorous languorous languorous lan lan- eyed man manS sombrero pulled down over his eyes He Is sauntering sauntering sauntering along beside his two burrows burrows burrows bur bur- rows laden with juniper knots to sell But that is a time day-time illusion With the fall l of darkness this man n i I t I I ep II 1 4 I I I 4 I S S tr S1 S S 1 1 kr il IrS p 4 goes to work His Iris friends all leave the plaza for more arduous duties Hole th Hole in Wall is another rendezvous for th the smugglers Its It's Itson Itson itson on the Mexican side of ot the river yet American t territory Its It's about five miles from the village of ot Fabens Fabens Fa- Fa bens Texas I There are a few adobe house and a drinking place or two But J Hole in Wall the the the- Wall the Vall is a a. center tot fot smugglers Government agents admit they're helpless There are not enough ot them So the the smugglers are having things pretty much their own way And the fighting still goes on down along this battle front In irs the southwest's rum war I |