Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-12-01 | Page 2 | Canada Probes Rum Smuggling

CANADA PROBES RUM SMUGGLING Liquor Alleged for Call Cali California fornia Christmas Christinas Trade HoldUp Up VICTORIA B C- C C Dec l-Dy l 1 ByThe The Associated J The ress-The Pres The corn com commission com mission created by royal procla procla- pro proclamation cla- cla mation to Inquire Into the tho ad administration ad- ad administration ministration ot of the de department de- de department department of ot customs md 01 1 excise indicated her hero today that thit It ill n-ill lay before th the tho minister It of customs In Ottawa evidence ot of liquor smuggling lne from British Co- Co Co Columbia lumbia Into the th United States Slates N I IV N W V Ron ell counsel for or the commission Announced he h will wili Suggest that the th be in- in In Informed formed termed that cases of ot liquor aboard the steamer now held here here as the result ot of dIsclosure before the tho hO con was Intended for the tho C California Christmas trad trade Further atlon tn estl ration gation of the operations operation of the tho theS S which Is under charter to toa toa toa a firm called the Eastern Freight era ers era was VILS In prospect pros Indications that clearance papers to liquor laden Inden ships aMps are nr given perfunctorily and landing accepted In the same manner madnor In British COlum Columbia a ports were shown b by a letter from the offic office at sadi En-sadi Mexico which said uld landing certificates fora tor foi foia IL a shipment o ot of liquor by Reginald 1 M Morrison on nt of ot tho stern Ba-stern Freighters who aban aban- abandoned abandon abandon don d 5 a esse sessel I called th the Chas na were vere nothing but poor Jesse Jesso A Nos president ot of oth the tho Manitoba refineries of If British Columbia the shipper of o the liquor on the Chris testified that prior to August ot of this year hear ear lIe he hews Will was gent s-gent for tor the time COnsolidated Exporters ot of o British CO In Windsor Ont and took orders for liquor from Detroit and Bay City Mich where he remembered a man mall named Miller among h bl bie customers