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Show oo MAXWELL 111 CUSTODY HELD AS LAWBREAKER When Entering Canada With Auto Don't Have It Plastered Plaster-ed With Signs Dominion Domin-ion Investigates. Motorists all over the country will turn their attention to Ottawa, Canada, Can-ada, during the next week, when tho case of tho world famous Maxwell no-stops no-stops champion will probably come up before the Dominion officials. The car is at present In the King's warehouse, ware-house, Vancouver, held bec.uso it is charged that Jack Griffin and Albert Gill Waddell, who had tho "International "Interna-tional Wanderer" in charge, violated tho customs laws when entering the country. The main contention on which tho Maxwell is held is that it was taken into Canada for commercial purposes. Tho car is plastered with signs from end to end. Names of a hundred cities aro painted on its sides, hood, fenders and tonneau and the signs which were put on when tho car started start-ed to make automobile history last November No-vember with its 22,022 miles no-motor-stops run have never been removed. All this, coupled with the fact that the Maxwell bore a dealer's license number from California and was piloted pilot-ed by an automobile factory representative, represent-ative, is held against the machine. The fact that no effort was made to parade it around the streets of Vancouver, and those using the car did not seek to advertise its presence in any way, failed to carry any weight with tho Canadian powers-that-be, and the Maxwell was summarily "grabbed" and locked up tight, with a guard of soldiers, In the Dominion warehouse. "The real mlstako of the entire affair af-fair was at the Canadian boundary at Blaine, 25 miles fronr Vancouver," said Griffin, in outlining the defense the Maxwell company will use in endeavoring en-deavoring to secure its property back without paying a heavy fine. "The officials of-ficials at the line saw the car, wrote down the license number, and yet allowed al-lowed us to proceed to Vancouver. We nm ... i i ti.. o mi uuiili;uu t u rtuie n ul in iuu cuuii- try for commercial purposes, for aside from the stories Mr. Waddell was writing of the trip no business of any sort was transacted by us. "The one fault the Canadian government gov-ernment can really find rests with its own citizens. The Maxwell dealers in Canada attached a sign to the back of tho tonneau, telling something of the car and where it could bo seen. We did not know much about what they were doing, naturally thinking the Canadians know their own laws, and it was quite a surprise when Waddell and I were haled into the customs house and charged with -what was made out to be a serious breach of the code." Motorists entering Canada these days aro warned to keep their cars free of signs of any sort. Even the little pennants stating the names of the cities from which cars come should be removed, for the Canadian officials are in many cases bound to force a full observance of tlteir h;ws against entering the country for commercial purposes. One California dealer, touring tour-ing on a vacation trip, was severely censured simply because he had a dealer's state license on his car, and it was only by a narrow margin that he managed to get out of Canada before be-fore his machine was confiscated to keep company with the champion Maxwell in the dark recesses of the King's warehouse. I on |