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Show I THIRSTY FLOCK TO HE CITY EASTPORT Mc Ocl -'-t -K.isiport is the new haven of tho thirsty With the frontier practical!) unguarded un-guarded and Canadian Islands only - o two miles away, smugglers operating motor boats and schooners hare found that they can bring liquor into Ibis town with little feat f taolestatlon'a So much competition has developed among them In selling contraband here that prices have slumped. Choice Canadian wiiiskies are now selling at $5 and $G a ; iart. This Is said to be the most open spot for smugglers along the entire border. There are only two customs Inspectors at Eastport and one of these spends two days of every week on duty at .St. John. X. I!. 11 . There are twelve mile? 01 waterfront' here, with numbers .1 unprotected in-I lets where any boatman could make a landing. For years there has not been a night inspector at Eastport thus assuring the smugglers of almost cer-! tain security If they bring their cargoes car-goes in by nisht. Near this place arn many miles of Maine coast without custom guards, day or night, so ibis section of the I'nlted States Is not being kept awak-nights awak-nights from worry about the Eighteenth Eigh-teenth amendment. The flood of liquor Into Eastport is most noticeable on Saturdays and Sundays. On those days large numbers num-bers of factory rmplnu? In the district flock to Eastport, and, with the hlgli wages they are now receiving do not quibble about the bootleggers' demands de-mands of $5 and $(j a bottle. Extra police are (Jn duty then, but not many arrests have been made. The empty bottles strewn over the ltijh.t-and ltijh.t-and alleys, however, ore mtlti e. id. n i of the traffic's extent. Ollt important arrest of nun smugglers smug-glers was made recently by Inspector of Customs Sumner Sleeper, on duty at this port Inspector Sleeper discovered discov-ered that the crew of a certain schooner schoon-er had been making regular trips over the border. IIefjecured some liquor and held the alleged smugglers for a hearing. It Is well known that the more ox- tensive smugglers of imported liquors emploj fast schooners and motor boats and are prepared to make pjirk runs, into the harbor and across the line to safety 00 |