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Show Rum Runner Lands Beer Cargo After Race Among Floes DETROIT, Mich. Feb. 1R After a day spent In dodging Ice floes In Do-, tr i: river and in attempting to evade customs officers nn both sides of the stream, a rum ruraner who left Canada Can-ada Thursday night with a motorboat load of boor, was reported Friday night to havo made a safe landing on this side of the border. The man left Canada with a permit to take his cargo out of that country. coun-try. Daybreak found him in midstream mid-stream trying to coax a balky motorl Into action. United States prohibition j agents spied him at about the samel time. He could not land on this side and avoid ail eat, nor could ho return to Canada, for his permit was for export ex-port only. The day, therefore, was spent In unsuccessful tinkering with the motor, in paddling about among the ice cakes, and in awaiting nightfall, night-fall, which offered a way out of the unusual circumstances Under cover of darkness that ham-pored ham-pored the vigil of prohibition agent" j the man was said to have landed his I cargo of boor south of Wyandotte, a I suburb |