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Show CITIES ALONG EASTERN COAST I FLOODED WITH IMPORTED LIQUOR Whisky Fleet Four Miles Out Doing Great Business; Busi-ness; Brewer Gets Ready for Return of Beer; Annapolis Midshipmen Held Up to Public Scorn NEW YORK, NOV. 28. New York land New Jeraev cities are being flooded flood-ed with liquor from the Bahamas. Scotland and England, according to Prank .T. Hale, an Investigator for the prohibit' on department. Hp declared HH , that n steamship had cleared from , i .Scotland last week with ::4.000 cases of whHky bound for the "Whisky armada ar-mada camping ground," four miles off the American coast. More than JOn vofsels are engaged , In transporting contraband liquor to this country. Hale say, and millions i oi dollars change hands each week j I In bootleg deals. BREWERS HOPEFUL Simultaneous with the filing of a document with the county clerk an-1 an-1 nouueing the increase of the capital A ! jstoch - the brewing corporation known as "Jacob Huppert" from !$10.000 to $15,000,000, Jacob liup-pert, liup-pert, one of the two principal stock-j stock-j holders, declared that "beer is coming com-ing back In the United Statos." Mr. Ruppert's explanation of the in-i in-i crease of 14,SOO',000 agreed upon by (hhmelf and Anna Ruppert, trustees of the estate of Jacob Kuppert. was thai it was "merely the declaration of a stork dividend." He added, however, how-ever, that when 'congress responds to the wishes of the people, as Indicated by the last election, wc will bo ready i for expansion." Th- corporation now is browing n-ar I beer and other soft drinks. SECRETARY DEXBY ANGRY. WASHINGTON. Nov 28. Mldship-tmen Mldship-tmen from the naval academy who I'Hebrated over-lndulgently after the IN'av; - Army footlxill game Saturday were held up to public scorn by Secretary Sec-retary Denny in one of the most stinit- lir.g rebukes ever administered by a i secretary of the navy Many members of the corps, Mr. Denby declared in a public statement, nol only disgraced themselves and thej l i uniform but b their conduct at a ball which followed the game in IMiiladel- jphla, brought such shame upon the academy itself as It never had known ! before. The secretary said he did not know Jhow many of the midshipmen drank heavily and was convinced that the' ;great majority conducted themselves! 'with propriety Bui he added that 1 l enough of them had failed in their i Ay to bring shame upon all." He I ianounced that an ln estigatlon would be begun at once and that steps would! he taken to insure that "such an occurrence oc-currence will never be repeated." Wild, TIGHTFX RI LES. t None of the guilty were named In I he secretary's indictment nor did ltj Appear certain that the department i would find It possible to single out any I Individual midshipmen for punishment, punish-ment, It was indicated that the inquiry in-quiry probably would take the direction direc-tion of a general effort to establish what the conditions wero that made the incident possible, and that an disciplinary action probably would fall upon the entire Annapolis establishment establish-ment in such a 'way as to keep the i orps hereafter within more .-Jtnngent limitations. tjj Roth Secretary Denby and Secrc- .l tary Weeks of the war department, to ft j gelher with many of the highest offi- " i-ers of the army and navy, attended i tne game in Philadelphia, but It was,' said that the war department had no J Information that any of the cadets i i rem Wesi Point c onducted themselves Improperly. The cadets did not rc-l rc-l t main for the evening's festivities. Secretary Denby said in responso to Inquiries that ho would not brinc up at the cabinet meeting the question of (the relationship between the midshipmen's midship-men's conduct and prohibition. He drew a sharp line of demarcation and said fchaj the Investigation to be con-I con-I ducted would he based on a matter of military discipline entirely. SOUTHING REBUKE. Secretary Denby's statement follows In part "My attention has been called to the misconduct of a number of midshipmen midship-men from the naval academy on Saturday Sat-urday night last, after the Army-Navy game. I have no desire to minimize in any way the fact that many of the midshipmen did disgrace themselves and bring disgrace upon the naval academy for I know it to be true. I am shocked beyond measure that c It h things could have occurred. The misconduct mis-conduct on that occasion was as far as I know the most flagrant that has ever been charged against the academy How many midshipmen drank heavily heav-ily I do not know, The whole raiment rai-ment was in Philadelphia. ' Only a relatively small proportion of the ref?l-ment ref?l-ment attended the football game. Of this proportion I think the great majority ma-jority conducted themselves with propriety, pro-priety, but enough failed of their duty to their uniform and to their country to bring shame upon all. Such an occurrence oc-currence will never bo repeated for such steps as are necessary will be taken to make it impossible In the future. "In this connection I wish to mak" it quite clear that the naval academy has hithcrtofore 6et an examplo to the country of good conduct upon smh occasions oc-casions and will set that example in the future." WEEKS I SILENT. When his attention was called to the statement of the navy secretary, Secretary Sec-retary Weeks declined to make any comment. The West Point cadet corps returned directl to West Foint in special trains, in accordance with the practice of the war department. The West Pointers, it further was pointed out, were in Philadelphia under direct command of Brigadier General Slay-den, Slay-den, superintendent of the academy, while the superintendent of the naval academy, Rear Admiral Wilson, was forced to leave for Annapolis Immediately Imme-diately after the game on account of the iilness of Mrs. Wilson, confined at home with pneumonia It is ostium os-tium td (hat as the head of the Annapolis An-napolis Institution the first Inquiry of the navy department will be directed to Admiral Wilson, even though the incidents complained of occurred In his absence. VISITOR HIGHLY PLEASED TORONTOj Nov. 28. In 59 days spent In New York City, the Rev. Gif-ford Gif-ford Gordon of Melbourne, Australia, financial secretary of the Victorian Anti-Saloon league, saw only three drunken men, he told the convention of the World League Against Alcoholism Alco-holism In an address In whkh he paid j tribute to the leadership the United) States ha:i taken in the prohibition! movement. The first 58 days of his stay, he said. I were Bpent in fruitless search for in-j toxleated persons i in the T9th, how- ever, he bent to Bowery and there nawj the lone trio. "I have traveled 2j,000 miles through the United States to gain firsthand first-hand knowledge of the results of prohibition." pro-hibition." Mr Cordon 3iid. "Although "Al-though I found many infractions of the law, jails, homes for inebriates and alcoholic hospitals reported fewer in-, mates and many of them had gone out of business altogether." FDW RD8 SUSPEX Tl !D He characterized the adoption of the Eighteenth amendment to the United States constitution as "the I greatest humanitarian pl-ce of legislation legis-lation put across in the history of the government." "Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the American Anti-Saloon league, wlio ia attending the convention, said then was much discussion In Washington by dry adocates favoring a congressional; investigation of the campaign expenditures expendi-tures of Governor Edwards, senator-elect senator-elect from New Jersey, who made his campaign as an avowed "wet " M AV IDEAS I A KING. WASHINGTON, Nov 28. Tho law enforcement arm of the government was said b high treasury officials to be without any plans or proposals looking to a more thorough enfon e-ment e-ment of the Volstead act, although the subject was gone over in detail at the cabinet meeting with President Harding last Friday. Sec. tiny Mel-lon Mel-lon as represented as being unable I to offer any solution of the problem. |