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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EXCLK, NEW YOKK. SUNDAY. JUNE, 21. AFRICAN SCORNS COCOA HE GROWS FOR U. S.

VOLSTEAD THIRST 12 that natives are sometimes killed In running mahogany logs through the surf. Loading Bags of Cocoa Beans in Surf Native, taxing Rich on British Price-Boosting Policy, Buys London's Best Gin Instead Jazz Music and Jigs Entertain Negroes Carrying Big Sacks on Heads is most amusing to watch the unloading of a cocoa van on Accra Beach. A little boy piper usually stands just below the van door and blows off a few lusty notes as a sort of bon voyage to the carrier as he starts off with his bag or two from the van to the allotted storage place on the beach or in the warehouse." Energy Will Not Flag Buy Ornaments With Profits. f' 1 lit iii i. mum to Port So That Their Alarm Clocks as Body By E.

K. On every bar of chocolate you drink you are now paying a heavy tribute to a closed group of 4 1 I til' MM. mmmm Loaded surf boat ready to be waiting freighter. Carrying bags of cocoa beans through the surf of the African Coast to small boats that bear the loads to the ocean liners off shore. sound the gong-gong and tell his people to dry the cocoa thoroughly.

"All the cocoa must be paid for In hard coin. Neither Bank of England nor West African notes are accepted by the farmer. Paper is not refused solely because of mistrust, but the native finds it more convenient to handle coin. This dislike on the part of the farmer for paper money necessitates the shifting of real loads of coin, which is a transportation problem In itself. "It is most amusing, especially when Ordinary Homecomer From Europe Has Small Chance of Smuggling Stuff Past Customs Men When Professionals Fail TITl'S.

buy and every cup of cocoa vou scantily clad African chiefs and pounds of cocoa were brought into the United States in the first four months of 1928, while for the corresponding period last year the amount brought in was 212.000.000 Shipments of cocoa from the Gold Coast for the eight months ended in May were 184,149 tons, as compared with 203.086 tons for the same period the previous year. About half of the world's supply of cocca comes from the British colonies on the west coast of Africa. This cocoa grows wild, although It is supposed to have been planted in the early days of Africa's development. Grow Better Quality, The cocoa from South America, Java and other sections is cultivated, and therefore of better quality. Venezuela.

Brazil, Ecuador. Java and Ceylon produce their share of cocoa The Grace Line ships bring it Into Brooklyn from the west const of South America and the Munson Line to Hoboken from the east coast of the same continent. But the African supply fills the hole in the market. Up to recently, demand for cocoa had increased enormously, about 10 percent a year in America, due to the candy and ice cream soda urge. And so cocoa buyers had to go more and more to the British group in Africa.

They took the chance to Jack up the prices. They skyrocketed to 17 'L cents. Recently, they have settled to 14, the West African group apparently still holding cocoa In warehouses and buying from hand to mouth in order not to glut the market and hoping that the prices will resume an upward trend. Desire of the ladies to get thin or more substitutes for chocolate in candy are theories advanced for the sudden falling of! in the buying of cocoa. Brooklyn Big Cocoa Port.

"Accra, one of the chief cocoa ports, is a city of about 40,000. about 800 of whom are white," said Mr. Knust, continuing his story. "The city has electric lights and is connected by rail with Kumassi and Sekondi. They have regular parlor car service on the trains that is very comfortable.

"The cocoa grows a short distance on the interior, on trees 40 or 50 fee: high. The cocoa beans are the seeds of the trees and are found in big pods about eight inches long. "Thev are harvested by the na tives and spread out to dry and then bagged and taken down to the sea. Small surf boats are tnen used to take them out to ships that would bring them to Brooklyn. Now much of it goes by rail to the warehouses behind the newly constructed piers.

"The enormous size of Brooklyn cocoa holdings is indicated by the fact that one seller once owned bags of cocoa, all in warehouses of the New York Dock Company in Brooklyn. Boston, San Francisco and Philadelphia also get a little cocoa, but it is trifling compared with this port." Nothing to $80,000,000. Any one who frequents the Bull West African pier in Erie Basin knows that this very large dock has sometimes been completely filled with nothing but cocoa beans. The cocoa bean is about half but ter. For ordinary cocoa for househld use 22 percent of butter is left in the coc-a.

For chocolate the cocoa but ter is more than half, the two commodities about balance each other. "Cocoa was first exported from British West Africa to the United States in 1913, when one ton, valued Brooklyn receives cocoa from the following jping ports on I he Cold Coast: Accra, Sekondi, Winncbah, Cape Coast and Saltpond. Unlortun.tteiy mere are no neep harbors at any of these ports," said Mr. Schwarz "The continuous high surf and shallow waters along the en tire coast mike shipping most diffi cult. "Ocean-going vessels are now forced to lay out in open roadsteads a mile or a mile and a nan irom snore ana take on their cocoa cargo from surf boats.

Three-Fingered Paddle. "Each boat crew consists of a coxswain, who usually is the headman, and eight or twelve paddlers. "The coxswain stands astern and steers the course with a long sculling oar, while the rett of the crew push the craft along with a most unusual paddle, the blade of which is three-fingered, painted white and further ornamented with simple but artistic ecometrlcal designs. "While in action the paddlers sit on the gunwale and for safety one foot is locked in a rope loop. To see these strong, straight-backed fellows drive their surf boats over the water, their black bodies fairly gleaming, their paddles flashing bright on the lift of even strokes which are synchronized to a not unmusical chant, or to a broken scries of hisses and grunts, or even to the well-timed click of some variation of the Castanet, is a truly magnificent stent." While the loading of cocoa entails no loss of life, ship captains report GERMAN PULLMANS IN NEW SERVICE AREi PAINTED GAY HUES' Interior Color Scheme Varied; to Suit Artistic Taste of Every Tourist.

Those long, stream-line contrivances radiating bright lavender and cream on the sides and silver gray on top that you will see if you are in Germany this summer are neither primeval dlnosaurl nor the latest type Zeppelins, and the fact that you may blink and stagger a bit upon viewing them won't necessarily mean that you have been abusing the Volstead Act once its back Is turned on you. Not at all. This resplendent, gay coloratura is simply the latest German idea of Pullman cars to tickle the tourist's most susceptible moods. The bright lavender, according to the announcement of the German Railroad's new "Rheingold Express," Is the color tone of the ultra-modern Pullmans, and the streaks of cream are the window frames. Whizzing away from the Hook of Holland to the Swiss frontier at an average of 60 miles an hour, as the railroad's press notices have it, these peacock plumed expresses should make the countryside a delight for the school of futuristic artists.

You can distinguish Pullman cars In America from each other by their names, if you look closely enough to read the gold lettering on the drab brown bodies. But that is not all vou will have to go by in Germany. Listen to the press notices: No Two Alike. "The inner decorations of the cars, from the general color schemes to the designs of the plush seat covers and carpets, are the work of well-known German artists. A special feature of the decorations is that no two cars are alike in upholstery, tapestry or color combinations.

Passengers are free to select their cars, choosing those which be-t suit their taste. "As much attention as has been paid to the esthetic has been paid to the hygenlc details," the description goes on, anent hot and cold running water, ventilation and the comforts of home. The seats have high backs, and in the first-class cars are rotating armchairs, and in the second-class cars just stationary chairs. There may be other differences between the two classes, but the only one detailed is the price, which will come as consid- at 48 pounds sterling, was shipped there from the Gold Coast," says a report of Vice Consul Monroe Fisher of Dakar, Senegal. From nothing to $80,000,000 in 15 years Is the record of West Africa in shipment to the United States.

While America has been forced to drink West Africa's cocoa by Prohibi-iion, West Africa has been able to buy good gin from London, and the most rich of the world's fine liquors through its profits in sublimating America's post-Volstcad thiret. "They don't drink any cocoa In cocoa land," said Mr. Knust of Woodhaven. This statement is backed up by Vice Consul Fisher. Colorful Description.

Realizing the necessity of an understanding of the cocoa situation, the Department of Commerce is now sending L. J. Schwarz to West Africa to make a study of it. Mb Schwarz already has re.ported on West Africa after a trip he made for the Shipping Board, and is of the belief that the imports of cocoa from Africa should be closely scrutinized for mould. Mr.

Schwarz gave the following colorful description of how cocoa is transported to the sea: "While at Amankia a caravan of 20 or more carriers entered the village after a two-day trek, each man with a 140-pound bag of cocoa on his head. It was a splendid sight. "The caravan was preceded by two paid entertainers, gaudily dressed, who kept the company amused by beating the tomtom, doing queer jigs, cutting odd capers and making faces. "The entire village turned out to greet this human transport system. When the festivities had subsided, ot the cocoa from the heads of these carriers was examined and found to contain more than 15 percent of mouldy beans and chances were good that it would become still more mouldy because many of these beans were quite pliable and contained excessive moisture.

Village Chief Summoned. "The chief of the village was summoned and through an interpreter was told that his people did not prepare their cocoa properly and that they particularly did not dry it well. The chief informed me that he would Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle launched and rowed out to the loose business method makes cocoa buying exceedingly hazardous unless you know your broker. "Transportation of cocoa on the Gold Coast really begins and ends with head porterage. Cocoa Is carried by head load from the farm to the village where it is dried, and again from the warehouse or stack on the beach to the surf boat.

The woman, generally, carries slightly less cocoa. Chil dren, too, are mustered into this transport service. "By way of a little local color, It Squad recounted, one of the searchers in quest of contraband lowered himself into a tank at' the bottommost part of the ship. issued a strange, human screech from within. The searcher raised himself and pulled out the creature after him.

The fin proved to be a full-blooded Chinaman. The discovery caused a commotion within the tank and the inspector proceeded to extract one after another until finally he brought to light 28 Chinese stowaways. How they managed to exist inside the tank without air is a mystery to the customs officials. On this same vessel 18 other Chinese stow-aways were discovered hidden in the space between the panel of the cabin and outer wall of the ship. This space, about a foot wide, is ordinarily filled with sawdust.

When the sawdust is removed it serves as a favorite hiding place for stowaways. That is why the Search Squad always makes sure to examine this space on every ship. Diamond Smugglers Sly. Then there is the diamond smuggler, for whom the customs officers have to be on the lookout. The secreting of the Jcyels the heel ot the shoe or sewing them inside the lining of the; coat has practically always met with failure on the part of the smuggler.

A staff of 500 inspectors, three of whom are women, who search the persons of suspected women passenger, meets every ship landing in the port of New York. With the fiscal year ended June 30, 1927. the Custom House collected $808,292.25 in fines alone. He who is wise will not attempt smuggling. If professional smugglers, with all their cunning, find themselves caught sooner or later, what chance has he, the ordinary passenger, of getting by the detectlvelike customs inspectors? MEXICAN AIR MAIL HEAVY.

Mexico City, June 23 W) More than 30.600 pieces of mail were handled during the first month's operation of the Mexican air mail service between Mexico City, Tuxpan and Tampico. This is the only air mail service in Mexico at present, but routes to the United States border are projected to connect with United States air mail lines. Reason for Mouldlness, 'The boat crews load their own cocoa cargo, Eacn man carries a or two over at least a hundred yards ot sand beach," Mr, Schwarz con tinued, "then wades out knee high the sua against the surf and dumps his load Into the boat. As ie bags drop into tne noat uxy i arranged so as practically to make up vo slings. These slingtuis are in inc -enter of the boat.

The remainder of the ha are thrown at either end or between the prepared slings. The tar. paulln is then strctcnea over me nri men tnke their nosltlons along side and shove off as a breaker rolls in. "If skillfully managed, the boat has to ride through four of the breakers before it gets under way. It is during the time of loadini? at the shove-off that much of the water Js shipped." Mr.

Schwarz stated inat, una waiting of the cocoa results in the development of mould. "At the shlpside is another placs where water is frequently taken in, he continued, "especially when 15 or more boats are waiting to be dis charged. The boats lie close to one another, head on toward the ship and broadside to the sea. Here there 13 a continual battle lor me carg hook and the determined attempt to get a mooring place by either holding on to a neighbor or to a ship's rope, and consequently when a swell strikes the ship under these conditions all boats take In water," Mr Schwarz believes that the netf harbor development of the government will do much toward eliminating handling of the cocoa by surf boats, and thus prevent the cocoa from becoming wet. Twins, 77, Celebrate Golden Wedding Day (Special to The Eagle.) London, June 23 The remarkable record of twin brothers named Webber of Llansamlet, South Wales, is mentioned in the Magazine of the Church of England Men's Society.

They are 77 years of age, and both celebrated their golden weddings on Feb. 14 last. They are both fathers of ten children. They were baptized, confirmed, and married together, worked side hy side as Sunday School teachers for 60 years, and have always lived next door to one another. erable shock to tourists In the habit of paying the Pullman surcharges in this country.

"Surcharge for the use of this train de luxe Is merely nominal, being three marks fabout 72 cents) for the first class, and two marks (48 cents) for the second class, additional to the regular fare for fast express trains," the press matter states. And this takes you from the Hook of Holland, or Amsterdam, to Lucerne in 24 hours. COACH DOG WILL GUARD DOLL BUGGY Perhaps very few lovers of dogs know how they obtained their names. For instance, the bulldog was so-called because in his earliest days he was used in the driving of cattle and was trained to meet the onrush of a bull by grabbing the sensitive part, the nose. Here he would hang with his deathlike clutch until the Dull was glad to go peacefully with the herd, says a writer in Our Dumb Animals.

Many think the spaniel Just happened by that name, when in reality It is on account of the first known of this breed being brought from Spain to England. For many years they were known as "Spanish dogs," then it was shortened to "Spanishers," and finally became spaniel, as it is today. The German dachshund, now rarely seen, meant originally badger hound, "hund" being really German for dog, and those dogs were used for the drawing of badgers. The Dalmatian (coach dog) is a survival of "ye olden tyme," when we did a-traveling go, and it was wise to have trustworthy dogs to guard the coach, the while the driver, footmen and men in general refreshed themselves within the tavern. So deeply inbred is their instinct to guard that even today a coach dog will lie down and guard even a doll buggy and he performs his self-ap pointed task most thoroughly, too.

This is is done. By LILLIAN ZAHN. With the season for traveling abroad at hand, hundreds of thousands of American dollars will roll into the coffers of foreign shops. But Uncle Sam will not be that much the loser. Every traveler is entitled to bring back with him duty free $100 worth of merchandise.

Beyond that Uncle Sam demands a duty, and he who Is tempted to give him a false reckoning of his baggage in order to escape the payment of a large dutj is bound to find himself in a sorry mess. The Collector of Customs has many a story to relate of persons who, though honest and upright in their community, succumbed to the temptation of importing merchandise surreptitiously and brought upon themselves a sad termination to a happy and carefree trip abroad. For the penalty for defrauding the Government is very severe. It usually Is in the form of a very large fine. New-Found Friends' Advice Costly.

"Take the case of Mr. a descendant of an old and respected Southern family," the Collector began. "He and his wife took a vacation abroad, where they spent several thousands of dollars in fine clothing and Jewelry. On their way home the subject of duty came in the course of a conversation with fellow American passengers. These new-found acquaintances advised Mr.

and Mrs. X. not to be so foolish as to declare everything they had purchased, as they would be obliged to pay an enormous duty. "So when the steamer docked Mr. and Mis.

X. made a declaration of items bought abroad to the amount of $400. In the course of his examination the customs inpector noticed that Mi's. X. was wearing consider able jewelry and questioned her as to its origin.

Both Mr. and Mrs. X. readily began to explain where they had purchased it in the United States. The alibi did not suit the customs In spector, and so he decided to make a careful examination of the contents of the trunks.

Soon he found new towns which bore the labels of for- ipn modistes. While examining the contents of the trunk the inspector noticed me husband transferring something to his pocket and starting to leave the pier. He called another officer and commissioned him to follow Mr. X. Soon after the second officer returned with Mr.

X. and exhibited a ring box of unique design and of foreign origin, which Mr. X. had thrown into the litter in th waiting room. The husband was compelled to admit that the ring which 1 1 he box had contained was on his wires nnw.

At this point he broke down and confessed. Paid Four Times the Orginal Duty. "Very much chagrined, both Mr. and Mrs. X.

were taken to the Customs House for a hearing before the Collector. A penalty of $25,000. which included me duty and fine, was the cocoa exploiters mane up 01 aarK, British business magnates. Now trut the British rubber restriction policy has been broken, the cocoa price boosting group remains and continues to dominate the American market, having succeeded in boosting the price of cocoa from 7 to li cents per pound, which means a difference of $40,000,000 In the wholesale prices paid by Americans for their chocolate and cocoa. The chiefs are getting rich.

They buy the best American cars, and it is supposed to be a not infrequent sight on the Gold Coast for a well-nigh naked African to step Into an American sedan of the utmost luxury. Its a fr cry from the Gold Coast of 100 yeers ago, where slave traders trafficked, to the coast of today, where the descendants of some of these same slaves are rolling in cocoa gold. Brooklyn Losing Out. Half of the cocoa of the world is ronsumcd In the United States. Half ci the coco- used in the United States came into Brooklyn pien up to a few months ago.

These are the correct proportion', according to members of the New York Cocoa Exchange, at 124 Water st Manhattan. Brooklyn has lately been losing out on the cocoa unloading through a new Government policy. The Department of Agriculture Is to particular about the cocoa it allows to come into thi6 country that a large proportion of the African cocoa crop is now being shipped first to European ports and tnen to the United States. The following ships recently brought cccoa from European ports to Manhattan which normally would have come from African ports to Brooklyn, on either the Shipping Board boats of the American-West African Line or the British Elder Dempster freighters: The Muenchen, from Bremen, 4.215 bags; Samaria, from Liverpool, 756 bags; Cleveland, lrom Hamburg, 5.619 bags; Breedyk, lrom Rotteidam, 1.787 bags. "A certain part of every cargo of cocoa is wormy or mouldy," an importer explained.

"In this country, aione. there is a rule that a cargo cannot be accepted if more than a certain proportion is in that condition. So thp cocoa is shipped first to a European port, where they sort oi't the bags that appear to be in that condition. Then they sometimes manuihcture the defective cocoa into candy and chip it over to us." Build 88,000,000 Port. Anyway, the African chiefs are getting rich.

The British, at Tir-ijualagi. have recently completed an $8,000,000 port development chiefly to handle cocoa. Previously, the chiefs brought their cocoa down to the leaches, singing as they went, each tribesman with a 140-pound bag of cocoa on his head. They dumped out the bags on the beach, where they were left to dry and become brown. The cocoa was covered with tarpaulin to keep it dry.

Obviously, cocoa could not be stored indefinitely in this manner. It had to be moved. Buyers could bargain for a good price. Now the cocoa is kept In warehouses and a ring controls its sale, holding it for ideal market conditions. Louis R.

Knust of 8519 85th Woodhaven, L. a member ol the cocoa exchange, is one of the Americans who have tried unsuccessfully to break into the British ring on the west coast of Africa. Barred From Business. "When I went out there, I found it practically impossible to do any successful business in buying coroa for sale in this country." said Mr. Knust.

"The matter of exchange in itself is enough to discourage anyone. The cost of getting your money from one currency to another is one and a half percent if you change it once and three percent if you change it twice. "The British companies In West Africa avoid this exchange operation by both buying from and selling to the native. They either pay him in goods or, if they pay him in money he immediately expends it for goods with the same company. This elimi nates much of the turnover.

"I would not say that there is a policy of restriction out there that could be compared with the rubber restriction policy. The big group decide from day to day what they are going to pay the natives for cocoa, and what they are going to charge the outside world for it. "It is to their interest to boost both the price they pay the native and the price they charge the outside world. If the native is making good money, he will buy more goods from them. "The cocoa grows wild out there, so a policy of restriction of production would hardly be practical.

Wore Sash and Clock. "Wealth has had some very peculiar effects on the native. Those who could previously afford no clothes now can afford oerhnns a blanket and an alarm clock. Those who previously were moderately well to do will step out in sedans. "I saw one very funny sight there.

A native stepped into our railroad car wearing nothing but a sort of fash and an alam clock. He had seen small watches on Europeans. But his idea of grandeur was to wear a really big clock. And so he had this enormous ticker hanging from his I one abbreviated garment, and would refer to it from time to time with the efficient air of a broker." Jazz bands are used by the African chiefs to accelerate the movement of cocoa to the sea. Hammering tomtoms, waving big feather fans, playing primitive flutes and strumming squeaky almost-ukulcles, the labor symphonies of the chiefs accompany the natives from the cocoa headquarters down rough paths to the sea.

The music is devised to keep them from losing their energv in the long, hard grind. More recently, travelers report, the completion of new auto roads has helped along the movement of the cocoa beans to the sea. iuysuTiiius railing tin. The same mysterious falling 1 in sales of cocoa has been observed recently as has been seen in the of sugar during the last year. The I question can be raised whether both 1 are not due to a falling off of America's sweet tooth, to a decline in the Ice cream soda and malted milk 1 shake the habit in favor of more real drinks, and more sitting around arrl listening to the radio instead of ad-1 Journlng to the corner drug store.

A hundred and fifty-three million frfY-H ft'j'' -T 7 7 5 I'M!" the thought of armored cars in New York comes to mind, to see merchants driving up country in their automobiles with the floor covered with canvas (bags containing shilling and two shilling pieces. Each bag it made up to hold $250. "I have seen the equivalent of $15,000 carried right through the bush without any protection whatever. This money is turned over to the broker, who usually is not able to give adequate security for It. This seemingly fine only.

Those cases which are more criminal are tried in the United States District Court. The apprehension of the baggage master of a certain liner is a case in point. One of the customs guards stationed at the pier after the steamer docked noticed the baggage master pasting something on one of the trunks and moving swiftly away. This suspicious demeanor caused the guard to question the baggage master. After a period of cross-examination he broke down and confessed his ruse.

It was his practice to tear off the still wet labels which the customs inspectors stuck on bona fide trunks to indicate that the contents had been examined and found O. K. He then pasted these labels on trunks which contained liquor. The baggage master was tried in the United States District Court and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment, but his sentence was suspended on condition that he return immediately to his native country, Germany. Crews Hide Liquor on Ships.

Liquor smuggling on the largest scale is attempted by crews of ships. Being familiar with every nook and crevice of the ship, the crews are entrusted by foreign agents with large quantities of liquor in the hope that it will be secreted in nooks where customs inspectors are not likely to search. To counteract this class of smuggling the Custom House has a special contingent of inspectors called the Search Squad, which docs nothing but search incoming ships. "This is no easy job," said the head of the squad, a man who has spent 20 years in the service. "Our men have to shove away tons of coal, climb into various unobserved recesses of the vessel, tear away woodwork and unfasten cases of cargo before they can call their work done.

In addition, they must use all their five senses, and even a sixth sense, for there is no guessing where the contraband is hidden. The crews are getting more and more cunning in secreting contraband, and we must be equal to their ingenuity." Burgundy in Novel Cache. Only the other day a novel hiding place for booze was discovered by the Search Squad. In the course of their examination of a liner they noticed a liquid dripping from a tank two-thirds filled with dirty water. A sniff and a taste of the liquid was sufficient to arouse their suspicions.

A thorough investigation of the contents of the tank led to the discovery of 2,800 bottles of burgundy, brandy and whisky wrapped in 416 burlap bags. Had it not been for the smashing of some of the bottles and the leak in the tank the liquor might have passed uinotired. An Investigation into the ownership of the liquor is taking place. Rounding l'p Narcotic Smugglers. Narcotics is another item of contraband to be found frequently on incoming ships.

On a freighter from the discovered a large stock of opium se crciea wunin cases ol licnil nuts. Another vessel from the Far East revealed nothing illegal after a careful inspection by the Search Squad. Just as the O. K. was to be issued one of the searchers decided to make a second Inspection of the provision room.

Noticing that one of the screws holding the zink plated lining to the wall was missing, he tore off the entire lining, and there secreted in the wall he found 443 cases of opium. "Sometimes we find more than liquor or opium," declared the head of the Search Squad. "Yes, ma'am, we find live contraband. In the midst of one of our searches of an incoming steamer, one of our men noticed something hidden in one of the ventilators. He ordered it pulled out, and there we saw before us a dashing young 'chap' dressed in overalls.

We turned him" over to the immigration authorities, and it was two hours before we found 'him' to be a woman." 28 Chinese Slowed Away. On a vessel relumed from a trip to the Far East, the head of the Search TttDhnn Trlanrln Ratk mi Special for Monday Only Madt to Order Side Hemned MfBRurcii and hunt op. Mad of hlfb irratl HnllnnrJ rlnth, mnnnij on fr-aotitfH rullrra; ata it to Hil? color a. I'tra rrmrmbrr thttc ra itr rina QiinlllT Mnllnnd alinrlca, not ronfoird with nrrilimry gradra. 85c BrooUya Window SMi Co.

Ml MVIsnMON N- CROSS-WORD PUZZLE i lb 7 id I 19 to TT" il Is" ib 17 HT5 hfir is ii aTi IT" is "I5 Si "nfer ir- Ml 4 I'M 1 45 Wfc "fa5' lf54 n'n- 57 56 1159 bo ol bl iHr b5 icsult. This penalty was more thanJar East the Search Squad recently iumMLmMil HORIZONTAL 1-A heavy blow 8-A erltlo M-Remoto I2-An Infallible authority 14- Fads IB-Combining form (Milk) 15- Mlttak 19-Sodlum carbonate 0-Owni 22-Corrod HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 49-Snake-llke fish 51- A louthern State (abbr.) 52- Curb 5J-Love (Latin) 5S-A plaything 57-An outer covering 59-Comblnlng form. Seven 61-Storehouae for hay 63- Part of the head 64- French lilaid In the Mediterranean A Corner In the hand ironing room. where the Holland Family Service four times the original duty they wouia nave paid nad tney been honest. "After paying The fine Mr.

and Mrs. X. begged that no publicity be given to their attempted escapade. "To people who are respected in their home towns and social centers publicity in these cases hurts more than the payment of a fine," declared the Collector. Since the enforcement of Prohibition the attempt to liquor has become widespread among all classes of passengers.

Various Ingenious ways and means have been used by travelers in their attempts to import the drink with the "kick" In It. Take the bootleg jacket, to which customs officials have been pi wise. It is a long, sleeveless affair with a dozen or so pockets, each one roomy enough to hold a flat flask. On top of it the smuggler puts on a coat several sizes larger than he usually wears. And lo! here comes a portly gentleman.

Nothing about his demeanor arouses suspicion, except that his face is a bit too small for his corpulent body. But tl-e customs officer, tl.c shrewd and keener ed man that he is, can perceive what the layman cannot. Woman With Bootleg Skirt. The style for the woman smuggler has been created to iiiit her manner of dress. Her "latest" Is the bootleg skirt, which is nothing more than an ordinary skirt, except that it has roomy pockets attached to its underside.

Customs officers say that seme of these women are so tarazrn in stocking themselves up with liquor t.iat you could actually hear the clinking of the flasks underneath their skirts! A fine of $5 per ordinary-sized bottle of liquor is imposed on the snv g-gler. In addition he Is obliged to sign a declaration of assent to de-slructlon and the bottles and all are smashed against the side of the steamer, usually in the smuggler's i resence. YOUR FAMILY LAUNDERING ill Roman weight of NO EXTRA CHARGES of any kind on bundles at least half bed and tablo linen. NO MARKING except on men's shirts and collars. DELIVERED IN THREE DAYS after collection, packed in a neat, strong box for protection in transit.

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