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The Clinton News Record, 1930-03-20, Page 7s mnwansegra r•vvnw::• re MOW ..^rwnwx:• Co q 113 didn't beat about the bush. "Gell, ea . s g A ding Casey,' he<said, 'I want you to do a • The Detroit River for ua. It'll ouly take two daYs, Rive ' and you'll get 15 ,grana: Another gang's hijacked us out of a brewery By Ex -Boatswain Waiter' S. Casey up, north, and we't'ov gonna take it Last spring .I was ordered to 're• • bank ;agatu; see?" O ett le Contmandor Maeda V, Rma• ' /eviou was obs no •ouch job could nlussen at Buffett?, and by him- was be y01411.'0-'5,000. assigned to take over the ;236,. one "What have:I got to do witit- it?' Of the standard 75 -foot patrol boats, 1 said; e Mellen . 2 went. aboard the crew fu -"Just take that machine gun and trcamed me that the Coast Guard was saute along.. That will scare Alm not fussy about stopping rummies, other` guys out; 'see?"� laud later an officer told me the same While this flattering offer was be- Ithing,' "Allyou have to doe. he said, mg made I. kept my 'eyee on Mr. "is burn un'. gee and then stand by shadows, automobile, parked in 'the [each month Poi your pay," shadows, 'in wlrtoh eat three men, 1 The; 236 wee the first Coast Guard was careful to retuain bthe pilot tatrol boat to operate in the Detroitt house with the radio cabinet between Oliver. The customs patrol men were myself rand the car. the polo intens •nupposed to look after it, but they tion of being "put on the spot" , Mere almost all green men, and whsle Mr. Sohuppe finally left, followed I' (handicapped by a hand fast rule that by my advise' to get out of the Detroit e rthey were not to use their guns, nu° River before hebecame a nuisance,. ' less fired upon, • Several days :followed in' Which: we Ulm 286 had been in these waters were kept busy boarding boats, The oust one hour when five "loggers" newspapers were full of our aotivities, ,, large slates powered with outboard and liquor prices In Detroit had gone dors•-were . , sighted : putting Out up' lrn ' It 'was at this time that the 'rum lfront the • Canadian °bore,: Through mfes _tried to make a "connection." •pa 'binoeulaA' we ' could see-•tburlap It began when Cordell etarted send- •isacks full of ileum,. But before this ,lug 50•oent cigars wrapped in Poll: '.fistula reached the boundary 'line in aboard the 286 for the crew. A small • said -channel the 226 appeared, 'and boy would come to the dock with they put -back to shore to await dark- them and say, '"Mr, Cordell sent 'emss them." •I always 'opened the packages When it was dirk two of my men, in the presence Of the crew to show Goebel and "Rod' Pickering, went that there were no bills inside. Over the side lathe pulling boat with One evening Cordell circled the 236 priers to `stand watch at Slab Island, as a powerboat until he was hafted lu American waters, and if firearms and boarded, That was what he want - were necessary,. to shoot into the ed beach. They shoved oft and it was 'You're trying to make a . record, mot long before I heard three shots, aren't you?" he asked me. The puttering of an outboard motor " +'Sure." I replied. Suddenly stopped, but we heardilio "I'll be willing to help you," the ,roar of 'a speedboat's engine. A few gorilla declared generously. arinutea later Goebel and "Red" shote: ..How?'" ed up with a skiff loaded with 185. ,.R,oll, I'll give you two seizures Regular Care cases of beer and a prisoner, a lad el 19 years. "The kid. 'wae easy," said Goebel. "He was trying to 'get away from the bpeedboat. When we got him the speedboat circled close, and the wash almost swamped the skiff. . Then they cavae like hell right for the skiff. 'Red' yelled to -them, and .when they held for the skit he let go with his 05. The speedboat then veered off "We nabbed the kid and tate beer H wanted to knew whether we were (hijackersor agents, and was damn glad to learn that the Coast Guard had got him and not the hijacker@ in the black speedboat." 'ADAMSON S A.�DVENTURES-- Lt. C FIRRY IV mealier, Arlo 6,nerm.; Ey., urssa9,,. IS y 0. JasoIbstiO n every night," Cordell said. "You get the boats, but you don't get the men. See? You take the beer, and I'll take the whisky." Cordell made other attempts at "conneetious." Once he offered me a Packard roadster. Another time a $75 dress, --mysteriously paid for, was delivered to my wife from a store. It went back. Perhaps Cordell got it. The days passed and the 236 got tow on supplies Because of Gov- ernment' overnmeint' "red tape" we had to run more than 100 mites to our base for new supplies Not wishing to leave the area uncovered I arranged for a picket boat to patrol the upper end of the area ,while I patroled the shore in my automobile. A few minutes before midnight I came upon three men.near a creek, where a lugger had just put in. They stopped in their tracks. Tben, see- ing the white top on my cap, two of them broke into a run. Tile third stood his ground until I was within ten feet of him and then ran. I call- ed bins to stop or I would shoot, He turned abruptly and fired. The but, let ripped through the flesh. of my left arm. I shot at him and he stum- bled and then ran again. I saw him rejoin his comrades. Returning to the Customs base, I learned that my picket boat had knocked of a load of liquor of Point Hennepin just about the time I was having my party. It was just after this affair that Commander Rasmussen summoned me before him. • During an abusive re- primandhe accused me of being cif my patrol area, and said the area had beeu left uucovered while ,the 256 was on 1ta trip for supplies. Pointing out to him that I had been shot in my own area during the time he alleged it had been uncovered, and that the picket boat had seized a rum- my on the same night, failed to im- press him. I went to Buffalo very much dis- heartened, While packing my gear on board the boat Gecrge Cordels tame down to see me. Ile said, "You are the squarest guy the gov- ernment ever put in this river. Blit you raised so much hell we had to get rid of you. it cost us fere grand to get you out; but you're gone." -- Plata 'Talk. 'The second night on -the river Goe tel .and "Red" made, another catch 'A "Monkey" named Walker, who was whipping a skif-load of 150 eases 0 beer across, had to be tapped on the liked befctre he submitted to arrest The lad of the previous night was Ismail potatoes compared to Mr. Wal her, He had a notebook showing the amounts Ire had received from the head man or "gorilla" of the ter - Rt The acoouuts also showed that itir. Walker, as a sideline, supplied a select Detroit clientele with better grades of liquor than those run by the gang. We were soon assigned to the sec. Coe of the river between Ecorse and Wyandotte. That riverfr'ont is not a pleasant place, For several blocks, houses bunt eave-to-eave back up on the water. From the street side they appear to be dwellings and etrres. In the rear of each house, isowever,"there is a boat -well in which the speedboats and skiffs of the, sum fleet are docked. By lowering tate door of the boat -well a rummy is pro- ttected'by a legal barrier which detlee anything but a search warrant Ecorse is the domain of the Purple Gang, a subsidiary of the Chicago out- fit. Its "gorilla" Is George Cordell, There are other gangs which operate hlong here, and the river as a allele serves as a channel not only for tremendous liquor smuggling opera- tions but also for an extensive traffic fa dope and aliens. The smuggling of women to supply resca'te In tate whining and lumber Damps of the seorthwest is particularly lucrative, Canadian smugglers make a good thing out of the alien racket. Some of the aliens are not even landed In the United States. A fee is colteotd from them on the Canadian beach '(often as much as 9500 for a China- man), and then they are taken over to Grease Ile. Here the smugglers direct them to the bridge which leads to the American mainland, and them - noires depart for Canada. When tate aliens reach the bridge they are pick- ed icked ftp by the Immigration Service and deported, The 236 was oontinuiug to capture rummies with a good deal of regul- arity when I received orders to re- port to Rasmussen at the Base at Buffalo. He seemed to be not at all zeeasod by the way things were go - gag, but I was allcwwed to return to the Detroit River. Immediately upon _our return we sighted a big gray lugger that we had run In a few days before. They refused to stop at our whistle, and we let go a couple of blank cart- ridges In the oue•laounder. That night the newspapers gave us a front-page razzing) for firing directly at the Shore- line where hundreds of innocent peo- ple were. This seemed a trifle rough len us, inasmuch . as we had used blanks. Furthermore, there were no inane .ta people living 4111 that section of Ecorse As sse• coleinned to stake captures out relations with the rummies be- came curious, One morning when the 236 was. tied up at the foot of Elm street, Herman' Richards, reput- ed to' be a ''big shot" in the Purple Gang, dt'ove'dewu to the dock, Ricci- reads called to Goebel, the only man bop -sides, and asked to see me, Goe- abal told hint I. wi.s not in the habit Of talking with strangers, and Rich- ards then talked to Goebel, He said the had been iu the army and was pret- ty good with an 01G (machine gun), ,Ile said he. had an MG in Ecorse, and 1hat if Casey and the .236 remained In ;tile river he would use it. • Goebel gave him as good as he sent. Be tete Riehards that I had remark - led that If any of the Ecorse' gang. got fresh IA Out a line on their boats and boat .v lis and tow "tlia whole damn-. 6ii h i 111556 i, the river."ywe hetes a,l 1 thin, when 1 was aloe». iii' the '•See 'I.leu50,a stranger Cetled t".8,, f ;:n file dock. Hs said he. Ws- `a-1811ls.or Choca;;c."•. Helps Car to Retain Value How much it costs a mile to operate automobiles is an amount which has to be figured for each kind of automo- bile, In fact, each individual automo- bile would have to be studied carefully in order to get anything like an exact figure. The amount, however, is prob- ably higher than the average motorist suspects. One person who has a small six- cylinder coach type of car has figured out a coat of 11.73 cents a mile. Of this amount he has estimated 2.4 cents for depreciation. He is a man who takes rather good care of his car and consequently his depreciation is doubtless dower than most, Some car owners are certainly experiencing a depreciation of their machines 01 from 3 to 5 per cent. There are certain items la operating aa automobile which one cannot ,well eliminate. For instance, it Is necea- sa1'y to buy a certain amount of gaso- line to get over a certain number of nsiles of highway, end `gasoline costs about so much wherever you buy it. Even here a person can cut down"the gasoline expense by seeing to it that the engine is working so as to get the most number of miles out oe every gal- lei. 01 gasoline. a Good Cara is Repaid In. the item of depreciation, the auto- mobile owner has the greatest oppor- tunity for eliminating useless expense in his automobile experience. By tak- ing unusually good care of his car he can get many additional years of ser- vice and consequently greatly reduce the depreciation -item, In a new automobile engine the in- side of the cylinder Is a perfect circle, but after a few years of •service the cylinder most likely will need to be reground, When the a)vttomobite en- gine is built the piston cannot be fitted to form an airtight joint, since the temperature of the engine- varies in accordance with the amount of heat generated in the engine, these tem- perature variations in tura causing the piston and the cylinder to expand and contract, although not to the same de- gree, In Ulla way a piston which at a certain temperature fitted the cylin- der perfectly would expand enough to stick fast in the cylinder at another temperature: •It is possible that at yet another degree It would fit the cylin- der loosely, causing a great deal of noise and loss of gas through leakage past the piston daring the eompres- sion period. How Contact is Retained the piston. is forced with considerable pressure against the side of the cylin- der, because during the power stroke the crankpin is,traveliug through ae arc at one side of the center 66 the piston, instead of directly under it. It is this side thrust on the piston which tends to wear away one sideof the cylinder wall. How quickly this wear takes place depends upon several fac- tors, probably the most important be- ing the perfection of the lubrication of the parts. As this wear takes place the cylin- der loses its original circular shape, becoming oval, and the piston tinge not being flexible enough to fill in the worn space naturally allow leakage of the compressed gas. Due to this leaking, several kinds of trouble fol- low. The gas welch is being com- pressed passes by the piston, In this way reducing the power generated by the engine, and as the gas condenses in the crankcase the oil is diluted and its lubricating quality somewhat im- paired. On the suction stroke too much oil may be drawn past the pis- ton into the combustion chamber, where it burns, causing smoke and forming carbon, which causes knock- ing of the engine. This carbon gets under the naives, resulting in loss of compression and short-circuits- the spark plugs, which makes the engine miss fire. Restoring the cylinder to its origin- al form of a perfect circle and fitting new pistons : nd rings to it will relieve these troubles, the beet way to. ac- complish this being by having the cylinder reground. This is done by the use of emery or carborundttm wheels on a machine designed par- ticularly for this work, a delicate operationrequiring the skilled service of a liigh-grade mechanic in this line. One advantage in taking good care of a car is that it will help one to be able to own two cars, which is becom- ing increasingly desirable. When a car hes given several years of service i fit is well taken bare of it still has several more years of possible use. By this time the owner. is probably able to buy a new car, but- by having the old machine still In good shape so that it can be used when road conditions are sot so favorable, he will not only get additional service out of the old car but also a much longer and better use of kis new automobile. Success London Evening News (Ind. Cons.): Whether a emu is successful or not in life is not nearly so important a question as we sometimes think, There are easy successes that are merely .the outcome of puny aims; yet the applause that follows such successes is often tremendous in a world like this, It often happens that a man is misled by that applause into thinking he is a flue fellow who has done something really worth do- ing. That delusion may last for life, though here and there one sees pathetic signs of au inner bitterness and distress in a certain type of suc- cessful man whose eyes are open at last to the littleness of the things to which he has given nearly all the Years of his life, "It htbeisnt wins over a whole pone latiou, the nation' must disappenr.'— Will Durant. The Modiste—"It's all dowa on m1 books and figures don't lie." Mr. Booksmith—'The things you've done to my wife's figure have made it very deceiving." •' Objects Imperfectly discerned take forme from the hope or fear of the beholder.—Dr. Johnson.. mm As rinters S e It children's Aid I Ti e'r" erf ct H:il nd Does Valuable Work I In a Straight Deal There are 635;000,000,000 Chances You Don't Get It Five; times duriug1929 the :"perfect hoed of cards—thirteen of 'one suit— wee experienced as a result of au or (Unary deal. Children's Placed in Good Homes Are Averaie Good Youngsters and Turn Out Well Quito nsive 'Is coarr on. In^Oistarioanextelit the directionworkf proied- viding teeth= 01' destitute children But this must not encourage even with good homes in private families, • the most hopeful bridge or other; card and. with a view, to giving readers player to look for such an experience. some information regarding. this -.laud- Por the mathematicians bade been able work our representative recently at work, and the chances of this thrill had a talk with Mr. J. J. Kelso, who coming to any one player are declared. - is in charge of the Children's Aid to be 635,000,090,000 to one.—odds that Branch of Ontario Government Ser. must really be' too much for the great- viaer est optimist among gamblers, Naturally the first question asked The most outstanding instance of was, "Where do the children come this amazing•luek occurred in a Lon - from?" - •doe club, when each of the hour play - "Weil," was the reply, "there are a ere was dealt thirteen Dards of one variety of ways in which children be• suit. Dente homeless. Very often the death In Honolulu luck indulged her cap - of a mother throws children on the rices with largesse, supplying two per - world unwired for, the father indiffer- feet hands to the same group of play, ent and neglecting to provide proper era in a single evening, not to men• home life for the children. Frequent- tion two other lauds avith • twelve ly, also children are placed in public cards each of one suit. institutions or with private parties byNight of Thrills the pareuts,_who-tsen disappear; some parents have no affection for their childrentand cannot be made provide for them properly; while in other cases the relatives have fallen into evil habits and the child for its own protection has to be removed from . their control," "Are not such children an undesir- able class for adoption?" Mr. Kelso was asked. "No •,there is a good deal of niiacon- °option on this point. People frequent- ly imagine that homeless children must necessarily be plain -looking, bad tempered and evil-minded, but such is not the ease. As a rule they compare favorably with tate average run of children." "Where should application be made?" - Anyone wishing a child has only to address a letter to the SeScreta y of the Children's Aid Society of their City or County. There are over sixty organizations in this work, or they can apply direct to my office" The older boys and girls are taken partly for the assistance they can give, but the ma- jority of people desire to satisfy the craving of lonely hearts for children to love and cherish.'" Some Misprints Are so Apt You Can't Think They Were Really Slips Every editor has received, at some time or other, letter's from readers pointing out printers' errors which have appeared in the columns of Isis journal. But it is very often the mis take which has never reached the gen- eral public • that shows the genius of the printer at its best. Nor is that genius always misguided —there are times when a printer's 01" Tor may enrich the language. For in- stance, be one of the great newspaper offices the other daY it was noticed that the word "barbarians" appeared on a proof as 'carbarians," The discoverer of the error harden- ed his heart and corrected it, but later on one of the paper's leader' -writers offered it to the public as the perfect word for motorists who drive to the Public danger. • "The Little Lass—" Sometimes, indeed, a misprint Is so apt tlhat.one can hardly believe it was the result of a clip. The compositor who coaverted "candid friends" into "candid fiends" had probably suffered from the belligerently truthful. Malice may also be suspected in 50050 02008— as when an American printer made "battle -scarred veteran" lute "bottle - scarred veteran." One letter can make a lot of differ- euce. Sir Edmund Geese has become "Sir Edmund Goose"; and "the• most romantic figure In history" been ren- dered no "the moist romantic." And once an advertisement of a firm which specialized in stained glass came out as follows—and in a Church news- paper: "Painted Widows Make the Best War Memorial' But It Is not fair always to blame the printer when an error occurs. When a cer'tainAdmiral was described as having two sons, one at the Im- perial College, Windsor, and the other at Dartmoor (the great British penal institution) Dartmouth (the -naval academy) was meant—it was probably the handwriting that was at fault. To secure a' gas-tight contact with the cylinder wall the piston has sev- eral flexible rings which expand out- ward, forming a perfect contact with the cylinder wall, They have sufficient elasticity to keep this oontaot, as the cylinder expands and contracts be- cause of the changes in temperature. The power for°operating the engine is produced through the pressure of the expanding gas which forces the piston straight out of the cylinder. Through the resistance of the crank- shaft, welch is connected to the pis- ton by means of the connecting rod, MIJTT AND JEFF— By ' BUD - FISHER AUGU'STUS MUTT IRAs NE.UEIt BEEN aicFCATCIa IN FAit, coMPetITtoN 9 rJ tetS LIFE; M!,ITT .SUMPS 'ltt2202 OF tits L oPpoNet.iTTu ceiEcicaRs Az oNc TIME AND vdtNS triE Ct1ARMPIONSHIio of THE W0f L'U: - ._-•- t,0olc;1e o i -•P( SNE GO JUDGE 'A sky -picot is still a sole•saver." The Great Empire Red Cross C enference Chicago had one remarkable inci- dent to report among its varied.ex- citements, 'Two players held perfect hands in one evening, and another in the same party held one of the varie- ties of perfect no-trump hands—the ace, king, queen'ol each of the four suits, aud`the jack of spades. Brooklyn, produced a veritable mir- acle when four girls at a table dia• covered that they all had perfect bands;`but the borough's reputation for conservatism'. was maintained when one of the players fainted from the excitement of tate bidding. In Provideuce, R.L, a man got all thirteen diamonds, and had the added good tortnue to have his opponents double his bid of seven. He restrabree himself from redoubling for fear that his opponents might take the chance of bidding seven spades, of which they held eleven between them. Such a series of occurrences was bound to get the "chance" experts busy, and there has now just been is- sued the result of tate "research" by Theodore Gibson, Instructor of Mattie- mattes at Long island University. What the Experts Say He has worked it out that the chance of one perfect hand being ac- cidentally dealt to a table is one out of 40,000,000,000. The. chance of any set of players getting the perfect hand is, computed to be only one out of 159,000,000,000. And the chance that a particular suit; say spades, will be dealt entirely to a certain player Is only one of 635,000,- 000,000. It all goes back to two phenomena of algebra known as permutation and combination. Permutation is the word that mathematicians title t0 describe one of the various possible arrange- ments of a group of objects. For example, in a group of two, such as the numbers 1 and 2, there aro two possible permutations, 12 and 21; in the group 123 there are six, as 123, 213, 231, and so on; and they monnb so rapidly that the group 1234 has twenty-four, and a group with five numbers has 120. Luck of the Deal Many interesting features wilt char- acterize the forthcoming British Em- piro Red Cross Conference which is to take place in May in London, Eng- land, according to information now in the hands of the Headquarters' ofil- ca)tis of the Canadian Red Cross So- ciety in Toronto. The session of this unique gathering will be held in the historic St. James' Palace, which is now so prominently before the eyes of the world as the meeting place of the, Disarmament Conference. On May 20th its plenary session will be presided over by the Duke of York, while Princess Mary is scheduled to inspect the various V.A.D. detach- ments, present from many parts of the cards, numbeconsists of r of possible permute. fifty-two United Kingdom. Invitations to send delegates to this tions becomes astronomical—that is, Empire -wide conference of Red Cross if some patient soul sots out to spread workers have been issued by Briga- the fifty-two on a table in all the pos- dier-General H. B. Champaia of the sable different arrangements, it would British Red Cross Society, who has take him millions of yours. followed a new precedent by asking For purposes of dealing, of course, attendance of representatives from all the work would be -lightened slightly overseas parts of the Empire, large by the fact that he would be putting or small, and irrespective of whether the cards into what is called combine. they possess organized Rod Cross So- tions; that is, into hands of thirteen, cieties or not. each of which would have to be The agenda as foreshadowed by the changed every time, Still, the chances tentative programme will be very would be that he world deal one of the broad as It will deal with not only Em- perfect hands once in every 40,000,- pire and national activities but with 000,000 times. many international aspects of Red In haphazard dealing, of course, •.Cross work. Some of its proposed there Is no assurance that one of the features include addresses from pro- perfect ].lands would turn up once to miuent health or educational authors- each 40,000,000,000 deals, or that sev- ties, demonstrations in London County eras of them will not come oftener, Council Schools, an elaborate Junior any more than that a penny, when Red Cross Empire Pageant, the p05si- tossed up, will come dowa alternately, bilities of co-operative effort of Junior heads and tails, Red Cross with all other organizations of juveniles within the Empire, and the widest discussion of the interna- tional and imperial aspects of the Red Cross. The Canadian Red Cross Society will send at least official delegates to the Empire Conforenoe with several additional representatives who trill be named by the Central Council on March 27tH, WeT's EGa is PLAYING 1ul'IH L©At .: C L Ct die` T's 'ljim? "I suppose tits bees was annoyed when you toad nim I was leaving next w eek?" "Yes, be thought it was this W eek." ;r "Undoubtedly there is a lot of luck' In every successful career.' -Bruce Barton, . e First Highwayman -'-"Say, is there any danger in thus business?" Second Highwayman—"No, not un less you get si3ot.' 1' The (Lobster Turns On The Hot Water. 5AY, TtiAss l i AccusiNG As N. a)cE'P-S E tat 00 mete. of RAVING SHMGS, dire; ar,