AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

A WRECKED SUBMARINE. NEW YORK, July 8. The wrecked submarine S.ol which was rammed and supk last -September off Connecticut Coast has now been raised and towed to Brooklyn Navy Yard, , and dry docked. The first task will ,bo to cut through the hull with acetylene torches and remove the bodies of the officers and crew of whom between fifteen and twenty are believed to be still within. Divers who examined the wreck while at the sea. bottom state they saw several of those who obviously died at their posts. The wireless operator was still ,at the switch. Similar conditions were found In the engine room where bodies were seen at their posts. Two men were lying near the valves indicating they were trying to shut it off when the disaster hefel them.

“PUSSYFOOT” JOHNSON. NEAV YORK,- July S. “Pussyfoot” Johnson declared he or anybody with ability and determination could enforce prohibition in the United States within six months. He outlined the following programme:— “ First, I would deal drastically with judges who turn chronic liquor offenders loose with ten dollars fine; second, I would stop the criminal distribution of alcohol,' denatured or otherwise, which can he done by purely administrative measures; third, I would attack the turning loose of tens of thousands of chronic offenders through the parole pardoning system that has heeme a scandal in so many states; fourth, if necessary I would make full use of the army.and navy; fifth, I would make the fullest possible use of what is known as double jeopardy; where the Federal Court would not function I would call on the State Courts, and where the State would not function I would make use of the municipal courts.” Sixth, I would throw downstairs or out of the window any department official who issued permits for releasing liquor for sacramental purposes, without first ascertaining if it- would be used for those purposes; seventh, when any public official charged with enforcement of the law made a public, declaration that the law could not he enforced, I would demand he immediately get out of the way and make room for someone who had the ability and faith in himself to make good; eighth, I would shoot to, kill. By that I mean I would mean business. I would in other words enforce the law up to the hilt. • Meantime Prohibition officials in Washington declared women are en-

tering into the bootleg business with a rush, succeeding more than males. The desire for fur coats and expensive clothes is believed to be the principal incentive now to many thousands operntning.