Posted inDaily News Maritime & Naval History

Coast Guard Boats Riddle Liquor Craft

Photo of the Helen, a rum runner, sitting low in the water after being shot up by the Coast Guard. Men on board are seizing crates of liquor.

Two Vessels Captured After Early-Morning Battle in Long Island Sound.

NEW LONDON, Conn., October 25.—Guns aboard Coast Guard vessels blazed away yesterday in a hectic battle, fought in the darkness of early morning, with two suspected rum runners.

With five craft already to their credit as the result of previous encounters earlier in the week, the Coast Guardsmen in yesterday’s engagement riddled the liquor-laden speed boat Helen of Newport with machine-gun bullets and one-pound shells and captured a second speed boat, the Pueblos of Bridgeport, believed to be a sister ship of the Helen.

Posted inDaily News Immigration

Immigration Plan Support is Urged

Commissioner Holds Aliens Would Not Replace U. S. Workers Under System.

No American citizens would be thrown out of work by aliens under a plan for extension of the principle of selective immigration outlined in a radio address last night by Harry Hull, commissioner general of immigration.

“My appeal to you, my countrymen,” Hull added, “is that we follow this far seeing vision of our President, so that in the future immigrants shall not enter the country who are unneeded or undesirable.”

Hull said 241,700 Immigrants entered the United States last year and that it was a reasonable estimate that more than 50 per cent of them “are today displacing American citizens who are gainfully employed.”