Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canada had her own troubles in this liquor war. To Ontario officials came Canadian pleasure-boat owners with complaints of being fired upon on the Detroit River by U. S. customs men. One complainant, no rumrunner, exhibited a boat riddled with bullets...
Indignation over promiscuous shooting even spread last week to the enforcement army itself. U. S. Customs Agent Louis H. Jacques, son of a Detroit police sergeant, was in command of Agent Jonah Cox, killer of Archibald Eugster after a rum chase last fortnight (TIME, June 24). He had warned Agent Cox to "go easy with the gun" on previous occasions, had filed a report censuring his reckless misuse of firearms. When Eugster was shot, Agent Jacques remarked that his complaint against Cox had been borne out, whereupon he was reprimanded by his superior for discussing the case. Last week...
...couldn't stand for killing innocent people. . . . Agents are frightened when they go out on the job. They are imbued with the idea that they are going into battle. . . . Recently after Washington officials were in Detroit, our chief told us they were sore because so many motor boats broke down and said some of the boys must be 'on the take' [accepting bribes]. I know the boats broke down because the men running them were in experienced...
Agent Jacques carried his story to Washington. Detroit's wet Congressman Clancy took up his charges, repeated them on the House floor. With a newspaper friend, Agent Jacques was taken to see Assistant Secretary Lowman, to report on battlefront conditions. Mr. Lowman, considerably angered, refused to see him, an nounced that he would have nothing to do with "a man of that type...
...Quebec. . . . "Andrew Mellen [sic], Treasurere of the United States [sic], ... is manufacturing and has in storage terrific supplies of poison and irritating gases for military purposes. . . . "Naval armament for the immediate conversions of steel freighters in the Great Lakes into ships of war is in storage in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Duluth. . . . Inordinate supplies of uniforms . . . are in storage in the military posts of the United States Army...