LIQUOR: Mogul

Owned by General Navigation Co., Ltd., Vancouver, the biggish steel steamer Mogul has lain for months off the coast of Southern California. Like a great sow whose piglets feed and scamper, the Mogul has provided constant streams of assorted liquor to a fleet of ten speedboats.

Last week the owners of the rum-sow propositioned the President of the U. S. in such a way as to make the Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Navy active and whacking mad.

Proposition: If he would let the Mogul come unharmed into Los Angeles Harbor, her 40,000...

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