Searches, Seizures

After he had finished tossing a medicine ball with President Hoover one morning last week, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke told this tale about himself: two months ago, on the Baltimore-Washington highway, his car and several other cars were stopped by Prohibition agents, civilly questioned, thoroughly searched. Complacently said Secretary Jahncke: "I do not know whether the officers were State or Federal employes. I did not tell who I was. My chauffeur has specific instructions not to reveal my identity as an official of the Government. I have long since forgotten the matter and consider it just one of the incidents of life."

Not so calmly did Assistant Secretary Jahncke's immediate predecessor, Theodore Douglas Robinson, take an arrest and confiscation which he underwent last week at Nogales, Mexico. Mexican customs authorities found $320 in Mexican gold coinage among Mr. & Mrs. Robinson's belongings, accused them of smuggling gold out of the country--an act forbidden by presidential decree. Mr. Robinson protested that he was about to have it changed into U. S. money, refused to give up the gold. Whereupon he was arrested, later released. He put the matter in the hands of the local U. S. Consul, crossed the border irate and without his money.

On the beach of Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams' Cohasset, Mass. estate, Coast Guardsmen last week surprised rum-runners landing 600 cases of liquor worth $150,000. Some of the smugglers escaped into the surrounding marshes, some made out to sea in a swift, silent electric launch.

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