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Coast Guard to use radio to curb rum runners on lakes
Maritime historian Richard Palmer highlights Lake Ontario history while reports note Buffalo Coast Guard stations and Oswego fleet will test a wireless telephone system to track rum runners. Seventeen boats across Lakes Ontario and Erie will relay orders and movements to Buffalo, with intercepts near the international boundary and shore patrols boosted by radio messages.
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Richard Palmer
Lake Ontario
Buffalo
Coast Guard
Two Lakes
George E. Jackson
Oswego Coast Guard
C.G. 151
Oswego
Oswego River
Lakes
Dunkirk
Erie
Buffalo Coast Guard
Frederick Stonehouse
U.S. Coast Guard
Crowninshield Shipbuilding
Fall River
Massachusetts