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W Charlotte Street, Ecorse, Michigan.

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Sun rising over the Detroit River (Just beyond view in the foreground).

Downriver, Jefferson & Outer Drive

October 25 2024

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NYC passenger train 355 Wolverine hindend passing crossing tower. Ecorse, MI April, 1961

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The Diamond Alkali is seen at an unknown location somewhere on the Great Lakes, sometime between 1939 and 1976.  Built at Ecorse, Michigan and launched in 1917 as the Frank H Goodyear, the ship was renamed Diamond Alkali in 1939, later renamed again as the Buffalo (1976-78) and Saginaw Bay (1978-85) before being towed to Spain and scrapped.

Image is scanned from a batch of photos cheaply purchased at the National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo; they were apparently left over from a special event.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Alien Runners To Penitentiary,” Border Cities Star. February 18, 1931. Page 03. ----- USED SKY ROUTE ---- Walker Airport Mentioned As Base For Gang ---- Penitentiary terms for five members of an Ecorse gang which used a fleet of 30 airplanes to smuggle liquor and aliens into the Unite States from the Border Cities were ordered yesterday afternoon in Detroit, after they had pleaded guilty. They also smuggled American cigarets back to Canada.

Three others were freed, four more are awaiting trial, and a further three, including S. L. Steadman, described as the ‘brains’ of the syndicate, are fugitives.

One of the five sentenced was Abe Gordon, of Windsor, who is named as a ringleader. He drew two years in Leavenworth, as did Norman Hunter, in whose Ecorse home were found records showing the running of as much as $50,000 worth of liquor in a month. John ‘Tear Gas Johnny’ Thorman and Robert Younts, were given 18 month each.

Capt. J. B. St. Louis, of Detroit, admitted alien smuggling, while the other four pleaded guilty to rum running. St. Louis was sentenced to two years, but was granted a week’s liberty on bail of $2,500 in order for his wife.

‘Ted’ Moore, U.S. treasury department special agent, who broke up the gang, testified that he had been pilot of one of the rum running planes. Fifteen of the gang’s ships were captured, mostly in the Detroit area, St. Louis was the ‘broker,’ and arranged with bootleggers in Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and Indian to finance the sky cargoes. He also made a deal whereby the planes, instead of returning to Canada unladen, smuggled back cigarets, according to Assistant District Attorney Walker. Although various points in Canada wee bases, the gang’s headquarters, Walker in court,was Walker Airport, Sandwich Eats

Operations began in October, 1929, and most of the arrests wee made in the spring of 1930.

[jonathanmorse]

Works, 1906 Great Lakes Engineering Works, Ecorse, Michigan. Source: Detroit Publishing Company Collection, Library of Congress, Photoshopped.

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