“Where Big Liquor Biz Is Still Going On,”
from the Elizabeth City Independent,
Feb. 8, 1935
Distilling and rum-running operations on a large scale
continue unabated in the Old Trap section of Camden County, according to
reports of reliable, law-abiding citizens who live on the highway between Old
Trap and Shawboro.
It is the Indiantown Road that the rum-runners use in
transporting liquor to Norfolk and other Virginia points where North Carolina
corn finds a ready market in competition with the green and blended higher
priced goods purveyed by the ABC liquor stores.
A good citizen of the Indiantown neighborhood tells this
newspaper that he and his family are afraid to venture on the road nights
because of the heavy bootleg traffic. Heavy trucks and high powered automobiles
going at terrific speed use the highway nightly in transporting materials to
the stills in lower Camden and bringing out the finished product.
And Revenue officers complain that they are handicapped in
catching the rum-runners because of inadequate transportation facilities. Under
the former Prohibition laws, government agents could use cars confiscated from
bootleggers and rum-runners. Under the regulations now in force they can do
this, and the U.S. Treasury Department is slow in furnishing them new
automobiles.
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