Washington, Jan. 9.
One of the most outstanding cases of the days of Prohibition, namely, the litigation arising out of the sink Ing of the rum-runner "I'm Alone" in March, 1929, by an American coast-guard cutter, ended to-day when a joint American-Canadian Commission decided that the United States chauid apologize for the sink~ Ing of the vessel and pay Canada {$25,000 compensation.
While the Commission agreed that no compensation should-be paid the owner of the vessel, it decided that the captain and crew of the "Ym Alone" should be compensated for the wrong done them by casting them Into the sea and by putting them in trons. In this connection the Commission ruled that the United States should pay to the captain {$7,908 and to the seven members of the crew sums ranging from $905 to $1,323.
The widow of a member of the crew who was drowned was awarded $10,185.
"The Canadian claim in respect of the sinking of the rum-runner and liber cargo of 2,800 cases of rum and whiskey off the Louisiana coast was
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