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“‘Bottoms Up’ Is Customs Slogan,” Border Cities Star. February 20, 1932. Page 5. ---- BEER AND ALE bottles, to the number of 103,200, are being drained into a sewer, as Canadian customs officers, carrying out orders from Ottawa, destroy 1,300 cases of contraband held in storage here since the rum-runner, Vedas, was captured a year and a half ago. The beer and ale was spoiled. The men shown above have been busy opening and emptying bottles since Tuesday morning, and will need another two weeks to finish the job. The small truck, loaded with bags, is used to carry the beer from a large adjoining room, where it has been stored. At the right, an officer is opening a sack, to remove the bottles. At his right, holding a beer bottle, is another officer, whose whole time is taken up in opening the bottles, which he passes on to the two men to his right, who place them, neck down, in holes bored in a large rack above the drain. And that is the end of that consignment of beer and ale.