The Scandanavia II

ROSE, District Judge.

The United States seeks the forfeiture of the gasoline screwboat Scandanavia, because a license was fraudulently obtained and used for it.

There is little question as to the facts. Prior to 1915, a firm trading as Bie & Schiott had been extensively engaged in the shipchandlery business at several American ports. In the year it was succeeded by a New Jersey corporation of the same name, the majority of whose stock was alien owned. In the fall of 1917 it had use for a gasoline launch, and contracted with a boat builder of Camden, N. J., to construct one for it. He did so,…