Federal confirmation of aerial narcotic smuggling occurred by April 1920, "Booze and Dope Runners Use Aeroplane" "Use of Aeroplane to Smuggle Booze Suggested By Ace" The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia) February 22, 1919, 10. "Smuggling of Narcotic Drugs Into the United States By Means of Aeroplanes" Memorandum to the Secretary General of the League of Nations from Department of State via Coast Guard, May 10, 1934, Coast guard Intelligence Division, Entry 297, Record Group 26, Box 48, 8-9. Ibid, 2, 7. J. Anne Funderburg. Bootleggers and Beer Barons of the Prohibition Era (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2014), Kindle location 7090-7100. Marty Gervais, The Rumrunners: A Prohibition Scrapbook, 30 th Anniversary Edition (Emeryville, Canada: Biblioasis, 2009), 51-9. Rodgers, 56. Rodgers, 63. Rodgers, 66. Hassell, 51-56. Bert Acosta, "Outlaws of the Air" - Part 1: "Gangsters, Modern in Their Ways, Turn to Smuggling Aliens, Dope and Illicit Liquor" (December 30, 1935), 15, Part 2: "Bootleggers of the Skies" (December 31, 1935), 13, Part 3: "Smuggling Aliens Across the Border" (January 2, 1936), 15, Part 4: "Smuggling Dope" (January 3, 1936), 19, Part 5: "Policing the Air Lanes" The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (January 4, 1936), 13. Examples include Shadows of the Orient (Larry Darmour Productions, 1935), Daughter of Shanghai (Paramount Pictures, 1937), and Secret Service of the Air (Warner Bros., 1939) starring Ronald Reagan; Given George Lucas' fondness for these serials, one presumes that Han Solo's Millennium Falcon of Star Wars fame owes a debt of gratitude to Bert Acosta's tall tales.