"PUSSYFOOT" JOHNSON.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 161, 9 July 1926, Page 7

"PUSSYFOOT" JOHNSON.

"I WOULD SHOOT TO KILL"

MORALS BY MACHINE GUNS.

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA

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(Received 1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 8. " Pussyfoot" Johnson declared he or anybody with ability and determination could enforce prohibition in the United States within six months, and outlined the following programme:— First: I would deal drastically with judges who turn chronic liquor offenders loose with ten dollar fines. Second: I would stop the criminal distribution of alcohol, denatured or otherwise, which could be done by purely administrative measures. •Third: I would attack the turning loose of tens of thousands of chronic offenders through the parole pardoning system become a scandal in so many States. fourth: If necessary I would make full use of army and navy. Fifth: I would make the fullest possible use of what is known as "double jeopardy"; where the Federal Court would not function I would call on State Courts, and where State Courts would not function I would make use of the municipal courts. Sixth: I would throw downstairs or out of the window any Department official who issued permits for releasing liquor for sacramental purposes without first ascertaining if it is to be used for those purposes. Seventh: When any public official who is charged with the enforcement of the law made public declarations that the law could not be enforced I would demand that he should immediately get out of the way to make room for someone who had ability and faith in himself to make sood. Eighth: I would shoot to kill; by that 1 mean I would mean business; in other words I would enforce the law right up to the hilt. In the meantime Prohibition officials in Washington have declared that women are entering the bootlegging business with a rush, and suceeedine better than the males. The deeire for fur coats and expensive clothes is believed to be the principal incentive to the many thousands of women now operating.— (A and X.Z.)