IN SIX MONTHS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 254, 10 July 1926, Page 9

IN SIX MONTHS

ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION HOW “PUSSYFOOT” WOULD DO IT DRASTIC PROPOSALS Br TsLEosArH-— PbEss Association OoPtrigHt (Rec. July 8, 5.5 p.m.) New York. July 8. Mr. W. E. (“Pussyfoot”) Johnson declared that he, or anybody with ability and determination, could enforce Prohibition in the United States within six months. He outlined the following programme:— ‘(1) I would deal drastically with Judges who turn chronic liquor offenders loose with ten-dollar fines; (2) I would stop the criminal distribution of alcohol, denatured or otherwise, which can be done by purely administrative measures; (3) I would attack the turning loose of tens of thousands of chronic offenders through the parolepardoning system that has become a scandal in so many States; (4) it necessary, I would make full use of the Army and the Navy; (5) I would make the fullest possible use of what is known as 'double jeopardy’: where a Federal Court would not function ! would call on State Courts, and, where the State did not function, I would make use of Municipal Courts; (6) 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 the liquor was to be used for those purposes; (7) when any public official, charged with the enforcement of the law, made public declarations that the law could not be enforced, I would demand that he immediately get out of the way and make room for someone who had ability and faith in himself to make good; (8) I would shoot to kill—by that I mean I would mean business; I would, m other words, enforce the law up to the hilt.” . In the meantime Prohibition officials at Washington declare that women are entering the bootleg business• with a rush, and succeeding more than males. The desire for fur coats and expensive clothes is believed to be the principal incentive. Now -many thousands are operating.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ‘‘RUM ROW” INVADED (Rec. July 9, 8.10 p.m.) New York, July 8. The newest development in the United States fight against rum runners came to-day, when a destroyer invaded "rum row,” seventy miles off shore and seized the Canadian schoner Sumner. This is the first time the high seas beyond the twelve mile limit have been invaded. The Government’s case is based upon the alleged establishment of a conspiracy between the crew and Americans ashore. The United States is apparently taking the right to make seizures anywhere under

these cicumstances. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.