PROHIBITION LAW

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 82, 31 December 1929, Page 9

PROHIBITION LAW

ENFORCEMENT METHODS DRASTIC CHANGES Washington, December 29. Drastic changes at least in the method of enforcement of prohibition appear to be impending as the result of the recent discussion of the question, in which prominent Senatorial figures have covertly attacked. or defended President Hoover’s attitude. The situation was intensified to-night, when Senator Borah, an ardent “dry,” brushed aside his fellow Prohibitionists, who would silence his “nagging criticism” of the Administration, and declared that “practically open saloons are running in the jurisdiction of District Attorney after District Attorney throughout the country.” The statement was particularly aimed against Senator Jones, who urged that the President be supported at the crucial stage of his enforcement policy. This referred to President Hoover’s law enforcement commission, the report of which is impending, and which, it is rumoured, will advocate basic changes in the Prohibition enforcement organisation. In the meantime, the Department of Justice has taken far-reaching steps to prevent nolle prosequi pleas of prohibition prosecutions without the Department’s specific consent, and the Association against prohibition announces that the nation’s drink bill is 2500 million dollars, despite prohibition. RUM-RUNNER FIRED UPON THREE MEN KILLED. New York, December 29. Two interesting incidents in connection with rum running occurred toda?. The coastuard of Newport tired upon an escaping American rum runner, dubbed the “Black Duck,” and killed three, men and seriously wounded one. A large cargo of liquor was captured. A supposedly British rum runner, Flor Del Mar, was discovered by the coast patrol off Montauk laden with liquor and on fire.