ENFORCING PROHIBITION

Evening Star, Issue 19298, 10 July 1926, Page 4

ENFORCING PROHIBITION

"PUSSYFOOT" JOHNSON'S WAY WOMEN TURNING BOOTLEGGERS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, NEW YORK, July 8. “Pussyfoot” Johnson declared that lie or anybody with ability and determination could enforce Prohibition in tho United States within six months. He outlined tho following programme:— “First, I would deal drastically with those judges who turn chronic liquor offenders loose with JOclol linos. “ Secondly, 1 would stop tho criminal distribution of alcohol, dematnred or otherwise, which can bo done by purely administrative measures. “ Thirdly, 1 would attack tbo turning loose of tens of thousands of chronic offenders through tho parole pardoning ■system that has become a scandal in so many States. “ Fourthly, if necessary, I would make full use of tho army and navv. “ Fifthly, I would make the fullest possible use of what is known as ‘ double jeopardy.’ Whore tho Federal Court would not function, I would call on the State courts, and where tho State would not function I would make use of the municipal courts. “ Sixthly, I would throw downstairs or out of the window any departmental official who issued permits for releasing liquor for sacramental purposes without first ascertaining if it were to bo used for those purposes. “Seventhly, 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 should immediately get out of tho way and make room for someone who had the ability and faith in himself to make good. “ Eighthly, I would shoot to kill. By that I mean 1 would mean business. I would, in other words, enforce tho lan up to. the hilt.” In the meantime Prohibition officials at Washington declared that women were entering the bootleg business with a rush, and were succeeding more than men. The desire for fur coats and expensive clothes is believed to he the principal incentive. Many thousands are now operating.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

CANADIAN VESSEL SEIZED OUTSIDE TWELVE-MILE LIMIT. NEW YORK, July 8. The newest development of America’s fight against tho rum-runners came to-day, when a destroyer invaded “ Rum Row,” seventy miles off shore, and seized the Canadian schooner Summer. This is the first time that tho high seas, beyond the twelve-miles limit, have been invaded. The Government’s case is based upon the establishment of a conspiracy between the crow and Americans on shore. America is apparently undertaking the right io make seizures anywhere in those circumstances.—Sydney 1 Sun ’ Cable.