PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 January 1929, Page 7

PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT

MR HOOVER’S POLICY.

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)

NEW YORK, January 11

The New York World’s Washington correspondent states that investigation throughout the nation into prohibition enforcement and the effect of the Eighteenth Amendment of the Volstead Act with their relation to crime, will be made by Mr Hoover, is indicated here to-day. Mr Hoover does not want a biased report, therefore he prefers to name his own investigators to find out the facts. Mr Hoover’s friends assert he has told members of Congress that he has a definite plan to carry out, and has promised to name a commission to study the question in a thorough and careful businesslike manner.

INCREASED GRANT.

WASHINGTON, January 11.

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved of the increase of twentyfive million dollars in the fund for prohibition enforcement, the increase to become immediately available. The Prohibition Bureau Act must be approved by the House and Senate Committee, which has asked the Bureau for a statement showing how the increase would be spent. NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA. OTTAWA, January 11. The United States to-day failed to obtain the consent of the Canadian Government to a treaty for drastic efforts to suppress the annual hundred million dollar illicit liquor shipments from the Dominion. A conference between American and Canadian officials here over a period of several days, ended without result. The United States wanted Canada to agree to refuse to issue papers to vessels clearing for the United States ports with cargoes of liquor., The American delegates departed feeling that Canadian opinion is that America must make a more strenuous effort to enforce her own laws to halt smuggling before coming for help to a neighbouring country.