PROHIBITION LAW.
OFFICER’S STATEMENT
WASHINGTON, r\pril G. general Andrews, officer in charge of prohibition enforcement, examined by “wet” Senators, admitted that 815 persons, approximately one out of every ten, had been expelled from the Prohibition Enforcement Unit, but he insisted that it was minimising graft, dishonesty and other objectiouable features of the dry regime.
General Andrews further admitted that the coast guard succeeded in barring only 5 per cent of foreign liquor smuggled into the United States. He said that a number of so-called “druggists” had started business in every large city for the purpose of selling alcohol, and were under-selling and seriously affecting the business of legitimate druggists. Ho said that a variety of industrial mixtures, also embalming fluid, were being distilled for beverage purposes. General Andrews deplored the recent ruling of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, whereby he said that 340 denaturing plants, shut down by the Prohibition Unit under suspicion of diverting alcohol illegally, woidd be allowed to resume operations. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 109, 8 April 1926, Page 7
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