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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6756, 8 November 1928, Page 4

Commences Friday First 250 Wilton and Aaninsler Carpets to be drastically marked down, these are products of the best British forms aid thoroughly reliable m use. Do not miss this great opportunity of getting your carpet requirements at wemtaftßy low pHces. All sizes aid polities in 9 The North SB .' XT ■ ; Reprinted from SBBS % ■- i -r MONPAY,; JULY. 23, ■■ 1928. ' WET ” FINGER-PRINTS ■‘TN U.S.A. • INDEX^OP r PROHIBITION OFFENDERS. Read what the London h crimes ” says about the most outrageous persecution of modern times. No wonder lawless* ness is rampant in CJ.S.A. when prohib° ition is creating a nation of criminals. '{FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ’%EW.YORK, July 22 , /DrT Doranthe Commissioner of Prohibition in a Washington, gave orders yesterday for a more strenuous campaign against violations of the liquor laws, and for’ its more effective prosecution the taking of finger-prints, hitherto employed only upon those'charged ,with a felony, is to be extended to misdemeanants. Henceforth - anyone in the United Slates who gives anyone else a drink of anything containing more than one-half of 1 per cent, of alcohol, or who transports even a minute quantity of such a drink ’no farther than, say, across the street, or who has such liquor in his possession/ makes himself liable to have his .finger-, prints taken, and to have them and his Bertillon measurements, together with a ■ record of his life and doings, included in ,a sort of “ National Rogues’ Gallery. ■Nor are~these all the offences which make one eligible for such distinction The' possibilities 'i of transgression of the Volstead Act a'nd the Eighteenth Amend- 1 ment are as the sands of the sea, and every one of them which involves a mis-’ demeanour can earn the offender his finger-prints and his dossier in Washington . ' : ' if As an offset,however, prohibition agents operating on the highways are henceforward to be distinguished by blue caps and shiny badges, so that when these agents shoot at motorists running awayi from what they think is a “ hold Up ” the' motorists may know that they are being lawfully shot at. Ignorance of the identity of prohibition agents has been responsible in the past for the death or serious injury of many innocent, or comparatively inno- / cent, persona ' ' . ’ VOTE CONTINUANCE Strike out the \TWo \Bottom Lines vote for National Continuance V,