EVIL TRAFFICKING
DRUGS AND LIQUOR
PREVALENCE IN AMERICA,
A DISQUIETING: REVIEW.
(United Press Assn. Copyright.) (Received 10.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, February 7. The House Appropriations Committee approved the expenditure of nearly 13,000,000 dollars for Federal prohibition enforcement in the fiscal vear.
The committee published a report stating that there were 100,000 drug' ' addicts in the United States, including many professional persons and children. **>
It also stated that the illicit liquor traffic was growing, due to substitution of the scholastic type of dry agents for husky officers. The report urged the necessity of separating youthful prisoners from older criminals to prevent- the latter teaching the former their occupations, especially counterfeiting, while imprisoned.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 8 February 1928, Page 5
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