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PR9HIBITIQN OFFENDERS. EULINCr IN AMEEICA. (Received. 1.30 p.m.) ■ WASHINGTON, February A Violators of the. Prohibition. La\ys throughout the. United States, numbering; 1.3,1)00,. who were indicted bot'oro the repeal-of the. ISth ■•■ Amendment a t December, today Avon ( their freedom . when .the, Supremo -Court ruled that they -could no longer be prosecuted. ; . ’ ‘ . A, test case brought by the Government respited ip thq Court deciding that, despite the.CQmnion, law ..requiring the pacific withdrawal . of penalties by the Repeal Act, the Courts no longer had power to punish people for old Prohibition offences.
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Northern Advocate, 7 February 1934, Page 3
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