PROHIBITION LAWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19218, 6 January 1926, Page 9

PROHIBITION LAWS.

CANADIAN VESSEL SEIZURE, j THE CONVICTIONS UPHELD. j A. and N.Z. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 4. I The United States Circuit Court has j upheld the conviction of the eight defendants in the steamer Quadra case on the charge of violating the Volstead Act and the collateral treaties designed to prevent rum smuggling. The Quadra was owned in British Columbia and was seized here, the convictions following. The decision sustains the right of the ! Government to seize vessels suspected of being ram-runners within 12 miles of the mainland, and,' in effect, declares legal and binding treaties and agreements between Canada and the United States for the suppression of rum smuggling. BREWERS' HOPES AND PLANS. REVIVAL OF HOP-CROWING. NEW TORE. Dec. 27. Brewers are convinced that the prohibition law will soon be amended. They consider that the sale of beer will be permitted, and are making their plan 3 accordingly. Chief among these is a revival of the hop-growing industry on a Targe scale in the United States. They intend to have a large supply ready when the law is amended. In Congress, the Republican representative Phillips said it was absnrd to erpect citizens to obey an unreasonable law. He added that prohibition, fanaticism, intolerance, racial animosity and class hatred had created a serious situation in the United States. One of the speediest of the new rum patrol boats was reported missing. After an all-night search it was found hidden away in a remote cove. It is believed that plavfnl ram smugglers were responsible for its disappearance. * FIGHT IN MOUNTAINS. LAST OF FAMILY KILLED. NEW YORK, Dec. 23. Well known as an intrepid mountain " moonshiner." Willie Fleming was fatally wounded by Government prohibition agents near Pikeville, in Kentucky, after a desperate battle on a mountain crest. Fleming had barricaded his aged mother in a log cabin. | It has been a family boast that no Fleming was ever taken alive. Fleming's father and brothers wore all killed in various shooting episodes among the mountains.