PROHIBITION LAW.
ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES. UNITED STATES STATISTICS. WASHINGTON. Dee. 8. Determined efforts are still being made to smuggle intoxicating liquor into the United States from the sea, according to Iho annual report of the Prohibition Commissioner, Mr. James M. Doran. Ono preventive officer who recently returned to headquarters said tJio progress of his men throughont the. State had sounded like a battle, so many rifles had been fired at set distances and warned people of their approach. Last year Federal oflicors had made 60,000 arrests and there had been 54.000 convictions and fines exceeding £1,000,000. Motor-cars and motor-boats worth £BOO,OOO had been confiscated when found to liavo beei) in use for transporting liquor. Sentences of imprisonment aggregating more than 14,000 years had been imposed on violators of the Volstead Act. A total of 567 charges of corruption against prohibition enforcement officials bad been investigated. In a very largo proportion of the cases the charges cither had been absolutely disproved or dropped for lack of evidence. Two million gallons of whisky had legally been manufactured for medicinal purposes.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20743, 10 December 1930, Page 13
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