PROHIBITION LAW
SENSATION IN AMERICA. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyriguk NEW YORK, December 29. High society circles are staggered by the Grand Jury indicting Rene La Montiene, an international polo player and a leading society man, together with three brothers, on charges that they supply the millionaire members of an exclusive racquet and tennis club with liquor, and that thev otherwise conspired to evade the prohibition laws.— A. and N.Z. Cable. FEDERAL COURT’S ANSWER. WASHINGTON, December 30. (Received Jan. 1, at 5.5 p.m.) The Federal Government has filed with the Supreme Court its answer to a suit brought by the shipping lines to have set aside the Daugherty ruling providing for the transportation of liquor inside the three' mile limit. The Government declares that the United States Constitution cannot be made to conform to the foreign nations’ shipping regulations, and it adds: “We have no reason to believe that Italy and Franco will object to the recasting of their shipping regulations so as to conform to our law, as soon as that law is settled by this court.” —A. and N.Z. Cable. ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18750, 2 January 1923, Page 7
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180PROHIBITION LAW Otago Daily Times, Issue 18750, 2 January 1923, Page 7
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