AMERICAN PROHIBITION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19970, 11 December 1926, Page 13

AMERICAN PROHIBITION

ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW PLANS FOR COMING YEAR, (Prfßß Asaooiatlon—By Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, December 9. Mr Lincoln Andrews (Prohibition Enforcement Officer) outlined his plans before the House Appropriations Committee. He declared that little good liquor was available, and the supply would continue to decrease. Most of the liquor now consisted of alcohol, water, and flavouring extracts. The chief prohibition question was to prevent a diversion of grain alcohol to the bootleggers. Mr Andrews’s disbursement fund, which is used to employ secret agents, many of whom never appeared on the pay roll, has increased from 250,000d0l to COO.OOOdoI, He explained that the fund was necessary, because many agents would be killed if anybody knew they were working for the Government. He said that at the end of another year he hoped that the number of prohibition units could be materially reduced and the grade materially increased. —A. and N.Z. Cable. SEIZURES OF LIQUOR. OPERATIONS OF PROHIBITION AGENTS. WASHINGTON, December 9. During the fiscal* year prohibition agents confiscated over 27,000,000 gallons of intoxicants, made 72,700 arrests, captured 12,172 distilleries, 12,248 stills. 5953 automobiles, 187 boats, seized 14.220.000 gallons of beer, 1,247,000 gallons of' whisky and rum, 808,000 gallons of wine. 193,000 gallons of cider, and 12.248.000 gallons of mash from stills. Violators’ property confiscated was valued at more than 13,000,000d01. The Treasury collected over 5,231.000d0l in fines. Nineteen people were killed, of whom 18 were violators and six dry agents. The naw seized 228 vessels.—A. and N.Z. Cable. APPROPRIATION OPPOSED. ATTACK ON ENFORCEMENT POLICY. WASHINGTON, December 9. (Received Dec. 10, at 5.5 p.m.) Mr Gallivan on Thursday opened the “wets” attack in Congress on the 12,000,000 dollars appropriation for the prohibition unit in the Treasury Department’s Appropriation Bill. He said that almost a billion dollars had been expended on prohibition enforcement. This money would shortly be needed, because “south of the Rio Grande a storm is brewing with the aid of the very elements that arc engineered by prohibition in this country. I say that the Red enemies of civilisation and of religion and Mexico are the allies of prohibition in America.” —A. and N.Z. Cable.