POISON LIQUOR.
~ ♦ AGITATION IN AMERICA. (Br CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPrSIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLB ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, January 4. National attention continues to be focused on the 3000 deaths from poisoned denatured alcohol during the recent holiday season. Mr A. W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, has urged the Government to use all possible speed to remove the poison ingredients from the present supplies. The American Chemical Society has requested its 15,000 members to make suggestions for a new non-poisonous denaturant.
General Lincoln C. Andrews, Chief "Dry" Officer, has announced that it is safe to assume that most of these holiday deaths were caused from denatured alcohol officially poisoned, from which bootleggers thought they had removed the poison, but had failed.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18892, 6 January 1927, Page 7
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118POISON LIQUOR. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18892, 6 January 1927, Page 7
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