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PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT

THIRTEEN MILLION DOLLARS TO BE SPENT 100,000 DRUG ADDICTS Press Association- By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, February 7. (Received February 8, at 11.30 a.m.) The House Appropriations Committee has approved of the expenditure of nearly thirteen million dollars for Federal '.Prohibition enforcement during the next fiscal year. The committee published a report stating that there were 100,000 drug addicts in the United States, including many professional persons and children. It also stated that the illicit honor traffic is growing, due to the substitution of the scholastic type of dry agents for husky officers. The report urged the necessity of separating youthful prisoners from older criminals to prevent the latter teaching the former their occupations, especially counterfeiting, while they were imprisoned.

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Evening Star, Issue 19785, 8 February 1928, Page 5

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120

PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT Evening Star, Issue 19785, 8 February 1928, Page 5

PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT Evening Star, Issue 19785, 8 February 1928, Page 5

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