AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.
[Australia it N.Z. Cable Association. PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT. FIGURES FROM U.S.A. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Nov. 25. The Department of Justice Division in charge ot the Prohibition litigation reported that during the prohibition period fines totalling thirty million dollars and jail sentences aggregating twelve thousand years were imnused upon Volstead Act violators. The report stated in a .summary that the trend of prohibition enforcement disclosed : (1) The Government was prosecuting larger and more important cases. (2) A decrease within the last two years in the number of eases ponding, r including more prompt trials. (•1) The penalties for violation, especially jail and prison sen ten; cs were steadily increasing, (■•) The very substantial increase in the number of padlock injunctions reporter!. flic United States Government until 30th. June convicted 15-1,772 persons for violating peohibiton. acquitted 7414 and dismissed 30,213. leaving 21.037 eases pending. The Federal courts are becoming more strenuous regarding violations. The average jail sentence was increased by 25 per cent, in 1025 as compared with 102-1, when the average sentence was 21 days. The average fine in 1025 was 200 dollars. During 1025 there were 1317 more convictions than in 1024.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1925, Page 3
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197AMERICAN CABLE NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1925, Page 3
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