ENFORCING PROHIBITION

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1929, Page 5

ENFORCING PROHIBITION

AMERICA’S PROBLEM. (United Press Association.—By Electric . Telegraph.—Copyright.) 'OTTAWA, January 11. The United States to-day failed to obtain the consent of the Canadian Government to a treaty for drastic efforts to suppress the annual hundred million dollar illicit liquor shipment ifrom the Dominion. A conference between American and Canadian officials here over a period of several days, 'ended without result. The United States wanted Canada to agree to refuse to issue papers to vessels clearing for the United States ports with cargoes of liquor. ‘-The American delegates departed feeling that Canadian opinion is that America must make a more strenuous effort to enforce her own laws to halt smuggling before coming for help to a neighbouring country. NEAV YORK, January 11. Tlie New York World’s Washington correspondent states that investigation throughout the nation into prohibition enforcement and the effect of ■'•the Eighteenth Amendment of the .Volstead Act with their relation to crime, will be made by Mr Hoover, is indicated here to-day. Air Hoover does not want a biased report, therefore he prefers to name his own investigators to find out the facts. Mr Hoover’s friends assert that; he has told members oif Congress that he lias a. definite plan to carry out, and lias promised to name a commission"to study the question in a thorough .and careful businesslike manner.