ENFORCING PROHIBITION
v. SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES ARISE
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright!.
ißeceived this day at JO a.m.) WASHINGTON, .June 18.
Ihe situation caused by prohibition agents shootings, cabled on 12tli June, has now become acute, and created the major problem for the Administration.
Mr Hoover is admittedly worried over the widespread indignation throughout the United States. Among the latest developments in Georgia, a Constable is held on a charge of first degree of murder for killing a youth whom he thought possessed liquor, while in Arkansas a Sheriff is held in a similar case, and has been placed in the State Penitentiary to protect him from mob (fury. .Meantime there is even a more delicate future situation in the continuous protest from the Canadian officials regarding the actions of American agents at the Border, an instance of which is a report made by the Police Chief Proctor, of Sandwich, Ontario, to the Ottawa Government that a Canadian woman in a speed boat ,was menaced by machine gun bullets fired by an American Coastguard boat in Canadian waters. Another bullet recently (cashed through a window of a Sandwich dwelling narrowly missing a sleeping child. .Mr Hoover, to-day. strongly deplored the taking of human life. In commenting on the recent shootings, lie said:—“l deeply deplore the killing of any person ’’ The President simultaneously announced that the Treasury Department was making a constant effort to ■irevent the misuse of arms by the Rovder patrol. Me declared that what onscituted a misuse would lie determined by the ordinary processes of the • reasury Department and the Courts.’’
At the same time, Mr Hoover called •’P”ii the residents of the border cities o co-operate with the Government to •irevent the violation of American laws iiv international criminals. He said :
■* I hope the communities along the border will do their best to. end the systematic violations of the laws of the United States by international criminals.’'
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1929, Page 5
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319ENFORCING PROHIBITION Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1929, Page 5
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