U.S. PROHIBITION

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1929, Page 5

U.S. PROHIBITION

DRASTIC CHANGES SUGGESTED. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright. ] (Received this day at 8 a.m.) WAHINGTON, Dec. 28. Drastic changes, at least in the method of enforcement of prohibition, appear impending the result of the recent discussion on the question wherein prominent Senatorial figures have covertly attacked or defended Air Hoover’s attitude. The situation was intensified to-night when Mr Borah, an ardent dry, brushed aside fellow prohibitionists who would silence his “nagping criticism” of the administration, and declared that, ‘‘practically open saloons are running in the jurisdiction of district attorney after district attorney, throughout the country.” The statement is particularly aimed against Senator Jones, who urged that the President he supported at the crucial stage of his enforcement policy. This referred to Mr Hoover’s law enforcement commission, whose report is impending, and which it is rumoured will advocate basic changes of prohibition enforcement. The organisation meantime, of the Department of Justice has taken far reaching steps to prevent the nolle prosseing of prohibition prosecutions without the Department’s specific consent, and the Association against Prohibition announces the nation’s drink hill is 2,500 million dollars, despite prohibition.