AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1930, Page 5

AMERICAN ITEMS

LIQUOR IN U.S.A. EFFORTS AT SMUGGLING. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Determined efforts are still being made to smuggle liquor into the United States from the sea according to the annual report of Commissioner Doran. One preventive officer recently returned to headquarters and said the progress of his men through the state sounded like tlie battle of the Marne so many rifles being fired at a set distance to warn the home, folk oi .their approach. . Last year federal officers made sixty-eight thousand arrests with fifty-five thousand convictions. Fines exceeding a million sterling and motor cars and motor boats worth eight hundred thousand sterling, were confiscated. VOLSTEAD, ACT. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.

The Prohibition Department’s report for the year ending June 30th stated gaol sentences, •aggregating over fourteen thousand years, wore imposed on violators under the \ olstead Act, 66,788,000 dollars "ere collected ilt fineiv 08,173 arrests made, 22,405 gaol sentences out of 54,085 convictions, and 567 charges of corruption among prohibition enforcement officials investigated. “In a large proportion of capes charges were either absolutely disproved or dropped for lack of evidence.” Two million dollars of whisky were legally manufactured for medicinal purposes.