AMERICA’S COSTLY TASK
KEEPING NATION “DRY” £5,000,000 MORE FOR FUND (Australian and N.Z. Press Association)_ (Received 10.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Friday. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved an increase oC £5,000,000 in the fund for prohibition enforcement, the increase to become immediately available for the Prohibition Bureau. The Act must be approved by the House and the Senate, the committee of which has asked the bureau for a statement showing how the increase would be spent. The Washington correspondent of the “New York World” says it is indicated that an investigation over the whole country into Prohibition enforcement, and the effect of the 18th amendment of the Constitution of the Volstead Act, with their relation to crime, will be made by the Presidentelect, Mr. Hoover, when he is in office. Mr. Hoover does not want a biassed report. Therefore he prefers to name his own investigators to find out the facts. Mr. Hoover’s friends assert that he has told members of Congress that he has a definite plan to carry out his promise to name a commission to study the question in a thorough, careful and businesslike manner.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 560, 12 January 1929, Page 7
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