SECRET TESTIMONY
FAILURE OF LIQUOR LAWS HINTED IN STATES ENFORCEMENT DIFFICULTIES Reed. 8 a.m. NEW YORK, Monday. The New York “Herald-Tribune’s” Washington correspondent says President Hoover’s Baw Enforcement Commission is investigating behind closed doors which separate it from the hearings going on before the House Judiciary dommittee. It has already collected “astounding” evidence of the almost complete breakdown of prohibition enforcement in many parts of the country. The evidence under consideration concerns not the congested courts, but the psychological effects of the efforts of enforcement upon a sectiou of the population by whom the laws are not regarded as morally binding. The situation in the cities is said to have given rise to wholly dispassionate testimony concerning' the difficulties of enforcement, which in many instances eclipse the shocking claims recently made publicly by the “wets” before the House Committee.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 918, 11 March 1930, Page 9
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139SECRET TESTIMONY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 918, 11 March 1930, Page 9
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