Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-01
23STATES BECOME
BONE DRY" AFTER
LAST MIDNIGHT
'fhipment of Liquor Into
i Any Prohibition Terri
tory Now Illegal.
VIOLATIONS WILL RESULT
IN HEAVY PENALTIES
Mail Matter Containing Ads or
Solicitations for Intoxi-
cants Also Barred.
REED AMENDMENT EFFECTIVE
Hailed as Greatest Single Step To-
ward Abolition of Whisky
Traffic Yet Taken.
REED AMENDMENT EFFECTIVE
tBv Associated Pres,.t

I .
- WASHINGTON. juno 30.-T ty-
three States Will be bone dry after
midnight tonight. the effective hour of
mo Reed amendment. prohibiting ship
ment of liquor into any territory where
Its manufacture or sale is prohibited.
/ Sieven other States are partially af-
! fected by the legislation, which has
81 neen hailed by temperance advocates
81 as the greatest single step toward
3iapoDtton of the liquor traffic yet taken
IN the nations history.
~. The law bars from prohibition areas.
whether States or smaller corporations,
al mail matter containing advertise
inents or solicitations for orders for
a provision designed to aid
enforcing the antishipmcnt feature
suppressing the activities of mail
tder houses in dry territory.
INTENSIVE PREPARATIONS
TO ENFORCE STATUTE:
Mice and PostOffice Department
~ have made extensive prepare
- for enforcement Of the statute.
He'd States marshals and postal in
x5ectors everywhere have been in
3tructed to be on the lookout for v:o-
lations. There are heavy penalties for
Violations.
s53: Ethyl alcohol is regarded by the Fed
y eral government as an intoxicating
liquor within the meaning OF the act
4 but methyl, wood and denatured alco-
( hols are not 30 regarded. No ruling
Y has been. made regarding the status
of patent medicines containing alcohol.
and that question may be among the
hrst 10 be passed on by the courts
4 under the legislation.
80 The language of the antishipm n t
section is very comprehensive. impos-
4 Ing a fine OF $1,000 and imprisonme n I
y Tor six months. or both on any person
who shall order. purchase cause
liquors to be transported
In interstate commerce. except for sci
\ enttfc. sacramental. medicinal or me-
! chanical purposes, into any State or
Territory, the laws Of which State or
4 Territory prohibit the manufacture or
sale therein of Intoxicating liquors for
beverage purposes"
The same penalties are prescribed for
yiolators of the misunderstanding section.
For second offense in either case the
penalty is made one years imprison-
ment.
LIST OF STATES AFFECTED
WHOLLY AND IN PART
The Post-Ofice Department. In pro-
mitigating its order for enforcement of
\ the antiadvertising section. names the
Nfpllowing States as wholly affected:
Following are the State wholly af-
Ected by the act:
Alabama. Arizona. Arkansas. Colo
lido, Georgia. Idaho. Iowa. Kansas.
Aaine, Mississippi. Nebraska. North
s,Earolina. North Dakota. Oklahoma.
AAregon. Rhode Island. South Carolina.
i touth Dakota. Tennessee. Vermont.
Virginia, Washington and West Vir-
enia.
! Whose partially affected are:
I, yCalifornia. Connecticut. Delaware.
4 yuisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts.
Snnesota. New Hampshire. New York.
Ito and Texas.
The following are affected at future
les:
ilaska, January /. 1918; Indiana.
lii 3. 1918: Michigan. April 80. 1918:
IS htana. December 81. 1918. and Utah.
s, Eust 1. 1917.