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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
700 Dry Agents
Are Discharged
Lack of Funds Cripple Federal
Enforcement

On May Is it was announced at
Washington that Federal Prohibition
forces would be reduced by more
than two-thirds for a period of 40
days preceding July because OF a
lack of funds.
In making this announcement,
Commissioner Kramer said il was
obvious that the government could
not give rigid enforcement of the
dry laws with a staff so depleted, but
that he was hopeful that there would
be little increase in illegal traffic.
He said that in February the treas
ury asked Congress for a deficiency
appropriation of Sl,6O0,0O0 but re-
ceived only Sl.4O0,000. The 100000
denied by Congress, he said. had to
be saved, and the only way was to
cut the staff.
When the appropriations for the
next fiscal. year are available on July
], he said, stronger Prohibition
force could be built up, as the new
allotment of $7,5Oo,000 was greater
E than formerly given the bureau
The commissioner said that the
Prohibition authorities would not call
on the department of justice or any
other federal agency for assistance,
In states like Ohio, New York, and
New Jersey, where there are state dry
codes, he asserted, little change in
enforcement was to be expected. In
others, where state Prohibition has
not been adopted, the situation was
uncertain.
The dismissal OF seventy-6ve
agents in the central department will
necessitate the striking from federal
dockets of more than 500 booze cases.
government officials say. The thou
sands of dollars already expended by
the government in obtaining evidence
will be wasted.
In view of this il is estimated that
total of more than $4,000 such cases
will have 10 be dismissed throughout
the country.
District Attorney Clyne pointed out
that once the dry agents sever con-
nections with the government it will
be exceedingly difficult to find them
again, much less serve them with sub
poenas when they are wanted as wit
nesses in liquor cases.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
GOTHAM TO PUT ON Big :
BOOZE PARADE ON FOURTH
Ad. in Local Paper Alleged 10
Have Brought Shower of
Letters and kilograms
PROTEST VOLSTEAD ACT
100000 Booze-Histers Called to
Colors; Personal Liberty
Irnperilled

A New York dispatch of May %
says that approximately $4,000 per-
sons are said TO have answered the
advertisement inserted in a New York
newspaper on the morning of the
10th by Frank c. Drake of Brooklyn.
calling for "a hundred thousand men
who are opposed to the tyranny of
Nolsteadism to march with men OH
July 4 in a parade OF protest and take
part in mass meeting for the res
toration of personal liberty" Mr.
Drake said that since the advertise
ment appeared he literally had been
deluged with letters and telephone
messages and was obliged to leave
the house to get little respite.
II Drake succeeds in getting his
hundred thousand erstwhile beer guz-
zlers TO march in parade as pro-
test against the Eighteenth Article
OF the Constitution they will present
a spectacle that undoubtedly will
make thousands of converts to the
cause OF Prohibition. At all events
that is the way a similar protest pa
rade operated i'll Chicago some years
ago. When the people OF that city
saw the aggregation OF professors
against the law designed to regulate
the saloons. many who were inclined
to be against these regulatory meas
ures on general principles decided
they did not want to be classed with
the bunch on parade. IT is safe
prediction that brakes beer mus.
brigade will be worth looking at ii it
marches, but it is an equally safe
prediction that the wise leaders of
the booze forces will tell D.ake to
Keep his gang off the streets.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
DISTRICT ATTORNEY ROSS
BRANDS WET ROORBACK
Statement Jurists Won't Convict
in Liquor Law Cases Is
Pure Bunk"
JURIES EASILY GOTTEN
First Dozen on Panel Accepted
Calendar Not Clogged With
Liquor Cases
JURIES EASILY GOTTEN

I Federal District Attorney Leroy
w. Ross in an address before the
Mems Club of All Souls Church
Brooklyn, last week branded as pure
bunk statements made that it is 2
difficult matter to get juries and con.
victions in liquor law violation cases
He said:
For one and half years we
have been all through this conviction
process in my office and this idea oil
saying that it is hard to get juries
and hard to get convictions is pure
bunk The idea of asking a juror
whether he is in favor of Prohibition
is all wrong. No man wants to get
up and publicly announce that he is
for Prohibition. We take the frs,
twelve men we call and as result
we have not clogeed up our calendar
Since October l, 1919, there have
been up to May of this year 1,542
uTy law Eases III tHe ClillSu STATES
court here, of which number 1,042
have been disposed of with record
of % l-3 per cent convictions, includ-
ing pleas of guilty.
"Of the jury trials" he said, there
has been an average of 40 per cent
convictions with a gradual increase
from 40 per cent at first up to 81 per
cent for the past five months
He added that this record has been
made without sacrificing other Grim
inal cases and with but one court sit
ting in criminal cases on an average
of about three and half days a
week.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
CHAMPAGNE PRICES DROP
IN BRITISH RESTAURANTS

The ad valorem tax on champagne
and other wines has been removed by
the British government and as re-
suit hotels and restaurants have al
ready cut from FIVE to seven shillings
from their prices. 1t is expected that
the action of the government in cut
ting this tax will restore wines to
their pre-war popularity. 1t is re-
ported that some good makes of
champagne are down to Is shillings
bottle, compared with IS shillings
before the war. The drinking of ex-
pensive wines has greatly fallen off
since the armistice. due to the high
prices and the general spirit OF
economy.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
ILLINOIS SENATE CAPS
DRY.LEGISLATION CLIMAX
Measure Goes Through With
More Than Constitutional
Majority
OUSE TO ACT SOON
Bill Provides for Commissioner,
Two Assistants, and Twenty
five Deputies

The Illinois Senate on the morning
OF May 10 by vote OF 80 to L
passed the drest of all bills ever pre-
scented to an Illinois Legislature
The measure was carried by four
more than the required constitutional
majority. The bill went to the House
where it is scheduled for action at an
early date and where ii is thought il
will pass. The Chicago Tribune
Springfield correspondent, L, Q. Phil
lips, in dispatch of May p i'll dis
cussing the prospects of the passing
of the measure by the House, says:
The Speaker is dry, the House
committee is dry and the House
itself is dry by a big majority.
The only trouble the bill needs
fear is the development of row
between friends OF the state adj
ministration and those Of Attor-
ney-General Brundage as TO
whether a Prohibition commits
sioner appointed by the Gov
ernor or the attorney general
shall be the law enforcement Off
cial. The utiSaloon League is
attempting to keep hands off this
issue.
The bill as passed by the Senate
provides for the appointment of a
commissioner at 10000 a year and
two deputies at $4,000 1t gives the
commissioner the right to name Is
deputies as Investigators at six dol
lars per day who are exempt from
the provisions OF the state civil serv-
ice law. Headquarters are to be in
Springfield and prosecutions are to
be made by states attorneys. 1t is
said the bill is more drastic in its
terms than the Volstead Act. 1t pro-
hibits any person from manufactur-
ing, selling, bartering, transporting,
delivering, furnishing or possessing
any Intoxicating liquor except as au-
thorized by this act. Intoxicating
liquor is defined as liquor that con-
tains more than onc-half of per
cent of alcohol by volume.
Physicians prescription OF wine or
beer for any purpose is strictly pro-
hbited and the present federal re-
quirements as to doctors prescrip-
tons are naturally strengthened from
the drys' standpoint. Provision is
made for the issuance of search war
rants for the purpose of entering the
premises OF any person for the pur-
pose of investigating or seizing when
there is reasonable ground for the
supposition that the state law is be-
ing violated
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
AMERICA FOR OURS

Prohibition should receive no
more than its share of the
blame for the noticeable disre-
speet for the law. So far as
the Eighteenth Amendment it
sell is concerned, vigorous en-
forcement by the authorities
will assist in restoring the re-
spect now lacking. However,
the fact that lawlessness is a
worldwide manifestation at
the present time, as evident in
wet nations as in dry, explodes
the fallaoy that Prohibition is
responsible for it. After con-
ming over the accumulated ills
due directly to Prohibition, ac-
cording to those WHO declare
Prohibition has failed, one is
ready to believe that Europe
ought to be positive Utopia.
They have plenty to drink over
there; surely their ills can not
be blamed on Prohibition-but
they have them nevertheless.
Well take America for ours
with Prohibition.--Denver, Col
orado, Times.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
DIRECTOR P. r. r. HEADS
BOOZER ORGANIZATION

An editorial in the Philadeiphi;
Evening Ledger discussing the fac
that T. Dewitt Cuyler, chairman o
the Board of Railway Executives anc
Director of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, has accepted the position as
president OF a booze organization
whose purpose is to overthrow the
Eighteenth Article of the Constitu
ton, says:
In the new ant-Prohibition
group are some men who helped
to promulgate rules to make
temperance obligatory upon the
employees of their corporations.
Have they changed their minds?
Do they believe that strong drink
is good thing for a man in haz-
ardous employment? Would
they establish Prohibition for one
element in the community and the
open bar for another?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
YUKON DRY FORCES LINE UP
FOR IMPORTATION SCRAP

July Is has been set Tor the taking
OF the vote in the Yukon Territory
upon the question OF the importation
of liquor That will be the next vote
to be taken in the Dominion. Al
ready the temperance workers there
are making their preparations. The
Pioneer, the publication OF the On
tario branch OF the Dominion ALI
ance, says:
While undoubtedly the recent
happenings IN British Columbia
will have bad effect the Prohi-
bitionists OF Yukon Territory can.
be depended upon to make
stirring fight and the result in
Ontario will do much to Offset
British Columbia. In the mean
time Yukon has the center of the
Prohibition stage.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
BOOZE PROFITEERING
DRUGGISTS ON CARPET

A Washington dispatch of May %
quotes Commissioner Kramer as say
ing that druggists profteering on
whisky sold for medicinal purposes
are to receive the attention of Fed
eral Prohibition agents as soon as
the full force is again in the field
He said that complaints have been re-
ceived that whisky bought on pre-
scriptions for sick people had in some
instances been found to have Been
adulterated with water and prune
juice or other liquids while sold at
the price charged for pure liquor
Anyone guilty of such methods, he
added, could be prosecuted as a rec
timer and his selling permit revoked,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
NEW LIQUOR PRICE AT a
GOVERNMENT GROG STORES

An Ottawa dispatch of May 20
says that due to the excise increase
recently brought down in the budget
new price list will be enforced n
the Ontario government liquor dis
pensary effective May 20. Scotch
whisky, brandy, rye and gin will I'M
dergo fiat increase of a dollar per
quart bottle, while alcohol will be
boosted $l.75. The discount of ten
per cent formerly allowed the medi
cal profession it is understood will
be abolished.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
BREWERY AT AUCTION

What was once the old Rock
Springs Distillery at Greensboro,
Kentucky, but which later was con-
verted into the Owensboro Products
Company, and which went into bank
ruptcy, will be sold at public auc-
ton on Saturday, June II. Imagine
the editorial Henry Watterson would
write on the passing of this old brew
cry were he occupying the editorial
chair on the Louisville Courier
Journal
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
NEW YORK CONSTABULARY
CLEANS UP RURAL BOOZE

1t is reported that the New York
state constabulary is doing wonder
full work in the matter of enforcing
the Prohibition law in rural commune
ties OF the Empire State. Major
Chandler. superintendent, on May 10
reports l02 places closed to date, with
the seizure OF liquor valued close to
a quarter OF million dollars
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
HOME BREW AND HOOTCH

Folks have found that the concoc-
tons prepared at home as substitutes
for the real thing have little of the
attractions once thought to reside in
the product of the brewers art.
Tipplers are firing of the impro-
vised "hootch," infinitely more dan
gerous than that which it succeeded
Omaha, Nebraska, Bee.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03
threatened with further ruinous leg
islation.
For UNFOLDING the Constitution


in this connection may ] beg the
indulgence of the committee 10 say
that more than 20 years ago the late
Adolphus Busch, one OF the founders
of the Anheuser- Busch, endowed with
the rare faculty of seeing today what
is going to happen tomorrow, warned
the brewing industry of the United
States that unless it divorced itself
from that element of the business that
'winked' at law violation, and threw
its influence actively, openly and ag-
gressively upon the side of law en-
forcement it would be destroyed by
Prohibition.
"BY REFUSING TO HEED
THAT WARNING THE INDUS
TRY HELPED TO PULL DOWN
THE HOUSE OF WRATH UPON
ITS HEAD.
81 think it will be abundantly clear
to this committee that in urging the
passage of an amendment designed to
prevent wholesale violations OF the
prohibitory laws, Anheuser-Busch is
merely unfolding its traditional pol
icy. and, at the same time, undertake
ing TO render constructive service
to an industry that is being rebuilt
upon the ashes OF the brewing BUSH
ness, recently outlawed by the Eight
zenith Amendment and the Nolstead
act"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-06-03

Fourth: You, as members of this
committee. know and / know that
the Interpretation of the law permit
ting the sale of beer for medicinal
purposes in its practical operation
will result principally in the sale OF
beer at outrageous prices, through re-
stricted channels, to the healthy-and
not the sick.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-20
PRESIDENT IS UNDAUNTED;
 APPOINTMENTS CONTINUE

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 2O- Undaunted by the refusal of the senate to give favorable considera- tion to the thousand of nominations which he has sent to the upper house of Congress since the commence ment of the present session, Presi- dent Wilson has sent another bunch of names to the lawmakers for ap- proval, the list including approxi- mately 2,000 postmasters.
 Republican leaders are determined not to allow any confrmations ex- cept in cases of emergency.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-20
MEXICAN DAMS COLLAPSE;
 FLOOD DROWNS HUNDRED

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 21.- More than a hundred persons were drown ed yesterday, ani more than two hundred injured as result of the collapse of two dams aoove Pat chuca. Torrents Of .atcr released from the reservoirs, swept down the valley, through the lower portion of the big mining center, carrying
 everything before it. According to late reports received from the scene of destruction, more than a thousand people were ,end- , cred homeless.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-20
YUKON PIONEER PERISHES
 ON TRAIL NEAR STEWART

DAWSON, Jan. 2O-Frank Wilk- ins, we'll known oldtimer of the Yukon country, perished on the trail near Stewert during the cold snap of few days ago. His frozen body was found at a point almost within sight of Stewert City, and marks in the snow showed that he had crawled several hundred yards after his feet had refused to carry him farther.
 The unfortunate man was caught in storm and apparently exhausted himself struggling throuh the drifts and against the heavy wind.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-20
NELSON BILL BAD MEASURE
 SAYS ALASKA FUR BUYER

Goshaw, veteran Alaska fur buyer, expressed in a letter recently writ ten by him from Seattle, the Nelson bill, which proposes to cut off a large area of the Third division, in the vicinity of the Kuskokwim val ley west to Cape Newenham, will work a great injury to Alaska, and he says Alaskans should take the matter up and defeat the measure, If possible.
 Mfr Goshaw, who is perhaps bet ter acquainted with the region than any other Alaskan, having traversed it many times, buying turs, suggests that action be deferred until the Alaska legislature meets and gives Alaskans a chance to express an opinion on the subject. Throwing the section in question into the Second division, he believes, would work a hardship on the residents, who would be compelled to go to Nome to transact business. Delegate Grigsby. and Judge Bunnell, of the Fourth division, who is we'll posted on the region, have voiced strong protest, but as is usual with such matters, the advise of residents of the territory is not considered of any value.
 <; Senator Nelson's reasons for pro- posing the change are somewhat ambiguous, and have not taken into consideration the wishes of Alaskans so far as is known.
 MT. Goshaw states that his com pany put in two additional stations during the season, one at Shismareof island, in the Arctic, and one on the Upper Kuskokwim, at Chagamute, and attempted to put one in at St. Lawrence Island, but owing to storms was forced to jettison the cargo to save the schooner and those aboard, hard job in the terrific seas running. The company vessels could not get into the North Cape station which was supplied last year, owing to heavy Arctic ice, but will try again next season.
 Mir. Goshaw returned South on the last trip of the Victoria and, after closing up the years business in Seattle, will leave for the white lights of Broadway. The hnme-of the newly elected president. MT. Goshau says that it is possible that he may make trip to the Kuskokwim and on to Nome before spring, but be.
 ing surfeited with dog mushing, he does not banker after the job.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-20
BALLOONISTS AIR TROUBLES

ROCKAWAY, Jan. 2O---Testifying
 today before the special court If in- quiry, Lieut.. Hinton, ne of the trio of lost balloonists, said that
 at one time while they were lost in the Canadian woods, he had con- suited with the commanding officer,
 Lieut.. Kloor, regarding the advis- ability of disarming the other mem
 Der of the party, Lieut.. Farrell, with whom Hinton afterwards became involved in fistic encounter.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-20
JOHNSON WANTS TO KNOW
 ABOUT SIBERIAN VENTURE

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. % Senator Johnson has introduced a resolution proposing Compression. al investigation of the American ex- petition to Siberia. It is also pro- posed that the senate foreign af- fairs committee ascertain what was accomplished by the American ex- peditionary forces and the present condition of Americans and their business interests in the North.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-20
NAVAL sEAPLANE WRECKED

SAN FRANCISCO Jan. 2O-The naval seaplane NC-5. which was forced to land and was afterwards wrecked in the flight to Balboa, is being sunk hy gunice, according to naval radio message received in this city. The action is unexplained.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-20

R. s. Mcdonald expects a lettle very soon advising him of the latest developments in Texanna oil. A wire received recently says the company has developed great new gas field, in addition to bringing in :0O.bar- rel oil we'll.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-20
CALIFORNIA RIVERS RISING

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20 Rivers are rising rapidly through out California as result of tor rental rains during the past two days. Large areas are threatened with inundation.
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-20
NEW ORDER LAUNCHED

PARIS, Jan. 20--A Moscow wire less dispatch received :n this city says that the Bolsheviki have in- stituted the "Order of the Red Flag
The Nenana daily news., 1921-01-20
ISLANDERS WANT FREEDOM

MANILA, Jan. 20-The people of the Philippine islands want independ- ence in whatever form they can get it. according to Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine senate, who addressed his colleagues or the subject of independence yesterday.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-09-25
Las Vegas

The convention of the Eff
highway, which leads from Fort
Worth, Tex, to Las Vegas by way
of Floydada, Plainview, Clovis and
Santa Rosa, will be held here next
summer. The convention was Sc
cured by a delegation from the
Commercial club that went to
Floydada for the 1921 convention
The Texas people are planning to
come to the convention in a regu-
lar auto caravan and at least 100
cars are expected.
The marriage of Miss Hazel
Webb and Mr.. Reginald Young
was celebrated Monday morning
at the homo of Mr.. and Mrs. B. f.
Mcguire. Rev. j. s. Moore, rector
of st. Paul's church performed the
ceremony. Miss Young was born
and reared in Las Vegas. She is an
accomplished singer. For several
years she has been employed in
the office of the Santa Fe division
storekeeper here. Mr.. Young has
been employed in the same office
for several years. During the war
he served in the army and was in
some of the hottest fighting in
France.
Harry Haskell, formerly passen-
ger agent here, now a resident of
Los Angeles, was here a few days
this week with Mrs. Haskell, to Wis
1t friends.
The Las Vegas lodge of the Re-
bekahs celebrated Thursday night,
the SEVENTEEN anniversary of the
order. Two candidates were mi
initiated and lunch was served.
MIR. and Mrs. Stephen Powers
have announced the, engagement of
their daughter, Miss Ruth, to Mr..
Joseph F. Tondre of Los Lunas. The
wedding will be celebrated some
time in the fall, it is expected.
Miss Powers was born and reared
in Las Vegas and is pretty and
accomplished girl. Mr.. Tondre Is
sheriff of Valencia county and met
his bride while on a trip to Las
Vegas last summer.
Mrs. II. G. Coors and daughter,
Dorothy, have returned from a
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Banks and children in Spokane,
Wash. Mrs. Banks formerly was
Miss Mary Coors of this city.
C. w. McCou, machine foreman
in the Santa Fe shops here, has
been promoted to the position of
instructor of apprentices on the
Pecos division. with headquarters
at Belen. Mr.. Mccoy, who Is a
son OF Division Storekeeper and
Mrs. J. B. Mccoy. has gone to Be-
len, where his wife and baby will
join him soon.
Senator and Mrs. A. A. Jones,
who were here during the closing
days of the campaign, have re-
turned to Washington.