The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-07-01
New Force Of Detectives Start
on Trail Of. the Festive y
Bootlegger /
NEW FUNDS AVAILABLE q
TO HIRE LARGER FORCE
Haynes Plans to Make Third
Year Much More Bone Dry
Than First Two 1
tBy United Press)

e., washington, July LION the ,Oc-
casion of the second birthday of ma
tional prohibition today, Federal
Prohibition Commissioner Roy Hay
mes was building UP his enforcement
army of dry detectives for new on
slaught on bootleggers and enemies
Of the Volstead Law, &%s .,s
Haynes plans to make the third
year of national prohibition much
more near bone dry period than the
first two, he said. Beginning today.
the prohibition unit will be able to
draw on a new appropriation Of more
than $2,OOO.0O0 to fill places Of de-
tectives and inspectors laid off be-
cause cash ran out forty days ago.
More than 700 enforcement agents
were laid off in May because the
1921 appropriation ran out.
With new funds available, how
ever. Haynes is in q position to en-
gage new and trained workers and
throw into each big. city squadrons
OF dry sleuths to terrify bootleggers
and proprietors of alleged soft drink
emporiums who secretly try to deal
out better than one-haH, per cent
beer. \,< r.
The prohibition unit will begin
the new year with a more nearly
perfect system as second line or
defense against Bookkeeping and lille
gal sale and underground distribu-
ton of contraband booze.
TO make the year more nearly
pleasing to prohibition enforcement
OFFICIALS, Congress soon will be asked
by Attorney General 5Daugherty to
set up a system at booze courts w iGh
will transact only business relating
to prohibition enforcement. With
these courts in operation, retrlbution
in the shape of heavy fines and Jail
terms will be dealt out with little
delay to persons caught running the
rum blockade OF dry detectives. De-
lay lin bringing violators to Justlce
because the ordinary courts or new
York and all big cities are clogged
with prohibition cases. has been one
of the factors making prob fbition
laws hard to enforce, according TO
government officials. g@IL
And to make Haynes drive on law
breakers more and more effective,
several branches of the government
are cooperating with him, as well
as city, state and county officials IN
all sections.
Chief Ashworth of the u. S. Gus
toms Service has laid down a barrage
Of customs detectives along the CANA
dian border to) halt International
booze snugglers. The Florida keys
ORE being guarded Agotlnst liauoh'
|smuggled from Cuba, not only by the
customs service hut also by the UNIT
ed States Coast Guards. And In big
cities like New York, Philadelphia,
Boston Baltimore, ST. Louis, CHI
cago, Denver and San Francisco, po-
lice and state officials now are put
ting their hands to the wheel 10
move their territory into an atmos-
phere is aridity.
Considering the situation from
these points of view, Commissioner
Haynes is pleased with the possible
ity of making the country nearly lou
per cent dry during the next IL
months. il.
AT any rate" he said today.
well make it blamed unpleasant to
be bootlegger." N sz
Haynes and few government Off
Gals believe that real 100 per cent
pure prohibition can be clamped
down on the entire country.
. Prohibition, they point out, is too
new to be completely effective at
once. But progress toward complete
dryness is being made daily, they
say, backed by rapidly developing
public sentiment for absolute and
enforcement Of the law.
Wartime prohibition, when tha
country took it's first step towards q
dry basin, began two years ago to-
day. On that day all sales OF liquor
for internal consumption was prohi-
bited by law. This measure, how
ever, was Intended to be merely tenn
porary and to continue in effect only
for short time after the close OF
hostGlities. But before that period
was reached, constitutional proh1-
bition became effective and the pro.
hibition enforcement unit was set up
at washington. Until a short time
ago nearly 1000 federal agents
watching for violations OF the Vol-
stead law. Then came the big lay
off. Now, however, this is to be corr
rected. E
During the first two years OF pros
hibition, the country has consumed
more than 40,000,000 gallons OF
liquor, according to reports on Witf-
drawals from bonded warehouses;
Prohibition unit officials say tha1
part Of this reached bootleggers and
was consumed internally, although
the permits under which 1t was With
drawn were intended to prevent the
use of liquor except for non-beveraga
purposes, !. s...4.--l