The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-19
INCREASED
AIRES ITS
FOLLOW
ACT
Commissioners Report TO Mel
lon Reveals smuggIers as
Trouble Makers.

ER1&10 enforcement or the anGl-
narcotic laws during the current
year is foreshadowed In q report
On the calendar year 1922 by
Acting Prohibition Commissioner
James Il. Jones to Secretary Of
the Treasury Mellon today.
Cooperation of Federal courts
and district attorneys in combat
ing the drug evil Is seen In the
Increasing number Of arrests and
convictions.
Law Proving Effective.
Zone Of the greatest obstacles 70
the endorsement OF the Harrison
Narcotic Law" the report states,
- the smuggling Of narcotic drugs
from foreign countries.
However, the Narcotic Import
and Export Act, approved May z7.
1872. customs act -enforceG by
the custonas division Of the. Treas
ury Department, Is proving effec.
tive, and fh 30 far - the enforce
ment oe that act curtafls the SNUG
Cling OF narcotic drugs into this
country, to that extent e win aid In
The enforcement Of the Harrison
Narcotic Act
An increase OF IS Per cent in
criminal cases made in enforcing
the narcotic laws uoted in the
fiscal year 1922 - compared with
the 1921 period
Arrests Double IN Year.
Convictions secured Ia 1872 ran
400 per cent over the figures for
the preceding year. the report
states.
1.-THE record OF the first five
months OF the current fiscal year, !"
It Ii said, Indicates that the 1922
race has been kept up, 1,491 con.
victions having been secured in
the courts
.sPenitenftary sentences In these
eases range from year and q
day to thirty-ffve years. The SEN
fences for these five. months aggre.
gate over 1900 years
The most telling evidence Of In
creased activity among enforcement
officials IL shown in the list Of
comparative statistics included In
the report
Criminal cases made totaled s.477
"a the fiscal year 1920: 3,014s in
1921; 6,701 In 1922; and as10Ss from
July / to December 81, 1922. The
number Of convictions in these cases
show q similar upward trend.
features Of enforcement Of the Vol
stead law during 1922.
Secretary Mellon Is told that the
prohibition unit has been benefited
by q thorough reorganization, .
'.fool-proofs permit for Withdrawing
liquor from bonded warehouses, q
new physicians prescription blank
Of similar qualities, new regtric-
tons on interstate characterization
Of liquor and the campaiRn to get
the co-operation Of district attoFs
neys and Eher.ffs in making the
dry law effective.
The Wet Calendar.
Convictions in Federal courts for
violations of the Volstead law to-
tailed 81. 4eo during the last calendar
years. OF this number. Il, 426 plead
ed guilty.
Gases dismissed numbered S,303,
and 1850 cases were noile pressed.
A mot guilty. verdict was given In
1877 instances: 1854 cases were
continued, and grand juries failed to
indict In 495 cases.
Progress In moving liquor sup
plies to twenty-five concentration
warehouses, as provided in the act
OF February II, 1923, is reported.
Approximately one-third Of all bond
ed whiskey in the United States Is
now in these warehouses, according
to Jones.
Five distiIleries have been COM
pletely emptied, from five more the
liquor now is being removed and all
but two Of fifty-four distilleries
have definitely agreed to remove
their goods to the Federal ware
houses.