The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-19
Schemes Promoted By Trade
 Organizations Illegal, Fed-
 eraI District Attorney De-
 CIeareS, Quoting Statute OPERATIONS MUST STOP TO AVOID ADJUSTMENTS
Heavy Penalties Provided For
 Practices, Prison Sentence
 And Fine Threatening Under Section 213'S Terms

Popularity of gift enterprises has become so great among business cocnerns of Alabama that drastic steps will be taken against those who continue this practice, a violation of Section 21S of the federal penal code, commonly known as the anti lottery law, Charles B. Kennamer, United States district attorney for the northern Alabama district. an- nounced Saturday.
 Trade organizations in the coun- try districts and in the larger cities have been active in promoting schemes offering prizes dependent in whole or in part upon chance or lot, MT. Kennamer said. and numerous complaints have come to him from the post office department. Techni- cally. such violation of the law is d crime against the postal service.
 Heavy penalties are provided for conviction on charges of violating this section of the law, Mir. Kenname1 pointed out Persons may be tried not only in the district in which un- lawful matter or publication is mailed, but also in any district where copies are received. Fines of not more than $1,000 or not more than a two years sentence to prison, or both, for the first offense, and five years Imprisonment for any subse- quent offense are punishments pro- vided In the law.
 According to Mir. Kennamer, gift schemes which have been promoted in Birmingham during the last sev- eral months conflict with this law, and persons operating such enter- prises must cease or suffer prosecu- tion by his office.
 Section Quoted In Fu1I.
 The section In question, defining violations of the law, follows being quoted in full for the information of business men and other persons throughout the state who may be unintentionally violating its pro- visions:
 No letter, package, postal card. or circular concerning any lottery, gift enterprise. or similar scheme offer ing prizes dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance; and no lot tery ticket or part thereof or paper. certificate, or instrument purport ing to be or to represent a ticket. chance, share or interest in or de- pendent upon the event of a lottery. gift enterprise, or similar scheme of AeEluB pIlNeS depenQent in whole or in part upon lot or chance; and no check, draft, bill, money. postal note or money order for the purchase of any ticket or part thereof or of any share or chance in any such lottery, gift enterprise, or scheme; and no newspaper, circular, pamphlet or publication of any kind coptc,lff,c, any advertisement of any lottery. gift enterprise, or scheme of any kind of fering prizes dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance, or con- taining any list of the prizes drawn or awarded by means of any such lot tery, gift enterprise, or scheme. whether said list contains any Dart or all of such prizes, shall be depos- lted in or carried by the mails oF the United States, or be delivered by any postmaster or letter carrier Whoever shall knowingly deposit or cause to be deposited or shall know ingly send or cause to be sent, any thing to be conveyed or delivered by mall in violation of the provisions of this section, or shall knowingly de- liver or cause to be delivered by mail anything herein forbidden to be car ried by mail, shall be fined not mora than SlOOO, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both; and for any subsequent offense shall be imprfs- oned not more than five years. Anv person violating any provision of thls section may be tried and pun- ished either in the district in which the unlawful matter or publication was mailed, or to which it was car- ried by mail for delivery according to the direction thereon, or in which it was caused to be delivered by mail to the person to whom 1t was ad- dressed"