Evening star., 1928-09-11
D. c. ENFORCEMENT.
SATISFIES L0WMAN.
Police Curling Sales and
Federal Men Attacking
Source, Dry Chief Says.

Prohibition enforcement conditions ir
Washington are satisfactory, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Seymour
Lowman, in charge of prohibition en-
forcement, and Dr. James M. Doran
prohibition commissioner, announced
today at the Treasury Department, in
commenting on figures of arrests and
seizures of the District of Columbia for
the fiscal years 1927 and 1928. Mr
Lowman pointed out that the Washing
ton police are curbing the retailing ot
liquor, and the Federal prohibition au-
thorities are coping with the source OF
supply.
Dr.. Doran recalled in this connection
that there are % members of the WASH
tn2ton police force who have commits
sions as dry agents.
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. As
sistant Attorney General in charge %
prohibition, said informally today that
TIE figures indicated that prohibition in
Washington has been frightened in the
rast fiscal year, and that the efforts of
the prohibition authorities to dry up
the National Capital were meeting with
success.
Seizures Increase.
Figures which will go into the prohi-
bition commissioners annual report
show that in the recent fiscal year, end
ed June 80, there were 3,578 wine gall
Ions of malt liquor seized, as compared
with l,42175 in the previous fiscal year,
and that there were 1851 persons ar
rested by Federal prohibition officers in
the 1923 fiscal year, as compared with
879 IN the fiscal year 1927.
Informed that liquor prices in the
krin ~ WI, 11ox
within the past few weeks, DR.. Doran
replied that that means that the mar
ket has dropped off in Washington.
There were IS distilleries seized in the
past fiscal year, as against 81 in 1927,
the Prohibition Bureaus figures showec.
and 6S stills taken in the fiscal year
1928, as against 90 for 1927. There were
1882 wine gallons of spirits seized for
1928, as against 81 ,702 for 1927, and $50
automobiles seized last year, as against
AIT for 1927.
The Prohibition Bureau figures show
ed that for Maryland there were 1,040
dis.illeries seized in the fiscal year 1928,
as against 732 for 1927, and that there
were 332 stills taken by the Federal
agents in the recent fiscal year, as COM
pared with 521 in 1927. There we're
471995 wine gallons of spirits seized in
MARYLAND for 1928, as compared with
52499 for 1927.
Maryland Increase.
There were 44,5aS.75 wine gallons of
malt liquor seized in Maryland in the
fiscal year of 1928, the Prohibition
Bureau reported, as compared with
29.83750 in the fiscal year 1927, and
20S automobiles were seized and 2,647
persons arrested in Maryland for 1928
as against 156 autos seized and 1,739
persons arrested in 1927.
Figures for Virginia show that in
1928 there were 1879 distilleries seized
as compared with 99S for the previous
IL months. There were 325 stills seized
as against 396 for 1927. The Old Do
minion yielded to prohibition agents
27.60459 wine gallons of spirits in 1928
as against 81, 1873 for 1927, and while
no figure was recorded for the number
Of gallons of malt liquor seized in 1927
1,105 wine gallons were taken in the
territory in the last fiscal year.
In Virginia during the past fiscal
year there were 1872 automobiles seized
In conjunction with the illicit trans
portation of liquor as compared with
127 in 1927, and there were 432 persons
arrested by Federal prohibition officers
In Virginia as against more than dou-
bic that number, 999, in the fiscal year
1927.