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Show WOMEN TURN TO BOOTLEGGING iirNTT.voTox. w. va.. (a t., n. Dazzled by the wealth and luxury in which successful bootleggers revel, women in large numbers are turning to manufacturing and selling sell-ing moonshine whiskey in West Virginia. This Is (he belief of officials of local branches of the state prohibition prohibi-tion department and of fedora! I aut horit ies. As proof of their contention they point to the scores of arrests of Ihe fairer sex throughout the statft in recent weeks in the illicit business of making and disposing of liquor. In two flays recently reports from prohibit ion agents all over the state told of arrests of sixteen women on whiskey charges. The women viobi. tors in the majority of cases, officials offic-ials said, when proven guilty of the charges, were nieted out punishment punish-ment commensurate with their misdeeds, mis-deeds, regardless of sex. |