Show 15 1 ARRESTED 13 C CONVICTED ON N RUM Doran Reports Increase Increase Increase In In- crease in Captures in 1 Fiscal Year GO TO JAIL No Decrease Recorded in Dope Smuggling I I WASHINGTON Dec 8 AP AlThe AP- AP The efforts of the prohibition bureau bureau bu bureau bu- bu reau of ot the treasury department to enforce the tho prohibition law was de depicted depicted depicted de- de today in l report of or Prohibition Commissioner Doran who recited i that his forces had made 7 arrests with con in th the fiscal year 1928 It w was s an increase of over the arrests for the previous year Operating with permanent and 92 temporary the bu bureau bu reau seized gallons of il illegal U- U legal spirits illicit distilleries distil distil- stills arid and fer- fer During the tho year the prohibition prohibition prohibition pro pro- forces seized automobiles automo automo- biles valued at and 81 boats valued alue 1 at GO TO JAIL Commissioner Dor Doran n said cases were were ter- ter l in 1928 and of the convictions onvIe- onvIe persons were were given jail sentences s equaling years and sines fines I s a aggregating e were vere as as- as to federal tb e federa cases s' s agents of ot the bureau aided in In cases cases in stat state courts in which convictions convIctions' were secured During the year gallons gal- gal Ions lons of ot alcohol were were manufactured gallons of denatured al alcohol alcohol alcohol al- al cohol and gallons were vere withdrawn for denaturing Pure alcohol withdrawn from bond amounted to gallons Distilled Distilled Distilled Dis Dis- tilled spirits withdrawn from warehouses warehouses warehouses ware ware- houses on which tax was paid amounted to gallons leavIng leaving leav lear ing lag in bond according to record fIgures figures figures fig fIg- ures approximately gallons gallons gallons gallons' gal gal- lons lons' of s such ch spirits but actually due to evaporation only about half bait Continued on on page age 5 5 i II LW ARRESTED feS 3 CONVICTED lON RUM CHARGES y Continued from page 1 Q mount amount the report said AtI At I nd ted of the year there remained a total of S on of still wine vIne while On oni were withdrawn during the sacramental purposes VIEW WORK x Doran also yeI re- re I rU iI the work narcotic ai during the fiscal year c that with old cases 1 i pending during the year K 8 of violations of the colic laws Of the tho new cases pases iere by persons registered to toS S and by I During i 8 the me year y m that narcotic agents had I cap eor purchased ns as evidence 26 r ces of narcotics U n hs branch of the bureaus bureau's S tk Jilt IS convictions were secured 1 h Sentences totaling years I tats aggregating p f importations of drugs during the i ww icar dropped slightly I to ounces of I v u ounces of coca but sales to domestic sources te twelve months amounted to l lt traffic in narcotic drugs Doran said has not is ried antl could coula not be curbed le present forces 1 traffic In narcotic drugs w Into the United States nt t to have abated in any te hi said With Wt these I readily obtain S Europe and Asia and a in the Unit Unit- Slit represented l by cl who find it impossible t k r supply from froni the thc fi quan- quan 11 manufactured It is S supplies large a es of drugs I Y obtainable are unlawfully into the United States iy when there are conald- conald of those In the traffic and the large Urns of legitimate trade of our which facilities for I S of this illicit traffic S Coti Illicit Influx ix of narcotics borders Is admittedly cull t not impossible the available l for the theof I end th progress of efforts internatIonal cooperation CORtri an efficient measure i OC Such shipments by S 7 countries I seemS seem seem- Slow S |