Show Ii i SH PE PEAK K IN 1 i r ROHI ARRESTS I m REPORTED I Declares March Marchi Iq Best Mon Month h Since He ih Aar Took Office cri to toto to tor c r li 14 H A W WAa ff- ff WASHINGTON April rt ft yew cw high peak in federal prohibition tion on enforcement with more arrests nd more automobiles seized than In Inn Inin in n i ny ny similar period since July was Announced today by Prohibition Dictor Dictor Di- Di Woodcock for the month of 11 ti 1 arch i With his field fIld forces strengthened t i y approximately new agents Woodcock r said the last month was 50 The be best month the bureau has had Ince I took office nearly a year ago There were dry law arrests DO o March the prohibition or r said uld as contrasted with for At the same time he said e seizure of ot automobiles Jumped i jy y y to a total of for the month nd the granting of permanent in- in Increased to COURTS I KEEP PACE l 1 af Notwithstanding this Increased cavity he continued the courts More than kept up with us There Tore cre cases on the docket at the theof nd of ot February and only on 1 Further we e have established a trend In these figures show- show ng g that the average of or fines Is steady steadly stead- stead ly y j decreasing while the average of all aU sentences has been steadily In- In easing In the nine months since I enforcement was trans- trans erred from the treasury to the jus- jus I Jice ce department 7 Meantime Woodcock pushed plans or or the assimilation Into the federal federa I y force of the remainder of ot new nev gents authorized by the last con- con ress cess On July 1 they will begin a awo awo 4 wo we weeks' weeks intensive training period n Impromptu schools in the 12 pro- pro districts The prohibition bureaus bureau's 24 in- in will be called to Washing Washing- on n during June for tor a refresher urse ourse with orders to have the ap- ap recruits ready for vice mice by July 15 In the meantime plans an Inspection trip j though eight northwestern states caving B the capital this wee week Today ic e Int Intended to discuss dry law maters maters maters mat mat- ers with the New York prohibition In figures made public by the bureau today it was hown hO that agents had seized i lions aliens of beer during March r with gallons of illicit liquor wring During the same period 1752 stills nd d distilleries fell into the federal ands while 2385 beer uttered a similar fate I Since Woodcock took office last uly the tho figures showed fines have been as- as essed against prohibition Iol violators a tors pile have received jail sen- sen nets tices totaling years |