Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-22 | Page 15 | Checking Industrial Alcohol Leak is Biggest Dry Enforcement Problem

Checking Industrial Alcohol eal Is biggest Dry Enforcement Problem t p. p J HES HE'S 1 1 1 GROW NG SACKER l BIGGER HE STRONGER EVERY LIVE p DAY LONGER G P J 0 APP BIR PAR Y f r fit I By GEORGE BRITT N NEA EA Service Writer l 1 WASHINGTON Jan Z Indus 2 Industrial Indus 1 I trial alcohol is the un unhesitating g v answer of James Jones federal di director director director di- di rector of prohibition to the question of what source of bootleg liquor his I men are are chiefly concerned with today today to- to day on the sixth birthday of the act In In the six years since the Vol- Vol I stead act went Into effect January j 16 1920 the lines of the dry army i- i have coped with bootleggers on the f i Ii i mountain tops and In the attics V tr t l' l f and cellars with forgers of whisky ji l l p permits with shippers and salesi sales- sales t i J. J men with the roving hosts hosts that t prowled along the Canadian bort border bor- bor t JJ der er and the busy boats that plied piled V 1 along the coasts I l i. i-i. i Jones gives some cold figures on on I v ji-v the new threat of Industrial alco- alco hot hoi During the year ending June 1 1920 there were were produced mi m 11 i gallons of it t. t In the six years r V of prohibition this rate has Las as tripled he said with gallons the I output for last year Since the p. p arrived January 16 1920 t more than gallons of dei de- de matured i alcohol has been produced fooled the s ir v Engraved permits forgers forgers In in do the early days of prohibition proM proM- f Jones Jone said Then the bootleg boot boot- rr l leg army began withdrawing whisky whisky whis this ky for export to lo be shipped back bacle 1 That was blocked blocke and the next fp scheme was to withdraw it on tire pre pre pretext J text of making malting patent medicines hair hall tonics and the like r Just as al the arm of dry enforcement enforce- enforce j j 4 ment meat has found a way to beat these Vi t evils so it has a wa way to halt ther the r I. I orgy of industrial alcohol Jones j said The latest move move was to withdraw with with- draw certain formulas for the manufacture manufacture man- man facture of rubbing and bathing alcohol alcohol al al- cohol and to require formulas al which are much harder to I k The cost ost of the six years' years war warr r has been minus taxes fines and and fines that amounted to 27 but plus plus' the cost of a greatly enlarged Coast guard and cost of prosecutions The budget of the thel prohibition army which now numbers this year Is 4 During the six years of the dry war ot oL property was wasa a r. r seized and mostly destroyed This rain included more than gali gal- gal i ions ons of spirits and galS gal gal- S- S J t l Ions ns of malt liquors automobiles automo- automo biles bales and boats Pr f P r j fy f t More than arrests were k Imade made during each of the last three s i yearS by federal men inen men and c during the last six y i Withdrawals Withdrawals from bonded warehouses ware- ware r. r o p houses continue quite large In five ye years rs the amount in storage was wasy y r cu cut down from about gallons galIon's gal- gal Ions Ion's to tb And the num- num ber bel of physicians Issuing liquor prescriptions has gone up to about o out of a total of members members mem- mem bers bels of the profession O P