Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-09-17 | Page 2 | 'Moonshiners' Give Headache to Liquor Agents; One Sample Found Stepped up with Moth Balls

I Give Headache to Liquor Agents One Sample Found Stepped Up With Moth Balls ATLANTA A. A Sept IT 17 Wartime Is b increasing the activity it ity of ct In to the themo mo mountain coves cove and aDd secluded s d woodlands o of the tooth south and aDd bringing briDging new DeW headaches to law Jaw enforcement wo o The of ot ii k b becoming more pro prof prot- table itAbI due to the war of ot otIe 0 Ie ial wb whiskies says ay R R. Wall Wail assistant district super op r- r or o of the alcohol Ux we watt unit Moonshine he sid said brings about 10 a gallon allon oa Oft th the aver age wholesale le but it retails for foro 20 o or more a gallon And the ultimate coaum r rarely gets geta the product as ax it left the still Ull Why we even had one AIM sample that tha t chemical analytic showed OWed had b been n stepped up with moth- moth to t balk baill Increased activity of illicit distillers dis dk l UI tillers idlers n g goes rOta xi on Wan Wail declared l despite dete rationing of 01 augar Pr the I draft high bik wages p pill paid Sd in IA war p r Industries and added vigilance by by law enforcement agencies I r r Recent seizures of stilts stills Wall said Hid show Chow also the use ue of an ani M I i increasing quantity of ot white t I sugar and corn com meal The regional compliance divi I ion soo of ot the office of price e administration ad ad- ministration 0 OPA P A recently to halt c earn corn m ceiling price violations In la north Georgia north Alabama north Mississippi sippi east nit Tennessee and northwest north north- west South Carolina