Show I BILL I SIX MILLIONS I I IN 19 1 I E Enforcement Department Shows Result of Years Year's Effort at Suppression By PAUL R. R MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON Jan 14 The H.-The The full accomplishments of national prohibition prohibition ti tion were revealed today in facts and figures res by the prohibition bureau on I the eve of the third birthday of the I eighteenth amendment I I This summary of ot last years year's enforcement enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment supplied to the United Press ex exclusivelY exclusively ex- ex elusively showed Arrests for drunkenness decreased 60 per cent Nearly a a. a million gallons of or liquor have been seized Thirty thousand criminal prosecutIons prosecutions prosecutions I I were begun Twenty thousand convictions were obtained Property seized totaled nearly 13 These major accomplishments cost including rent miscellaneous miscellaneous miscellaneous laneous office expenditures salaries and traveling expenses of national agents This compares favorably with the es estimated estimated estimated es- es assessments though only a total of of the amount has been collected The assessments themselves themselves them them- selves total approximately These include penalties revenues and special taxes Property seizures reached an ap approxImate approximate approximate ap- ap proximate value of 40 About gallons of distilled spirits I I I I I I and wines were taken by prohibition agents Importation of liquor from other countries for medicinal purposes was one-half one of one per cent of the total consumption of liquor in the United States the year before prohibition Liquor withdrawals were reduced 50 per cent in the last year This was due dueI largely to the introduction of the system tem requiring the signature of the di director director director di- di rector of the state in which the withdrawal withdrawal withdrawal with with- is made personally inscribed on the permit t. t In the list of property seized from violators of the law were automobiles automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles 40 boats 26 wagons 1 airplane 45 horses and mules 5 motorcycles in cash 10 tracts of land 7 stocks of merchandise These were taken under the provision pro of the law which allows for seizure of on which the violations occur with certain re re- re |