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Show STILL OWNERS FACE TROUBLE IN HEW MOVE Federal Officer Take Up Prosecutions Under Rer-enue Rer-enue Act for Failure to Register Booze Boilers A new menace to the "bootlegger" lonma In tha recent filing of actions agalnet two alleged vlolalora of the Voletead act on chargea of violating the revenue act, obaervera at tha federal building declared today. Jamee H. Anderson, collector of Internal In-ternal revenue, declined to he interrogated in-terrogated aa to tha probability of tba policy followed la tba Penland and Volhaa eaaee being extended to wwJfJlJ SSl IVnyttMrftaVRT Tt'VfgalUTai who are aleo vlolatora of tha revenue act United States Dlatrlct Attorney Attor-ney Charles M. Morris Could not be reached; , . It ts known, however, that Collector Col-lector Anderson haa furnished Mr. Morris with Information aa to revenue rev-enue act violations in practically every recent case brought In by prohibition agents, and that ths collector and attorney will confer thla afternoon aa to tha advisability advisabil-ity of preeenting thla Information to tha next federal grand Jury and asking for Indictments against ths offenders. REVENUE LAW STRICT., Boms informed persons have expressed ex-pressed the opinion that rigid enforcement en-forcement of the revenue laws will be the most severe blow yet stricken strick-en the Illicit liquor traffic, although there Is nothing In common between the revenue and the prohibition lawa. Under ' the revenue .laws, mere Possession of a still not reg-Istsrsd reg-Istsrsd with ths district collector Is a crime punishable by a pen- aity of I MM) and a fine of not leaa than 1104 nor mora than 1 1000 and Imprleonment for not leaa than one month nor more than one year, together to-gether with confiscation of all persona per-sona I property found upon tha premteee concealing the atilt, tinder tin-der another section of the same act. defrauding the government of taxM due on all liquor distilled, la pun-lahabla pun-lahabla with flnea f not Use than tb09 nor mora than 90 and Imprisonment Im-prisonment of not leaa than ant montha nor mora than three years. LAW NOT PRESSED. SInca enactment of tha prohibition prohibi-tion lawa, theaa phases of the revenue rev-enue act have not been pressed on the theory that Volstead act a cent a would sup press the traffic, H la said . Still registration, hawavsr, haa been required of all persons using us-ing these legitimately, as tha art contemplates that a still Is a still whether used to cleanse water or to mftke alcohol. - -- - Recent apprehension of many persons possessed of unregistered stills used in the making of moonshine moon-shine may result In tha revenue act being Invoked. Such action would add to the government's revenua directly and Indirectly tend as a check to the making of bootleg. It is said. for. If tha bootlegger regie-tered regie-tered his still be would be under compulsion to keep ths revenue of-advised of-advised aa to Ita whereabouta and prohibition agents could take him In any time. Further, the revenue collectors need no search and sets-ure sets-ure warrant to Inspect a place suspected sus-pected of hiding taxable roods, so that ths difficulty encountered In raiding under prohibition would also po eliminated. |