Show 1 More Liquor Taken From Fr i- i Bond Than Before f 5 Prohibition S S BY N. N NE N.E. E. E A. A SERVICE ERVICE S Copyright 1921 by N. N E. E A. A Service USE U SE of rubber stamp signatures on permits for withdrawal withdraw l' l of liquor from warehouses has bred evils responsible for flooding the country with millions of gallons of booze Abuse of the permit system last year released gallons MORE liquor and alcoHol than in the wet year 1918 S Amazing ramifications of the warehouse permit evil vil have been i iI uncovered in the national investigation of the breakdown of prohibition pro pro- pro I I hib tion enforcement made by N. N E E. A. A Service Rubber stamp signatures were In use in New York and elsewhere elsewhere- even In Washington Judge Ju ge Harold Harold-C C. C Hart recently resigned as state prohibition pro director In Now New York said Its use was authorized in Washington Washington Wash ington 1 Counterfeiting o of permits became childs child's play under the rubber atan stamp signature Only an Initial written by pen was necessary to make a rubberstamp rubber rubberstamp rubberstamp stamp permit good Millions of gallons of at liquor have been withdrawn from bonded warehouses warehouses ware ware- houses by this method At Intervals prohibition authorities have re banned all withdrawals withdrawals-as as occurred recently In Pennsylvania Pennsylvania-in In an effort to dam darn the flood But the dam darn has never held A Pittsburg business man was of offered offered of- of 2 per case to use use his Influence to get a permit for cases Major Samuel Wolf Just resigned a as assistant state director in PennSylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania tid one of ot his clerks was approached by a bootlegger who for some strange reason wanted to buy office letterheads and envelopes He said he didn't need permits he permits ho had counterfeited plenty of ot them Whisky labels and revenue revenue- stamps stampe also are counterfeited by the wholesale wholesale whole whole- sale by clover clever counterfeiters who tin find this game more profitable and not so risky as the counterfeiting of currency cur cur- rency Bo Bootleggers who deal in liquor withdrawn Withdrawn with drawn from warehouses rom warehouses on bogus permits per per- mits or permits obtained through graft graft- or political Influence or who wh sell liquor smuggled into the tha country from the Bahama islands or Canada frequently Inform the authorities of the activities of ot those who forge rove rove- nue nue stamps and labels These are ae always al at al booze ways used for doctored The high gr grade de bootlegger bootlegger- doesn't like to see sea his customers killed off oft bit such deadly concoctions FAKE DRUG STORES ST RES THROUGHOUT COUNTRY Fake drug stores wholesale ai d r tall tailS tail have sprung up all over the tha country Investigation has established that In many cases stocks of ot I drugs have been rented to qualify the renter rent r for a government permit No attempt Is made to carry on a legitimate drug trade the drugs being merely camouflage and oft often n the drug stock Is returned as soon as the do- do sired liquor has been obtained Permits are ore held by pet person pons Ott i and firms in New York alone for tor the tho handling o of liquor and alcohol Warehouses on which government i permits are issued number In th the United States Here is a a. list by j i St states being distillery warehouses i 27 general bonded warehouses 23 spa apo dal cial bonded warehouses and end 45 Industrial Indus Indus- industrial trial alcohol bonded warehouses Kentucky 62 Pennsylvania 62 82 Maryland 35 28 I Illinois 23 California 11 New York p. p 15 j Indiana M. M 18 i Louisiana I w. w 13 Ohio r 11 l Massachusetts i t. t M 10 10 1 Missouri 7 i Wisconsin 2 2 I. I New Jersey 2 a 1 Alabama 1 i 1 Connecticut 1 l' l Texas 4 II 1 West Virginia 1 lj 11 Oregon 1 Virginia 1 1 Tennessee 1 1 South Carolina 1 i Michigan 1 1 1 Liquor Is supposed to be withdrawn from warehouses for medicinal purposes pur par purI I 1 poses only and anjI alcohol for use com corn i In legally manufactured products STATISTICS PROVE WIDESPREAD FRAUDS The mere statistics of withdrawals prove fraudulent withdrawals During t the e fiscal year rear ending J Juno nG I 30 1919 before we wo had prohibition withdrawals of o spirits including I liquor and alcohol amounted to 28 gallons In the corresponding twelve months of 1920 1919 there were gallons withdrawn Under steady In Increase increase increase in- in prohibition there was wasa a crease 21 1920 withdrawals totaling gallons During the year ending last June Juna medicinal liquor and commercial alcohol were withdrawn from ware war warehouses houses In these amounts in gallons Alcohol I Whisky M SSI Cologne Cologno spirits I Brandy Gin Rum When the eighteenth amendment went Into effect January 16 1920 there I were gallons o of liquor exI exclusive ex exclusive ex- ex I of o alcohol which is now manufactured manufactured manu manu- under legal permit in bonded warehouses Only two distilleries are aro are permitted to manufacture whisky they made gallons in two years ear and deposited it In bond to age Warehouses still hold more than gallons of ot liquor and alco alc I ho holt hol On July 1 1921 beginning of ot the fiscal year there were gallons g-allons of whisky In warehouses s Based on the rate of ot withdrawal this I is a five years' years supply Alcohol In warehouses totaled S- S gallons gin rum cologne spirits Thefts from warehouses have e reached a tremendous total during durin- the I year Also thefts fro fro holding liquor seized in raids |