Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-03-21 | Page 8 | What's Going on in the World

1 T Wh What's ts t's Going On in th the thy y World orld I J S Dy P. P STEWART XEA NEA Service Writer 55 The prohibition fight BO so often i ithe the main thing in the news since the country went dry r has loomed ed unusually ts large r In t the last ast a w week a a STILL THERE I The official version verlon hitherto has I been be n that the coast guard had end- end Ie rum row v. Rear Admiral BIllard BIl- BIl f lard lard the guards guard's commander says not S Theres about as 88 much rum ruin smuggling as ever he told the ap appropriations appropriatIons ap- ap lions propria committee oC or the house ot of of representatives during duritt 8 a discus discus- ion sion Bion of the guards guard's next years year's f in- in ancil tl needs gf- gf Are the rum ships scattered or l' l 1 do they still line tho the coast asked Byrns of Tennessee Tennesee w 1 heyre still there said sald Billard a a. a Assistant Dry Commissioner Jones also spoke pessimistically to the te appropriations ns committee especially esp espe daily concerning Washington 5 In the capital reasonably dry ry now asked Congressman Vare of ot Tenn Pennsylvania Ive rV got to admit S replied Jones that tha It Isn't as dry dryas as ss wed we'd like lIko to have It it Was Assistant District Attorney Hart art who has haa charge of ot prohibition cues cases right In saying th thee the e are aro bootleggers bo here continued Vare I I ont Jont know said Jones and I dont don't think anybody doea does S DEADLY HOOTCH S Dr Koran Doran of the dry unit told the senate Judiciary committee that 5 every year bootleggers bootleg ge get about gallops gallons of or l which the unit has poisoned to make mak It redistill it and sell it for human consumption But the the- doctor y S added get I all th the l poison i out Poison alcohol which you OU feel sure will be drunk Is next nest to murder exclaimed Senator Reed of Missouri l a INDICTMENTS S Var Warden en Sartain and Deputy Warden War AVar- arden ar- ar den Fletcher of the Atlanta federal penitentiary have havo been I from office and Indicted hio ed edwith with taking m money ney to make malce life plc pleasant sant for tor bootlegger prisoners The Atlanta bootleggers can afford af af- ford rord to pay for favors since It t Is estimated estimate they are worth orth a a. total cf ef f Purchasing Agent Allen of the penitentiary is under indictment indict lt ment tco teo charged ed with larceny lar lar- c ceny ny In connection with a liquor li transaction tion S Ili HE VOTES OTE DRY A man booked b by the tho police poUce as John AV W V Langley which Langley which Is the name of a R Kentucky congressman under 8 a year two-year prison sentence for liquor law violations but free on ball bail pending appeal mistook appeal mistook a police station for tor his hotel was arrested as a drunk and then was released on a a. cash ash bond hond which he forfeited Langl Langley was reelected to compress league In a November supported rr and t h him the explaining 1 ho he always voted dry and the tho est rest di didn't matter a a a v EXPENSIVE Y A Y Prohibition is expensive anyway The coast guard got for its present activities All its newest fastest cutters are on rum duty Also twenty destroyers destroy destroy- ers era borrowed from the navy and ether cother vessels which cost 12 Congress plans to spent spen 20 next year car enforcing tl tre e elaw law