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Show LARGE STILL CONFISCATED AT GLENDALE (Las Vegas Age) Confiscating equipment and supplies which must have represented repre-sented an outlay of from twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars, federal prohibition agents yesterday yes-terday raided an enormous distillery dis-tillery in the mountains near Glendale, Nevada, SO miles southwest of St. George, on the Arrowhead trail. The raid, conducted by two federal agents, with the cooperation cooper-ation of Clark county authorities, was the climax of an investigation investiga-tion into the source of vast quantities quan-tities of whiskey and alcohol which have been flooding the southwest. Two separate stills, complete and in operation, were discovered. discov-ered. Of enormous capacity, one was designed for the distillation of whiskey and the other alcohol. alco-hol. The plant was complete in tvevy detail, and that further enlargements were planned was indicated by the presence of several sev-eral thousand feet of lumber on the site when the raiding officers offi-cers arrived. Aside from the actual distilling distill-ing equipment confiscated, federal fed-eral officers seized more than ten tons of sugar, about twenty tons of coal used in the "cooking", "cook-ing", and thousands of gallons of mash almost ready for distilling. dis-tilling. Captured at the site of the huge plant, C. Edwards and Robert Hickey were arrested and lodged in the Las Vegas jail, ponding their hearing before a United States commissioner. Authorities said that they were j of the opinion that the operations j of the distillery were directed by a Los Angeles liquor ring, and i police of that city are pushing j every effort to apprehend the S leaders. ' The still was the largest ever i found in the southwest since the j adoption of prohibition, and the i elaborate layout indicated that ' it had been in operation for sev- : eral months, with excellent dis- tribution facilities for marketing their illicit product. |