Show l KEPT I I l I BEHIND Use Closely Checked ByU By use I U S Officials and BYI I II II I I WASHINGTON WASH t Au AUK Aug It 17 17 A UP Extraordinary 15 precautions for th I safeguarding of their supplies ot of ale are taken J y the j f of ot the go which use this commodity now nov noMso so much in demand for tor the mak mak- mak- mak making making ling ing of what Id the parl-inco parl of OC the Is styled I Intoxicants andI Officials of the dep departments and I bu bureaus declare the et stems tIle the Late ha e Installed hate haie ha e operated au successfully I suI that their losses lasses ha hate ha e I haI been ben negligible confined to the I theft of a pint here and a quart the there e And so close cloe is the check I the they assert tint hit frequently e eten een en c enI I these small peculations peculation are traced 1 and offenders dismissed I lH CI A AM n 11 TD l I At the national museum which h to the tho preservation of oC specimens Im I'm sent to it from all nil parts of the thc I world orld uses use only the lery tery ry highest Krada grado of oC alcohol the liquid is I In a steel fault lault to which only one other than the staff officer officers onel cers has access The key to 10 the va vault is kept under a separate lock I I Supplies lire are dra drawn dran n on requisitions ions and the uses made of ot the alcohol al ale aie P carefully traced trae-ed and h e-h checked e The museum officers I sy that there thre are losses from e ap evaporation oration and spillage but that In n their system Stem S tem these are carefully estimated and due allowance made I The no navy nary y department deportment which h is the cohol ai-cohol largest looser of at a al- al alcohol cohol in the tile government go also his Worked out an elaborate 5 system stem for Cor the safeguarding of ot Its supply The total Used Is s about 1090 1000 gallons annual annually half halt of ot which goes gaes Into the manufacture ot of smokeless po powder der At those thase sla- sla sta stations volume and depots where the tol- tol vol aJ ume time erf of alcohol on hand the Is kept In special steel tanks 1 rooms under lock with It It the ke key 3 s in n the possession of ot com om ItI I commissioned com officers ors or trusted I cr n On ship board boar 1 and at the small smalle- smalle stations stations the inthe supplies also arc aro In I InI the officers custody e of com of- of of ers In all cases the liquid Is furnished on requisition and check up lp of 1 1 1 uses made to see a that none is dl diverted Similar systems are In operation iu In the department of ar agriculture the bureau hureau of ot standards standard the i bu-i rein of fisheries and other pu- pu u- u fed federal roll I I agencies using using- alcohol In thell theli I lally operations on |