Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-07-01 | Page 6 | Palmer Issues Warning

PALMER ISSUES WARNING AO Violators of Prohibition Prohibi-tion Law to Be Vigorously Vigor-ously Prosecuted. WASHINGTON. July 1 Attorney Palmer reiterated thai all persons vio-allng vio-allng the law might expect "early and vigorous" prosecution. While (here n mains a question as to whether 2 per cent beer Is lnto.icating. the department de-partment of Justice will not attempt wholesale arrests, hut if a decision In the pending case at Baltimore is favorable favor-able to the government, prosecution will result promptly in all cases in which evidence has boon obtained. The attorney-general said the test cases in New York resulted in a decision deci-sion requiring the prosecution to prov? that the beer in question was intoxicating intoxicat-ing in each Individual case and tint, therefore, a decision in the Baltimore case was desired to give a clear-cut interpretation in-terpretation of whether 2 per cent beer was in fact Intoxicating. If up held by the supreme court such a decision de-cision would be applicable to the entire en-tire country. In the meantime, the attorney-general is hopeful that congress will pass legislation for the enforcement of wartime war-time prohibition, which would do away with existing uncertainties.