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Show BDDTLEGGERS TO FEE BOTH 1CLE SI SI PEACE OFFICERS From now on the bootleggers of Ogden and Weber county have Uncle Sam to deal with as well as the peace officers of the city and county. At midnight the United States government gov-ernment assumed responsibility for tho enforcement of national prohibition. Mathonlhah Thomas, Utah attorney, who is widely known in Utah, yesterday yester-day took his oath as director of prohibition prohi-bition in Utah. Although Utah has been "dry" under un-der a state law, it is dry today under a constitutional amendment which is backed by laws with "teeth." Mr. Thomas says it will be his aim to co-operate w.'th peace officers of cities and counties to enforce p rohibi-tion, rohibi-tion, but in the evont the government thinks that bootleggers are not being "bothered" sufficiently Uncle Sam will step in with a loud noise. ' |