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Show I! DOCTORS' OFFICES, OARAGES, TO BE SEARCHED FOR STILLS Deputy Internal Revenue Collector Says Roundup to Be Made of AH Failing to Register I Under tho supervision of t ho Internal Inter-nal revenue department a rlty-wldo and countrywide search Im to be Instituted In-stituted In the near future by federal .igentn to discover what stills are -m use for any and all purposes, according accord-ing to an announcement made this morning by John W. Reeve, divisional deputy of the internal revenue department de-partment with headquarter- at uriI- n. All persons found with any sort of apparatus u.ed for distilling; of any commodity that have not reported the possession of such a still are subject to a penalty of $500 and a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 and imprisonment of not less than on month and not more than two yearn. Divisional Deputy Reeve wild. In dlscusMinn the new order lie .ild this morning: "The first case to bo taken up will be that of K. Sato, the Jnpanese convicted con-victed In tho city court vesterday of having a still in his possession which the officiate found in a gully near his house at Uintah. "It Is not tn be understood, how- .ever that the federal agents are look- ' Ing only for stills used in making 'liquor. The order applies to possession posses-sion of stills of any nature and used I for any di stillation purpose which stills have not been reported to the 'collector In the federal building. "It has come to the attention of this office that there are numerous stills i In operation In parages, storage battery bat-tery shops, drug stores, doctors' offices of-fices and dentists' offices and numerous numer-ous other ploces throughout the city and countv that have not been proper-ly proper-ly registered with the collector of Internal In-ternal revenue. "Every person having such an apparatus ap-paratus In his possession or custody ! or under his control and who has ! failed to register the same is liable under un-der the law In addition to the pennl- ' ties consisting of the $."i00 and the fines and Imprisonment the federal of- flcluls will confiscate not only the still but all personal property found In the building where the still is set up. This law Is to be rigidly enforced from now mi |