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Show oo FEDERAL MEN RAID HOP, MALT STORES LO! ANGELES. July 8. Federal j prohibition agent began raids here j Friday on stores selling hops, malt and other ingredients and apparatus for the home manufacture of wines, beer unrt liquors. Four arrests were j nia.de There are many such estah-i llshments here, operating openly and Without previous hlmlerance. Tho raids woro begun at the suggestion sug-gestion of Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe Bled-soe of the United States district c.oiir: who declared some such establishments establish-ments were located "wlthiti the shadow shad-ow of the federal building.' and expressed ex-pressed his wondor that they wore permlttril lo operata and his surprise that the 'proper authorities" had not j prosecuted them. 1 |