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Show RUM BANNED ON I AMERICAN SHIPS I Opinion Also Prohibits B Alien Vessels Carrying If' Liquor Within Iiimit. R WASHINGTON. Oct 7 (By the K Associated Press) All vessels, Amerl- K can and forr ign-owned, aro prohibited Ri from having liquor on board in Ameri- W . can territorial waters under an inter- "" protatlon of the prohibition amend- i nient and tho enforcement act handed t down Friday by the department of jus- f tlce. Moreovr-r the transportation or 6 ,sale of intoxicants on American craft P. wherever operated was held to be in- fe-niblted, fe-niblted, WATERS DEFINED 1-' American territorial waters were construed to include those not only IT within the thr.-mi!e limit of conti'- ff nontal United States, but also those f! within tho same limit of the Philip- l pines, the Hawaiian Islands, Porto E RICO, the Virgin Islands and Alaska. f 1 The law would not apply In the Pana- ma Canal Zono as that zone Is spe- v' Iclflcally exempted b the statute Itself. 7 So far as American ships aro con- l cerned, the snle or transportation of fc liquor will ceaso at once, or as soon jf as those vessels reach their home f 'ports. In tho caso of foreign ships. : the decision will become operative a a soon ns nrcpsnary regulations can be ,E' prepared and promulgated by the trea- f jsurv department. & Court action looking to a final de- termination of tho application of Am- F erican dr' laws to foreign ships en- I tcrlng American ports was foreseen bv I. Attorney General Daugherty and f. Chairman Lasker of the shipping F board. Il IX.Il ACTION LOOMS f Mr Daugherty said he already had f. been advised that a case was about JH lo be filed which would bring the l9su; t to the supreme court. Chairman Lasker was of the opln- t ion thut the first move of foreign lines f. would be to seek an Injunction re- f straining the government from en- K forcing the law. He said it was rea- sonable to suppose that the courts IB would grant such an Injunction with It a result that foreign ships would con- jt tinuo to arri.- with liquor aboard un- L til there was a final decision by the f highesl court. Tho attorney general said his department would co-operate f in very ffort to expedite a ruling by p the supreme court. |