Signs for Agents

Because many a citizen has been stopped on the highroad by U. S. Prohibition agents whose say-so was their only identification, Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock last week announced that all automobiles carrying such agents will be marked with a distinctive shield on the right front door. The shield will read:

STOP

UNITED STATES OFFICIAL BUREAU OF PROHIBITION Until 1,000 such signs have been made, Prohibition agents are under orders from Director Woodcock not to shoot at motorists' tires--practice which in the past has resulted in fatalities. Uniforms for the accosting agents were suggested to the Director. He discarded that idea chiefly because of the cost. Also last week Director Woodcock showed baffled newshawks a complicated graph compiled from usual and unusual sources, on the Department of Justice's results during its first month (July) in the enforcement field. This revealed that 6,524 arrests had been made by the Bureau, 3,828 of the prisoners being held for trial. Because of justices' vacations in July, Prohibition cases on Federal Court dockets had increased from 22,173 to 22,497. The average Prohibition violator sentenced in July received 152.6 days in gaol, his average fine was $199.59. Precisely 1,339,277 gal. of beer and 111,-672 gal. of "spirits" were confiscated; also 724 automobiles, 11 boats, 1,963 stills, 12,353 fermenters.

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