Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1919 — WAR DRY ACT BARS ALCOHOL OVER HALF OF ONE PER CENT [ARTICLE]

WAR DRY ACT BARS ALCOHOL OVER HALF OF ONE PER CENT

Washington, Feb. 24. —Any beverage containing more than one-half of one per cent alcohol would be banned by the wartime prohibition act, effective next July 1, under a measure approved today by the house judiciary committee to make the act effective. The committee’s definition of intoxicating liquor was written in the bill as follows: “The words beer, wine, or Other intoxicating malt or vinous liquors in the war prohibition act shall be construed as any liquor which contains in excess of one-traftf of one per cent of alcohol.” Enforcement of the wartime prohibition law, which continues in effect until after demobilization, is placed with the" internal revenue bureau by the bill framed by the committee. Agents of the bureau would investigate violations of the law and prosecutions would be conducted by the United States attorneys. Any place where liquor is manufactured or sold would be declared a public nuisance, subject to abatement, and its operators subject to fine and imprisonment as guilty of a misdemeanor. Property that owners knowingly permit to be used for violating the law would be subject to a lien for fine and costs of cases resulting from the prosecution.

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