Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1929 — Page 8

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LIGHT USE OF JONES LAW BY U, SUREFOOTED ‘Five-and-Ten’ Penalties Are Being Imposed Moderately. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER, loll'd Pr*.§ Staff Corr'.poniJ'nt (Copyright. 1929. by Unit'd Press i WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. The Jones “five and ten” prohibition penalties are being imposed with moderation, according to information from federal prosecuting officials gathered by the United Press today from many sections of the country. While these reports are not absolutely all inclusive, they do not show a single instance in which the maximum penalty of five years imprisonment and a fine of SIO,OOO has been imposed. Petty offenders have been given light sentences on the whole, in accordance wjth the discretion allowed judges by the provisions of the law. After five months’ experience with this law, which wets declared was too extreme, federal prosecuting officers in many sections have expressed themselves as satisfied with it, some declaring it to be helpful in obtaining better enforcement. Soon after the law was passed, they were advised by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, then assistant attorney-general, to seek maximum Jones law penalties only against large-scale commercial violators and not against petty offenders. Reports of prosecutions and sen-

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1 fences imposed indicate these direc-1 tions have been followed on the whole in the first five months’ opera fion of the new penalties. ‘•That is the way it was intended,” , said Senator Wesley Jones (Rep., | j Wash.), one of the authors of the f j measure. Senator Jones, at Emergency hos- ' uital recovering from au operation, ! sap’ today it never was intended the | extreme penalties should be used : against small offenders. ‘‘These penalties,” he said, ‘‘were j | Intended for the large commercial i %’iolators. and I think they have, beer, effective.” *1 Seymour Lowman. assistant sec- ! rotary of treasury, took the same ; , view: “The Jones law was intended j only for major violations and not for minor or occasional violators. I think congress very wisely increased | the penalties in proportion to the j magnitude of the crime in the case j J of larger bootleggers.” James S. Doran, prohibition com- ' missioner, said it is too early to form a definite opinion as to what extent the Jones law is aiding in enforce- ! ment. “However. I think it is having a ■ different effect and is beneficial,” he said. Few cases have been tried, as district attorneys are using It only in large cases involving com- | mercial bootleggers." Reports showed that in some sections juries were quick to convict while in others difficulty was encountered. In several localities there were no prosecutions, officials holding the law in reserve for large commercial cases. Meteor Bursts Over City ANDERSON. Ind.. Aug. 2.—Anderson residents were treated to a rare display of nature’s fireworks last night when fragments of a meteor burst over this city with a shower of brilliant sparks. None of the fragments were found. Reports said the meteor was bright blue and yellow with a long tail of pale yellow.

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