Prohibition Officers Busy Fighting Moonlighters, March 14, 1925

Prohibition Officers Had a Busy Month. . . 40 Distilleries and 114 Stills Were Taken During February

By the Associated Press

Salisbury, March 14—Officers operating under A.B. Coltrane of this city, federal prohibition director for North Carolina, had a very busy month during February, according to reports just forwarded to Washington. Forty distilleries and 14 stills were taken, and 1,078 gallons of liquor and 150,1975 gallons of malt liquors, along with other material and equipment for the manufacture of liquor. Twenty-nine automobiles were taken and 102 arrests made, with 192 indictments. The value of property seized and destroyed was $61,452, and that taken and not destroyed, $7,655.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, March 14, 1925. 114 stills in the headline; 14 stills in the story

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