PROHIBITION: A Dear Friend

Congressman M. Alfred Michaelson comes from Chicago. In the House, he votes Dry. Last week he was prisoner-at-the-bar in the squat, red-brick U. S. District Court at Key West, Fla. Judge Halstead L. Ritter peered curiously at Conggressman Michaelson through large, judicial spectacles.

Congressman Michaelson had passed through Key West 17 months earlier, returning from a junket in Cuba and Panama. Upon his Congressional "free entry" permit, six trunks had been passed without customs inspection by Key West officials. At Jacksonville two of the trunks, dripping with liquor, had been seized,...

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