Chicago, Feb. 10. federal grand jury to-day returned indictments "against 31 corporations and 156 individuals on charges of diverting industrial alfeohol amounting to 1,000,000 gallons annually for a period covering seven years.
"The indictments charge that 297 overt acts were committed, including the application of an invention for removing essential oils after manufacturing perfumes, Revealing details surrounding the cizeumstances of to-day's indictments Government officials said that, much alcohol' supposedly destined to vender the human exterior more cheerful never reached perfume houses but instead went by fairly direct means into human interiors, contrary to law, Such alcohol was turned over directly to prohibition violators, who made it into "pre-war whiskey" and sold-it under guarantees to the effect that it had come "direct from or sometimes from Alcohol so diverted came to a total valuation of more than G.$50,000,000.
Many of the companies indicted to-day are located on the West coast, including Los Angeles but with no Tepresentation from San Francisco, United Pross.
Two Cases at Springfield Springfield, ILL, Feb. 10.
'A federal grand: jury' to-day indicted"the Corn Products Ca, and Pleischman's Yeast on charges of violating the federal prohibition law.
No individuals were named in the indictments.—United Press,
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