The Archive · 1929

Agent Shot by Bootleggers Cushing

P, Butler, a federal ager Killed "to-day' and his ut George 8. Donhour was critically wounded while they were attempting to raid a barber shop which was suspected of being a "bootleg" liquor establishment.

Mrs. La Tosca Young, wife of John Young, proprietor of the shop, is alleged to have fired the shots United Press President Hoover's request that Congress study a project for trans-for of enforcement agencies from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice; the annual message again brought this to the fore, early this week.

(9) Public land potiey is likely' to be reviewed, since Secretary: Wilbur of the Department of In. terior has favoured of transfer tate governments.

th Senate and House are likely to consider \dvisability of reviewing the Federal Reserve Act, as an aftermath of heavy tock market speculation and crisis, but the probable action cannot be predicted. Some authorities believe that an undue portion of the nation's capital reserve is now beyond control of the Federal Reserve System.

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