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...three months, Hawaii thirsted under absolute prohibition. Parched citizens concocted sickening "swipes" of yeast and fruit juice. Last week the order was relaxed. Adult topers may buy one quart of liquor a week. Bars sell all they like-until they close at 5 p.m. But drunkenness is sternly forbidden. Penalty: a fine up to $500, five years in jail; or both. Bartenders are also punished for getting their customers drunk. On Hawaii's first day of repeal, 17 men, five women were convicted of drunkenness. They were fined up to the limit, sentenced to jail for as long...
...evening will be twofold. First, they are charged with the responsibility of preventing panic, and, second, they are to see that all lights are extinguished as promptly as possible. In connection with the latter task, it was announced that smoking or lighting matches outdoors during the blackout is expressly forbidden...
Smoking or lighting matches outdoors during a blackout is forbidden...
...Married men up to 35, single men up to 45 were made subject to military call. Every other able-bodied person in Australia, including enemy aliens not interned, became subject to call for war work. Employes on war jobs were forbidden to quit or be absent from work without good reason...
Since the Army was forbidden by law from sending undercover agents abroad, before the U.S. was at war attaches had to operate strictly on their own. Nevertheless, during five years in Europe (1935-39, 1940-41), General Lee picked up so much information that War Department associates rate him the most knowledgeable Army expert in the U.S. on European matters...