Show LICENSE PROBE COMES TO HALT Police Department Asks Suspension Suspension Suspension Sus Sus- pension of Work T ork of Checking Checking Checking Check Check- ing Rooming Houses SCHEID'S ATTITUDE Says Women r Operating Rooming Houses Should Pay Proper License Fee Work ork of oC the th city license department In checking up alleged bawdy houses on C Commercial street was brought to toa a a. temporary halt yesterday a as result Of Ofa ofa off a f request from Crom the police department for a conference with Commissioner Karl A. A Scheid on the mat matter er Commissioner Scheid ordered the tho li license Ii- Ii cense department to ce se operations for COr twenty four hours pending a l conference conference con con- ference with the police department Inspector W. W H. H Dye of or the license license- department was making a check of or the district yesterday morning when According according Ac ac- ac- ac cording corling to his statement he encountered encountered encountered Capt John Hempel of OC tho the police department who asked that he cease sc operations until after a conference with Mr Commissioner Scheid said Raid I do not wish to act arbitrarily In the time matter matterand matterand and antl will listen to any anything thins the police department may mar have havo to sa say However How How- ever eYer tho women on the tho street are aro presumably presumably pre pre- running rooming houses nn and If they aro there IH in no reason wh why they y should not pay rooming house licenses as do others who are ure engaged In that business If the they are nrc running rooming houses tho they should comply with tho the law lawand lawand nn and m my object In demanding that these thes proprietresses apply appl for rooming house licenses Is la to bring the matter before the commission so so o that the tho police will Investigate the nature of or business be being being be- be ing lug conducted on the street and report to tho commission that It may know lenow how to proceed In the matter Mayor Maor W W. Mont Ferr Ferry called on Commissioner Com Corn missioner Scheid yesterday morning and they were In conference for Cor a while but both declared that the matter of or orthe the tho houses on Commercial street was not hot discussed Yesterday an application for tor a a. roomIng roomIng room- room Ing lug house license at 30 Commercial street was filed with the recorder b bEthel by Ethel Matthews |