Show y I ARID NEW YEARS YEAR'S RITES LOOM lO M FO fOR LARGE U U. U 8 CITIE Ghost of Old Revenue Law Scares Speakeasy Night Club Owners LID ON IN CHICAGO War Is Declared on Hi Hip HipFlask HipFlask Flask By UNITED PRESS Designs of federal federal agents to make maki New Years Year's eve celebrations more mon arid than ever were announced in ir virtually every large city today Although Washington official officials said sald no order ordel had been sent out to dry up the annual revelry revelo It was war succinctly stated that administrators knew what to do an and they ill will do it Plans to enforce an old Internal revenue law law- permitting confiscation of law violators' violators property were beHoved believed believed be be- to 1 have frightened proprietors ton tors of speak and night nightclubs clubs In n New York Major Maurice Campbell be 1 lon said raid the theto the d d a J d to to the best beit of my ability LID TO BE ON Agents in Chicago have promised that the lid will be on although i from rom the other side came a promIse promIse promise prom prom- I ise of the wettest New Years eve since rince prohibition Four Fou Chicago hotels canceled reservations res rca and returned checks In Denver war has been declared on n the flask and agents will attend all au public celebrations The same ame is true In Kansas City Baltimore prohibition headquarters headquarters era promised that men and women In n evening clothes would be sent out Ut to mingle mingIe with the merrymakers and nd arrest those too uproarious An old law will be enforced In Pittsburg Cabarets theatres and andI andance I dance ance halls will not be permitted to remain emain open after 1145 1143 p p. m. m CARS EXAMINED Customs officials at Buffalo Buffalo- decided decided de de- de- de to close out one source of entry en entry en- en I try of liquor and have been examining exam exam- inin ining thoroughly every car crossIng crossIng crossIng cross- cross Ing the International peace bridge from Canada No spectacular raids are planned in San Francisco where cabarets and dance halls can remain open until 5 a. a m. m Likewise Philadelphia officials said It was their task to stop liquor at its source rather than at the tho point point- point point-of of consumption Los Angeles Is experiencing a It liquor shortage The fhe elaborate police search for Edward Hickman Continued on page e 2 2 ARID NEW YEARS YEAR'S I RITES LOOM FOR LARGE U. U S. S CITIES Continued from page 1 interfered t temporarily with transportation transportation transportation trans trans- of liquor into the city NEW YORK Dec 31 AP AP The The law today today tolay to- to ghost of an old revenue rose day lay to cause some misgivings about what promised to be Broadways Broadway's most expensive and wildest celebration celebration tion of a New Year Under authority of this law pr prohIbition prohibition pro pro- agents stripped Chez Helen Morgan one of the city's most popular POPular pop pop- ular ulal night resorts of its worth of furnishings Owners of other night clubs became a bit ap apprehensive ap- ap about tonight's develop- develop ments Reservations Reser at all the popular I clubs and hotels had been cd da days days- s ago and it was estimated persons would dine and dance m the old year ear out and the new year car in paying at least for tor or the privilege AGENTS ASSIGNED Coupled with the tin threat cat made bythe bythe by hy the he Morgan club raid was a letter sent all night club proprietors proprIetor by Administrator Maurice Maurico Camp Campbell ben in which h ho he 3 warned that two agents would be assigned to each club He also ilso called attention to a recent federal court in Chicago which held that the mere furnishing furnishing furnishing furnish furnish- ing of glasses cracked ice or gin gln- gerale with the knowledge that they were to be used in consumption of liquor was ground for padlock pro- pro Campbell said that the the raid raid on the Morgan club had the approval of United States Attorney Charles H. H Tuttle Tuttle said aid ald the dismantling of the club was carried out under section of the revised statutes He added that he lie was convinced this section authorized the confiscation of property CITES STATUTE Tho The law provides that persons In possession of taxable goods which Includes liquor with the intent to sell the same in fraud of the internal internal internal inter inter- nal revenue laws shall be liable to toa toa toa a penalty of or not less than double the amount of taxes fraudulently fraudulently fraudulently fraud fraud- attempted to be evaded All All tools implements instruments instruments ments monte and personal property whatsoever whatsoever whatsoever what what- in the place of building where such taxable articles are found may also also be seized I and shall be forfeited I J. J Arthur Adler counsel for Miss 1 Morgan and the eight employee of the club who were arrested de denounced denounced do- do the tho raid as a violation of the he process and search and seizure clauses of the constitution and said saidie he ie would carry the case to the United United Unit Unit- ed States supreme court Adler at the hearing before the United States commissioner where all the defendants were held in jail ball said he was preparing a memorandum memorandum mem mem- demanding return of ot all property removed from the club CAMPBELL CONFIDENT Campbell however refused to be perturbed over the threatened court action I hope they do carry It to the supreme court he lie said My attorney in the matter is one Charles H. H Tuttle and I am confident confident confident dent of the outcome A welcome promising to be even madder and merrier than those of the past today awaited 1928 in New NewYork York As the old year ear prepared to move off into the ages indications were that the din of welcome by the surging street crowds the nightclub nightclub night nightclub club revelers levelers and the diners and dancers at hotels and private parties parties parties par par- ties would exceed anything in the previous history of the city Night clubs with cover charges averaging 12 a person and in many cases exceeding 20 had squeezed in the last extra table days ago and arid further reservations were not to be had at an any price PRICES BOOSTED Theatres also had boosted their box office prices and with the addition addition addition addi addi- tion of the speculators' speculators profit tickets ticketS tickets tick tick- ets for popular Broadway shows were selling as high as 25 each The dining rooms of all leading hotels were booked to capacity the McAlpin and Astor hotels each re reporting reporting reporting re- re porting reservations for tor persons persons per per- per S sons for dinner and dancing Perhaps th the only party at which there will be no cover charge will willbo willbe willbe be bo that given by Urban Ledoux Mr Zero philanthropist to several several sev sev- eral oral hundred down and outers who will be fed in m front of the public public pub pub- lic lie library at Fifth avenue and For For- ty second street only a few blocks from the theatrical district where it is estimated will be spent to usher In the New Year Clarence D. D Chamberlin transAtlantic transAtlantic transAtlantic trans At lantic flier fUel expects to welcome the New Year in in the air all He announced announced announced an an- that at midnight he would fly over Manhattan In a plane decked In electric lights CHICAGO Dec 31 AP Ap Prohibition enforcement in Chicago to tonight tonIght tonight to- to night will be purely a federal affair af affair affair af- af fair with enforcement officers on duty from 2 p. p m. m until the last tin Un tinhorn tinhorn horn has sounded its blatant hurrah hurrah hurrah hur hur- rah to the New Year Chief of Police Pollee Hughes indicated that the time police force would make no extra efforts e toward liquor law en- en f 01 cement AGENTS READY The federal prohibition department department depart depart- ment anent however has made extensive plans to make certain that Chicago's New Years Year's eve celebration is dry A force of federal men has been assigned to hotels and cabarets The department under the direction of ot E. E C. C administrator has been recruited for the tho occasion by agents from Indianapolis ke and southern Illinois cities clUes The federal men are understood to have been heen instructed to arrest any hip flask they may ob- ob serve Many hotels have posted notices that no setups of and cracked ice will bo be served |