Show ROADHOUSES HAD NO RIGHT TO OPERATE CHIEF SAYS Midnight Raids Result Result in Sixty Arrests by Police PROTEST BY OWNERS No Chance to Reopen Official Official Official cial Declares Trials Tuesday The roadhouses in Salt Lake were operating in utter defiance of all law stated Chief of Police J J. Parley White today The law which they claimed permitted them to operate distinctly states that a club lub shall pay a license se of from to 2000 a year Not one of these places had such a license The same law prohibits prohibit'S the sale of liquor In dry territory These resorts were in dry territory The West Side Auto club better known as Blankenship's the North NorthSide NorthSide NorthSide Side Motor club and the Phoenix club run by Scott Cunningham were all closed last night between 12 12 and 2 o'clock following spectacular raids by bythe bythe bythe the police Thirty Are Arrested Thirty persons including several women were arrested and booked at police headquarters All were were released on an their own and were warned to appear In court Tuesday afternoon Complaints of different kinds will be issued against all aU durin during the he day It is und understood that a charge of f keeping a disorderly house or of frequenting the same can be preferred against each The roadhouses and clubs are closed to Lo stay closed said Chief White to to- to day lay Friday and Saturday nights these places s sold ld liquor of all kinds until late in the morning Investigation Complete A thorough investigation of ot the so called clubs was made covering a long period and many reasons for their closing have b been en brought to light Several of the cafe operators and those Interested appeared d at t police headquarters today to protest the ac ac- ac tion ion Patrolmen at each resort all night to prevent their re reopening reopening re- re opening pening and a close watch is being kept ept on each today It I is just in line with our policy of ofa ofa a clean town says Chief White Any place which we h have ve closed or ormay ormay may decide to close h has no logical reason for existence and fulfills no need iced i |