Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-07-03 | Page 1 | Women to Resort to Picketing in Effort to Close Alleged Speakeasy

Women to Resort to Picketing in Effort to Close Alleged Speakeasy NEW YORK July 3 United Mothers of St St. A Albans Queen Queans having carried their thir fight against an alleged local speakeasy through city and federal authorities to President Hoover himself made plans plan today to picket the pl place e Monday Unless it is ii closed cloud The establishment Is on the main street t of ot St. St Albans and within feet of or the public school Mrs Gilbert Gil GU- bert bort A. A Wicks president-elect president of or orthe th the teacher parent association of the school scho l told the United d Press St Albans Albans' i is o on Long LonS Island and ancl is isa isa a part of New York City Placards dm pro proclaiming This is a speakeasy nH which the United d States I government will not or can not fr L close clone will wUl be printed Mrs Wicks said On Monday the women plan to take turns on picket duty outside th tho place The women claim that police said th they y wore Vore powerless to close the place while white federal authorities said It was up to the police poUce Mrs Irs Wicks then telegraphed to President Hoover er the department of justice and arid Representative William I. I F. F Brunner Democrat of Queens President Hoovers Hoover's secretary re replied replied re- re plied that lt the matter had been re referred re- re erred to the attorney general while the latter's department replied that it had been referred to Amos W. W W W. Woodcock prohibition director Brunner said ho would give gl the thc matter immediate attention I 14