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Show ' i ,.j;L'.;ijlj i J'hLLJ of m mm PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER TO ' START CAMPAIGN OF LAW ENFORCEMENT THERE Bootlegging and Moonshining Are To Be Run Out of Eastern Cities By Prohibition Agents Says Commissioner Haynes Washington Increasing dryness and eventually total aridity is the forecast for Chicago and environs emanating from the offices of Prohibition Commissioner Com-missioner Haynes. Chicago is to receive the special and personal attention of the prohibition commissioner unless within a reason, able time the local authorities succeed In stamping out bootlegging, moonshining moonshin-ing and official connivance at violation of the eighteenth amendment and tha Volstead act. New York is now receiving such personal per-sonal treatment, Mr. Haynes having journeyed thither to put dnto force some measures of his own devising for the discomfiture of the traffickers In liquors. H purposes to make New York an example of the aridity he deems it feasible to attain even in populous eoni- munities largely hostile to national pro. hibi-tion. Philadelphia also is on Mr. Haynes' special treatment list. Then some Chicago Chi-cago and other points west. The com-missioner com-missioner has received a voluminous report on conditions in Chicago, which discloses a widespread contempt for the prohibition law extending over a long period and protected, if not encouraged en-couraged by local authorities, who ard obligated by the law to cooperate with the federal officials in the enforcement of the Volstead act. The report shows that Prohibition Director Kjellander has been unable to cope successfully with the volume of liquor traffic because of the small force of federal agents at his disposal and the failure of the Chicago police to cooperate effectively. Chicago is now on probation, the commissioner hoping that the stern measures taken by Chief of Police Fitz-morris Fitz-morris to break up the protection of bootlegging by the Chicago police will result in a marked improvement in the enforcement of the law. A new departure in prohibition enforcement en-forcement is to be the closing of hotels which violate the Volstead act. On the eve of his departure for New York, Mr. Haynes called attention to "the first instance of the successful invocation invoca-tion of sections 21 and 22 of the Volstead Vol-stead law to close a hotel" selling li quor. "District Attorney Madison," Mr. Haynes said, "filed injunction proceedings proceed-ings against the Hendryx hotel in Kansas Kan-sas City, and Judge A. S. Van Valken-burgh Valken-burgh issued an order closing the hotel, thus establishing a precedent in the United States." The commissioner has issued instructions instruc-tions to proceed against offending hotels ho-tels elsewhere with a view to closing them and penalizing the owners of other property on which violations of the prohibition law occur. He cited the following report by District Attorney Attor-ney Madison. "The 'Padlock' injunction provision is the sharpest tooth in the law. The way to uproot liquor violations is to penalize the owners of property. In the Hendryx hotel case I did just that without bringing -criminal charges. The hotel has been ordered closed for a year. The action against the hotel was based on testimony of federal agents and police." Mr. Haynes said that the increased number of convictions of the Volstead act offenders through! the country and the steadily growing cooperation of the state and local authorities without the federal forces indicated a public sentiment senti-ment demanding rigid enforcement of the law. "In South Dakota eighteen offenders In the federal court pleaded guilty after af-ter four were found guilty by juries, more pleas of guilty than at any other term of court," said Mr. Haynes. "Severe "Sev-ere penalties were given. "South Carolina courts age giving convicted offenders three to six months on the chain gangs. In Mississippi, during the September term of United States court, twenty-three indictments resulted in S1300 fines. Practically every director reports helpful attitude on the part of the press. |