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Show CHICAGO IS FIELD OF DRYJCTIVITY PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER TO START CAMPAIGN OF LAW ENFORCEMENT THERE Bootlegging and Moonshlnlng Are To Bo Run Out of Eastern Cities By Prohibition Agents Saye Commissioner Haynes Washington Increasing dryness and eventually total aridity Is the forecast for Chlcugo 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 n reason-able reason-able time the local authorities succeed In stumping out bootlegging, moonshlnlng moonshln-lng und official connivance at violation of the eighteenth umendment and the Volstead act New York Is now receiving such personal per-sonal treatment Mr. Hnynes having Journeyed thither to put into force some measures of his own devising for the discomfiture of tho traffickers In liquors. II purposes to make New York nn example of the aridity he deems It feasible to attain even In populous communities com-munities largely hostile to national prohibition. Philadelphia also is on Mr. Haynes' special treatment list. Then some Chi-cago Chi-cago and other points west. The commissioner com-missioner his received u voluminous report on conditions In Chicago, which discloses a widespread contempt for the prohibition law extending over n long period and protected, If not encouraged en-couraged by local authorities, who are 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 stem measures taken by Chief of Police Fitz-. morris to break up the protection of bootlegging by the Chlcugo police will result In a marked Improvement In the enforcement of the law. A new departure In prohibition en-'orcement en-'orcement Is to be the closing of hotels which violate the Volstead uct. 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 -1 und 22 of the Vol-stead Vol-stead law to close u hotel" selling II. quor. "District Attorney Madison," Mr. Haynes said, "filed Injunction proceedings proceed-ings against the Hendryx hotel In Kan-sas Kan-sas City, und Judge A. S. Van Valken-hurgh Valken-hurgh Issued an order closing the hotel, thus establishing a precedent In tiie -nlted States." The commissioner has Issued Instructions Instruc-tions to proceed ugalnst 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. Tho way to uproot liquor violations Is to penalize the owners of property. In the Hendryx hotel case I did Just that without bringing criminal clrurges. The hotel has been ordered closed for a year. The action agulnst the hotel was based on testimony of federal ugents and police." |