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Show lisli N. YJCABARETS j POLICE PLAN TO PADLOCK ALL LEADING SUPPER CLUBS SELLING INTOXICANTS Bottles Are Broken In Effort To Destroy De-stroy Evidence As United States Officials Put Over Big Raid On Broadway New York. Broadway cabarets and supper clubs were the objective of the most sweeping prohibition drive yet waged along the famous thoroughfare. thor-oughfare. Thirty of the best known night resorts were served with summons sum-mons and complants by members of United States District Attorney Buck-ner's Buck-ner's staff. Throughout the day and night the federal prosecutor's men visited the all-night places and left papers requiring re-quiring the owners to appear in federal fed-eral court to answer charges of selling sell-ing liquor. Some of the places were off the Great White Way, one being the Lido Venice, exclusive supper club, in East Fifty-third street, near Fifth avenue. The action against the thirty places plac-es was Mr. Buckner's first step in his announced plan to padlock approximately approx-imately 100 of the leading Manhattan Manhat-tan resorts, mostly along Broadway, suspected of selling liquor. Included in the list of cabarets and supper clubs are the El Fey club near Times Square, the Piping Rock and the Game Cock restaurants, east of Fifth avenue, the Picadilly-Hampton Rendezvous, Ren-dezvous, the Picadilly Supper club, the Half Moon and the Hotsy Totsie in the Broadway district, and the Golden Eagle, in Greenwich Village. Some of the places were on what Mr. Buckner termed his "encore list",' their managements having been en-Joined en-Joined from ever again violating the prohibition law. In such places all waiters were summoned. Among these were the Lido Venice, the El Fey club and the Piping Rock. The waiters were ordered to appear ap-pear before the federal grand jury. Scenes of excitement prevailed in some of the resorts upon the entry of government agents and policemen. In some cases the process serving squads reported the crash of many liquor bottles, hastily broken to destroy de-stroy evidence, could be heard before be-fore entrance was gained. Mr. Buckner made known the discovery dis-covery that the Del Fey club supplied sup-plied its patrons with liquor through a pipe connecting with another building. build-ing. Scotch, gin or champagne could be obtained by turning a certain faucet, fau-cet, he said, adding that the club was under the same management that had operated the El Fey club, which was padlocked several months ago. |