Show BOOZE SCANDAL NAMES AMS OF MEN MN IN T I OFFICIAL C FOUND IN g gLIST LIST OF BOOTLEG PATRONS District Attorney Decides Desperate Measures Are Necessary and Will Ask Grand Jury to Indict Purchasers As Well Vell As Sellers of Liquor In United States Capital WASHINGTON w WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Dec A 22 22 A bootleg liquor scandal that threatens to touch the most exclusive and b connected circles in the national capital was promised today by officials of the District of Columbia Apparently 1 convinced that the time has hu come o o 0 apply desperate remedIes to tho the situation which dei has has-de has eloped on tho the doorstep of oC the tho f t gO BO the dis dt- dl- dl district attorneys attorney's office announced It ak k a II grand jury to take action against purchasers as wen well wenas as dispensers of Intoxicants The basis lot fOl to the request will willbe willbe willbe be an imposing list of ot customers was WIlS seized when hen hen the police rounded up the tho principals In what they blIe e e to be ba a n bootleg 9 CAte organized to supply the most discriminating drinkers In Wash WashIngton WashIngton Ington public No name names have been made pub pub- pub public I INo lic lie but police officials say the list delude many of those who mIght ordinarily on their wealth si ethem or their positions to gl e them Immunity BUYERS ARI G Ty jU IT All of o these names namos It was as- as asserted asserted as asserted t by y Assistant nt District Attorney Attorney ney will go before the gran grani 1 jury it if confessions said to have havo b been en made mad by thosa thoe alread already under arrest ate ale not n nHe He ded ded that the prosecutions would bo be under the brought the con con- conspiracy con of the act which mikes mike purchasers of l guilty along Iong with those from whon the buy ne another ramification of the else caused d much consternation liOn tion In quite another quarter It was disco discovered ered th-it th a part of or the tho stock I Irom rom which the liquor ns as being supplied according to police reports was es as under the protection of one onn of the foreign legations a 11 was attempted a of 01 the legation staff tatt pro tl-at tl the goods were nero Im- Im Immune immune Im Immune privileges mune under the diplomatic leges accorded the es ot of foreign governments gO The re- re result re result sult suIt was a II prot protest st by the metro metro- metropolitan metropolitan politan police to the t gt-t whose officIals publication 1 I to sayan say ani thing for tor pub pub- pub pIT Or LEAK X Lik LIKi tao names on the tho list lIt of customer of the lega legation tion su suspected o ted it of f contributing to the supply was ns as kept In confIdence The Tho news s traveled quickly through I the diplomatic corps hO J i which hid before has been stir stir- stirred stirred red red by police chures charres of a a leak ot of dl ale lomac liquor In to bootleg chann h hI The raid on th the tho bootleg ring yes wa a was timed to coincide with I of the bulk of oC the lo deh deliveries lIng Ing placIng In tie lie hands of or the police anI an I unusual outlay of fresh Creah evidence More thin Inn 2 5 3 a nimes were ere on IMore the 1st confiscated ted at the etto In l n a II downtown office building and at the same pasI tIm the raiding officers took poe pas I n ot of the key to a secret eollo coie I I for 1 identification both of o custom customers ers ore ind md arlous s of wet I goode I More Ioro a n dozen arre ot of those fioso slid t to he be partners Or Ori co of ot th Ui syndicate already ha has has- been made mace ma e and more ar are i promised J Pill J l LINELY Whether the pre of nam names I of C bleIS bie a lis together with lIb the now held by the tho thoI I police pol will be sufficient to make mal maken r liquorI n a y ciKo Cate a liquor liquori I i consumers Is a 11 question which I th the district district- I lOe oes not attempt to ans answer er final final- i ly hy attempts to le chare charges on n such such lisle have ha ha e tailed failed I in th thi fa taw fa-e of ot by the prin- prin prin I Should the at nt attempt tempt pt hI hi b carriel through It ma nia I Iset iset set a precedent which h will be of or I on Pal Page Two CAPITAL HAS BOOZE SCARE Continued from Page P ee One vilua In prohibition enforcement throughout the entire countrY WANT NAMES SAMES GIVEN WASHINGTON Deo 22 22 CL IN INS N S Hollday Holiday dry raids tonight had netted 13 alleged bootleggers and resulted in the capture by tho the po- po po police lice Uco of exclusive client lists lIts contain contain- containing containing ing several thousand names some of which are said to merit the do- do description de description high In tho social and official life lite of ot Washington The Tho drys drye headed heade by Wayne B Wheeler generalissimo of the Anti Antl- Saloon Anti Saloon league are clamoring ing that the lists be bo made public Evor Every friend of law and order should Insist upon the prosecution of these conspirators i-ald i ald Wheeler In a II manifesto The The purchaser of bootleg bootleg- liquor Is a more cowardly violator of the law than the boot boot- bootlegger bootlegger legger logger himself They can and should be prosecuted under B 11 of the prohibition code relative to The demand of the drys for prosecutions and publicity was Ira Ira- Immediately Im Immediately mediately met by Assistant District Attorney in charge of the clean up He Issued a 0 statement saying Everybody whom the evidence I discloses hart had any connection In the cues cases whether it be purchaser run run- runner run run-Iner I ner or office will b be prosecuted to the fullest extent ot of the law Thus far none of the names have bave baveI been permitted to become public I MEMBERS LEERS OF or The Washington Times however asserted today I At least leut two members member of the cabinet members of congress members of the tha Judiciary prominent prominent prominent nent go government officials and lead lead- leaders lead ers in Washington society cIrcles are arc said to be numbered In the list of customers I The trail of the liquor sleuth led to a warehouse where whre there w as cached worth of liquor ac- ac according ac cording to the police but before It could be seized U tie the e of a foreign legation put In appear I appear appear-anco alice and claimed the tho liquor under seal of diplomatic Immunity There Thero was WILS nothing left loft tor for the raiders to do todo but make mako u a formal report to the tho state department which In is un- un un understood to be making a II private Inquiry as to whether liquor con con- consigned con consigned signed to any of f the embassies lles or Into l I Y HD H-c H CONSIGNMENT Consignments of holiday liquors to legation the foreign and ond lega leia lega- lega tion In la the capital have been un- un unUsually un unusually usually heavy VY this icar ear aCcording to reports Sweeping Investigation by con con- con congress gross gress of the charge that there is 11 1 v of ot the dry law In high of- of ot fidel an and social of Wash Wash- Vash will be n demanded In la a reso reso- lution resolution to be Introduced Introduce In the house after the tho Christmas holiday holidays by eI Upshaw Democrat of C Georgia eor 00 00 |