Show PADLOCKS HALT GOTHAM GAiETY Night K ht Club Owners Say It Is Outrage to Raid at Holidays Dy fly D HARVEY n ANDERSON I Correspondent l of l Copyright 1926 Consolidated Press Pres Association v EW YORK Dec 25 Padlocks 25 to the tile right of them padlocks to the left of them Impeded the pro pro- progress ress of wanderers In the Broadway night club district who sought their Christmas cheer In easily gurgled form this week Prohibitions Prohibition's blight upon the gay white way has stirred a II note of complaint that limo tho ho wall vali of a saxophone answering the sav- sav savage sav savage v age attack o ot the federal authorities authorities ties with their padlocks padlock and In Injunctions In- In Injunctions injunctions junctions By Dy New Years Year's eve the wails will become a II roar ThU THREATS EATS The rhe night clubs are arc spending no notime time In n idle tears Out of a maze of rumors comes the more or less Informed prediction that the tho replY of the time night club owners will be political rather than legal Al- Al Although Although Al Although though this is distinctly a federal delve with Prohibition Administrator tor Mills slapping on the tho padlocks the tho jazz jazz magnates are arc passing th the word to Mayor Maor Walker alker that they expect him to do something In their behalf Walker wrote that song Will You Love Lo Me In December As You Do In May said one outraged cabaret owner Im Pm telling him we e wont ont unie he ho can call calt ort off the hounds Walker alker can do a lot lotto lotto lotto to stop slop this It If h ho wants to Its it's n a dirty thirty outrage to pull this at Christmas time lime Mayor Maor Walker alker has already shown a bit o of Christmas spirit by order order- orderIng orderIng ordering ing h hs commissioner of o licenses to allow night ht clubs and cabarets to remain open opeti until 8 S o'clock In th Ibm morning after arler New ew ew Years Year's Eve E In- In tead in of enforcing the 3 o'clock closing la law which becomes opera opera- operative operative tive January 1 1 Although the owners have re- re retained re retained tamed some somo of o the best lawyers la In N New w York and anti have been ad- ad advised advised ad advised that their battle Is against the federal 1 e government and not the New York police pollee the result has been a II tremendous stirring In political circles and all sorts of ominous threats are arc reaching the government and elt city authorities Mills has been steadily dealing out padlocks and Injunctions nil all wee week I although acknowledging that he le docs does not expect to dry UI up Broad Broad- Broadway way Broad wa way The degree of success attend attend- attendIng attending ing lug his efforts coul could 1 be judged only by a Il few dark doors here and there in the calcium district There was the time usual arm army of ot hilarious at the time cabarets vaude vaude- vaudeville vaudeville ville yule entertainers fashioned little rhymed pleasantries In which Mills rhymed with stills and life went merrily on AhIr WORRIED NO NOW rut But the night club owners are seriously worried over this new attack particularly over the Injunction injunction tion lion phase A mere padlock Is something else again They can re- re remain remain re remain main open for 20 days in which they can prepare a defense legal defense or legal extra-legal Dut But the personal injunction closes them up u with abang a abang abang bang bang- and it is against this timis that they have ha been cn marshaling their army of ot priced high lawyers lawers Among time the 12 or 15 exclusive clubs there actual Is-actual is actual or pretended great great indifference to tile the activities activities ties of ot Commissioner Mills III s Ac- Ac According According Ac According cording to the managers of these clubs a Sunday school Is rather II a low and questionable resort In comparison with these cases ot of sweetness and ard light They cite the names of ot the time socially Impeccable and illustrious on th their lr registers of visitors tle they hint at power and on their lists of o financial supporters The hapless hotsey hotsey are arc looked 1 upon merely as social just entrepreneurs just ordinary It if you OU want to know and and there is no reason why any any- an- an anybody anybody body should worry about what happens to them WHO WIIO IS O OMAN There was as vast curiosity about iii identity of time the socially emi eminent n nent nept woman who operated co-operated with Commissioner Mills In Iii procuring evidence e against the time clubs Time The rumor grows that time the grys sr's have launched Ii a clr carefully fully organized campaign of ot social ostracism for frequenters of night clubs and for persons suspected of ot having finan finan- financial financial cial Interest in them Out of or all the tho legal political and social complication one fact emerges It was a II green gren Christ Christ- Christmas Christinas inas mas for the flask vendors In de- de department de department stores cigar stores nov nov- novelty nov novelty elty city shops and jewelry stores flasks were shoved sho to the time front as the theone theone theone one most alluring Christmas gift girt |