| Show M TINY FORCE FORGE FACES TAi TASK OF mm DRYING OP UP NEW NB YORK I IOnly Only U S Prohibition Officers Will Be Left To Watch Entire State and Canadian I Border If Gov Coy Al Smith Signs Bill 1 Repealing Liquor Laws NEW YORK lla May S 5 Federal Feder prohibition enforcement of c In hew ew r ew York facing the necessity or of drying up the stale tato unaided if IC attics affixes the tho cx- cx ex expected l signature Q 0 othe the bill repealing the tho MulIan enforcement oct net today beg beg-a begal 1 1 d rafting plans for tor spreading thou j lines over tho the territory which Jas has been largely covered co I for them by state and na municipal a iii I i forces Palmer Canfield director for ew SW ew York state slate tate said h he had about 00 men at lit his corn com command com command mand to co cover coer er the entire state In- In In Including the Canadian border no nor largely patrolled rum run runners run run- ners nero by state slate police pollee He to ex expected from Washington fur for II a increase In his force but he be decard J h he expected the police policeto policeto to go on aiding in prohibition en I en-I en- en as 53 far as they el CiO e able G G FROM l eI I bile the repeat repeal ot of the Mul Gago Mul- Mul han Gago liw hw Is dl Serious blo blow bior to toI enforcement because it will wilt I I It appear that New York Is I seceding eced- eced ing from the union the police ne arc aro compelled hen alien I they see a violation of ot the law to tomake tomake tomake make arrests arnts and nod turn their pris prisoners over to the federal authorities authorities toI I I I ties he dec declared lared At police headquarters however It was said Id that tentative tent plans already were being mode made to re- re return return re return turn to patrol duty ditty nearly 1000 policemen who have spent most of ot their time hunting ot of the state law Just what effect the repeal would have base on criminal and civil cases now pending against alleged of ot the law had not been made clear tonight Acting Dis- Dis District District DIstrict Attorney Tecori said sald his un- un understanding was that the repeal was not reactive and that if It this thi I ere found to be the case the dl- dl dis district tr ct attorneys attorney's office would push through to completion all cas cases ot of violation up to the hub time when the law becomes effective Corrective by the th governors governor's governor signature Meanwhile professional drys Issuing statements sharplY criticising the repeal and predict predict- predicting predicting ing dire doings doing by bootleggers and andi persons crazed by moonshine whisky Orville S Poland coun court counsel counsel sel eel and legislature e of the state Saloon Anti-Saloon league declared the legislatures legislature's action would leave New York City a prey to bootleggers with less control lot ot the sale and consumption or of liquor than It ever had known be before be- be before fore tore In its history I P CREASE ASHI i i Mw Al Although Al Although Although though Prohibition Commissioner Ha nes declared today there would be no letdown In prohibition en- en enforcement en enforcement in New r cw York state the thc general view t hero bern was that the legislature action aelion of o th New York legisla legisla- ture In repealing the state enforce enforce- enforcement ment meat code would make maJe far Car more difficult I t t the task Of o federal t Mr view wis w that the I I actIOn of ot the legislature would mean only t that the federal gov go- go- go goI government would have havo to pro provide Ide In in inthe inthe I the largest measure possible ageD I agen- agen agencies agen agencies cies cles to make mako up th the loss lObS lo s of what ever eer co may hae have been bent I pro by the state tate itie i He tie said nt funds lunas were were available l O 0 I i Increase lorce mOI- mOI cited eted that a sur survey sursey ey to determine upon uron the extent of ot the increase le I await alt an actual of th the sate forces upon the signing sign sign- signIng ing Ing of ot the repeal act t by GOer Gover- GO Governor er- er erI L I Smith nor I I I J LEUt J IT U ACIS A i concern of enforcement officers was that with the scare border patrol withdrawn n the rum rumI I flut which has been active e off I the thee e cs c's York and New Jers y yI I coasts might transfer their opera opera- operations operations to Canadian waters In the hope of or finding D for forth th r c cargoes Into New hew ew York across the international l border With the active operation co othe or of orthe the coast coot guard service tion officials belle believed cd they ere l-i l Ita maa a fair way to cut off tile the major portion of ot Yorks York's present liquor supply from Crom the sea the rum fleet transfer Its base I Ito to Canadian water ater It was suggest suggest- suggested suggested I ed cd that there might bo be a 1 renewal of negotiations with the Ule I go looking to Its co oper atlon In the enforcement of 01 the tho prohibition laws Meantime another phase or of o the tho 6 prohibition the question question the supreme court ban bon on bringing liquor Into 0 American waters waters water is regarded as likely to b become ome a subject of oC dip dip- erch ge French Amb s discussed tillS this subject with Secretary Hughes to- to today today today day at the state department but with what result did not appear The embassies of or all ot of o the for for- foreign sign eign governments go still were with with- without without without out Instructions Instruction today regarding the tho supreme courts court's decision Commissioner Haynes In his statement on the New York Uon tion declared It was to be re- re that New York had he- he como the tho third state without a state slate enforcement code In th tho other two Massachusetts and an Maryland he said the tho courts bate o hav held that the restrictive e features feature of f the old licensing Is laws lans s still were In effect Senator Sterling Republican South Dakota who ha q had charge chare of oC legislation much o of the prohibition legis legis- legis- legis lation lotion in the sen senate declared that York state slate could be bo per per- to nullity nullify the national law hw Wayne Vayne E B Wheeler for tor the tho Anti Antl Saloon Saloon league said sald the enCo ce meat ment code repeal was the only 0 consolation the thc wets hate hae won on on this year For the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment W H IL Sla St-as St ton hailed the repeal as ns a glorious victory for the advocates advocate of personal |
