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Show I! CITY INTENDS TO CLOSE MORE I, 'SOFT' DRINK PLACES ON 25TH ST. Mayor and Commission Determined to Proceed With Cleanup Despite Protests; Actual Seizure Seiz-ure of Liquor Deemed Not Essential I Action of the city commission Tuea-day Tuea-day in revoking the licenses and clos- Ing fnur soft drink parlor on Twenty-fifth Twenty-fifth street upon reports of fedei 1 and polite officers that liquor wns b. -. ing sold, today brought a maelstrom of pndest from certain business men' and lawyers who havo been retained by th" proprietor? of the closed plar.-s I Despite the pressure brought to bear the city commission members declared declar-ed thev will hold firmly t" their plan to cban up Twenty-fifth street ind frankly told the business men who at-j miied to intercede and the lawyers representing the proprietors that they COUld take the mntter to court If they wished, but the commission would nut Imckstep n Inch in its stand to wipe out th Illicit liquor traffic. v n i n Dl DEI NED The commissioners further announced announ-ced that several other soft ilrlnk parlors par-lors nre now under nald'Tation and N i v probable tbat within a day or so they will also be dosed. "We are not waiting until liquor can bo actually found In the soft-drink soft-drink parlors by officers and analyzes hy a chemist before bringing action," j Mayor Frank Francis and the commissioners com-missioners declared today, "for this in difficult and has been the stumbling block In the past. "We are being guided instead by I the general reputation of the placet I r.nd whon we are morally certain that violations of the law are being made, I even though raids aro not made and; liquor actually found, we aro going 11 to revoke licenses. MORE I NDER smiTTNV "'This applies not only to soft-drink ! parlors, but to commercialised gaml- ling places and blinds where narcotics are being sold The time ll at hand I where the. city will proceed Immediately Imme-diately to take radical action to clean up the Twenty-fifth street situation. "The commission has several more' places under consideration and action in revoking their licenses will prob-' prob-' ablv be taken at once. As soon as the licenses were re-jvoked re-jvoked Tuesday there was a general ! v, ramble on the part of the proprietors propriet-ors to have their licenses transferred to others. This is being blocked, how-1 how-1 ever, and the commission will not per-!mit per-!mit this method of deception to bo I used. Applicants who desire to take 'over the licenses of those revoked 1 must appear personally before the I board und lay down their full plans 'for operation In the future. They must a No givi asurance that w ill prove to the commission that violation of the law will not be made in the future. The. reputation of the applicant and I recommendations of the police will 'also be taken Into consideration by th-commission th-commission before the transfer of licence li-cence Is approved. LAWYERS UKGCE Lawyers for the proprietors of the places closed Tin sday appeared before the board this morning and argued that the action of the city constituted an invasion of property rights and unfair dealing wlh the men who had established a business. The answer of the commission was ' that It would proceed in Its action I of Tuesday In cases where It was morally mor-ally certain that violations were be-' be-' ing made. The pressure being brought 'to bear by certain business men seek-, seek-, ing to head the commission from taking further action will be entirely disregarded. ONE PL U B sold) It was explained to the commission this morning that one of the places closed Tuesday In the name of Teter H.isopoulos had been purchased sometime some-time ago and conducted by George j Toulas. Records in the office of the city recorder showed that Foulas had not had the license transferred or ap-1 ap-1 plied for a new license. |