MORALS IN U.S.A.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 84, 9 April 1925, Page 5

MORALS IN U.S.A.

FLASH LAWBREAKERS.

THE BUSINESS OF WICKEDNESS

FROM COAST TO COAST.

LISTS OF THE BRIBED.

GREAT FLOW OF LIQUOR

(By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright.)

> (Received 11 n.m.) NEW YORK, April S. The police at Chicago raided the sumptuously furnished offices of a lawIreaking syndicate, and discovered complete details of the operations in connection with the distribution of liquor and the management of disorderly resorts on a stupendous scale, involving many millions of dollars annually. The information was obtained from neatly audited ledgers, filing , cabinets, and other bookkeeping devices on the premises, and included the names of hundreds of wealthy liquor customers and saloon-keepers with running accounts, names of disorderly resorts and inmates, pnd lists of police officers and C4overnjiient officials who had been bribed. Tlie documents showed an account of operations of four great breweries and Jiquor delivered by carloads. Johnny Torrio, an underworld character, is alleged to be the head of the syndicate, whose magnificently appointed offices bore the name of a physician, and contained samples of liquor of every (Inscription. Tlip telephone calls recorded showed that liquor flower into the headquarters from every known inlet in the United Rates from coast to coast.— (A. and K.Z. Cable.) CLEANEST GREAT CITY. NEW YORK, March 31. Xew York is described as the cleanest of tho world's largest cities by Mr. Percy Ftraus, chairman of a committee of 14 which has waged a fight for 2{) years against commei - cialised vice. The annual report says: "The evil continues in private places, however, jind the proportion of first convictions for prostitution has increased from 55 per cent in 1914 to "2 per cent." The committee favours the introduction of a law, penalising men and women ofVenders equally.