GRAFT IN CHICAGO
TO SUPPORT LIQUOR TRAFFIC
MAYOR'S EFFORTS AT SUPPRESSION.
'UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION.-COPTRIOBT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - NKW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATIONS
NEW YORK, 23rd September. A message from Chicago states that three bootleggers, having been shot dead during the past three days in a v/ar between the two factions controlling the illicit liquor trade, the' police have started energetic measures to curb their activities, and 827 persons have been arrested in the last twenty-four hours and charged with participation in the illegal traffic .of alcoholic beverages. The traffic- yearly returns millions in profits, and is said to be undermining municipal government and the police department by a.huge system of bribery. The Mayor, Mr. Dover, and the City Council are at loggerheads over the question of the revocation of licenses to soft, drink parlours, which, under the cloak of professing to dispense non-alcoholic beverages, sell vast quantities; of bootleg liqour. The council voted :against the revocation, but Dever, with tho help of the police, closed - thirty-eight such places. The Mayor claims that city thugs and thieves have gone into bootlegging' and find this more profitable than plying their own trade. •
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 74, 25 September 1923, Page 7
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187GRAFT IN CHICAGO Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 74, 25 September 1923, Page 7
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