PROCESS OF PURGATION

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1924, Page 7

PROCESS OF PURGATION

CRIME AND ILLICIT.LIQUOR

POLICE ABNORMALLY ACTIVE.

(millD PR.IJ ASSOCIATION.— COPXRiaHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, 28th January.' Liquor raids in Philadelphia and New York continue with might and main, such scenes being enacted as were never dreamt of before. It is not unusual to have a thousand arrests during Phildelphia'.s* week-end. The police are utilising' high-powered motors to scour the city day and -night. Robberies and hold-ups have^ virtually stopped. The city's exits and entrances are guarded by the police to -prevent:l the_ escape of criminals after acts of .violence. It is in the matter of Prohibition, however, that General Butler has evolved something .unusual. Many precincts have a policeman stationed at every so-called "near beer" parlojii- who enters with customers and sees what they are served with. There are twenty-six such parlours in one of the busiest seotions of the city, and each has a policeman before it. Commissioner Enright. i_ New' York, has designated a .special raiding squadron, which began work by entering the most select cafes and- restaurants in the theati^ district durin_ the i*ush hours. Patrons- in evening dress hissed and jeered while arrests were made and stores of liquor ferreted out where thiey were concealed in cupboards.