NEW POLICE CHIEF MAKES WAR ON NEW YORK’S SPEAKEASIES
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United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, Jan. 3.
New York’s new and vigorous Police Commissioner, Mr. Grover Whalen, is continuing tho drastic measures he has formulated to reorganise the Police department and its methods, and lias incidentally inaugurated a novel era of prohibition enforcement. . Mr. Whalen, apparently realising that to close all New York’s saloons would be a superhumau task, has started a policy of differentiation by announcing his determination to closo down all saloons where liquor is allegedly sold containing wood alcohol and other poisons, thereby rendering it unfit for human consumption. Mr. Whalen started raids during the night against a list of 55 saloons given him by a New York newspaper, whichhas completed an investigation into the contact of 500 such cstablshments. The newspaper declared that tho liquor obtained from these 55 saloons showed, upon analysis, varying quantities of poison. The police raised the majority, took the liquor, and arrested the proprietors, and in some cases, smashed the saloons and equipment to pieces.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6803, 5 January 1929, Page 10
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