ENFORCING PROHIBITION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17182, 12 February 1930, Page 7

ENFORCING PROHIBITION

ACTIVITY IN AMERICA NEW YORK HOTEL RAIDED NEW YORK, Feb. 11. Prohibition agents, under the direction of the Federal Prohibition Administrator, Mr. Campbell, raided a £2,000,000 hotel which is one of the largest in the city, seized liquor, and arrested 13 persons allegedly engaged in providing liquor to guests. Mr. Campbell stated that the raid was designed for the provision of equity of action, the force padlocking the hotel "from top to bottom." Other hotel raids are expected momentarily here. At Philadelphia, eight persons, including three former ' prohibition agents, were . seized in connection with the alleged diversion of £1,(300,000 worth of industrial alcohol to bootleggers from a distilling plant. At Chicago, indictments citing 297 overt acts were returned charging 36 corporations and 15C individuals with prohibition violations, following the disclosure of operations throughout; the nation by an alcohol ring, which allegedly has diverted 1,000,000 gallons of industrial alcohol per year into bootleg channels, since 192:!. At Springfield and Illinois indictments were returned charging two prominent food products corporations with prohibition violation. The specific charges arc suppressed. The indictments, the first, of their, kind, will be pushed as test cases. The National Prohibition Administrator, Mr. Doran, called the indictments in the Chicago area "the natural course of events; nothing over sensational. That is all I am at liberty to say now, as matters are just coming to a head."