AMERICAN CLEAN UP.
OPERATES AT ALBANY. CENTRE FOB BOOTLEGGERS. (Received* 9.5 p.m.) New York, May 5. —Albany Is emulating Philadelphia’s example, and has engaged a military officer to clean up the municipality which is charged with being vice stricken. Albany is the capital of New York State, and when th© Legislature ended the session last weev z , it is alleged the legislators indulged in a last-moment orgy, in which liquor flowed freeiy. Roulette, faro and pool rooms, where race track betting occurred, were conducted within a few squares of the capital building . The so-called “red light” district is also within the neighbourhood and special hotels for the legislators were conveniently located. ! The Mayor declared that the police were inefficient and corrupt’, and the •force will be thoroughly reformed and bootleggers driven out of the city. Numerous arrests have already occurred and bootleggers who operate from the Canadian border, making Albany the centre of their activities, haVe been warned to stay outside the city limits.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Wairarapa Age, 7 May 1924, Page 5
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