The Washington times., 1920-07-24
PLAN RAIDS
WITHIN WEEK
Arrests Will Be Made Stimuli
taneousIy in Every Section
OF the City.
CITIZENS TO BE ENLISTED
Revenue Agents to Act as Lead
ers and Police Will Be
Employed.

licit whiskey in Washington, if the
plans of Prohibition Commissioner
Kramer materialize. The PROPOSE
ton that the Commissioner consid-
cred this morning was the elimina-
ton of the liquor trade by a flying
squadron
This squadron will be composed of
friends of prohibition in Washing
ton, and led by the revenue agents
attached to the office of the prohibi-
ton commissioner, it will swoop
down on the persons who are selling
whiskey in Washington some day
next week.
The day has not been set, and
when it is, the probabilities are that
the Commissioner will keep it secret,
so none of the suspects can escape.
PRAISE ID. G. POLICE.
The Commissioner will take into
his confidence the Police Department
of Washington, which he says has
been giving him and his agents splen-
did cooperation. Commissioners IRA
mer said this morning that the pollce
of Washington were offering the
best aid that the prohibition FORCES
were getting anywhere in the coun-
try.
The flying squadron" probably
will consist of between 500 and 1,Ooo
persons besides the police and rev.
enue officers, and at the appointed
hour they plan to make simultaneous
raids in various sections of the city.
Not only will the arrests put a re-
straining hand on the sale ana manu-
facture of whiskey in Washington
the Commissioner believes, but the
moral effect will be worth more than
the actual arrests to the cause OF pro-
hibition.
The revenue officers here today
were putting the finishing touches on
the big mems" cases, and they, too,
are to be scooped up in the prohibit
ton net next week. 1t is not known
whether they will be the objects of
:he flying squadron" but 1T is be-
lieved that the revenue agents VIII
look after their cases personally.
TEN WARRANTS ISSUED.
About ten warrants were issued
this morning for the arrest of per-
sons who, revenue agents say, have
been selling and making whiskey.
These warrants will not be served un-
I'll this afternoon. The revenue agents
and Commissioner Hit, who issued
the warrants, would not divulge the
names of the persons.
Last night the revenue agents and
police captured 1O2 quarts of whis-
key at 1892 Corcoran street north
west. The police and revenue agents
say they caught Lena Farley in the
act of accepting SIS for quart of
whiskey. She was arrested and
taken to the Eighth precinct station
and later released on $1,000 bonds.
She told the police she was not the
owner of the whiskey, but was selling
it for Arthur Mcdonald. The police
were unable to locate Mcdonald, but
Commissioner Hit issued warrant
for his arrest. The charge against
the Farley woman was that she sold
and illegally had in her possession
liquor.
The case of Francis Muratat, All
Huntoon place southwest was up be-
fore Commissioner Hit this morning.
Muratat was charged with making
stills which were used for making
whiskey. Muratat explained to Com
missioner Hit that he did not know
lie was violating the law, as he was
by trade a braZer, and the making
Of what was to be used as a still was
part of his usual business. The
charge againt him was dropped, but
he was held in $500 bonds to appear
as witness against William Green
Cor whom he says he made the still.
Green has been arrested, and will
come up before Commissioner Hit in
Il. few weeks.
The revenue agents and police yes
terday afternoon arrested Russell
Cornell, 1909 Ninth street northwest
on a charge of having illeg ally in his
possession and transporting whiskey.
The Solice say they found nine and a
half Q>arts of whiskey in his room
The revenue officers this morning
arrested Mrs. Carl Lake and Frank
Young, of the Carol House on a
charge of violating the Harrison anti
narcotic law. The revenue agents
seized a small quantity of narcotics
in room in the house. Both Young
and Mrs. Lake charge that some one
framed them up" by placing the dope
in a room and telcphonng to the
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