Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-01-24
DRY RAIDERS ARE.
ORDERED TO CLAMP
DRY LID ON CHICAGO
ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENT AT
WASHINGTON SENDS "ARMY or
OCCUPATION" TO CLOSE BREW.
ERlEs AND STOP ILLICIT SALE
OF BOOZE EFT Al,

Chicago Jan, PA force Of na
tIonal prohibition agents from Wash
ington, under command OF Colonel J..
G, Mutt, will arrive in Chicago today
TO begin a finish drive on brgwerics
violating the dry law
This announcement was made by
Prohibition Commissioner iyhard,ol
who returned yesterday from a confer
ence with Federal Director Kramer
with the additional news that the gov
eminent had decided not to inter.
fere with home brewing
Mr.. Richardson announced also that
there viii be a shakeup in his local
organization. effective today.
The legality of the home brewing
did not enter into its making ms much
as the question Of the liberty of the
home in the minds of the WASHINGTON
officials, Mr.. Richardson stated.
The prohibition chiefs statement
means that while home brewing of
beer with a kick is not sanctioned
by law, 1t is not to he interlcred with
Ever since the Volstead act went
into effect the question of citizens
right to brew beer with kick for
the personal use Of himself or his fam.
lily has been the subject Of ContiCtin-
discussion and rulings.
Within the last week the question
had become a main topic Of conygrsa- ,
ton all over the country when it WIS
reported that a crusade against HON, /
brewing would be started and fines /
of $1,000 assessed against home brew. .
erS.
Then physicians raised the point !.
that patients who had required a guam
tity of the beverage daily for various
ailments had found it Indispensable
Then word came unOfiCiaIly ftol
Washington that the breWories were
to be allowed to make beer Of 2ai per
cent alcohol for medicinal purposes.
No positive denial or affirmation OF
these reports from responsible officials
was received until yesterday. when
Mr.. Richardson's statement of the de.
cision of Mr.. Kramer was announced
Considerable protest, no doubt. will {
be raised at the decision Of the pro-
hibition department not to interfere |
with the making of real beer for pri-
waite use in homes" said Mr. Richard.
son. But our first duty is to sup
press the traffic in booze.
This task alone would require a (
force of enforcement officers many
times the small band assigned to this
work We want to get at the source
of the supply of booze and real beer
That means the distiIlers, wholesalers d
and brewers t
Our efforts, even if concentrated
on home brewers, would bring little I
result We have learned that it is
almost a waste of time even to arrest J
saloon keepers. Hundreds have been
arrested, but they are still receiving h
whisky and real beer
The only sure manner Of stampin~ f
out the sale of these products is by {
suppressing the source 1t is to this n
end that we will work in the future. u
You can say positively that the
breweries will not be allowed to make {
real beer even for medicinal purposes. I
That was definitely decided at Wash 7
ington during my visit. 1t puts an end !
forever to reports that breweries will \
reopen
Mr.. Richardson said he could not an
nounCe details Of the shake-up plan
ned here until today.
But he said that new system Of
dividing the investigating work Of hi
department has been devised and W
be put in y operation at once
According to the plan the force Of :
agents are to be divided into thre-
squads. The commander of thasa r
squads is Big Joe" Callahan One
squad will be assigned to brewery in
Vestigations, one to distillera and =
wholesalers and the third to raids on /;
saloons and bootleggcrs.
Under the new arrangements Law
renee ktlcourse, former first assjs. p
ant to Mr.. Richardson, whose title has
been given to Eliot Evans. will be yir =
tually shorn of authority. y
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