The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-10-14
C,IIG6GO IS FIELD
Or Dn'I ACTIVITY
PROHIBITION Commissioners TO
START CAMPAIGN OF LAW
ENFORCEMENT THERE
BootIeeging and Moonshinine Are To
Be Run Out of Eastern Cities
BY Prohibition Agents Says
Commissioner Haynes

ashington-Increasin dryness and
eventually total aridity is the forecast
for Chicago and environS emanating
from the offices of Prohibition Com
missioner Haynes.
Chicago is to receive the special and
personal attention of the prohibition
commissioner unless within reason
able time the local authorities succeed
IN stamping out bootlegging, moonshin-
Ing and official connivance at violation
of the eighteenth amendment and the
volstead act.
New York is now receiving such per-
sonal treatment, Mr.. Haynes having
journeyed thither to put into force
some measures Of his own devising for
the discontinue of the traffickers In
liquors. Fl purposes to make New York
an example of the aridity he deems it
feasible to attain even m popuious com
munities largely hostile to national pro-
hibitiOn.
Philadelphia also is on Mr.. Haynes
special treatment list. Then some Chi
cago and other points west. The COM
missioner has received voluminouS
report on conditions in Chicago, which
discloses widespread contempt for
the prohibition law extending over
long period and protected, II not en-
couraged by local authorities, who are
obligated by the law to cooperate with
the federal officials in the enforcement
Of the Volstead act.
The report shows that Prohibition
Director HIGHLANDER has been unable
to cope successfully with the volume
Of liquor traffic because Of the small
force Of federal agents at his disposal
and the failure of the Chicago police
to cooperate effectively
Chicago Is now on probation, the
commissioner hoping that the stern
measures taken by Chief of Police Fitz-
morris to break up the protection Of
bootlegging by the Chicago police Will
result in a marked improvement in the
enforcement of the law
A new departure in prohibition en-
f0rcement is to be the closing Of hotels
which violate the Volstead act On the
eve of his departure for New York,
Mr.. Haynes called attention to 1.-THE
first instance of the successful invoca-
ton of sections II and IL of the Vol
stead law to close a hotel" selling H.
Quor.
District Attorney Madison" Mr..
Haynes said, filled injunction proceed
ings against the Hendryx hotel in Kan
sas City, and Judge A. S. Van Valken-
burgh issued all order closing the hotel,
thus establishing precedent in the
United States"
The commissioner has issued instruc-
lions to proceed against offending ho-
tells elsewhere with view to closing
them and penalizing the owners OF
other property on which violations of
the prohibition law occur. He cited
the following report by District Attor-
ney Madison.
'The Paddock injunction provision
is the sharpest tooth In the law. The
way to uproot Liquor violations is to
penalize the owners Of property. In
the HendryX hotel case did just that
without bringing criminal charges The
hotel has been ordered closed for a
year. The action against the hotel war
based on testimony Of federal agents
and police"
Mr.. Haynes said that the increased
number Of convictions of the VOlstead
act offenders through the country and
the steadily growing cooperation Of the
state and local authorities without the
federal forces indicated public senti
ment demanding rigid enforcement OF
the law.
I'm South Dakota eighteen offenders
In the federal court pleaded guilty af
ter four were found guilty by juries
!, moro pleas Of guilty than at any othel
term Of court" said Mr.. Haynes. "Sev
ere penalties were given.
South Carolina courts age Qvini
convicted offenders three to six month
on the chain gangs. In Mississippi
during the September term Of Unite
States court, twenty-three Indictment
!, resulted in $500 fines. Practical.
every director reports helpful attitude
on the part Of the press.
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