Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-10-10
Haynes Predicts
Total Aridity
For Windy City
Chicago to Receive Personal
Attention Of Prohibition
Commissioner Unless
Conditions Improve.
BY ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Chicago Tribune Omaha bee Leased Wire.

By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Chicago Tribune Omaha bee Leased Wire.
Washington, Oct. o. Increasing
dryness and eventually total aridity
is the forecast for Chicago and en-.
virons emanating from the Office OF
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes.
Chicago is to receive the persona!
attention OF the commissioner unless
within a reasonable time the local
authorities succeed in stamping out
bootlegging, moonshining and ofh-
cial connivance at violation OF the
eighteenth amendment and the VOL
stead act. l
New York is now receiving such
personal treatment, Mr.. Haynes hav-
ing journcyed thitl,cr to put into
force some measures of his own de-
vising for the discontinue of the
traffickers in liquor. He purposes to
make New York an example OF the
afidity he deems it feasible to attain
even in populous communities largely
hostile to national prohibition.
Eye on Quaker City.
Philadelphia also is on Mr.. Haynes
special treatment list. Then come
Chicago and other points west. The
commissioner has received a volumi-
nous report on conditions in Chicago
which discloses widespread con-
tempt for the prohibition law extend
ing over long period, and pro-
tected, if not encouraged, by local
authorities who are obligated by the
law to cooperate with the federal
officials in the enforcement of the
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The report shows that Prohibition
Director HIGHLANDER has been un-
able Of 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 effec-
lively.
Chicago is now on probation, the
commissioner hoping that the stern
measures taken by Chief of Police
Fitzmorris to break up the protec-
ton of bootlegging by the Chicago
police will result in a marked im-
provement in the enforcement of the
law.
May Close Hotels.
A new departure in prohibition
enforcement 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 "the first instance OF
the successful Invocation of sections
q and % of the Volstead act to
close hotel selling liquor.
District Attorney Madison" said
Mr.. Haynes, filled Injunction pro-
ceedings against the Hendryx hotel
in Kansas City and Judge A. S. Van.
Valkenburgh issued an order clos
ing the hotel, thus establishing a
precedent in the United States"
The commissioner has issued in
structions to proceed against offend
ing hotels elsewhere with view to
closing them and penalizing the
owners of other property on which
violations of the prohibition law oc-
cur. He cited the following report
by District Attorney Madison:
"The paddock injunction pro-
vision is the sharpest tooth III the
law. The way to uproot liquor vio-
lations 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 year. The
action against the hotel was based
en- testimony of federal agents and
police"
Public Demands Action.
Mr.. Haynes said that the increased
number Of convictions of Volstead
act offenders throughout the country
and the steadily growing co-opera-
ton of the state and local. authorities
with the federal forces indicate a
public sentiment demanding rigid en-
forcement OF the law.
"In South Dakota IS offenders in
the federal court pleaded guilty after
four were found guilty by juries,
more pleas of guilty than at any
other term of court" said Mr..
Haynes. "Severe penalties were
given.
South Carolina courts are giving
convicted offenders three to six,
months on the chain gangs. In Mis-
sissippi during the September term
Of United States court, % indict-
ments resulted in $500 in fines.
Practically every state director re-
ports helpful attitude on the part Of
the press.
with the exception of a few in-
stances, where judges declared war
rants faulty, the month of September
showed satisfactory court results"