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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-09
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-09
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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
SALOONKEEPERS' LANDLORDS
HARD HIT BY lands ORDER
Federal Judge Lands Invokes the
Abatement of Nuisance" Clause on
Chicago Saloons

On January IS Judge Lands or
dered 10 Chicago saloons with prop
erty value III excess of million dol
lars closed for a year.
The loss in rental to their owners
is estimated at approximately 100000.
On January IA the same court
closed four more Chicago saloons.
These places are all closed under the
abatement OF nuisances" clause of
the Volstead Act.
On January IS Judge Lands
granted temporary injunctions against
II more saloons of Chicago charged
with ignoring the Volstead Act. In
functions were granted on petition
filed by Acknowledgement Edward ].
Brundage of Illinois.
On the same day IL other saloon
men for whom contempt warrants
were issued earlier in the week were
scheduled to appear in court and face
charges that they had violated injunc-
tons already issued. Conviction sub
jects them to the same fate which
has already descended upon the II
Chicago saloonists as noted above.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
INVOLVES PRIVATE STOCKS
IN DISTILLERY WAREHOUSES;
Test Case Brought in California In
wolves 70 Per Cent of Liquor in
Distillery Warehouses

The courts are to be asked to de-
eide whether the owner Of liquor le-
gally acquired before the Volstead
Act became effective and now tied
up in distillery warehouses can be
legally withdrawn for personal con-
sumption.
The test case which is expected to
be carried through the United States
Supreme Court will involve the posi-
bility of withdrawal of approximately
20 per cent OF all liquor now stored
in distillery. warehouses.
The case is planned by a wealthy
resident of California to whom Pro-
hibition Commissioner Kramer has
denied a permit for the withdrawal OF
barrel of whisky said to be owned
by the Californian and stored in a
Kentucky warehouse
The court has already held that
private stocks stored in private ware
houses can be removed for the
owners use, but this ruling did not
apply TO liquors in bonded ware
houses.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
UTILIlES EMPTY Wine cellar
Waldorf-Astoria Hosiery Refts Its
Wine Room Into Gymnasium for
Guest Recret ation

The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New
York, has decided to convert the
wine cellar OF the hosiery which is
now empty, into gymnasium.
The vast spaces underneath Aston
Court on the 34th street side, two
floors below the street level, are be-
ing remodeled for that purpose.
The ceiling of the old vaults are p
feet high and the ventilating system
is one of the finest, making an excel
lent hall for the recreation and re-
juyenation OF tired bodies, says the
New York Times.
Shower baths have already been in
stalled ard much of the usual appar-
atus of a gymnasium is in place.
1t is expected that guests OF the
hotel will take advantage of the OPP
portunity for exercise thus pre-
scented. But the gymnasium has really
been designed with the welfare of the
hotel workers chiefly i'll view. /. NJ
Boomer some time ago organized the
people of his hotel into an athletic
club known as the Samaclar A. A.
and the new establishment is primar-
lily for promoting Samaclar activities
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
Fewer Crimes Traceable to Drink

"From the observations and opinion
OF my predecessor, and my own ex-
perience since December 6, 1920, | de-
sire to answer your inquiry as fol-
lows: The results obtained under
Constitutional Prohibition thus far,
indicate an improvement, although
much is yet to be accomplished to
have an absolutely dry nation. Rela-
tive to your inquiry about the return
OF licensed liquor saloons, | beg to
state that am in favor of the abso-
lutte enforcement Of the Constitution
and statutes of our national and state
governments, whether they are wet or
dry, and no matter whom they hit.
Personally l do not favor the return
of the saloon.
Relative to your further inquiries,
let me say that it is my opinion that
the nation has bettered as a result
of Constitutional Prohibition and that
in this county we have fewer crimes,
traceable to drink, to deal with"
(Signed) Cassius Poust,
States Attorney, DeKalb County,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
WET TRICK FAILED
Woman Tried to Keep Officers Out
of Bath Room

The vets resort to all kinds OF
schemes to prevent officers of the law
from securing liquor and stills when
raids are made.
The other day internal revenue Off
GERS raided home in Washington,
d. c., in search of still. In telling
of their experiences, the officers said
that when they approached the bath
room, a feminine voice allied out,
"Do not come in here; am taking a
bath"
The police lieutenant and his men
paused moment, but decided to break
into the bath room. According to
the testimony given U. s. Commits
sioner Hits, no one was bathing, but
the tub was half full of sour mash
that was running rapidly into the
sewer. A couple of stills were taken
by the officers as evidence.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
SPLENDID RECORD
Made by San Francisco Under the
Dry Law

The number or persons arrested in
San Francisco during 1920 was de-
crease of 10000 as compared with
1919 This is according to a statsti-
cal report made public by the police
Murders were reduced
one-haif and assault and battery cases
slulnped from 1910 in 1919 to 639 in
1920.
According to the San Francisco
newspapers who comment on the po-
lice report, the greatest decrease is
shown in arrests for drunkenness. 1t
is explained that since the enforce
ment of the Prohibition law, all per-
sons arrested for intoxication are now
booked on that charge, while before
Prohibition nearly all intoxicated per-
sons were registered as plain DRINKS
and released without bail.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
Rockford, Illinois.
No Sentiment for Saloons
Respectfully yours,

you ask what l think OF the results
so far of the Eighteenth Amendment
to the Federal Constitution, and in
reply will say, that | think it has been
very satisfactory, considering the
great revolution it was in the habits
and customs and local laws of lot
of the people of our country.
1--WE have always heard that Prohi-
bition by states did not prohibit and
that the enforcement was not a Sue
cess. | remember being in Kansas
many years ago, when it was Prohi
bition state, and found fifty saloons in
Wichita wide open, where you could
walk in and get anything you wanted.
They were conducted under system
of being arrested each month and pay
ing a fine of $50 a month, which vir
tually made license of 5000 year.
The proposition, of course, was more
difficult in Kansas, because there was
no Prohibition round it, but Kansas
finally got by with it, and | am not
astonished that we should have trou-
Bile in enforcing National Prohibition,
because we have plenty of men who
will defy the law as long as they can
make some money out of it and so
long as lot of the people are slaves
to morbid appetites, and will pay I'M
reasonable and fabulous prices for in
toxicating liquors, just so long we
will find men who will take the chance
in procuring it for them. The people
who are willing to take that chance
will diminish as the law enforcement
becomes more stringent and as the
government is able to perfect a more
perfect organization for enforcement.
In the meantime, | believe that the
number of people who are slaves to
their morbid appetites will decrease.
AT any rate, l think that National
Prohibition as whole has been as
successful in its first year of enforce
ment as could be expected, and the
results in the rural districts are far
more beneficial than in the larger
cities, because the average man in the
rural district is law-abiding, and even
though they might like little liquor
once in while, they will not take any
chances on violating the law to get it,
and don't find any sentiment here in
favor of the returning of the licensed
liquor saloon, and feel that it is
doomed and will never be returned to
its former place in any way, shape or
form.
Emery Andrews,
"Ex-State's Attorney Coles County"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
RICHARDSON DENIES
REPORT OF WHOLE
SALE BOOZE THEFT

A press report has been going the
rounds that large amount of liquor
stored in a Chicago warehouse rep
resenring a value of several million
dollars, has been stolen.
The story was based on an alleged
announcement by Prohibition Com
missioner Frank D. Richardson who
is credited with saying that check
of the liquor in storage in this ware
house revealed the loss.
Mr.. Richardson denied the report
in Judge Lands court on January IA.
Mr.. Richardson told Judge Lands
that the story was manufactured, that
an inventory of the liquor in the
warehouse showed the stock intact.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
KEYSTONE BREWERS UNDER
FIRE, ADOPT NOVEL TACTICS
Pennsylvania Suds Makers Allege
Their Barrels Relied With Kick
full Brew

Prohibition Commissioner Kramer
sitting as magistrate in Scranton,
Pa, on January II took up the ques-
ton of the revocation of the permits
OF eight breweries in Lackawanna
and Luzerne counties. Pa.
The brewers in presenting their de-
Tense offered some novel alibis.
For instance, one general manager
after stating that his company had
issued orders to its employees that
only beer containing less than one
half of l per cent alcohol should be
sent out and declaring that he be-
lieved the order had not been vio-
lated and that it had never been re-
scinded, said that his company has
lost many of its barrels, bottles and
cases, and that investigation showed
that they were being taken by other
companies, many from outside Penn
sylvania, refilled with the beverage OF
the other companies and put on the
market.
The government has the evidence
that high-powered beer is on the
market. 1t has evidently been made
in some brewery, bears the labels of
certain breweries, but no brewer
seems to know who made the stuff
nor who put it on the market.
They seem very much hurt to think
that they would be suspected of vio-
lating the law
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
COLUMBUS, OHIO, BANK
DEPOSITS UP SO PCT.

Deposits in the banks of CO.
lumbus, Ohio, jumped from
$57,034,100 in 1917 when sa-
looms were dividing the money
of the people with legitimate
business, to $S4,429,2S3 in 1920,
the first full year under Pro-
hibition. This does not look as
If Prohibition is disastrous to
Prohibition, does it?
The first los building and
loan companies reporting to
the state inspector of building
and loans for 1920 show net
gain of $6,S2o,o07. When all
these institutions have reported
it will be found the first dry
year was the banner year i'll
the history of the building and
loan companies of the Buckeye
state.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
ALCOHOL AND FAMILY
LIFE

The Philadelphia Society for
Organizing Charity has had UNI
usual opportunity to study the
effects of alcohol on family life.
The General Secretary, Mr.. de
Schweinitz, has kindly fur
nished us the following figures
concerning the number of fam
lilies the Society has had UNI
der its care in which alcohol
was serious problem;
534 in year ending Sept. 80, 1918
112" /" I" 1910
S3" 1920
The Society also finds much
less drinking by heads of fam
lilies at the present time than in
previous periods of uncmploy-
ment.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
PENN HARRIS REFUTES WET
THEORY BY Is % DIVIDENDS
Vets Laughed at the Announced
Policy When Hotel Opened;
Predicted Failure
MUST NOW BUILD ANNEX
Not Only Has Made Big Money
But Still Growing; Must Build
Annex to Care for Trade

The Penn Harris Hotel, Harris
burg's newest hostelry, has not only
demonstrated that big modern ho-
tel does not have to depend upon the
revenue of bar to make money but
it comes pretty near showing the bar
as a revenue producer and an "at-
traction" was largely myth, says
/ the Philadelphia North American of
January 10.
The North American then relates
how even those WHO had pledged the
money to build the hotel in 1917 felt
that it would never be a paying prop
osition, and how when the company
was finally organized and the an
nouncement was made that church.
men in the company had exacted a
guarantee that no liquor would ever
be sold i'll the building there was a
loud laugh. That was in the days
before Prohibition and Harrisburg
men who were operating with bars
scoffed the loudest and longest 1t
was freely predicted the company
would lose all the money put into the
enterprise.
But the building was erected and
at time, too, when cost OF materials
and construction was at -the<Apea
1t was finished in 1918 and opened its
doors for the first time in December
of that year Its total cost including
purchase of the site, erection of the
twelve-story modern fre-proof build
ing, and the amount expended for
furnishings, was $1,250,000 The
North American continues.
From the very first day it has
been a money maker. Only
short time after the opening the
1919 session of the Legislature
began. That gave the hotel men
with bars chance. Wait until
the Legislature adjourns and /,
watch the bottom drop out" they
said. The Legislature adjourned
and the Penn-Harris continued
to do business on a scale that
was never done in the hotel bilsi-
ness in Harrisburg before. AL
most nightly it turned people
away, sometimes by the score
Nearly every night it is full and
on many occasions it takes care
of more than the capacity which
it was built to handle by putting
cots in rooms and doubling"
Last year the operating COM
pany declared a divident ON the
Penn-Harris of rs per cent.
Harrisburg people who put up
the money to build the hotel
owned 48 per cent of the stock on
which the Is per cent dividend
was paid. In addition, the local
company which built the hotel
got a six per cent dividend in
1919 and similar dividend again
last year.
To take care of its tremendous
business the Penn-Harris has pur-
chased dwelling next door and
opened an annex with 40 rooms.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
VEHICLES USED TO VIOLATE VOLSTEAD ACT
may Be SEIZED REGARDLESS or OWNERSHIP
Supreme Court Holds Ignorance of Owner Automobile
of Car for Carrying Contaband Liquors No Protection of
Car From Seizure Under the Volsead Act

The United States Supreme Court
on January II upheld the right of the
police to seize and conhscate automo-
biles or other conveyances used in
violation of the Prohibition law, re-
CARELESS OF whether or not the owner
OF the conveyance has been found in
nocent of contravening the law.
The courts decision was handed
down in an appeal brought from the
district court of Georgia by ]. w
Goldsmith, Jr., an automobile dealer
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
ONE CENT FINE IMPOSED
ON DRY ACT VIOLATOR

A fine of one cent for violation OF
the Volstead Prohibition Act was
imposed by Judge P. F. Bledsoe of
the United States District Court, Los
Angeles, on Sam Graves. However,
on another count, that of having
smuggled the whisky into the United
States from Mexico, to which Graves
pleaded guilty, he was sentenced to
serve six months in Jail.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28

Goldsmith sold an automobile on a
part time contract and the car was
seized before the payments were COM
pleted when the purchaser of the car
was arrested for violating the Vol
stead law. The dealer insisted that
he had no knowledge of the purpose
for which it was to be used, and con-
tended that the equities of the pur-
chase only should be seized.
The District Court ruled against
him and the Supreme Court upheld
its decision.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
HIP POCKET BARS

Hip pocket saloons are not safe
these days with eagle-eyed dry
sleuths on the job. Half an in-h of
bottle neck protruding from a hip
pocket caused Clinton Horton, of
Charleston, West Virginia, to be fined
500 and sentenced to 90 days in Jail
on the charge of having moonshine
whisky in his possession. The po-
liceman who arrested Horton noticed
the neck of the bottle and an examin-
alton revealed only about one good
drink remaining.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
OHIO'S CHIEF CITY SHOWS
CRIME SLUMP FOR 1920
All Crime in Cleveland Decreases
Except Murder; Fewer Muir
ders Than in 1917
RECORD FOR FOUR YEARS
Burglaries and Robberies Decline
Despite Population Increase
and Small Police Force

Official police reports covering the
year 1920 are now being made public
in a number of the larger cities.
There has been a determined effort
on the part of the liquor interests to
make it appear that crime has in
creased under Prohibition. Nineteen
twenty was the first full year of Pro-.
hbition in most of the larger cities
The report on the crime situation
for 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio's chief
city, was made public by Chief of
Police Frank w. Smith on Janu-
airy H.
The report shows, murders alone
excepted, that there were fewer
crimes in Cleveland i'll 1920 than i'll
any of the last four years.
The Chief says this condition re-
suited despite a steady increase in
population, a smaller police force
proportionately than that possessed
by any other city in the United
States, and postwar wave of vio-
lence and disregard of law that is
worldwide.
The figures show that in 1917 there
were more murders in Cleveland than
in 1920, the figures being 90 for 1917,
and 81 for 1920; but there was
Jump in 1920 from the IS murders
committed in 1910. However, a
comparison with 1910 is hardly fair
test in that most of that year was
also dry, saloons going out of exist
ence in May under the statewide
Prohibition law.
Comparing 1917 with 1920, bur-
glaries and larcenies had fallen from
1852 to 1913; robberies from 1850
to 928; and pocket picking from 656
to l9l.
Chief Smith has prepared table
showing that Cleveland's police de-
partment has not only much smaller
force than any other city in the
Unieed States comparable with its
population and area, but that it has
much smaller per capita cost.
The highest of seven cities under
review is New York with per cap
tia cost of $4.57. Clevelands per
capita cost is $2.S5, as compared with
Chicago's 1894, the next lowest.
Following are the summarized sta
tistics on Cleveland crime prepared
Eby. Chief Smith: 80.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28

The jail at Wausaukee, Wis. was
sold the other day for $50. The buyer
will use it for woodshed. There has
been no use Tor it under Prohibition
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
Law Uniformly a Success

81 am in receipt OF your favor and
in reply beg leave to say that ulti-
mateiy Constitutional Prohibition will
be practical and success. l do not
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28
favor the return of licensed liquor sa


favor the return of licensed liquor sa-
looms.
Constitutional Prohibition has es-
tablished uniform law throughout
the states and has provided more ade-
quate Federal machinery for its en-
forcemeut. Locally we have had a
number of violations, but these have
been met by prosecution under our
local city ordinances and the state law
covering such matters. There is a
very substantial recognition of the
law and its enforcement in this
county So far as this county is con-
cerned Constitutional Prohibition has
been uniformly success, and to all
appearances is meeting with popular
approval.
Il remain.
Respectfully yours,
y, William johnson,
States Attorney" %
Rockford, Illinois.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28

mike de Pike" Heitier who, with
80 other co-defendants have been in
dicted in 100000 6ooze scandal in
Chicago, have asked for a change of
venue from Judge Lands court,
charging that Judge Lands is preju-
diced against him.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28

In the spring a new annex will
be built containing $50 rooms,
doubling the capacity of the pres
ent structure.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1921-01-28

4~IIENIJ -tIIIF : y
"Ex-State's Attorney Coles County
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-02-24
What MADE
THE CHANGE?
This Woman says Lydia E. Pinkham' S
Vegetable Compound Made Her
q New Woman

Pittsburgh, Pa. -" Before taking
lydia +. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-02-24
GE0RGE: PARK HEADS
HIS MEDICAL GLASS

News has been received here
BY relatives and friends that DIR.
George Park. OF the Hahnanan
Medical College. of Chicago, son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. PARK. of
this county. has been electec
president of the senior class. His
many friends consider this quite
an honor. being one thing every
boy works for fro mhis freshman
year up. DR.. Park has not yet
decided where he will locate after
his graduation in June, having
already had several good offers
made him. but will likely stay in
Chicago for the present.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-02-24
/ LONDON GIRLS FIND
'lhIl.c: I'LL! SlfS.s1s4.5

Chief Prohibition Officer kra-
ncr's observations about women
and whisky were corroburatcd ~
a Richmond man. who was d
London. "Wednesday. He Wa.
sitting in hotel at the Laurel
county capital. and says one OF
the pretticst and incest dressed
girls he had seen in d long time
came staggering through the lob
by. trying to get to a phone to
tell her mother at East Bcrnstadt
that She would not be home that
night She then went out. The
streets were a mass OF mud ana
slop. The girl hadn't gone &
hundred wards before She fell
prone i'll d perfect loblolly Of muG
and water. The scene was pitt
ful. the local man says. There
other girls. who seemed to live
at London, and a man joined her
and helped her along. The other
girls were plainly under the intiu-
cncc OF liquor. also. The local
travelling man says that someone
told him that the girls had been
given drink OF mOOnshinc Whls-
Ky. sort OF as a joke by a man,
and that 1t knocked them SKY
high at once and caused them
to make public spcCtaclcs of
themselves
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-02-24
Kramer On A Raid

Grccnville. S. G.. Feb. 24-John
F. Kramer. Federal Prohibition
Commissioner was the man with
the hoe" in this county today.
personally breaking'1lp a 25-gal-
Ion ''moonshine" still with the
implement used to stir the mash.
The copper condenser was pre-
served for Mr.. Kramer is SOU
venir of his first raid
The Federal dry chef. visiting
from Washington. accompanied
state officers into the dark COR
ners" of the county on hunt for
illicit stills. They found one. in
a ravine. but the moonshincr>
had fed. and the job of busting
uup' the apparatus was turned
over to Mr.. Kramer.
"a most interesting expert
ence." he said, adding that he lad
not known before what a still
looked like.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-02-24

Sub5titutes-kunkle for Biv-
inS. Referee Stone, Eastern.