The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-10-14
CHICAGO IS FIELD
OF DRY ACTIVITY
PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER TO
START CAMPAIGN OF LAW
ENFORCEMENT THERE
sootleesins and Moonshinine Are To
Be Run Out Of Eastern Cities
BY Prohibition Agents Says
Commissioner Haynes

ashington-Increasing 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 a 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. ii purposes to make New York
an example of the aridity he deems it
feasible to attain even in populous 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 a
/ long period and protected, If 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
new departure in prohibition en-
forcement 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 "th'
6rst instance of the successful invoca
ton of sections p and % of the Vol
stead law to close a hotel selling Ii
quor.
District Attorney Madison" MI
. | In,
ngs against the Hendryx hotel in Kan
sas City, and Judge A. s. Van Valken
!; burgh issued an order closing the hotel
thus establishing precedent in tn
United States"
+. The commissioner has issued instruo
tons to proceed against offending he
tells elsewhere with a view to closn
: them and penalizing the owners c
: other property on which violations c
5 the prohibition law occur. He cite
5 the following report by District Alto
l ney Madison.
: THE Paddock injunction provisio
f Is the sharpest tooth in the law. III
, way to uproot liquor violations is
e penalize the owners of property.
t the Hendryx hotel case l did just tn,
without bringing criminal charges. tt
e hotel has been ordered closed for
e year. The action against the hotel WI
r based on testimony of federal agen
r and police"
e Mr.. Haynes said that the increase
s number Of convictions of the Volstes
|. act offenders through the country al
: the steadily growing cooperation of Il
: state and local authorities without Il
n federal forces indicated II public sen
n ment demanding rigid enforcement
the law.
l. I'm South Dakota eighteen offende
e In the federal court pleaded guilty {
IS ter four were found guilty by juri'
N more pleas of guilty than at any 9th
lie term of court" said Mr. Haynes. use
IS ere penalties We're given.
n, "South Carolina courts age givi
N convicted offenders three to six mont
o. on the chain gangs. In Mississip
5, during the September term of Unit
States court, twenty-three indictmel
III resulted in $500 fines. Practica
es every director reports helpful attitu
is on the part of the press.