The New York herald., 1922-12-10
POLICE And DRY MEN
UNITE TO KEEP CITY
SOBER ON HOLIDAYS
Yellowley Announces He
Will Fight Vets Here
With Injunctions.
AFTER 'HIPPERS' ALSO
Records of City Arrests to
Be Used by Federal Men
in Crusade.
MAY SEIZE TROUSERS
Fight to Be Concentrated in
Roaring Forties' and on
$30,00O,000 Ships.
MAY SEIZE TROUSERS

A new phase Of prohibition enforce
ment will go into effect this week.
ID. C. Yellowley. Federal Enforcement
Director, said yesterday that Police
Commissioner Enright has instructed
his department to give unstinted sup
port to dry agents in q campaign to
curtail the sale Of alcoholic beverages
In cafes. cabarets and saloons in the
Roaring Forties."
Commissioner Enright has agreed,
Mr.. Yellowley said. to furnish to the
prohibition enforcement department a
complete daily report Of every alleged
violation of the Mullan- Gage law. the
State enforcement measure.
Through evidence furnished in the
Police Department reports the Federal
enforcement officers will be able. Mr..
Yellowley said, to bring into extensive
use that provision OF the volstead act
which provides authority for closing,
through injunctions proceedings, every
establishment that twice violates the
national prohibition act.
THE injunction feature Of the law is
our best bet" said the dry director
I'VE intend to put halt to the sale Of
liquor through It's use. There are pend
ing at this time more than 100 such
injunction suits. and we hope 20 get
early hearings on them. BY putting
out Of business all places that show
utter disregard for the prohibition law
we will bring about enforcement of that
measure.
Going After "Hippers" Too.
I'VE are going after the hip pocket
'toters.' too. There Is no bluffing now,
because the police are fighting with U.S.
One night very soon we will drop in un-
expectedly on some OF the midnight
gatherings where liquor is flowing
freely. Broadway's palaces of midnight
revels are going to dry up"
The campaign to close by injunction
all places that twice violate the Vol
stead law Is the most drastic step SO
far taken by the Federal Government
In its fight to stop the sale of liquor
Admittedly unable to stop the great
flow of liquor from the Bahamas, the
enforcement department has taken this
new stand as a means for making Z
almost impossible for the wholesale
whisky syndicates to dispose OF the
huge shipments of liquor aboard ves-
sells of the whisky armada" now
standing off the New York and New
Jersey coast.
With 10000 cases of wet goods, with
retail value OF $50 0O0. 900. scheduled
to be landed here before Christmas i'm
mediate drastic action was necessary,
Mr.. Yellowlcy admitted. The prohibi-
ton navy has an insufficient number
of vessels to successfully combat the
activities of the liquor fIotilla." but
through conducting a rigid warfare
against the retail sale Of liquor the
enforcement officials hope to give the
whisky smugglers something to worry
about.
May Cornscate Trousers.
The Mullan-Gage law is a necessary
adjunct to the Volstead law. according
to Palmer Garfield. legal adviser to Mr..
Yellowley. Its repeal, he said. would be
disastrous blow to proper enforce
ment of prohibition. inasmuch as police
officers no longer would be obligated
TO make arrests in liquor violation
cases
"The Mullan-Gage law" said Mr.. Cam
field, gives us the basis for police CO.
operation. Its repeal would be like cut
ting of the arms OF a man who works
entirely with his hands. With un-
stinted police cooperation promised us
the New York enforcement department
stands to-day nearer TO victory than at
any other time since enactment OF the
VoIstead law"
The trousers OF hip flask totlng"
habitues OF Broadway's palaces OF mid
night revels. Mr.. Garfield pointed out,
are in danger of being shorn from the
limbs they hide. The national prohIbi-
tion act. he asserted. provides authority
for dry agents TO seize any vehicle.
article or receptacle In which alcoholic
beverages are Illegally transported.
This provision Is going to be rigtdly
applied" he added. with a twinkle In
his eye. 1T may be necessary for us
TO confIscate some trousers"