New-York tribune., 1922-12-18
Raid
BasketballGane
Use Guns, Get 2
Find Brisk Wet Business
GROUNDWORK OF Indoor
Sport in YOnkers: Near
, RiotThreaiens; Police Aid
Brewers Hit Prohibition
B1Iion Lost to Z. 5. in 1922,
SAYS Their Counsel; Ho-
tel Magnate Lists Worries

n,,t,sbsll fans in Yonkcrs, object
80 raid on their Saturday night
....Im. By prohibition agents from
e. York. started something that
,oot.d for time like q near-riot and
"a. 10. Of trouble for The three
S,s,paers Of the volstead act who had
,,r,,,.d two men found in charge Of
h.r N .he basement cf the building
xhere the game was in progress. The
yonkers police rallied round and the
.vres,, we're duly accomplished.
william McCsy. Daniel kerne2liy
n m. FrsedenberS we're the prohibi-
-. .~.nts who stuIsercd into Icu-
~. ~. - Took over the doing- at the old
~.lsr.b,s Armory 40 Naverly and
MI avenues. The building, which
80 formerly the Yonke.s Armory, is
nog leased b. private interests, and 10
he rallying place for a certain section
II Yonkers sporting niea.
Indoor Sports Prove Varied
A basketball game WAS the sdyer-
Used attraction which drew nearly q
thousand people 20 the han. After q
glance around the agents r, sided there
we're other attractions which had not
5een publicly announced, and follow
NJ their Olfactory organs to the base
ment they gathered IL Frank D'Apiei,
u 1S9 Oak Street, YOnkeTs, md Louis
Psilusea, Of i5G Willow Street, whom
the yfound doing a brisk business at
a small but we'll supplied oasis be-
Meath tho main hall The line, the
agents report, was forming on the
rght.
Several Of the more enthusiastic
dfinkers opposed tho progress Of the
agents and their prisoners from the
hall, and the exit was finally made
Inder the persuasion Of three revolvers
n the hands Of the dry squad mem
5srs.
Outside the hal! the Yonkers police
vsre called in and the two prisoners
.sksn 10 the police station and charged
Fi,h violation Of the prohibition law.
They we're later released in $500 bail
each FOR hearing before a United
States commissioner. No other arrests
we're made.
Dry Law Cost u. S. Billion
Hliidm H. GlIoIf dlLnIutI LOT Iuc
Nsv York State Brewers Association,
gave out a statement yesterday that
he United States government lost ex-
attly 1901 ,360,074.S4 last year because
of prohibition.
Al the same time L. NJ. Boomer, the
hotel magnate, was quoted 10 the effect
that dry hotels could not compete with
those estsbilshments which refuse TO
AXE prohibition seriously enough 70
interfere with business. Mr.. Boomer
wants . beer and wine law similar 70
be ore 10 effect In the Canadian prov
incss Of Quebec and British Columbis,
sud says under present conditions in
his country tho only hotel With
chance for financial success would be
one boilt at sea beyond the thrce-mile
init.
hr Hirst's statement says:
The report of the Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue for the fiscal year
ended June 80. 1922, shows total pro-
duction Of cereal beverages containing
'eSs than <one.half Of per cent Of
slcohol Of i96,7si,7si gallons, which Is
Equivalent % 6.64i.8d7 barrels. The
AK paid thereon was $e,639, 1856 at
he sale price OF 10 per cent ano
81, 50,772.Se at the rate Of ? cents a
gallon.
$l43,S3s.5ll Total Revenue
"The total revenue derived by the
United States for The fiscal year ended
June so. 1918, from beer, wine and dis
tiled liquors was sb43.S39, ,5l4.9S.
The reyenus bill in Congress for
1915 would have yielded 20 the United
states annually for the brewing OF beer
alone sfO0.000.O00.
"Thc total estimated fevenue. accord
ing 20 the same bill, for beer, wine and
,prituous liquors was sl,i00,0O0,O00.
"Thc liquor tax revenue for the State
o. New York for the fscsl year eud-
Cd September 80, 1918, was t22,e2e,-
$3.50.
Under the Volstead act millions Of
gallons Of spirituous liquors are be-