The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-02
BY
RIVAL Of
C|..i.'LIQIIE:
large Outside" interests
Seek All Business Here.
Men on inside Say.

Bootleg liquor still flows into
ne National Capital.
Representatives of the liquor.
.lique which for the past two
years. supplied the finer grades
of contraband beverages spent
the past two days in the city.
"The situation is satisfactory"
me Of them is quoted as saying
sefore leaving. "The raiding of
tIocal liquor cIiques is what one
must expect. The recent raid
which seemingly has caused some
hing like a scandal in connection
it'll a customers list, was GER
in to take place sooner or
ter.
Says ''Sonebdy Peached."
For sometime the enforcement
gents have known bf, the clique's
perations, and understand they
80 had learned who a number of
ID big buyers were long before they
* action. 1t Is the old story,
melody peached.
About the ''peachingS there's no
yubt in the minds of those familiar
It'll the history Of the raid. 1t is
,oadly intimated that the Washing
n clique were "given up" by repre-
,ntativeS of another clique outside
be District, but doing a large bust
less In the city. 1t was case, 1t is
declared, or putting competition out
Y 1f existence.
Contrary to a widespread belief.
the demand, Il is asserted, for in
toxicating liquor Is not so keen as
o year ago. Difficulty in obtaining
LIQUOR has slowly but surely weancd
many men and women from indui-
gence In it. This has tended to cur
tail the demand, while the operations
q additional supplying agencies cut
II down.
Don't tell me that the raid re-
, nulting in the seizure of the liquor
stored on premises leased by Polish
diplomats was not the result OF tips
given out by other bootlegglng inter-
ests, was the statement credited tn
9 man who admits being customer
when 1t comes to high-grade liquors.
Davis in PhiIadelphia.
Il know nothing about the merits
Of the claim that 1t was warehoused
there by bootleggers. The State De-
partment can get at the facts and
VIII unquesti0nably do SO.
But take the visit Of Lieut.. Davis
{ 70 Philadelphia. It looks as though
the tip may prove a bOomerangr'
On several occasions The Wash
ington Times has indicated that the
Wppiy of high-grade liquors finding
is way into Washington was sold
ma delivered here by an organiza-
ION with headquarters in Baltimore
nd Philadelphia.
~ The selling force of this organiza-
on, II 10 understood, is composed Of
lrmer whiskey statesmen, and much
{ the stock supplied by them is
raWn from liquor stocks privately
'lor dealers who believed national
MDiIlon would prove a joke and
* q gamble with their holdings.
through their acquaintance with
sem the ex-whiskey statesmen were
lie to obtain possession Of the
.0cks and by working lists Of Gus
omers who formerly dealt with the
noiesalers were able to market
,em.
Making Rapid Deliveries.
The rapidity with which orders
laced with them in Washington
ave been filled, has suggested thai
considerable stock had been shin
Led into the city. or its Immediate
ghborhood from where 1t is de.
erred m.
Theirs was rumor floating YES.
ruay that the recent big raid re-
died from an attempt on the part
local men interested In the bust
80 to freeze on to" some Of the
req stocks and dispose OF them to
cir own advantage without split
% with the men who made the
ipments.
In the meanwhile, it is said, the
sitting statesmen" continue to ply
Dir business. At least It is UNDER
GOD they spent Christmas and the
a y following in the city, and left
- ytng with them liberal orders
immediate delivery. NJ,
It's just case of cuf,throat. y
eqded the man familiar with the
0uotleg situation. zone bunch d.
1ed the other was getting too
rOng and turned them up. / do
doubt q list was seized. Such
SIS are kept as q rule, they have
20 20 conduct the business on a
~ scale, and DO IL systematically
timer lists have been found, 1 think
remember one that afterwards
urned out to be a list of. prosDac-
i've buyers OF automobiles. or aoKla.
thing &c that kindN