The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-09
SEEK TO DEPORT
ALIEN VIOLATORS
District Attorney to Con-
fer with Dept. of Labor
on Proceedings.
EFFECTS BOOTLEGGERS
Order Would Take In All Alien
Prohibition Violators
If Successful.

Possibility that deportation proceed
ings may be started against every
alien convicted of violating the ma
tional prohibition law in Kenosha
county doomed today when District
Attorney Lewis Powell announced that
he was to attend conference with
department of labor officials in Chica-
go on Thursday morning to find what
steps could be taken to bring about
that result.
The conference with federal offic-
ials is for the purpose of attempting
to smooth the way for close co-opera-
tion between the office of the dis
trict attorney here and the depart
ment of labor so that deportation can
be actually accomplished as soon as
the criminal case against the indivld-
ual had been completed in court. The
district attorney would in these cases
act as the representative of the Unit
ed States government, just as he has
in the paddock case just completed
against Robert Balm and his Lucky
Strike soft drink parlor.
Will Be Drastic Step.
This action was decided today by
District Attorney Powell as the most
effective method of stopping much of
the illicit manufacture of liquor in
Kenosha county. Heavy fines and in
some cases jail sentences have acted
as considerable deterrent, he pointed
out, but these did not show that all OF
the activities of the still owner were
being stopped.
eff a man who is not citizen is
caught with a still or is caught vio-
lating any of the provisions of the
volstead act he may be liable to de-
portation proceedings in the opinion
of the district attorney. While such
action is comparatively new there
have been cases in the country where
such procedure has been taken in the
punishment for violations of liquor
laws, he pointed out. Now the district
attorney is interested in finding out
what legal basis there is for such
proceedings.
"I believe that that is one of the
most effective means for cleaning up
Illicit manufacture of intoxicating
LIQUOR" con inued the district at
torney. IF man knows that he may
be deprived of all Of the opportuni-
ties which law abiding Americans have
created for him he may hesitate be-
fore he deliberately violates the law.
And 1 want that hesitancy to assume
permanence and rid Kenosha county of
these still owners who are pouring
poison down the threats of those
gullible enough to buy it."
The district attorney also said that
if the present plans which he is evolv-
ing bear the approval of the depart
ment of labor and that departments
offer to cooperate in the prosecution
of the cases brought under such a
head, every man that is brought into
court charged with liquor violations
would be examined and i. he is found
to be an alien deportation proceed
ings will be started against him at
once. All of the evidence in each
case against the man will be for
warded to the department Of labor,
together with every step in the Grim
inal case against the individual, he
added.
In the meantime, he said, he is
awaiting the result of his conference
with department of labor officials in
Chicago on Thursday morning.