The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-31
YelIowley and Sterling Get
Together On Situation
in This District.
WARNING TO HIPPERS
Federal Agents To Be Around
With Search Warrants All
Filled Out, Is Word.

If Milwaukeeans and Chicagoans
driven out by stringent measures TAX
en- by prohibition enforcement officers
are planning to find Kenosha as an
oasis on New Years eve, they'd bet
ter change their minds.
That was the gist of some informa.
ton given out at federal headquarters
in Milwaukee following completion of
the strategic plans" for the ofense
against liquor in southeastern Wis
consin for New Years.
Roy Morse, United States district
attorney for eastern Wisconsin; Rob-
ert Sterling, in charge of federal pro-
hibition enforcement for this district,
and E. G. Yellowley, in charge of en-
forcement for Wisconsin and Illinois
that was the trio working to get a
general respect for every provision of
the Volstead act in this section. And
from the offices of each of these men
came statements showing which way
the wind was blowing"
Kenosha Cases on Wednesday.
From Morse came the statement
that all of the Kenosha county road
house paddock cases will be heard be-
fore Federal Judge Geiger on Wednes-.
day. They were originally set for
hearing today, but because there are
some thirty others in the state ready
to be heard at the same time all of the
Kenosha cases have been set over to
Wednesday for action. At that time
each of the roadhouse owners will be
required to show cause why temper
airy injunction against their places al
ready issued in federal court, should
not be made permanent. This is their
last chance for q hearing.
But the statement that came from
the Office of Yellowley in Chicago has
even more significance for the rest OF
the roadhouses and saloons in the city
and county.
AS prohibition enforcement admins
istrator, Yellowley issued the follow
ing statement:
Urged to Avoid Mistakes.
"The biggest mistake anyone could
make right now would be to reserve
table at one of the moist cabarets and
make payment down. By New Years
Eve there won't he any of them open
except those that have given no oc-
casion for action. A seasonable broad
mindedness that has characterized
prohibition enforcement in q more or
less degree previous New Years Ewes,
will be replaced this December 81 by
grim; unrelenting Interpretation of
the letter of the law"
That the federal and state, men may
play lone game in the plan to make
the entire country dry at New Years
is the belief. 1t is known that the
federal men have fixed up their plans,
one of which was sprung in Chicago,
but which did not work as it had been
expected to.
Plan Didn't Work.
Agents were around with so-called
clippers" in their possession. They
exhibited them in drinking and eating
places, hoping to encourage others to
make free showing Of what they had
secreted on their hips. 1t failed, how
ever, and the tea, which was contained
in the federal clippers" and used as
bait, did not bring out the suckers.
There is more than likely to be an
exhibition of like clippers" on New
Years eve in the hope that the free
and-easy fellows will give themselves
away and lay themselves liable to ar
rest. Whether anything of that kind
will be attempted here is not known.
Armed With Warrants.
Reports from Milwaukee are to tn
effect that federal agents have armed
themselves with warrants which will be
served New Years eve. Under those
papers they will be privileged to make
search Of the premises and seize all
liquor found.
ANY public drinking will be cause
for arrest, it is said. The agents may
arrest frequenters Of resorts even
though the liquor which they display
was not purchased there but was
brought in as Clippers" That pro-
prietors of such places will ley them
selves liable to arrest for permitting
patron to drink liquor brought to his
place is the statement Of officers.
1t is stated that intoxicated persons
are amenable to arrest by prohibition
agents. While they have liquor in
their possession Internally the pro-
vision of the prohibition law does not
extend that far.