The Washington times., 1928-12-18
CLEAN UPS
I All TO
CHECK
FLOW
BY JAMES Z. KILGALLEN

BY JAMES l.. kILGALLEN
NEW YORK, Dec is u.N.S.l
Rum running crusades. police graft
..clean ups and wars on bootleg
Ting and racketeering are in fun
swing in various American cities.
But it is proving an uphill and dif-
ficuIt battle and indications are
that this years supply OF holiday
booze will be as plentiful as ever.
survey OF international News
Service disclosed today
Al bird's-eye view of the nation,
Judging by advices received, would
reveal Florida receiving nearly q
million dollars worth of LIQUOR each
week from the Banana Islands and
elsewhere; the City Of New York
getting a huge e-Christmas supply
from the rum fleet; Detroit as a
distributing point for rum smuggled
across the Canadian border. and in
terror cities-from coast to- coast
obtaining illegal 'hootch" in de-
yious ways.
Many Probes On
1t would also show cities, such as
Philadelphia, East st. Louis, Chi
cago. Pittsburgh, Kansas City and
Cincinnati. in the throes Of sweep
ing Investigations. Z,
Nearly all dispatches anent the
situation bore wet" flavor. The
Rocky Mountain region was an ex-
ception.
Millions Of dollars were distributed
among members of Philadelphia' $
corrupt force that were ousted, ac-
cordi1lg to Prosecuting Attorney
John Monaghan. Liquor racketeers
amassed $1O. .000, 900 in single
year. At least $4,000, 900 possibly
twice that amount--was paid in
protection money.
Al further shake-up of the Phila..
defphia police will take place after
January i, it is rumored.
Took 1t Easy
Pittsburgh's investigation has not
been so fruitful. Although the
names OF several hundred officials,
politicians. racketeers. and boot
leggers have been convicted. And
only one big shot, is in the tolls
OF the laval Forney. so-called
king of Pittsburgh's slot machine
racket He pleaded no defense to
charges of conspiracy to violate the
prohibition law and was given a
short term in prison
Chicago resenting the eblack eye"
given the city as a result of long
series of gang killings, has called
for new deal A new State at
torney and police chief are trying
to clean up what short time back
was ''wide-open town. Not
much progress has yet been made.
The machine gunners and the beer
runners are not operating as
openly as formerly. However. the
one-hundredth bombing of the year
was recorded in Chicago the other
day
Racketeering has challenged the
attention of the authorities at Gin
cfnnati, former home of George Re-
mus, one-time king OF the boot.
leggers."
At Toledo. Ohio, roundup of all
known bootleggers has been ordered
by Safety Director ]. r. Crowell in
an effort to cooperate with State
Prohibition officials in proving the
alleged wholesale release Of prison
ers from the Lucas county Jail.
where they were held on liquor
charges
East st. Louis spectacular liquor
Investigations c..me to climax with
the sentencing of Sheriff Leslie B.
Roche and Al other defendants in
Federal court. The sheriff was
given a year and day in Leaven-
worth prison and fined $4,000. 1t
was brought out at the trial that the
sheriff was wholesale liquor mer-
chant himself.
Kansas City's law enforcement So
cieties and ministers have brought
pressure on the city police and FED
eral authorities ito clean out Its
fl(ln sneak -eaRies."