Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-12
FIVE ARE INDICTED
UNDER JONES LAW
Smoke Screen Makes Ap.
pearance for First Time
in Months.

Indictment of the first five persons
in the District under the Jones law
which raises to five years the penalty
for violation and makes permissible a
fine Of $l0,000-seizure of two auto
mobiles, one equipped with smoke
screen, and the arrest OF a policeman
charged with transporting liquor. were
developments today in what police de-
scribed as the latest effort of boot
leggers to supply liquor in the District.
Prices were said to have doubled
since retirement from the field of scores
of bootleggers when the new enforce
ment act was signed by President
Coolidge.
For the first time in months liquor
through it's exhaust, endangering the
lives Of motor cycle policemen who sped
in pursuit and escaped arrest after a
wild ride through the residential Sec
ton.
The liquor car was damaged In col
lison with a tree at Fourteenth and D
streets, but two unidentified men es-
capped. A hundred and four quarts OF
liquors were confiscated.
Policeman Is Accused.
In another case, charges of trans
porting liquor were placed against a
member of the Police Department. Cur
It's Carter. 26 years old, stationed at the
fifth precinct, was arrested by Police
man Matthew Chmylke and charged
with being one of four men who were
in an automobile containing liquor
Carter was suspended by Acting Lieut.
j. H. B. Swain and was kept at the
station to answer charges OF illegal pos
session and transportation of six cases
of whisky and charge of speeding
Carter was fined by the trial board re-
Gently for alleged intoxication.
Reappearance of the smoke screen
was regarded ominously. Two unidenti-
fed men sped through Southeast and
Northeast Washington about 4:3O am
today and escaped after keeping pur-
suing policemen at a distance with the
dense fumes.
Policemen B. r. Campbell and c. O
Rouse gave chase when they sighted the
car on Southeast Pennsylvania avenue
It was filled with cases piled high In the
tonneau. Speeding the liquor car tc
60 miles an hour the two occupants cut
the smoke through the exhaust, and
the policemen were forced to lessen
their speed. Attempting to turn at Four
teenth and d streets. the driver OF the
automobile apparently lost control anc
crashed into tree. One OF the men
was thrown through the windshield, anc
both had disappeared when the police
men caught up. =. -,
The damaged automobile and 10'
quarts of liquor were removed 10 ths
police station. A check on the cal
showed the license number to nave peer
issued in the name OF man VINO gaV'
a non-existent address. =,
An automobile parked at Thirteentf
street and Pennsylvania avenue south
east about o'clock this morning at
tracted the attention of Policeman
ThornhilI of the fifth precinct, and ex
animation disclosed 1t contained 81
quarts of whisky. Car and liquor were
seized.
Activity Increases.
After a brief period OF comparative
inactivity, the bootleg trade has giver
other evidences, as SHOWN py ponce re
norts. that fear of possible lengthy i'm
prisonment has led to greater vigilance
and purposefulness rather than dis
cnura cement. Comparative study o
police records today indicated that The
leasing off" noted in the few day
immediately following enactment of th'
Jones law has been succeeded by in
creased activity.
Arrests for intoxication averaged fiv'
a day for several days following Marcf
3. when the Jones law became effective
police records show Yesterday So case
were before Police Court, compared witt
| 98 cases March II year ago.
Since March ] prohibition enforce
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