Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Crusaders AUTHORIZATION
Campaign Shows Result of
Capital Raids.
COST TO CITY HELD
s5oo,00o TO 100000
Statistical Bureau Data Cites Loss
in Fees, Padlocking, Salaries
and Rents.

Two properties owned by the Federal
Government are included in a total of
934 premises in Washington spotted on
a "speakeasy" map of the National
Capital, made public here last night by
the Crusaders, anti-dry organization, as
places where prohibition agents discov-
cred illegal liquor during the seven
month period from September, 1929, to
April, 1880.
This information, based on Washing
ton police records, is being broadcast
throughout the country today by the
Crusaders in statement that the map
furnishes proof that the prohibition
law is Haunted in the Nations Capital"
and that "speakeasies flourish in the
very shadow of the White House"
The anti-prohibition organization had
at hand, but did not include in its
statement, comparison of the num-
Der of speakeasies discovered in this
seventeenth period with the number of
saloons operating here in pre-prohibi-
ton days. In 1915, for instance, In the
year before Washington was made
dry" there were 326 bar rooms here.
Oldtimers, recall, however, that the
number at times was larger.
Evidence that there we're at least 934
speakeasies operating in Washington
for the seven months surveyed by the
Crusaders is broadcast by that organi-
zation in support of its belief that pro-
hibition cannot be enforced. The Cru
saders Is national organization of
men who have declared war against
the eighteenth amendment, the Vol
stead act and the Jones Five and Ten
law"
Map by Statistical Firm.
The "speakeasies" map was drawn up
for the Crusaders by Rufus S. Lusk,
Inc, local statistical firm, from data
obtained from metropolitan police rec
ords of raids made here where liquor
was purchased or found during the
seven months.
Mr.. Lusk, in analysing the survey data,
states that the enforcement of the pro-
hibition law in Washington Is costing
its citizens between $500, 900 and $780,
900 per year, in the expenditure Of FUNDS
and in the lost income from license
fees formerly paid by saloons and In
lost rents due to padlocks.
Finding arguments in the map against
prohibition, the Crusaders say this
black-dotted document pictures a con-
centration of 'speakeasies' in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the United States
Capitol, where Congress passed the
eighteenth amendment at time when
the flower of American manhood was
enrolled in the armies of the United
States to defend the liberty of American
citizens.
ut shows that a dozen 'speakeasies'
literally surround the Prohibition
Bureau. It demonstrates that dispen-
saries of bootleg liquors are not con-
fined to slums and alleys, but cluster
thickly in, Washington finest resi-
Dental section, adjacent to the homes
of cabinet officers, Senators, Represen-
tatives in Congress, Army and Navy
officers, Government officials, members
of the diplomatic corps and the socially
prominent in Americas Capital
Two properties on which these
present-d day saloons have been opened
belong to well-known charitable or
CARNATIONS, several of the 'black spots
are owned by big banks and trust COM
paries and at least one property stands
in the name of a nationally known
university
The data for this map, according to
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