The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-18
'SCHOFIELD RAID ON EXCLUSIVE
 CLUBS IN PHIL,
New Director of Public
 Safety Did It Even While 3 Member of One of the Clubs
By PAUL COMLY FRENCH

T <AOA 0ON4A1 ] phifadefbhia, Mar is.RIUP1D
 It was not until Director of Public Safety Schofieh personally, raided
 the Manufacturers club that the city
 council took cognizance of the sit. nation here.
 The directorswas a member of the club, which listed hundreds of the
 social and financial leaders of the city on its rolls. After discovery oe the liquor in a room, which he said waSx fitted up as an fashioned lbar. skS phoned City Hall and in- Istructeds Superintendent of Police William B. Mills and Assistant Superintendent James Taylor to
 comic to the club and directed that, several patrols be summoned to con- f1scafe the seized liquor.
 Immediately after the liquor had been taken from the clubhouse at
 Broad and Walnut streets, in the
 heart of the business section, Scho- field rendered. his resignation as a member.
 At a hearing the following morn ping, when the club steward was charged with ownership of the liquor, Schofield announced that he was considering obtaining the names of the individual owners of the liquor and issuing warrants for their |arrest.
 Then, almost on the heels of the Manufacturers club raid, police of the 18th and Pine streets station raided the ultra-exclusive Philadel- phia club and confiscated thousands of dollars worth of choice liquors.
 The raid caused furore. a the club been crossed by other than 2 member or the guest of a member. Membership came" by birth, and money, could not buy admittance, nor could 1t place one without the proper ancestry on its roster.
 A steward was held by police and again Schofield anfiounced that he was considering whether to issue warrants for the real owners of the seized liquors.
 Its poor sportsmanship, to say the least," he declared at the hear ing, ''for the members of the club to allow this steward to be the goat"
 During the course. of schoheld's official career hundreds. of homes were raided. Many of the persons protested that hey had made home brew and wines for their own con- sumption. They indignantly denied that they had ever sold any.
 Moreover, members of the police quarters of the Howard Mccall post of the American Legion in West Philadelphia and confiscated several hundred bottles of what post off, cials said was near beer.
 Then a camp of Veterans of For eign Wars arranged to hold Sum day night movie performance in Kensington. the industrial section of the city, in an effort to aid the un- employed in the community. Tickets were sold and the veterans said that they had obtained permit from the police to conduct their affair.
 On Saturday, the day preceding the show, the permit was revoked by Schofield, who declared he had just learned that tickets were being sold in violation of the Sunday law. Close to 10000 persons milled about | be # dispersed by several hundred | police under the personal command l Of an assistant superintendent. s More legion homes and clubs fre- i quepted by the foreign born were rRided and liquor confiscated. Or gapizations commenced to protest to | the mayor and the council. Church | groups stood solidly behind the di- l rector and he emerged after each | raid or clash over strict enforce | m4nt of the Sunday law as the vic- tor.
 Finally resolution was introduce ] eG, Unto couEoi; by William WI Roper. Princeton football coach and | Germantown councilman. demanding | an iaEestigationr into the legality of | the police raids. The resolution was tahled