“DRY” RAIDS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11128, 12 February 1930, Page 5

“DRY” RAIDS

ONE OF NEW YORK’S LARGEST HOTELS, PADLOCKED THIRTEEN~ARRESTS SUPPLIES TO BOOTLEGGERS IN PHILADELPHIA. THE EE FORMER, PROHIBITI ON AGENTS SEIZED United Preea Assn, by El. Tel- Copyricni (Received Feb. 11, 3.5 p.m.) NEW PORK, Feb. 10. Prohibition agents, under the direction of the Federal Prohibition A ilia instrator, Mr Campbell, raided a ton million dollar hotel which is one of the largest in the city, seized liquor, and arrested thirteen persons allegedly engaged in providing liquor to guests. Mr Campbell stated that the raid was designed for the provision of equity of action, the force padlocking the hotel “from top to bottom.” Other hotel raids are expected momentarily here. At Philadelphia, eight persons, iuclndihg three former Prohibition agents, were seized in connection with the alleged diversion of 8,000,000 dollars’ worth of industrial alcohol to bootleggers from a distilling plant.

BIG ROUND-UP IN CHICAGO ALLEGED ALCOHOLIC RING INDICTMENTS AOATNST 156 PERSONS AND 61 CORPORATIONS “MATTERS JUST~COMTXC TO A HEAD” United Preßß Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright (Received Feb. 11, 8.40 p.m.) CHICAGO, Feb. 11. Indictments citing 297 overt acts were returned charging thirty-one corporations and 156 individuals with Prohibition violations following the disclosure of operations throughout the nation by an alcohol ring, which allegedly has diverted 1.000.000 gallons of industrial alcohol per year into bootleg channels, since 1926. Springfield and Illinois indictments were returned charging two prominent food products corporations with Prohibition violation. The specific charges are suppressed. Tlie indictments. the first of their kind, will he pushed as test eases. The National Prohibition Administrator Mr Doran called Die indictments in tlie Chicago area “tlie natuural course of events, nothing ever sensational. That is all 1 am at liberty to say now, as matters an- ;ust coming to a head.”