THE DRY LAW

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1930, Page 5

THE DRY LAW

GANGSTER’S DEFIANCE

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NEW YORK, March 7

A message from Hoboken, New Jersey, states that a policeman was injured by a prominent “beer baron,” (nit lie was “on the spot” when a number of gangsters, within sight of the City Hall, swept a street corner with ;1 fusilade of machine guns and sawed off shotgun fire from an automobile, which careered on the city walks, seriously injuring three children, and escaped. The beer runner had recently announced his “reformation.” The police captured one gangster, who blew out his own brains with a rifle.

OKLAHOMA “SPOTS.”

PARALYSE MEDICAL MEN

NEW YORK. March 7

At Oklahoma City, one hundred frightened citizens informed tiie poli e tlnyt they were suffering from paralysis, which apparently was caused from drinking of a “Jake” concoction, derived from Jamaica ginger. The majority of them lost the use of their feet in the beginning, after which the paralysis spread to their arms and face.

Chemist shop owners are being held for selling this drink. Among the victims are two physicians, four medical students, five chemists’ assistants, two school girls, and one Minister.

POLICE FIND BOMB FACTORY ,NEW YORK, March 8

. Two squads of Chicago detectives early to-day raided a countryside farm house near Melrose Park, which the police declared was a factory for turning out bombs in wholesale quantities. Eleven men, the majority of the members of the Genna Gang, were arrested. Two powerful dynamite bomlbs, wrapped, apparently ready for delivering, were found in a kitchen cupboard, and the house was an arsenal in which four shotguns and many revolvers were stacked. This raid on the" “bomb farm” was the first step in the police counter-offensive to thwart an expected general war in gangland for the control of the lucrative southside beer and alcohol traffic.

PECULIAR PARALYSIS

MANY SUFFERERS

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 8

Oklahoma City paralysis, cabled on 7th. March, lias-become a serious matter. More than 300 residents now checked by the City Health Department, are suffering a strange after effect of a ginger drink. The City physician (Dr Miles) stated that it will be several months before they obtain the use of their feet and hands. No fatalities are expected. While chemists are attempting to determine the poison the belief is expressed that one shipment of adulterated Jamaica ginger received here caused the trouble.

The Federal State Authorities have started a vigorous campaign against sellers of Jamaica ginger, which is illegal. At Elizabeth, Tennessee, thirteen persons have been affected by paralysis of the feet similar to that in Oklahoma. It is undetermined whether this is due to liquor.