“DRY” HOUSE RAIDED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 895, 12 February 1930, Page 11

“DRY” HOUSE RAIDED

GUESTS HAVE LIQUOR IN NEW YORK HOTEL

ROUND-UP OF BOOTLEGS NEW YORK, Monday. Prohibition agents, under the direction of the New York district prohibition administrator. Major Maurice Campbell, raided one of the largest hotels in the city, seized some liquor, and arrested 13 persons who are alleged' to have been engaged in providing liquor for the guests. Major Campbell said the raid was designed with a view to an action at law. and to force the padlocking of the hotel fi-om top to bottom. Other raids on New York hotels are expected at any moment. In the court at Springfield, Illinois, Indictments were returned charging two prominent food products corporations with violating the prohibition law. The specific charges were suppressed in the indictments, which are the first of their kind. They will be pushed as test cases. The Federal Commissioner of Prohibition, Dr. J. Doran, said the indictments ill the Chicago prohibition area were in the natural course of events, and nothing very sensational. That was all he was at liberty to say at present, as matters were just coming to a head. At Philadelphia eight persons, including three former prohibition agents, were arrested in connection with the alleged diversion of industrial alcohol to “bootleggers” from a distilling plant.