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Libertyville Independent, 8 Apr 1926, p. 15

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Buckner said much "injpstice" was !4W Aired substitluies To appear for °* dome prohibition b ythe belief thatjthem in court." -- New York juries wouldn't convict Buckser told of O.B. iInstance where €éry law violators. ce a substitute was given a jail sent-- "Probably probibition cenavictions |ence instead of the customary--fne.. are more difficult to obtain in --New **This man declared in court be had York than in Texas," he explained. been hired only to pay a fine and "The jury says why send this littie| would not go to jail because hbe had guy To jail when the higher up is | never been arrested in his life," eaid ". eff 'by graft or bi BCC., momiihe _ us conen R i >xg ~:*é'£'f--'-"9£ s %w"z* o« * ie at~ ie e e' f'fil'i'"fit"'-&.' v'.rMs-: gev! a "%fl: ~--*teBotiexcrrs use o6 gartun ot a>| being promoted "for" inc Tomber ~¥, S. ATTORNEY PICT URES METHODS FOL-- ;LOWED BY-- MONSTER UNDERWORLD BOOT-- ""LEG INDUSTRY WHICH CANNOT BE HALTED legitimate , bysintas, -- Its supply to a : €dry bat flctrlfi'fity",kmoflu, he said, * RBre ~evenp cut ~downh the emuggling=of #oreign Hquors into the United States "becatse it is easier to get." The w aleohol diversione last -- year e, he deciared, supp::ed the boot-- . Tleg trade with $3,600,000,0u0 worth of Mllicit drinks. %. "The ineficiency of the industrial aleohol service hich lets sixty mil-- Monse of gallons" of alcono! elip into the bootleg trade annually hes done as much as the coast guard servi to halt unugglinog of foreign liquors JInto the United States." Bisrkner told ~an afhased--audience> which _ jammed-- Ahe semate.judiciary committ¢e's pub le hearings. -- -- ky m'n 'Powertul it now ~exports 8 eg alecoho!". into the--dry prov-- s:. of 'Canida, Emory K. Buckner, ited States attorney for the gouth-- --arn distriect of New Yort, iQUI.% to-- »«day before the senate "wet and dry" committee. $ s > * *' Buckner painted an amazing picture «df the bootleg underworid thriving on 'diversions of industriat alcohol from The chief weakness in enforcement Buckner salid, is the federal court eystem, which allows jury tria'ls, leads to corrpution and permits de y%--all of which defeat justice. "You wasrt to know whether the preobibition law can be enforced in velved in the diversion of 60,000,000 gallons of industria} atcobgy} to (Te¢ bootleg trade."-- **~ There is a trace of poison in 9#\ per cent of all the bootleg. liquor selted in New York, Buckpser 'said. Buckser frank!}y told the sepate jadiciary committee today at the third session of the congressional *At § a quart for bootleg whis key," Buckne? said, "I Tind that $3, -- Buckser said one carload of booi leg alcohol already has been seized at the Canadian border. It was sent by American bootleggerse 10 Canadian bootlegpere to defraud the Canadian government of its tax. Wrahington, Apr. 7.--A monster un irworld boodle industry, fAaunting e American prohibition law, . has 'Mr. Andrewse' predecessor," Buck-- ner replied. "Mr. Andrews immedi-- ately corrected if." . The padlock s;etem of -- closing "speak emsies"® by a federal injunc-- tion Buckner said be introduced be-- cause he found it most effective. "I dign't west io 'F'; 'uim who earn their livipg in a botel or restaurant," said Buckner, "I wented to «top the--loquor traffic so 1 acted agrainst the owner of the property," There were 15,000 compizxints a month aguinst "speakeasies" to the police commissioner of KNew York -- *Who ordered that aystem of pro motion*" asked Senator Heed, tD) otf Missouri. victiona or for the amonut of lqpor they captured." . . **This man declared in court be had been hired only to pay a fine and would not go to jail because he had never been arrested in his life," eald "Man arrested for violeting the dry law hired substitutes to appear for them is court." ' -- "JuJriee were even bribed in the tollets of the Federal building," be said. _ justice and widespreac corruption in the handling of liquor casese, Buck-- ner declared it was imposeible' to en-- force the law." * ' ~ "They fodded the Federal building and gave it an atmosphere of pollu-- tion, an air of corruption, that epread even into the civil part." Buckner said that "with the right kind of machinery" the law "prob-- ably can can be enforeed." -- -- _ * Buckner was questioned by Jullen Ceodman, Ahe .méina' "prosechting Aal torney." * Buckner ~salid. when he {(irst be came United States attorney, pro-- hibition_ arrests were being made at the rate of 50,000 a year. * _*"They were all brought to the federal building by both city police and prohibition agents.> -- -- New York £Lity," said Buckner. "I don't know. The law hbas pever been tried in a way to make en-- forcement of the law effective. 1t bhas never been tried by the federal government. because the kind of fed-- eral courts which we have, requir-- ing jury trials for even the smaflest cases, are not the kind of courts that permit a police law to be en-- forced." Painting a graphic picture of the ho t atl A «m d souwhovmmolryhva New York City, The witness not even hazard a guess.© > M'-ywm'"}lmnq ber of vidiations?" insisted. °> asked Senator Harreld (R) of Kkla "The whole federas carendar 4ras two yeare behind. easca were m'ut on the e.lw because of --AgA. Now we've geased up the kalendar. s R Mess 'You will never enforce--the 'pro hibition law in my district until peo ple go to jail, Wt can only 'try two Jury cases a day and it. would take the one federal judge assigned to me for criminal cases a whole year to try the petty cases that the city arrests~tothl 500° A month and that ..-- . would mean we 'umulh any of the big cases--the alcobol diver« sion, the conspiracy smuggling ca» ea" 2 . Toleind B y ne@ city, Buckner said when he frst went into dffice. s IAbertyville Independent ads bring "You mean then it would take 12 "Dry Cleaners as Well as Launderers ; 618:N. Green Bay Road -- _ Highland Park Finished compliste at 12 couts per pound for all fNiatwork and 35 cents per pound for wearing apparel, soft whirts, etc. This, you will find is real economy. The quality of our work is good and our service is scourtseous and prompt. We will glad'y sond our driver for your work and return it to you when laundered. # + l Dry Wash at 18 lbs. for $1.80 and 10 cgr Either Wet Wash at 25 lbs. for $1.25 and 5 cents per lb. for all over 25 lbs. All wash re-- turned damp, ready to hang up or iron. * Reliable Laundry TELEPHONE LIBERTYYILLE 2%0 mente sentences ranging from life| _ -- downward. w# + wrumrmara "Grandma" EKliza Nusbaum, in the same faded black fur coat she has worn since she was frst taken into custody for the murder of her hus-- band, Albert, sniffied wearily heside_ * Mre. Delilah Martin, to wohm she was handcuffed. "Grandma" is : going to Twenty--six women in thatt coach, two of them women, were on .their way to the state penitentiary to com-- Chicago, Apr. 7.--When the Joliet team steamed out of the Rock lsland station here today, one coach con-- tained a dreary load. 26 START TERMS $ IN STATEPRISON + DRUSES ATTACK RAiLROAD Damascus, Apr. 7.--Druse tribes men have aitacked a railroad train south of Damescus and captured six railway officials; troope have been sent to the relief of the traip. coach. The former is to serve 14 years, while Goff's . punishment was Axed at 25 years. . L The Sith member of the Nusbaum alayers, John Walton Wica, remained behind--reluctantly. Nusbaum rdér, $ F task Cns fower is w cve ~++) WOULD DEPORT ( Morth Shore Line 350 Milwaukee Ave. This Special Six model--a car of distinctly exceptional quality--has the LOWEST PRICE ever placed on a Nash Sedan. Does the North Shore Life , erate Motor Coaches ? - KENNEDY BROS. > Wn_-hfizto:. April 7.--aAll aliens under 40 who hare lived in the United States more than five years without applying _ for _ citizenship would be deported, under a bill in-- troduced ----today by Representative Manlove (Rep). Missouri. 72 West Adams Street, Chicago, HIL. | The High--Speed ElectricallyOperated Railroad two--fold service. They afford a valuable con--. . tion. they give a useful inter--community tervijce to the towns through which they operate. Special coaches can be chartered at moderate cost by any club, lodge, church or other group desiring to make a trip. . Chicago North Shore & : Milwaukee Railroad Co.| > land MNvii:.me"wRod; OIaH;oel-z Pukw!m . ® | MoaddeomCauhlfi:;pctnaa; soccs ind soanh moock Alf of thaw wanty'a routes: Kenosha to Lake Geneve; Waukegan to Kenosha via Sheridan Road; Waukegan to Mc-- Henry; W aukegan to Antiotch; Wilmette to High» Service gives in a single the reason Mdhhxhu:hhmmw routes now in operation. Each supplies a needed WMMW.MM rmm»p. And the trequency oA sery-- appeals quite as much to Chicagoans MWI;'&N:!'ML&:" _ The history of our Lake Geneva Motor Coach é:..'u..m-x.: 'I\nfl " epaler whodele 'Fuople ind this t divect and pemnd > increase the value, for everyone,' of &o::lhcnvh' l.utmvly _ this is true. Jn 1925, North Shore Line Motor 'Our first Motor Coach Hine--Kenosha to Lake ~--~~ Oeneva~--was started in 1922. Prior to 1922, Lake mm.fu-m cities along the North visit this mY:':l::- .n htdwm:ndphoumq.'i ~ ALIENS UNDER 40 We now operate the following Motor Coach in a single : Paris, April 7.--The veil in f a bid for favor anew, Home fashionable model house are now wearing veils. Wallasey,© England, . onde smoked by Premier | D win .sold at auction at 4 for $75, leading politi¢cal € the" premier to suggest in of Comtmions that the tioning pipes was should be prohibted by I®®w. ® ho un ienitguts ty w n gnsccmatmscarcn c n nc in3fi w onb ue iggy A > ~-------- ) +

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