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Police Trying Clean Up New York For Convention Democrats Who Figure oil Having Wide Open Town for Convention May Find It as Hard to Buy Liquor in New York As It Is in the Old Tome Town By ROBERT T. SMALL Co?yri?ht. 1924. by Tk? AttiflN New York, Feb. 27. ? Democrats throughout the country who have figured on coming to a "wide open" New York next June are doomed to disappointment. Orders have gone out to clean up the town. Three months is to be devoted , to the tusk so that by June 1 there will be no speak-easies, ; Wind pigs nor liquor peddlars' j restaurants in existence. From [ June 1 to the date of the con vention, New York will be wear-i ing its new clothes and seeing how they fit. The police do not hope to rid the city of the predatory bootleggef. That, they bay, would be asking t<So much in the alloted space of time. Their real purpose is to close up every place where whiskey, gin and beer are sold over the bar or over the counter in open and wanton vio lation of the Volstead Act. The New York police further say they are going in alone on the clean' up job. They will welcome, but have not asked for federal aid. Special service squads are being or ganized in the police department and Police Commissioner Enriglit has established a "secret service" force which will check up on sev eral service men and Bee that they do their full duty. Commissioner Enright believes the police can clean up New York once they make up their mind to do It. He believes that every precinct man knows exactly where the "wide open" places are in his bailiwick and can put his hands on the violators of the law at any moment. The country in general will have to change its previous conceptions of New York. There is a new New York, a New York which is not cal lous to what the rest of the country thinks of it. New York also is con scious of the fact that the greater! part of the Uniteu States was dry. before the eighteenth amendment was adopted anil the Volstead Act passed. Therefore it is not propos ed that the delegates and visitors to the National Convention shall have their morals shocked by anything they may see or they may do while in the metropolis. Frankly it is admitted that the1 big fund subscribed to get the! Demoeratic convention for New York | was for the purpose of advertising the city and showing the people of the hinterland that their biggest city! is not as bad as it has been painted. ! Unquestionably there will be pleto-l ty or liquor to be had In the city during the week of the convention, but it will have to be bought sur reptitiously. Up to this time, it has been possible, as a" matter of fact, it has been easy, to purchase liquor across the bar at so much per drink. This is the phase of law violation the police are striking at. They agree that open saloons during the conven tion would give a bad impression. New York may have its own ideas as to how the liquor question should be solved, but it does not intend to im pose these views upon its convention visitors. The police say that no city yet has found the means of suppressing the bootlegger, for as fast as one is ar rested another seems to spring up to take his place. So if the stranger in New York is able to buy whiskey during the convention, it is argued that he will be able to do this in al most any community if willing to pay the price. Recently - it was estimated that only about five per cent of the- for eign liquors landed in the United States fell into the hands of the pro hibition enforcement ofTicers. This leaves a flood of it on hand, especial ly along the 6eaboard. New York is anxious, however, that the delegates shall spend their money in the shops of the city and | at the theaters. The convention pe I riod is to be the greatest, theatrical ly, the city has ever known. The New York managers have seized up on the convention as avidly as would any of the smaller cities of the na tion and are making plans for all j sorts of new productions to be on ; tap for the first and last visitors. [The idea here is that this is to bo !the biggest political convention ev ier, with hundreds of thousands of visitors jamming Fifth Avenue and the Great White Way. The convention spirit which has seized New York shows that all the Babbits are not out on Main Street. Lyceum Course Ends Manteo. Feb. 27 ? ? The first, lyceum course held In Manteo has completed its attractions with the entertainment given by Burgderter, Characterise on Thursday evening. The citizens of Manteo showed a real appreaciatlon for this type of entertainment, and made the ven ture of a lyceum cmirse a safe one. The attractions by the Piedmont Bu-| reau were each of a decidedly dlf I ferent type. The Freeman Ham mond Company presented sketches Spring Prices For Famous Fisco Fertilizers DIRECT TO FARMERS kisto ? FISCO PISCO ? FISCO PISCO llalanced Mixture FISCO Standard Fish & Potash FISCO Tobacco Special (Sulph. of FISCO Commercial 12-3-3 10-4*4 10-3-3 ? 1 0-4-0 H- 4-4 *ot. ) 8-3-3 H-2-iJ 7-5-7 7-3-5 7-JM f? ^ c ? 2. o rF FISCO Truckers FISCO Truckers S(>ecial FISCO FISCO Strawberry Spec. (Sulph. of Pot.) 7-JJ-5 FISCO Special 6-7-5 FISCO 10-0-4 FISCO I : 10-0-2 F1BOO T?>p|ier 3-10-1 Add Phosphate 16%.. Kainit X It rate of Soda " Buy The I lest And Cse l.ess 924.40 26.70 23.20 24.30 23.50 22.00 22.00 18.50 20 60 28.40 22.60 24. tO 33.60 15.10 13.90 38.10 1 1.00 10.00 52. OO ? * ^ I if # .IMU V?J 1JCIW ? ? ? THE FISHKIUKS PRODUCTS CO., Norfolk, Va. J. H. Boswood & Son LOCAL ACiKXTS, CAMDKN AM) CUIIHITCCK COUNTIES, GHEGORY, X. C. < % MAIL OKDKItS SOLICIT KD. HOSIERY TO MATCH. THE HERO ONE OF OUR NEW SPRING STYLES MADE IT IN THE JACK I? A II I) I T GRAY SI'EDE. MEDI1M TOE. T '/, nrriH covered u o x COME IX AXI) SEE this A El to STYLE. Owens Shoe Co. WHEN YOU BUY nSIINN'Q FURNITURE AT m"'"** W You Make Money Quinn Furniture Co. More Furniture For Lean Money from well known plays and the pro-1 kg ram was exteremely clever. The se I cond attraction was gJven by the La I Salle Bell Ringing Quartette and I was a musical program of decided credit. The citizens of MaPleo who I became guarantors for th*?* course were thirty in number, and among them were those citizens who gen erally make things possible in t\ie town. MYSTIC KLAN IS ANOTHER NEW ORDER Atlanta. Feb. 27. ? The Knights of the Mystic Klan was formed yester-j day by the revolting portion of the , Ku Klux Klan. who declared that the latter organization has disgraced , I itself in the eyes of the people and I is no longer operated with high mo tives. WILLMKKT THl'ltSI>AY The Literary Department of the Woman's club will hold its regular meeting at the Southern Hotel Thursday afternoon. FLAVOR? That'll what Flw i Chrckfrbmy Chfwlnfl (.uni Un t an> thing rU* but. A new fta%or that m.ikn you tit up and take notice. Say: ' Ch?tk-<hrv k -Checker b?rr> Elizabeth Citys First Flower Shop RYAN FLORAL CO. INC. 8 Sonth Hoad Street QUALITY FLOWERS ? QUALITY SERVICE 'IMione 312, Duytime Nifih: 'Phone 121 GO SOUTH WITH JOHN FOSTER JOHN B. FOHTRR. See The Big Leagues In Training For Next Summer's Games lias arranged lo send John B. Foster, famous IiukcIiiiII writer to all of the big league training ramps in Georgia, Alabama. Florida and Texas, lo write of what In sees there. There is no more impartial or criticul an observer than John II. Foster. IN'o one knows more ahout the present fitness or past performances of the stars of the big leagues. Nor is there a better judge of new raw material. John Foster believes in getting first hand information about tin- line-up of teams, the status of the veterans and the ehanees of the rookies. 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The Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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