NEVER FEAR NEW YORKERS...NEW YEAR'S EVE RAIDS ON SCHEDULE
New York City (JFK+50) On December 28, 1924, The Sunday Star reports that R.Q. Merrick*, prohibition divisional chief for northern New York and northern New Jersey, says the New Year's Eve raids will be "bigger and better than ever" this year.
Chief Merrick describes New Jersey as "almost impossible to dry up," but the people of New York City will be "greatly disappointed" if we don't conduct the customary raids on New Year's Eve.
*R. Q. Merrick was prohibition administrator of Virginia, South Carolina & North Carolina in 1929. At that time he supervised 80 prohibition enforcement agents but claimed that it would take up to 4000 to stop liquor traffic.
SOURCE
"Bigger and Better Raids Promised New Year Eve," The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., December 28, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
