The Huntsville Daily Times, published in Huntsville, AL October 30 1919 Page/Column: Page 1, Column 4 REVENUE MEN MAKE 9 RAIDS AND 20 ARRESTS --------------------------- By the Associated Press New York, N. Y., Oct. 30 – Constitutionality of the Volstead prohibition enforcement act as it applies to war-time prohibition is attached in a suit which counsel for New York brewers and restaurant men were preparing today for filing in the federal court. The petition will ask that the agents of the government be restrained from enforcing the act. Similar suits, it was stated, will be brought in various other states. The decision to attack the constitutionality of the measure was reached at a conference of brewing and restaurant interests last night, which convened at about the same hour that the effectiveness of the Volstead law begin to be felt in a series of spectacular raids by internal revenue agents in the course of which two men were shot. There were nine raids during the evening and twenty arrests. Revenue agents visited the scores of the other saloons, but found no evidence that they were not complying with the law. The shooting occurred in connection with a raid on a café in West Forty-Second Street near Eighth Avenue, and known in the old days of the tenderloin as “the red mill.” The revenue agents declined to discuss the shooting which the spectators said was done by one or more of the agents. Colonel Daniel PORTER, supervising internal revenue agent for the New York district, who has charge of the liquor enforcement campaign here, declared that his six hundred men would wage a steady drive until the sale of anything stronger than “half of one per cent” has been stopped. http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=91489