Sleuths 'Do Drop In' : Hill City, Police Raid Nite Spot

BLACK BUZZ NEWS SERVICE
The Robinson & Saunders Archives
The Pittsburgh Courier Archives
The James S. Robinson Jr. Project
August 24, 2011
Pittsburgh PA.

The above titled article appeared in The Pittsburgh Courier on Saturday January 20, 1945. This article is part of the James S. Robinson Jr. Project. Mr. Robinson was the second person of color in the United States to receive the coveted and highly acclaimed American Legion Honor School Award in 1925 while attending the famous Watt Street School which is now Robert L. Vann Elementary school located in the Hill District of Pittsburgh Pa. The James S. Robinson Jr. Project is about the life, accomplishments, achievements, trials, tribulations of Mr. Robinson, and the impact of his actions on the Hill District of Pittsburgh, the City of Pittsburgh, Butler PA, and the United States of America.

HILL CITY, POLICE RAID NITE SPOT
Following up numerous complaints in the Hill City Friendly Service Bureau from parents that their teenage children were frequenting the Do- Drop Inn at 74 Fullerton Street during the wee hours of the morning, City Detective Voyle Parker and John Thompson took the advice on the window of the establishment and "did drop in"at 2:45 a.m., just after the Sabbath was over this week.
The juveniles apparently had noticed the Hill City representatives nosing about the place and eased out just before the detectives arrived, Hill City Director James S. Robinson told Magistrate McDiarmid at the hearing in Morals Court Monday morning. Only two juveniles were caught in the raid which nettled 50 men and nine women adults. A large crowd of youngsters stood across the street and watched police raid the resort, Robinson said.
Two pregnant girls barely over the adult age limit and several servicemen were arrested. A quantity of beer was said to have been confiscated by detectives.
At the hearing before Magistrate McDiarmid in Morals Court, the alleged proprietors James Copening, 45, 74 Fullerton Street and Thomas Miller, 33 Colwell street were held for Court on charges of keeping a disorderly house. The 59 visitors were fined $ 5 or ten days in jail.