Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-18
CROSSAN HERE TO
ORGANIZE FORCES
Supervising Federal Prohibition
Agent Plans 10 Perfect Coop /.
cratlon WITH Local Offs ais.

l.a Cr,~~an ot scranton H.
>upcr,i~iue l,,i,ra5 prohibition agent
ior the Sla;,-> 81 FcrIr ivauil New
JerScy and Delaware. wa~ hcrc Yesterday
on h.S tour 81 collectors NJ tlc Internal
Rcven..e Dcpartmc, .ta perfect co-on-
,r.4tle14 ~ collector Graham Iie had
4 conference alSc With | ) District
Attrru,s Curicl Later b the after
noon hr v~ ted tho Custom House ana
attended mcriac of thr Federal pre-
hai.au force quartc-o9 there
lie saws tbs tlrSt Sfrn WIi' bc to get
+, close acquaintance With THE >.N col
'.etor> ~ eg~ il lis jurisdiction one
IS prlaWart two E Nrn .'or~oy and three
IS P,ru~t I,afsa lie returned - P'fla-
Gelu1s4 t..~,f.. t.c1u> f with Co'icc;u-
IpLrau II. ...t.r todas. ul lraVr latter
IS he aas III " Na~mnCt q for confer
,aec tomorrow With \attaua Prohibition
comm ~Slauor faan kramer
la = gen IS. 0aE super, ~or Cro>>a7
NJ ts.1r charge 3. icrr,trg out 81 li-
Z .utas down tHe 4oau,hmcr- boot
aesr-. aad tas detecting 81 sa!os. or
ri aeinc for eale ii guar> containing
IS muu a- eue-Aai 81 one pcr cent ot
Supervisor & ro--.n VI return 10 the
c's ast.r tat appointment q tao safe
= rector Who VII haye ohargc of the
,slacattona Utrs. and thc uSg Q. aquoT
iar manufacturing and III, ,ilcnal pur-
poses lie v4l inspect Tire records Of
physician, and druggists and report to
Dstrct Supervisor rl~~9u One OF hls
chIef du,lcs viii b, IL secure the assistance
of a!l State o.iicers and tic support Of
ciy1c. moral and religious bodies Tie
director vii also nave responsibility for
sanatorums for 'he treatment nf persons
suffering from alcoholism. and for the
husIucSe o. those WHO manufacture, m
port or sell VINE Tor sacTamentai pur-
poses
The duty Of knowing tic conditions in
the state i 10 res upon The Federal pro-
hbltlon director WiIie the supervising
agent are H. MAX, independent iuvc>ti-
CATION concerning Nloialor~ Il thc pro'dbl-
ton law cooperating with directors and
local authorize
The agCreSsive work q Federal enforce
mCnt VII be under The supervisors who
VII have charge Cl lie tivng squadron.
Mr.. rossau !, about i0rfN wears OF
age and q gradual. Of ur3Lam ollepe,
Ncw AorA, aud spau leaving college, he
became Il professional haa PLAYER and
made quite q reputation a- q baseball
pitcher al tAc Newark 81 j mne He
went witt the Cleveland te4m Of the
National IAaguc bl, ar accident TO his
arm forced III, retirement from the
game I0r ogat wear, hc was chief
clerk ID the o1.c, 81 the recorder % deed,
~ LarkaUauaa county at Scranton.
IL 1911 he entered the internal revenue
service. IN tic of'lce % the internal revenue
collector II Scranton and was promoted
. the p,.ltion II ca-mcr Tic was later
transferred to tile agents force III Phila-
delphla and I.as done considerable work
on the Canadian border II ~uppressIug
the smuggling pt Qr lg~ ira,u that cOun-
Try
Alr Cro--4r h.- 4 i'd record III the
department and va l.tN successful IN
tho drtec'4vt work n MANY important
narcotic ra~e- and he obtained valuable
results II tic narcotic division OWING ID
ms high cthacurl SAID Collector Ora
ham