The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-25
BOOZE SEIZED IN
VISITORS GRIPS
Dry Agents Confiscate Liquor
Struggled Into City for
Thanksgiving.
MAKE RAIDS AT STATIONS
Rail and Express Offices Are
Searched for Suspicious
Looking Baggage.

Thanksgiving booze - those jeal-
ously guarded bottles OF really good
stuff that were put away under lock
and key to be packed carefully into
suit cases one day this week-was not
forgotten by the prohibition agents.
For two or three days past they have
looked with suspicion upon bags that
seemed unusually heavy. SIX suit
cases and three trunks they reported
yesterday were seized at the Pennsyl-
vania Station. In all of them the
agents found whiskey that was worthy
Of other days.
In the baggage rooms and express
offices the enforcement officers had an
eye for bags that listed to starboard.
and trunks that seemed to have some
thing peculiar about their construc-
ton. Among the 800 or more trunks
that have been seized recently under
suspicion of containing liquor many
of them have been found with copper
Innings.
According to Supervising Enforcement
Agent Boyd. his men have orders not to
Inconvenience the travelling public un-
necessarily. They are supposed to use
discretion. But the reckless traveller
who announced cheerily to n friend that
he had ''some thing slowed away In there
that will make Thanksgiving what
Thanksgiving ought to be" now wishes
he had watched his step"
New measures have been adopted by
Charles r O'Connor. Federal prohibi-
ton director for this district in an effort
to prevent any leaks from occurring In
the consignment of liquor for which
permits have been granted. The new
plan brings the enforcing arm OF the
Federal prohibition office. which Is
charged with the police work In the
administration OF the Volstead act, into
closer cooperation with Mr.. O'Connors
office. From now on the office of tha
Supervising Enforcement Agent will re-
ceive each day from Mr.. O'Connor list
of all Withdrawals OF alcohol and liquor
| n order that the enforcement department
may follow each consignment and sec
that none Is diverted for beverage pur-
poses.
Mr.. O'Connor in announcing the new
plan stated there was no foundation to
reports which intimated that there WIS
growing friction between the two pro-
hibitIon departments This office AMI
Federal Supervising Agent Boyd's Of
flee" he said. ARE cooperating In COM
plete harmony and using every endeavor
to see TO II that the amount of liquor
diverted to beverage purposes is 4
minimum"
Mr. O'Connor said forging OF permits
still continues. although it has beer
| eradicated TO n considerable extent. Re-
Gently attempts were made to secure
| liquor valued at about $4,000 through
the use not only of forged permits but
also of faxed kilograms OF confirmation
purporting to have been sent from the
| Prohibition Directors Office here 20 the
| office in Pittsburg where the liquor
was consigned.
Brooklyn. too. has new system In
prohibition enforcement. The twenty
six agents whose Job II Is TO Keep
Brooklyn dry have been arranged In
six squads instead of one loose organ
ization. To save time the men will take
their prisoners to the nearest police sta
ton Instead OF to the Federal Building
Bail will be fxed by arrangement be-
tween a United States Commissioner
and a desk lieutenant pending hear
ings.