New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-18
Four Dealers
Arrested as
Profiteers
Flying Squadron Snares
Eugene A. Sullivan in
Potato Deal; Packers
Brooklyn Manager Held

The flying squadron of the Depart
ment of Justice showed no tendency
yesterday to relax its vigilance because
OF the break in the ranks of the "out.
law" railroad strikers and the resump.
ton of coastwise shipping.
Three men were arrested in Manhat-
tan and one in Brooklyn for alleged
J violation of the Lever act.
Eugene A. Sullivan, reputed to be
the potato king of the West Side and
head Of Eugene A. Sullivan e. Co.. 63e
west Thirty-fourth Street, was arrest.
ed charged with profteering in pota.
Toes lie was arraigned before United
states Commissioner Samuel Hitchcock
ana paroled in the custody of his at
torney until tomorrow. when he will
furnish $1,000 bail.
The complaint, sworn to bv Thoma q
"A: smith, an agent of the Department
OF Justice, charges that on April 8
Sullivan e. Co. sold to the New York
and New Jersey Produce COMPANY,
Inc, 601 West Twenty sixth Street
10000 pounds of potatoes for S6.75 a
hundred pounds. He stated that Sulli-
van purchased the potatoes for SAILS
a hundred pounds.
~ IIle same tlme government agents
arrested John Flemmins, vice president
OF the New York and New Jersey Prod
uce Company, and Henry H. Schultz,
its general manager, also on a charge
of profiteering.
1t is alleged in the complaint against
these two men, that on April II they
resold the potatoes. which they had
bought from Sullivan & Co. for 1880
Tor l8O pounds. Both men waived ex-
animation when arraigned before
Commissioner Hitchcock and were
paroled until Monday to furnish 81 .0O0
bond each.
The fourth arrest was in the Office
OF United States Attorney Leroy w.
Ross, in Brooklyn. Louis Joseph,
manager OF the Manhattan slaughter r
house of Wilson & Co., Chicago meat
packers, was taken there on warrant
issued by United States Commissioner
James II. McCabe, for alleged profit
cering in meat
solomon Straussburger butcher, 70
Fifth Avenue, was the complainant in
this case. HE said that Wilson & Co.
charged him 33 cents a pound for beef
last Tuesday afternoon, when the same
company had offered it to him that
morning for 30 cents pound.
The government contends that a few
days before that the price of the meat
IN question was 261. cents pound,
and maintains that the strike had not
had time to affect the price and was
used only as preteXt to boost it.
Joseph was held in $4,000 bail for
examination.
In papers filed yesterday in the
Federal Court, United States Attorney
Frances G. Caffey asked for the at
tachment, condemnation and forfeiture
o. six and one half tons of sugar al
legged to be boarded.
r. A man named Gottlieb, Is Jackson
Street, is said to have 10000 pounds
OF this sugar. The rest of it, described
as sixteen cartons of fifty pounds each,
Joseph Bloomberg, a dealer in eggs at
254 Monroe Street.
The Federal Court made the notices
so.
Poultry dealers called on Armin w.
Riley, head of the Flying Squadron,
yeste erday. and told him they had live
poultry, in cars which were at the
railroad yards of the Erie at Wee
hawken and the Lackawanna at Ho-
boken, but that they could not get
their consignments because of the
Riley notified the Jersey police and
sent men from his department to stay
with the trucks and see that they
reached their destinations safely.
There were fourteen carloads of poul-
try, and they were reported last night
to have been safely unloaded and their
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