New-York tribune., 1921-12-18
Big Squad of Dry Agents
Raids Upstate Cities
Ossining, TarrytoWn and Nesc.
burgh Tisited; YelloioIey Re-
uie,cs His 4cfipities Here

Forty-two prohibition agents from
the New York Offices, armed with search
warrants raided yesterday in several
upstate, cities including Ossining, Tar
rytown and North Tarrytown. A large
amount of liquors was seized, and doz
ems of summonses were served. Stimuli
taneously NUMEROUS raids were made
In Manhattan and Brooklyn
Major Roy A. Haynes, Federal Pro-
hibitioff Commissioner, here from
Washington for conferences, assembled
the agents when they returned. There
were present Director Ralph A. Day,
R @. Merrick, chief enforcement Off
Ger; E. c. Yellowley, chief government:
agent, and John S. Parsons, chief en-
forcement officer. Major Haynes made
speech congratulating the raiders.
Don't ask me about drying up
Broadway" Major Haynes told re-
porters. ~ believe the cafe proprietor
will obey the law. If they don't, we
will get them. The prohibition depart.
ment, I hope, will be self supporting
this year. We are arranging to move
stored seizures to government ware
houses to save rentals
Mr.. Yellowley yesterday reviewed
the work since his arrival here. His
record includes:
Arrests, 713; seized liquors, 27,6S5
gallons; 1875 applications for permits
forwarded to Washington. I'll permits
issued to doctors, 2,525 applications for
renewal of permits of all kinds; with
drawals from September l to November
so, $4,000 gallons; Withdrawals for pre-
vious three months, 596,773 gallons.
Sixty agents and clerks have been re-
moved from the service.
Upstate raids yesterday included
al ,vsc
and opposite Ossining police head
qarters, and one other place in Ossin-
ing. In the Ossining raids seizures
amounted to 204 bottles of whisky and
twenty-five barrels of wine, the agents
say Four raids were made in Tarry-
town, the largest seizure being at the
Grand Central Hotel where the agents
say they found trunk and four
bundles of bottled liquor. Three places
were raided in Newburgh.
Agents who raided Charles Silkes's
drug store, at 804 Columbus Avenue,
Manhattan, report they were offered
$50 by drug clerk to ''forget it,
An injunction suit was filed in the
Federal District Court, Brooklyn, yes
terday by Pie Brothers, brewers,
to; restrain Director Ralph A. Day,
United States District Attorney Wal
lace, E. J. Collins and Collector Of
Internal Revenue John T. Rafferty,
from interfering with the manufacture
and sale of medicinal beer. The suit
is the second to attack the constitu-
tionality of the anti-medicinal beer
law. Arguments on the preliminary
orders will be heard by Federal Judge
Garvin December 21.
The first arrests on information said
to have come from the Navy Depart
ment in the investigation of the poison
ing Of sailors by bootleggers' products
resulted yesterday in the discovery Of
liquor said to contain alcohol, ether
and chloroform. The men arrested are
Pasquale Garosalo, proprietor of a
fruit store at "a Fulton Street, and
Edward Long, a restaurant keeper at
IL Columbia Heights.
Patrolnan James Gilligan, of the
West Sixty-eighth Street station,
standing yesterday afternoon ct Broad
way and Seventy-fourth Street, be-
lieved a man who stood short dis
tance away appeared to be taking too
much interest in an automobile which
stood at the curb.
4Gilligan sauntered over to the car
and found that the strangers interest
was not in the machine itself, but in
what it contained. In the tonneau he
found twenty-five one-gallon demi-
johns, all said to contain wine. The
man who had been standing near was
arrested on a charge of transferring
intoxicants withour a permit. He said
171st Street. and said the wine was for
sacramental purposes and was to have
been taken to a cellar at 1903 Amster-
dam Aypnue