New-York tribune., 1921-12-23
Dry and Sober
Day Forecast
For New Years
State Prohibition Director
Says Light Withdrawals
Fail to Uphold Reports
of Wet Holiday In City
Liquor Library ON Ship
Books Found To Be Rum,
Containers: Bad Fire
water'' Emptied Privately

TO all inquirers coming to him FOR
forecast on the probable conditions
prevailing in New York during the
holiday season, Ralph A. Day, prohihi-
ton director for tho state, said yes
terday that he had one prediction to
make that it will be dry and sober.
Mr.. Day said that he doubted very
much if there was enough liquor in
town to make really wet New Years.
iugton saying that bootleggers were
going TO inundate the country with
moonshino and smuggled whisky, to
make New Years day the wettest on
record. Mr.. Day said he was sceptical
about that report too. Withdrawals
had been light, he said, and there had
been few requests for permission to
bring in new stocks.
Liquor Found on Freighter
The customs men are continuing to
make close inspections for rum SNUG
Cling. A liquor library, all the reading
matter of which was wet, was dis
covered and seized on beard the
frcighter Hoboken yesterday as she
lay in the East River.
Below decks, in the library, customs
inspectors opened q book and looked
inside. instead OF poetry, they found \
flask Of liquor. The book was hollow
and contained nothing else. Several
dozen pint TASKS were thus disguised.
They we're eontiscatcd.
From the number of bottles and
labels confiscated on the steamer Pa
lern,o, at Pier 81, customs men said
yesterday that they believed much
liquor finding its way ashore here Is
made on board the vessels during the
voyage
Louis Marshall, president of the
American Jewish Committee, wrote
yesterday to Commissioner of Internal
\n abolishing abuses that have oc-
Cured as a result OF the distribution
of wine for sacramental purposes.
CAS- one interested in the strict OBJ
servanco Of the law" Mr.. Marshall
says, land III maintaining the respect
due to religion, / strongly urge you to
take immediate steps to prevent de-
signing men from indulging with i'm
punity in a violation Of the terms Of
the Eighteenth Amendment and the
provisions of the Volstead law"
Two Agents Reinstated
Director Day reinstated yesterday
two agents who were in the seven dis
missed on December /. Re-examins-
tion of the cases Of the two had con-
vinced him, Mr.. Day said, that they
were not guilty or Irregularities.
A food of bad liquor poured down the
drain of the Knickerbocker Storage
Warehouse yesterday morning as John
s. Parsons. chief state enforcement
officer; William S. Bogart, chief of the
legal department, and Agent Thomas
j. Keenan,, emptied seized barrels and
bottles that have been held by the
government since September OF
whisky there were three barrels, three
barrels of filed bottles, two tive-gal-
ian cans and two cases; eight ten
gallon kegs Of gin, twenty-five cases
Of assorted liquors, twenty cases or
rock-andrye and seventy-six cases of
beer. A special order from Washing
ton, Mr.. Parsons said, prevented the
public from witnessing the destruc-
tion.
Izzy Einstein, with his faithful sup
porter, Moe Smith, charmed six rounds
Of whisky out Of six establishments
yesterday and left six pairs of sum-
monses in return. Three of the places
were in the Bronx and three in Man
haitian.
In the afternoon eight quarts of