The New York herald., 1921-03-02
RUM RAIDERS READY
FOR ANOTHER DRIVE
Imported Dry Agents to Re-
sumo Activities Here To-
day or Tomorrow.

Under present plans the seventy-flve
| or more prohibition agents from Boston
I and other New England points VIII re-
sumo activities in Manhattan late TINS
1 afternoon or tomorrow morning and
will serve no fewer than one hundred
search warrants issued last week oy
Federal Judge John G. Knox on evil
I dence collected during the last two
weeks.
! More than forty alleged violators Of
l the volstead act arrested in the raids OF
Saturday along Broadway and vicinity
were released yesterday in either $500 or
1000 bail by United States Commis-
sioner Samuel NJ. Hitchcock.
Among those released in $1,000 bail
was Jim Delopotes, waiter in Thomas
Healeys Golden Glades, who was
charged with selling a drink of whiskey
to Agent Samuel Beresneck of Boston
on February 5. No complaint was made
against Mr.. Healy, despite published re-
ports to the contrary. Hearings in all
the cases were set for March IA.
report that Dan j. Chaplin, CHIEF
prohibition enforcement agent for this
district, was to be transferred to his old
JOB in Chicago as an income tax expert
in the Internal Revenue Department
could not be confirmed last night. Mr..
Chaplin, who refused to make any COM
ment. has remained here for some
weeks longer than was expected, at the
earnest request of Federal Prohibition
Commissioner Kramer in Washington.
/ Succession of Chief Agents.
Since nationwide prohibition went into
effect on January 16. 1920, there have
been four chief prohibition enforcement
agents assigned TO the New York dis
trict.
James s. Shevlin. for number of
years a revenue officer and a native of
New York. was the first incumbent, and
lasted until the middle of last August,
when he was transferred to the Texas
border to stop the smuggling of liquor
from Mexico. He resigned a few weeks
ago.
Shevlin was succeeded by Frank l..
Boyd. who came from Washington,
where he was head of the income tax
agents for the entire country. He re-
! turned to Washington in November and
was succeeded for a month By Knox b.
Phagan. youthful revenue officer from
4 Tennessee
I Then came the present Mr.. Chaplin.
who since his arrival has discharged
more Il than fifty enforcement agents for
reasons best known to himself. Chaplin
1 Is a Republican and is said to be a
candidate for the office of Commissioner
of Internal Revenue at Washington.
John Murphy. who has been an as
sistant TO Mr. Chaplin. severed his con-
necton last night with the prohibition
enforcement office Mr. Chaplin declined
to reveal the place to which Mr.. Murphy
had been transferred.
Woman Sent to Prison.
Mrs, Helena Van Niewv anbarg was
sentenced TO fifteen days Imprisonment
4 by Federal Judge Garvin in Brooklyn
\ yesterday after a jury had convicted
her OF selling whiskey and maintaining
\ a nuisance at Richmond road and Lin
coin avenue, Richmond.
The trial was the second the defendant
! had TO undergo in two days On Mon
day. after hearing all the facts, jury
deliberated for three hours and dis
/ agreed The same facts were given TO
another Jury yesterday and a verdict of
guilty was returned in half hour. Mrs.
\ Van Niewvenberg and her husband con-
4 duct a hotel
The husband was arrested last satur-
/ day His case is pending.
/ The large number of children who
I play In East li5th street near Second
T avenue. which Is Harem's Little italy
moved suddenly and vociferously away
4 from the house at s42 East 1i5th street
I last night Immediately following the
sound OF n heavy explosion and the
crash OF broken windows from the base
ment Many fathers and mothers and
other folks also sprang toward the op.
posite curb A minute later smoke be
gan seeping up from the basement and
some one turned in an alarm OF FIRE.
!. patrolman McDade investigated and
found a still. full blown, II might b.
said, Ave barrels of mash. a quarter oi
a barrel Of spirits and a quantity d
sugar The fire. believed TO have started
from spontaneous combustion. was pu
out quickly.
Michael Razzozan, questioned a
length, was said to have admitted leas
ing the basement to Louis Compisso
who. he believed lived in Brooklyn. Th'
Federal authorities were notified ant
will. according to police expectations
reprove Compisso for going away ant
leaving the stiil in volcanic state.