New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
.l0Dry Agents !
Are Ousted
BY Yellowley
Laxity Or Acceptance Of
Cratuities Charged; En-
forcement Chief Hints
More Will Be Dropped

The heads of ten more prohibition
enforcement agents dropped yesterday
into the yawning basket in the office
of E. C. Yellowley, acting director of
the Federal anti-liquor forces in New
York. Twenty others had been de-
prived of their jobs in the few weeks
since Mr.. Yellowley took office, making
total Of thirty tried and found want
ing.
Yesterdays dismissals, Mr.. Yellowley
said, were for varying causes-general
! unsatisfactory service, making false re-
ports or accepting gratuities," which
is polite phrase they use in Twenty
seventh Street prohibition headquar-
ters for the shorter and uglicr graft"
"And you may say for me-" added
Mr.. Yellowley, looking severely over
the top of his spectacles, "that l am
not through yet. l will dismiss every
agent who fails to hit the ball when
hits are needed"
Revokes Eleven Permits
Mr.. Yellowley revoked yesterday the
permits of eleven manufacturers and
druggists deemed by him either to have
obtained the permits through irregu-
larites or to be making wrongful use
of them. This brings the total of SIM
liar revocations since Mr.. Yellow4ey
became active prohibition director for
New York State to 176.
R. @. Merritt. general prohibition
agent for South Carolina, will arrive
here to-day to take up the duties of
chief field officer, post made vacant
by che recent resignation of Ernest
Langley. He will serve until Novem-
ber /, by which time it is expected
Langley's successor will have been
named 1t was said last night that
William F.. Kissick, in charge of en-
forcement in the Brooklyn territory,
Merritt is being sent here by Federal
Director Haynes at Washington, at the
request of Mr.. Yellowley, who is famil-
lar with the Southerner's work against
moonshiners in the territory around
Greenville, where he has made his
headquarters.
Wagonload of Liquor Seized
Several of Yellowley's agents were in
noon when their attention was attract
ed to a horscdr avn wagon in which
four men we're riding. They Falted
the vehicle and Iound In it fifteen c"ses
of whisky, said to be the first lot IF a
shipment of 100 cases destined for an
address in East Fifteenth Street. At
the direction of one of the agents the
driver headed the wagon to enforce
ment headquarters. where he and his
companions were arrested. They SAID
they were Ernest Lavino, of 401 East
115th Street; Anthony Galucci, of 252
East 117th Street; Franguelo Consiglio,
of 1852 SC. Lawrence Avenue, the
Bronx, AID Louis Tango, of Newark
The liquor ard the horse and wagon
were confiacsted and the men held on
the charge of unlawfuliy transporting
intoxicants.
An arrest regarded by the Federal
authorities as important was made yes
terday afternoon when Charles j. Stein
berg, a lawyer, of $50 West End Ave-
nue., treasurer of the Reliance Dis
tributing Company, with Offices in
Broome Street, was taken into custody
in the Office of Hugh McQuillan, chief
Of the intelligence unit of the revenue
bureau in the Federal Building.
Arraigned before U. S. Commissioner
Hitchcock, Steinberg was released in
$4,000 bail for hearing on October 27,
on charges of having possessed and
concealed with intent to use fraudu-
lently liquor withdrawal permits stolen
two months ago from the Offices Of
H. L.. Hart, then Federal prohibition di-
rector. 1t is charged he tried to use
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