The New York herald., 1921-07-02
HART DROPS SIX MEN
IN DRY GRAFT PROBE.
Some Office Clerks and
Field Inspectors Under
Fire i'm Withdrawals.
GLYNN CHARGE UPHELD
u. S. Attorney Gets Facts.
and Data for Prosecution
of Accused Persons.
OLD LEAKS TIGHTENING
Federal Director Here Has Full
Power i'm Release of All
Liquor.
GLYNN CHARGE UPHELD
OLD LEAKS TIGHTENING

VNti III vi AL
Liquor.
The charge made last Tuesday by
George A. Glynn, chairman of the
Republican State Committee. that
millions of dollars of graft were being
collected through a traffic in permits
for the Withdrawal OF liquors from
bond. was borne out yesterday in the
Office of Harold l.. Hart. Federal Di-
rector OF Prohibition for this district.
when six of the attaches of the Office
resigned at Mr.. Harris request fol-
been in progress FOR several weeks.
OF the employees who have been
forced out part were on duty in the
Office and the others were field in
spectors. Their names are withheld
but their being dropped from their
places will not end the matter. for
their names and the evidence against
them will be turned over TO United
States Attorney Hayward.
When the announcement was made
that they had been dropped 1t was
s4ated that Mr.. Hart had only begun an
investigation into practices in and out
of his cepsIrrcnt which he had planned
when ne frsl ,Cok office several weeks
ago. and that more names OF Govern
ment employees were likely TO be in
volved before the investigation was con-
ciuded. When the investigation is fully
over. it was explained, the names Of all
persons believed guilty of criminality
and all facts that have been unearthed
against them. whether the men are at
tached to the prohibition enforcement
bureau here or not. will be transmitted
to the Department OF Justice.
Big Houseclenning Started.
Mr.. Hart whose home is in Bingham
ton. n. Y. went there last night just
after II was announced that the most
thorough kind OF a housecleaning had
been begun in his offioe. But MIR.
Glynn. when told OF what had occurred,
said that he had known 1t was coming
and had been in communication during
the day with the office of the National
Director of Prohibition in Washington.
When Mr.. Glynn made his original
charge that millions in graft were bsing
made in the manipulation Of withdrawal
permits II was still the practice for cer-
tain permits to be issued in Washington
for Withdrawals from warehouses In this
district without any notice TO Mr.. Hart
or his predecessors in office. This prac-
tice. Mr.. Glynn said, is to be stopped at
once.
As a last word In yesterdays happen
ings in Mr.. Harts office II was explained
that what had occurred had nothing to
do with a change in administration. but
had been brought about entirely as the
result of the investigation Mr.. Hart
made up his mind to begin as soon as he
was appointed to the office ne holds.
What had been a continuous leak of
liquor between this borough and Queens
was stopped last night when detectives
working under orders OF Inspector
Ryan. who is in charge of all Queens
police, raided the establishment. OF
drug concern in East 127th street and
took possession Of fluids and containers
inventoried by them as follows:
Three gallon containers OF grain al
cohol. OF the same size containers
of gin, go bottles of gin. s gallons OF
alcohol, one 5 gallon demijohn OF whis-
key, one five gallon metal container
OF whiskey. a 80 gallon barrel OF alco-
large box of labels marked Gordon Gin.
Man Arrested After Seizure.
When they seized the evidence they
also arrested Alexander Friedman and
took him to the East 126th street sta
ton, where they charged him with hav-
ing had the goods In his possession.
He furnished $500 bail and was let out.
The arrest and seizure were made by
Detectives Lutz and Ungerzagt OF In
spector Ryans staff and followed a
weeks work devoted to running down a
tip first obtained from a man in Long
Island City 1t had been known that
considerable liquor was going over
Queensboro Bridge from Harlem. and
the detectives learned that to get any
of the LIQUOR they must ring UP a GER
tain number and tell the man at the
other end that This is Tom" They did
so and ordered case OF gin sent to an
address In Astoria yesterday morning.
II arrived in two hours. fetched by
three young men who when arrested
gave their names as George Marshall.
Charles Harris and Hyman Cohen.
The Extraordinary Grand Jury sworn
In last month to consider prohibition vio-
lations was discharged yesterday In the
Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court
after having given its attention to 42e
cases and finding los indictments In
it's last week the jury dismissed 46 COM
plants and found indictments In the
same week in court 10 defendants were
convicted Is pleaded guilty and were
acquitted
The Brooklyn Grand Jury which has
been listening TO liquor cases handed up
yesterday a presentment making sharp
criticism OF the methods the police have
been employing in getting evidence
against violators. I'VE believe" the pre-
sentiment set forth. that the so-called
inspection tours by the police have been
inImlcal TO the personal freedom OF the
people and make a precedent which II
condoned might lead to a system OF
espionage"
In the Federal Court in Brooklyn. on
the other hand, injunction proceedings
we're begun against the owners OF seven
buildings In which saloons used TO be
and the proprietors or barkeepers Of
which have been found guilty of Viola
tlon OF prohibition laws In instituting
the proceedings. Lerov w. Ross. United
states Attorney, declared II made no
difference whether the convicted mon
had disobeyed the yolstead or the Null
lan-Gage laws or both
DIR. John II. Temple. preside mt Of the
Chemists Club and chairman Of the New
York section Of the American Chemical
Society. sent letters to the various mem-
bers OF the Judiciary Committee OF the
United States Senate ycster day protest