New-York tribune., 1921-04-14
Wine Unlimited
For Patients il
Doctor Orders
100 Gallons Every 3 Months
I! Sufficient for Druggists,
However, Says O'Connor,
/ Explaining Revised Rule
Police Captures Dwindle
Bag of so Includes Home
Raid, Where, 1t Is Said, No
Warrant Was Obtained

Under q new Interpretation Of the
Volstead act ruling made by "A.
Mitchell Palmer just before he arr
rendered the Office of Attorney Gen
erai, wine may be prescribed by physi-
clans rs freely as their consciences
will permit. If the doctor is willing
his patients may convalesce on. any
thing from champagne to table claret.
depending on the stock of the corner
druggist.
This information, given to O parched
municipality N an announcement by
Prohibition Director Charles II. O'Con-
noE, was the only point that developed
yeste rday to Offset the work OF First
Deputy Police Commissioner Leach's
army seeking to make the town zero
proof in alcohol.
(, Mr.. O'Connor said the ruling was
understood to mean that physicians
scribing wine for their patients. The
enforcement officials previously had
fixed the amount at one pint every ten
days. The new ruling, in fact Is un-
derstood to be ar "overruling" from
Washington.
Cautions NJ. DIS Not to Overdo
"The physician should use extraordi-
nary care not to abuse this right, |"
cautioned Mr.. O'Connor. He added
that he believed 100 gallons Of wine
every three months should be suffi-
.cient for 90 per cent of the druggists.
Only fifty arrests were made by the
police yesterday of supposed violators
Of the Mullan-Gage law. This did not
indicate lessening of vigilance, ac-
ccrding to Commissioner Leach. He
al ~
that bootleggcrs were frightened and
patrons scarce.
q The police stopped hundreds of per-
sons carrying packages or suitcascs
and demanded peek at the contents.
Som etimes they saw collection Of
rurnpled clothes, and now and then a
bundle Of sandwiches. In a few in
stances they found liquor.
Patrolman McNeice halted man in
Suffolk Street, who was bent nearly
double beneath the weight Of burlap
sack slung over his shoulder.
g whats that?" demanded the police
man.
vegetables" said Max Stein, thirty
two years old, of 3S4 Cherry Street.
i, The patrolman poked the sack with
his club and heard clink of glass. At
the Clinton Street police station Stein
was locked up, charged with transport
ing alcohol in violation of the state
htohibition laws.
iss Woman's Home Raided
4 The police extended their activities
into homes, and in one case, it 'Tas
said, their invasion was not sanctioned
by a warrant. Neighbors had com
planned that Mrs. Jennie Meress, thirty-
seven years old, of 470 East. 10th
Street, had larger stock than any one
else on the block.
According to Sergeant John Butler,
of the East 126th Street police station,
who conducted the raid on Mrs.
Meress's apartment, his men found a
barrel of alcohol and sevznty-two bot
Ties of unidentified liquor. This was
seized and Mrs. Meress was taken to
the Harlem court, where Magistrate
Thomas j. Nolan held, her in $500 bail
for action by the grand jury.
4 Mrs. Meress waived examination. She
commented to the extent of blaming
her arrest upon >Gealous neighbors."
q, 4 "ortment house at 528 West
l11th Street, block from the Cathc-
dral of st. John the Divine, was found
to shelter an elaborate distilling ap.
paratus when the police called.
Detectives Gilbert and Carlin, of the
chief inspectors staff, who conducted
the search, arrested Charles Hoffman