The New York herald., 1922-02-10
ANDERSON TO HELP
DAY FIND CHIEF AID
Government Must Be Respon-
sible if 1t Selects Any Name
Submitted.
CATROW PAPERS SERVED
Bronx Booze Graft Probe Re-
yeals Policemen as Busy
Bootleggers.
CATROW PAPERS SERVED

William II. Anderson. State superin-
tendent of the Anti-Saloon League, re-
Piled yesterday to the letter in which
Ralph A. Day, prohibition director. re-
quested him to recommend competent
and trustworthy man to fill the vacant
post of Assistant Director. Mr.. Ander-
son made it plain that the league Is
not willing to abandon its policy of
detachment in the matter of appoint
ments or elections to public office.
He assured the Director that he would
be glad to be of assistance, but that
any names the league might suggest
would not include those OF any persons
now in it's employ, and that all respon-
sibility for the selection must rest with
Mr.. Day and the Government.
These provisions, of course. exclude
any possibility of Mr.. Anderson himself
accepting the place. Mr.. Day told re-
porters he would be glad to have Mr.,
Anderson for his assistant, but he made
the dry superintendent no offer of the
place.
'Tf we can learn Of any qualified per-
Mr.. Anderson, respecting whom we
know. or can learn sufficient facts to
Justify confidence, we Will cheerfully
transmit to you all the information in
our possession respecting such persons
in order that you may consider them
on their merits, in connection with any
others YOU may have in mind. and make
an appointment on the basis of your
own judgment, it beipg understood tha'
IL any person among vhose so suggested
in case any such are found ana sug-
gested. is appointed, his responsibility
is solely to you and the Government ana
not in any respect to us, ana ms tenure
dependent entirely upon your Judgment
based upon his performance OF his
duties. and not in any respect upon our
wish or judgment"
Mr.. Day announced yesterday that ne
had been served with a summons IN IN ?
100000 suit for slandcf being brought
against him by Col. II. G. Catrow.
former Assistant Director. . 1t was
learn ed that the Director was witness
before the Federal Grand Jury yester-
day in it's investigation of the facts IN
connection with Col. Catrow's dis
| missal.
In the course of the Bronx County
Grand Jurry's investigation of charges
of grating brought against the police
| by Bronx saloon kespers 1t was learned
yesterday that District Attorney Glen
non has been informed that some police :
men made a practice OF selling back to
| the saloon men the liquor seized in tn cir
places of business. If a half dozen
cases of whisky we're confischted in a
raid sometimes only one or two quarts
would be taken to the station house.
The rest was taken to a private cache,
and the saloon men were then ap-
preached by policemen who offered 10
sell them liquor at current bootleg
prices. The whisky would be bougnt
on the understanding that the police
keep their hands Off"
District Attorney Gfennon obtained
the names of two police officers who
are said to have sold fifty gallons of
whisky n week in the district to which
they were assigned. The investigation
was suspended yesterday because of the
funeral of Arthur Murphy, Tammany
leader of The Bronx.
Two more wood alcohol deaths were
reported yesterday. one in Jersey City
and the other in West New York. Dura
Franklin of Bayonne died IN the Jersey
City Hospital. Thomas Henry. con-
tractor living at $40 Broadway, West
New York. was taken i'll early yester-
day and died shortly before noon in the
North Hudson Hospital at Weehaw-
ken.