New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-06
100 Druggists
Cited as Liquor
Law Violators
Fifty More To Be Called
Before Day, Who Will Ask
Revocation of Permits if
Illegal Sales Are Shown
Termed Corner Saloons
Opens War ON l2-Mile Rum
Fleet; Explosion of Still
Reveals Z in Operation

One hundred retail druggists IN New
York City were cited yesterday to ap-
pear before Ralph A. Day, Prohibition
Director, and Palmer Garfield, head of
the prohibition legal division, to show
cause why their basic liquor permits
should not be revoked. Fifty more ci-
tations are to follow. The charge in
all cases is that the druggists falsified
liquor permits calling for fourteen
cases or less, and that these were
passed on bonded warehouses.
The charges coyer multitude of
small shipments which have been COM
ing from distillery warehouses in
Maryland and Kentucky to New York
over a period of several months and
which have been causing the prohi-
bltlon departments no end of trouble.
Face Loss of Permits
Director Day said that if mis- legal
department found these druggists
guilty ne would recommend to Wash
lngton that the basic permit in each
case be revoked. This recommenda-
tlon is equivalent to revocation, as the
directors have never been overruled in
such cases. The cases are to be heard
two or three day beginning to-day.
"The places that i have cited are lit
tie more than corner Saloons" said
the director yesterday. "They have
sprung up for the most part since pro-
hibition, and at no time have thew
made enough legitimately to pay their
rent. I will make public the names
of the accused in these cases as fast
as their permits are revoked. And
these cases lead up to cases of certain
Wholesalers, who have not kept faith
with me-"
The director talked at length yester-
day regarding the situation in New
York City and of smuggling on the
Atlantic
II am going to shut down tight on
everything" he said. GAS for SNUG
glers, am going to break their necks
or break my own in trying. We will
begin conferences soon with represen-
tatives of the British government,
which is by treaty pledged to keep her
subjects from breaking our laws. Fif-
teen ships at least are outside our har-
Dor now, and we are going to resort
to drastic means to reach these snug
glers in one way or another and stop
their ignoring of the laws of the United
States"
The director said that the prohibi-
tion department would concentrate all
the force at it's command to break I'D
smuggling.
Seven Stills. In One Building
At 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning a
10-gallon still exploded in the cellar
of warehouse at 258 Forty-second
Street, Brooklyn, with detonation
that shook the block. The warehouse
is in an Italian neighborhood, and be-
lieving that bomb had been planted
the neighbors fed their homes in their
| night clothes. A large and excited
crowd congregated.
The explosion of the still served to
reveal that seven 10-gallon stills were
in operation in the building and that
it was by far the biggest plant yet un-
covered. Police say it supplied a large
bootleg traffic in Brooklyn and en-
virons.
Whoever was operating the still fled
at the time of the explosion and no one
was found on the premises. The police
swore out John Doe warrants and
seized large quantity of empty bar
rels, full barrels, machinery and mash.