New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-01-14
Assistant u. S. Attorney
to Replace Catrow in
Days Office ir War on
Use of Forged Permits
zen More Agents
To Be Dismissed
BARRIERS Supply Makers
Under Inquiry Over
Beverages Fatal to Many

Fcter !. Mccoy, Assistant United
States Attorney, was assigned yester-
day to the Office Of Ralph A Day, Fed
cral prohibition director. as the first
Step in plans which arc being devised
s. prevent the withdrawal of liquor on
forged permits.
Temporarily Mr.. Mccoy will be assis
tsut Federal prohibition director, taking
tho mace Of Herbert G. Catrow. whom
Director Day removed from office. He
>y,ll faMii.arl1o himself with the liquor
procedure Withdrawal and use his in
Aeauitv TO prevent forged permits from
gong through.
Al previous efforts in this direction
ave failed. Tremendouss quantities of
auor have been withdrawn fraudu-
atiy, frequently, it Is thought. with
- connivance OF employees of the
ncs. Further methods to prevent the
,clrrerce Of the practice arc being
~ .dered.
Mere Agents Must 60
director Day said that eight or ten
.7n.s and clerks in his Office would
d, removed within Il few days and that
{ Sthing was Serene -Four special
agents from Washington are said to
lave arrived during the day to nvesti-
..te the release OF $4,000 cases of
n sky on forged permits during De
,er Der.
When The post of Assistant Fed
elel Prohibition Director has been
filed permanently Mr.. Mccoy will re
rsin III the Office as personal counsel
Us IS assistant yesterday. The fol
.g-
lNg his ASST ignment;
edera Prohibition Director Ralph
Day has asked and received per
"a SION from Attorney General Harry
y. Daueherty for Assistant United
safes Attorney Peter J. Mccoy to
50 ID part OF all his time at the Office
Q the Federal Prohibition Director.
.he United States Attorney. William
Hayward, has assigned Mr.. Mccoy to
Nr. Days Office
Investigations which the enforce
nisnt authorities have been conduct
i0S in,o the manufacture Of BARRIERS
supplies have caused them to suspect
eaat some of. the beverages which have
hean EillingEippl lers may be made from
d deaatured alcohol stored apparently
- the BARRIERS supply trade.
Denatured Alcohol Seized
'ney resolved, therefore, to enforce
IT, law strictly in the cases Of all
i'as using denatured alcohol for the
n anaiacture Of BARRIERS supplies and
> pursuance of this policy seized al
n I -o.oooo gallons which tho Oriental
ifoeuete Company had stored at 272
. -roiMer Street, Brooklyn. 1t is al
that the amount was about
) .HpN gallons in excess of what the
nm legally was entitled to store.
he basic permit and license of the
company, Director Day said, had been
r he'd on the ground of excessive
'hdrawals. Several other concerns
a. and to have lost their basic per-
nii en- similar grounds.
fe hundred and eighteen cases of
Ngsd improper ownership or DISPOSE
uon - liquor now pending in the courts
hay be settled, it is said, by the ap-
ro.ntment Of referee Two of the
~ ndants applied yesterday for resto-
a'i"n of their property, alleging it had
'rN seized without warrant.
lHo Appellate Division Of the Su-
'eme Court decided that the police
Nes'ded their authority in seizirg
ofl> slX barrels of wine at 2l New
'eMoeis Street, June %, 1921, and
" -ared the wine restored to its owner,
= aNuel Ritsas
'sncis Z. Mason, of 709 Sixth Ave
vas arrested last night charged
IA trying to obtain liquor on forged
crlption at drugstore at Seventy
'""r'a street and Amsterdam Avenue.