New-York tribune., 1922-10-17
|E. C. Yellowley
Succeeds Day as
State Dry Chief
Prohibition Field Force
Head, Who Preceded In
cumbeni in Charge of N.
Y. Office, Returns Nov. 1
Paradise Case Up Again
Attorneys Protest Closing Of
Entire Building Under
Recent Nuisance Order

E. G. Yellowley. chief Of the general
prohibition field force in Washington
and well known in New York. where he
preceded Ralph A. Day as New York
State Prohibition Director. will again
assume the duties Of that office on
November 1. On that date MIR. Days
resignation, rendered to Washington a
month ago, becomes effective.
1t has been generally known in New
York for some weeks that Mr.. Yellowley
would resume the direction of the pro-
hibition department here, but confirma-
fion did not come from Washington
until yesterday. Mr.. Day said:
AS am in receipt of no official in
formation from Commissioner Roy A.
Haynes relative to the appointment of
Mr.. Yellowley, am not in position to
affirm or deny the report"
Washington dispatch confirming
the appointment of Mr.. Ycllowley said
that he would be succeeded in Wash
ington by Colonel L. G.. Mutt, who is
one of the most experienced men in
the government service
Will Continue Policies
When we were confronted with the
problem of successor to Mr.. Day,"
said Commissioner Haynes, "the situa-
tton was considered from every phase.
Many suggestions were made that Mr..
Yellowiey be returned TO New York.
1t will be recalled that Mr.. Yellowley
reorganized the New York Offices i'm
mediately preceding Mr.. Days appoint
ment. In effect Mr.. Days organization
and methods were those established
by Mr.. feliowley. His accession will
only continue the policies first estab-
iished by him. His return to New York
should please all interested in sue
cessful law enforcement. He is gifted
with all the qualities essential in a
successful director.
"Mr. Yellowley will be given complete
freedom Of action in the New York
Office and his tenure will be indefinite. !"
Judge Martin 7. Manton in the
United States District Court yesterday
heard further arguments in the case
OF Paradise, restaurant formerly
known as Reisenweber's and ordered
closed and sealed for one year under
the common nuisance" clause of the
Volstead measure
Attorneys for the restaurant com
pany had asked the court to specify
whether the Fifty-eighth Street Res
taurant Company, operating the res
taurant, should be forced to close only
the premises occupied by the restau-
rant or whether the propertyholders
of the building should seal the entire
building in which there are number
Of varied businesses. Attorneys for
the restaurant company argued that to
force the landlord to close the entire
hull L. L L-Is
Owner Held Responsible
Colonel William Hayward, United
States District Attorney, argued in
person for the government. He said
that the only certain way to stop viola
tions of the Volstead act was to pro-
ceed directly against the owner of the
CURED. He cited proceedings against
disorderly houses, and said that until
landlords had been proceeded against
results had been negligible. Judge
Manton reserved decision.
Arguments were heard in the Fed
eral District Court before Judge
Augustus N. Hand in the case of the
Standard Carpet Company, 319 East
Forty fourth Street, where whiskeys
and other liquors worth more than
So00,0O0 were recently seized in cur
ious underground vault
One hundred thousand dollars worth
of carpets and other stock which the
government charges was used as u
blind" to the liquor business carried
on at that address were seized the day
following the big liquor seizure. Ar
Eument yesterday was on motion by
attorneys for the carpet company to
compel the government to surrender
the carpet stock. The court reserved
| decision