The New York herald., 1922-03-09
DRY AGENT DANCES
FOR RAID EVIDENCE
Prohibition Sleuths Pose as
Actors in Ted LewiS's
Club.
STIR THEATER CROWD
New Booze Permits on
Perforated Paper to
Prevent Raising.
IZZY INVADES CHINATOWN
Finds 800 Bottles-Entry OF
Private Homes on Liquor
Warrant Held Illegal.

Prohibition Enforcement Agents
Reager, Carrigan and Strauss went
into Ted I4ewis's Club, at Seventh ave-
nue. and Fifty street. early this
morning and arrested the head waiter
and two other walters and left sum
monses for the manager, John Green
and the owner, Al Haywood. after they
had, as they allege, been served with
two pint bottles of whisky at a cost
Of SO. The arrests came at a time
theater patrons and caused consider
able excitement.
The agents said that they entered
the place about midnight and told
Cesar Bozzo of 354 West Fifty-sixth
street, captain of the walters, that
they were actors just off the road
after n long trip. Reager volunteered
to enliven the night and went on the
oance floor and did an imitation OF
Frisco, the jazz dancer, which the
agents said earned great applause
from the diners.
This got the agents on good terms
with the walters, and they say that
Bozzo then brought them the whisky.
Bozzo was arrested. as were Andrew
Hendricks of 127 West Sixty-fourth
street. waiter, and Frank Garlascio,
head waiter. of $40 West Thirty-ninth
street. They were taken to the West
Thirtieth street station charged with
violating the volstead act.
The Prohibition Department has de-
vlsed a new means of protection against
the Juggling OF liquor permits. The plan,
announced from Washington last night
is aimed principally at the practice OF
altering permits after they have left Of
ficial hands. These alterations. chang
ing the amount of liquor called for, have
made possible the illegal withdrawal OF
hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
OF liquor.
The words OF the text stamped by the
machines on the permits are diagonal.
preventing the insertion by forgers of
interlinear words. The amount OF liquor
10 be withdrawn Is perforated entirely
through the paper and macerated. In one
operation. Alteration of permits stamped
with these machines is said to be i'm
possible.
Ralph A, Day. State Director. said yes
tcrday that he would be ready in few
days to announce the names OF the drug
gists who have been selling dangerous
liquor for medicinal purposes.
Hip Sing Enstein and Hip Moe Smith,
two Chinese mandarins. who are only
too we'll known in bootlegging circles,
descended yesterday into sub-cellar
under the Chinese Arcade, at Is Doyers
street. where they beseeched their ances-
tors to look down smilingly on 500
bottles of whisky and gin which they
found there. The mandarins we're ac-
companied in their journey to the sub
cellar by two men named Fanelli and
Saver. who are believed to have been
prohibition agents.
Besides the 500 bottles there were
discovered a score or more barrels OF
sloe gin. sherry and whisky. All OF
10 the Knickerbocker warehouse.
Izzy and Moe had been watching the
Chinese Arcade for several days. They
first attempted an entrance through a
Chinese barber shop near the Mott street
entrance, but encountered trick wall
and switched to the Doyers street side
Underneath a table in a novelty store,
where they stopped to buy ginseng root
they found "A trapdoor and lowered
themselves into narrow alley. This
led TO a second trapdoor over a ladder
leading to the .sub-cellar.
A summons was left for Jastro Alex
ander. who. the agents said, was the
owner OF the liquor and the apparatus
which was found for it's rectification. All
the liquor seized was moonshine.