Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1927, Page 37

“TARIFF SLEUTHS LIVE IN DRAMA U. S. Special Agency Men Spend Quiet Days, but Tour Dives at Night. ial Dispatch to The Star. | N YORK, December 1.—Liv-| fng in Flatbush and engaging in melo- | dramatic night adventures in the| slums and dives of New York City,] sounds Jike some kind of double life. ] but it isn't. Uncle Sam’s mol moned sleuths, chasing sm tariff evaders, ttern their lives ing Just this fashion. At home in the sub | Qrbs, they unstrap their guns and liv | the &imple life of and burgher with three children and a mor Shift in the big town, day or I they move th intrizue and iracy. incre: y complicated ers” and low des of defraudi Government. Chinese Detective Beaten. vice of | thaniel | o week, Ah John, was closing 1 on a t midni: A 1 under the coned him, and | ‘Our men t e this nwu:!\ as i\nmfi thing in the day's work ia Yan Doren. “They face ¢ stantly, and they % Fraft than any other men in the serv: fea of the Government. Bribes o anvthing from §1 to more than $100.- 200 ave constantly heing offered. In §5 vears we have not had a case of a man convicted of dishonesty in this department. 1 do not think there are more than one or two of the entire ‘ho own their homes. m"!‘l‘v‘flhcprriz\l agency men get on the foh after a i and examiners have uncovered ence of attempted or actual fraud, and it is their work o trail the increasingly numerous and rs now oper- Furopean _connections, those smuggling in gems Business Operations Checked. g As t ports of New York roll A e o and mére millions, with of the outside world arift wall. there develops an outer frinze of fraudulent husimvss enerations. The case of a New York raz expor just fined $30.000, is " There is a demand in Eurone This particular ex g large ngland. Occasionaly t would be returned as having been re- fected. These returns hecame so fre- quent that the special agency men investizated. They found that the ex- porter was really an importer—evad- ing duty. He =old the rags in Enc- land. packed the wrappings of the hales with high-grade woolens and bropght them hack to America as re- jorted rag shipments. n 1925, exports and import: Port of New York totaled § 752 The figures for this year will be somewhat around. $2.500,000.000. With this increasing pressure on American markets, the revenue men ‘have to mebt ificreasingly freqiient attempts at undefvatuation Thousands of inspectors Needed. “We do not mean to imply that New York importers, as such, are engaged in questionablé’ business.” said H. E. Randolph. New “¥ork of the spe- ial agency se guch vast amounts of money involved in a highly coneentrated area. it isJn< evitable that schemes of various kinds will be attempted. by unscrupulous m for the 318, everal thousands of inspectors are required to meet the boats and ex- amine the haggasze of incoming pas- gengers. These men, as well as all the operatives in our department, are civil service men. We occasionally hear stor some incoming pas: senger money to an inspector, and we always run down any report of this kind. hut T am convinced that cases of dighonesty are extremely rare. ery resource of tife depart- ment has been concentpted on get- tipg honest. men ang-“keeping them and, in my opinion, it has suc- andolpli¥enid attempts of re- turning travelérs to smuggle in liguor were decreasing, and that inspectors reported fewer and fewer instances. (Couvtizht 1927 b \ MAN SENTENCED ON DRUG SALE CHARGE APPEALS Solomon Claims Court Erred in Not Permitting Withdrawal of Guilty Plea. Jacob Solomon, alias Jack Rose. pro- | prietor of a- New York night club, re- cently sentenced to serve 14 years in the penitentiary for trafficking in dope. has noted an appeal in the Court o Is through Attorney Abner <pite his plea of gulfity to gal charges that Chief Justice McCoy erred in refus- mg to permit Solomon to withdraw his plea of guilty to two indictments, w he contended was entered upon presentations. Both indictments ut of the same transaction, it Stegal alleges that d that if he pleaded companion, An prosecuted gnd st him 1 Ne York { pped. The woman was appellate court is in- Solomon was | guilty, his Dubois. similar i cd, the formed This is the place to learn abeut the T OMORROW TRIANGLE MOTOR CO. N. Y. Ave. & N. Cap. St. See Pictures on Page'11 PHOTOGRAPH S LIVE FOREVER THE THOUGHTFUL MAN FULFILLS TH1I 5 FAMILY OBLIGATION! 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