The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1921, Page 3

“DRY AGENTS SUED FOR SEIZED LIQUOR VALUEDAT $235,000 Suits Reveal the Biggest Booze Hauls Made by Revenue Men Here. ‘HEAVY DAMAGES ASKED. Special Agent’s Affidavit Charges Bribery Against Ajello Co. Employees. Two suits demanding the return of selzed liquors or judgments for a} total of $235,000, It became known to-| day, have been filed in the United States District Court here against Daniel J, Chapin, supervising Fro- bihition enforcement agent for the State of New York, and other agents. In addition the praecipe and sum- mone have been filed in another suit m which at least $50,000 will be de- manded. One of the suits reveals what was probably tho largest seizure of liquor ver made here—cixty-six barrels and 600 cases of whiskey, together with 650 barreis of wine. Another case et alleged bribery also is revealed ‘tm the court actions. In the first of the sutts Chapin Is named as a defendant both person- ally and as supervising agent, along with J. Conn and Daniel J. O'Leary, Probibition agents working under Chapig, The complaint fs signed by George I. Donnollan, a lawyer of No. 38 Park Row, acting for William H. Washer, a wholesale liqaur dealer at No, 2363 Broadway. It is recited that Washer is the holder of a permit issued on or about March 18, 1920, by Acting Prohibi- Hon Commisstoner H. M. Gaylord and bearing serial number “New York B-468," by virtue of which Washer 1s authorized to sell intoxi- cating liquor for other than beverage purposes to persons holding permits to purchase such liquor. FEDERAL DIRECTOR PERMITS PURCHASE OF 250 CASES It ia alleged that on Dec, 18, 1920, & permit was issued to Washer by the New York Federal Prohibition Director (Charles R. O'Connor) to purchase 250 cases of Gibson whis- key, described by serial numbers 249,875 to 260,124, drawn on the Gib- son distillery of Gibsonton, Pa, and to be delivered to plaintiff at No. 3 Broudway. That the said 250 ses were shipped by the distillery Dee. 20, 1920, and delivered Jan. 10, 1921. ‘The complaint then asserts that on Jan, 11 Agents Conn and O'Leary, acting under Chaptin's orders, entered Washer’s premises “without any war- rant and without any authority or justification” and “unlawfully seized and withdrew from the aforesaid premises, by force and violence, all he aforesaid 250 cases of Gibson whiskey and removed them to the Knickerbocker Warehouse, where they are now stored, subject to the control of the defendants.” ‘The value of the seized whiskey, according to the complaint, ts $10,000, and Washer was “damaged by reason ot the seizure and detention” in the sum of $5,000, DAMAGES OF $22,000 ASKED BY J. AJELLO & CO.,"INC. The suit involving probably the Digwest seizure ever made here and calling for judgments totalling $220,- 000 also was filed by Attorney Don- nellan for J, AjeMo & Co., Inc, of No. 131 Wooster Street. The complaing is similar to that made in the Washer case, the value of the seized liquor being placed at $170,000 and damages at $50,000. In this suit Chapin is named as supervising enforcement agent, with George B. Golding, Joseph % Cox, Hugh McQuillan and Frank E, Frazier, described as special agents of the Internal Revenue Bureau. ‘The praccipe and summons have been filed in another sult, naming fupin, both personally and as super- ising agent, in which the plaintif(s are Joseph and Louis Singer, o doing business und: of Singer Brothers, Avenue. With C re named Isadc by foses Smith and Herman W) “rg, all Prohibition agents hapin, Singer Bros’, establishme: as raided ta month ago and ra we zed whieh, at the tim 8 reported to be worth] amount, however, is been greatly exagger- value of the about $50,000, yinjon handed down Judge Larned t papers return ized last it veized from Hand, Was order Provision William | sl master, to exam- | & Co. be | | order for on all sales Mquor CUMmen tH, | scorde x de “Lid” on Vight Here, Says Wash- Ington Report. | Reports from Wasti on ~d mid a secret Inve tion by jan officiale had revealed that liquor usily obtained in Now York, and that regardiess of whether there comes was Seifert andthe. doctor. ovcupled the | same soom at ‘ight, abe testified, \ THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUAKY 2, 1921 Silhouette and Exotic Silk Frocks, High Above Ankles, [AVY \QNES GETS oe Are Feature of Colorful, Jaunty Spring Styles POLICE SPRINTER OUTRUNS AN AUTO Mulirig ‘Chases Four Alleged Thieves aml (Captures Two ‘in the Bronx. Policeman Muldrig of the Mor- risania Station, champion éprinter of the Bronx, early to-day matched his two good legs ‘against an automobile containing four alleged bunglars—and won, capturing two of the car's ov cupants, Seeing three men Inrriedly feave the tailor shop of Richard Fuchs at No. 760 Hegney Place and jump into @ waiting car in which a fourth man sut, Muldrig pulled this revolver and ordered the party to halt, instead, the car turned into 158th Street, with the policeman in pursuit. The car ran to St, (Ann's Avenue, north to Wist Street, and then tackled the fong hill dn that street. Muldrid ran steadily after the car. No attention was paid by the occu- pants of the automobile to the four shots Muldrig fired in the afr, but when the car stalled on the hill the men sprang out. Two escaped, but the others were arrested, Before their arraignment Morrisania Court charge they said they were Daniel Puscni of No, 302 East 100th Street and Daniel J. Fiske of No. 491 East 156th Street. Five sults of clothes and some burghers’ have been found in the Fiske sald automobile and thad been compelled at the point of a pistol to go in It with the men. SATISFIED TO PLEAD GUILTY. Brooklyn Prinomers After So Doing Say They Are Innocent. Simon Vestosky of No ,55 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn, who pleaded gullty to petit lare after a shawease at No. 1470 Broadway, Brooklyn, was broken and two coats worth $67 stolen, fled to-day of No, 703 Hart Street, ‘Brooklyn, ac- cused of taking part dn the theft. tosky «1 been takea il] and accidentally ed against the breaking St. in the on a burglary case, plea,” ale and said he was a ad with bis Recke, who case Was Just about to go to the Jury, then pleaded gull eny in the second degree, maximum sentence d grand lar for whith the is two and a half ts in prison. He had stood trial on arge of burglary In the third de- the penalty for wihich ds ten to twenty yours, HIS NURSE WON | DOCTOR. Wife Seeks Recovery of Child Long Chase, fter Mrs, Grace Fisher Reeve told in Su- preme Court In White Plains to-day how she followed Dr, Oscar C. Reeve to Cal get the Delora. ‘The child t into court on @ procending started by Mrs. Reeve was a soprano in a charch has an office and fa liv. 420 West ishand were happy un- Reeve said. He then met among dry officials here, eifert, her cousin, who ts Seuh the ole urse, The doctor sald he hone tiie: 4 diptherla, she said, and Tek. at uy bocam iw nurse, Miss into tools were said to r he was owner of the | in behalf of Charles Recke | yu are guilty of no ertme and | sald Judge | and back n an effort to habeas WIFE SUES NAT HARRIS. Actrean Named in Diverce Action Against Orchestra Director. Nathaniel Gakzman, known sionaMy as Nat Harris, director of the dance orchestra at the Hotel Penn- sylvania, was to-day directed by Jua- tice Finch of the Supreme Court to pay weekly to his wife, Evelyn, and $100 counsel fees when she began suit for divorce. Mrs, Salzr Heges that her hus- band was too friendly with Maxine Armon, an actress, supporting this allegation with the affidavit of a pri- vate detective. The Jatter alleges that he found Salzman and Miss Armon in a West 84th Street apartment. both clad in night dress. Salzman stated that he left ‘his wite when her (brother, Arthur Pergoff, threatened to cut his heart out if he lever left Mrs. Salgman. He declared that when the investigator afrived at d ALBANY, Fob. 2-—A Prohibition en-| Kroup of American banks, to finance the tho Sith Gtreet apartment, Satz-| forcement DIlL designed to conform as | exportation o€ mil and sim- | nan, was in a room with his brother : at can to the | ilar “pred Britain and jand Ofise Armon in her own, and that In the | Europe, vas, toay by she came to her door only when sum- War Binance moned, At that moment she bad on| % tt , pajamas and a ‘bath robe | we peated Ul rE i Sy —_—_—_—_ | profes- |STONE IN THROAT KILLS LITTLE GIRL Mother Unable to Dislodge It Carries Her to Police Station, But in Vain, While helping her mother string beans for dinner to-day, Charlotte, a-half- Mrs. var-old duughler of Brookiyn, among the and in a moment was ‘choking The m saw a 1 ‘beans, Fifth ~ Shannhan and Mra, when Dr. girl was dead. without effect. ee two-and- Mr Albert Heinhelmer of No, $48 220 and shiny swallowed ft her ran with the child in her Avenue Police Sta- Rein- A puimotor was used New Wry Enforcement BIN tatro- duced in Albany. ————— | Membern Enjoined From Prices by Jadge Han ‘The Corrugated Paper Box Mamutae- turers’ Association, Inc., was ordered dissolved to-day ‘ty Judee Learned Hand in the Federal District Court, and its members were enjoined (rom fixing pricea by agreement on their goods. Suit was brought for the dissolution under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law by Special Prosevutor Guiler and Assistant United States Attorney Joy who charged that since 1916 members have) een in an association for the mnin= enance of prices, restraining competi+ tion and creating a monoply. Prest= dent Gamuel Samuels and Vice Pres!- dent D. Phitlepa of the association sid | the Courts nstructiona will be carried out tmmoediately sacra $10,000,000 Loan to Finance Kixports Approved. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Preltminary approval of a loan of $10,000,000 to a Wlxing® 58.00 BONWIT TELLER. &CQ The Specally Shop of Oppinatons > FIFTH AVENUE_AT 38™ STREET Will Close Out Thursday About One Hundred .- VOMEN’S HIGF-CLASS WINTER WRAPS Greatly Reduced to Formerly 95.00 to 150.00 The collection includes two or three wraps of a kind in the season's desirable models developedin Veldyne ee Fiance Arouses Sleeping Girl in BOTTLE OF CUBAN JOY; SHIP GOES ON Engineer on Water Diet for Months Had Hopes of a Double-End Jag. A grief-stricken man came down the gangplank from the steamahip Munamar to-day, a parvhed and with- ered man, looked upon by all the other passengers with compassion, for they knew hig story. He was Benjamin W. Vaughan of Everett, Mass, an engineer, who has eon working for six montha in CUba, building a pipe line from Guaro Dam to Hmbareadero, The pipe ts eight miles long and twelve inches thick, It contains water, merely water, “On Christmas 1 did not celebrate I usually do,” 6ald Mr. Vaughan I worked on that water carrier, On New "Year's Eve I did not have a drink, except water. For six months I have not had a drink—unless you call water a drink. I wanted to do my work first “Er pooked paawuge at Antilia, then suddenly remembered that the United States Is dry, exoapt for water, The ship wan dry also, because it flies the flag of freedom, I went back into the town and got a bottle of dequiri oktnils (the base je rum). The ship was pulling out when I returned, and I got a row boat.” r. Vaughan’s voice broke at this point in his narrative and the reat of the tale wns told by passengers They saw ham coming in his row- oat. ‘The ship stopped. A bowline was lowered and they were hauling him up. He looked happy. Ho anved his bottle aloft and satd it @as bis “Christmas and New Year's ‘ali in one.” ‘Then he swine aguinet the ship's side, Ggash! The cocktails went to the flashy fishes. “Cut the dine,” erged Mr. Vaughan piteou: But they hauled him !n. M’ADOO IN MEXICO CITY. Arrives in Special Car and In Guest of the Government. MMHXTCO CITY, Fob, 2.—Williem G. McAdoo, former Secretary of the United Staten ‘Treasury, and Mrs. McAdoo, ar- rived in Mexico City thts morning on » Invitation of President Obregon, and > quartered in a downtown hotel as guests af tho Government. ‘They Ted (rom 1) Paso, Tex., lo a spec- jad car. Mr. McAdon declined to mect news- paper correspondents. Members of the party which accompanied him asserted his vieit was purely a personal ono and | not connected with the question of regoenition of the Obregon Government rhe United States, Mise YETTA LEHMAN Modern Prince ‘Charming's Voice Awakens Intended Bride Before Wedding Day. Yetta Lehman, Second Avenue’s “Sleeping (Princess,” 1s to have her wedding to Edward Roth, her own Prince Charming, and Now York is to have a happy ending for a story that parallels the fairy tales of old. Miss Lehman, who is twenty-one, the daughter of Samuel Lehman, No. 109 Second Avenue, and the bride-to- be of -Edward Roth, No. 341 East 77th Street, for whose wedding, Jah. 30, invitations had been matied, felt strangely drowsy two weeks before the ceremony and foll asleep. Bach day the date of the wedding came closer and still Miss Lehman slept. Mr, Roth called daily. Her brother, Max, an interne at the Met- ropolitan Hospital, Blackwell's Istand, stayed at her bedside continually with Miss Evelyn Evans, a nurse. Dr. Meyer J. Kutiasker, an Instructor in operative surgery, and Dr. BE D. Friedman of Bellevue and Dr. Isadore Albrainson of Mount Sinai Hospital were called for consultationa, but Mias Lebman slumbered on. Mr. Roth was there as usual last Friday, still hopeful bis ride would Mrs, Lehman Yetta would live when Stupor ca Weeks} BLUE LAW ANGELS TURN REAL INDIGO; ARE TOLD 10 MOVE Voliva’s Forerunners Report * Business Good, but Want Reporters’Called Off. Although Voliva’s two Biue Law © Angels, Helen Buhmann and Belle Schelhorn, who came all the way from Zion City, ML, to snatch New York from the devil, reported they had sold $% worth of pamphlets on their firm day, they wrote to-day to their Hoad Saint It is no use to try to eave the city unless something is done to the reporters. The reporters, it appears, have written stories about the advent of the two “angels,” and their landlady, Mrs, Kurz, ls #0 annoyed by the a! tention they have attracted she has anked them to vacate their $12 a week room at No. 148 Bast 45th Street. Another annoyance they have suf- fered was a letter asking them to pose for @ome pictures, and telling them if they wanted to call up the concern’s telephone number, it was Worth 800 The letter was read to them by Gil- bert Girard, a professional entertainer who occupies a room in the same house, Although the “angels” alm at putting the saft pedal on ali enter- tainment, Girard has grven them will- ing assistance. When they heard the “Worth 800," Girard said, they thought it meant it would be worth $800 if t would pose and demanded to be to a telephone, but when he told them it was only a. telephone number, Girard said, they refustd to pose. Loses Receest br 4,324 Votes. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The re count of batiots In the Michigan Sena~ torin] election af 1918, finished to-day Henry Fer by the Senate Committes, lett tor Republican, with a plurality of over. Henry Ford. Ford, ma fo a net gain of 4,233" votes in recor tor Hee eres original plurailty was Tet. —————— her voice startled them by asting what day it was. ie 0 Jan, 28," anawered the overjoyed Mr. Roth. “Why. we are to be married Sun- day!" exolaimed Miss Yetta excitedly, and %egan talking happily of the _ wedding. Tinmeitatety ahe ‘tegan to mend, but the doviors di not think the » ceremony should ‘be held until she was completely out of that is why their friends look for- ward to the happy Florida. MADISON AVENUE = FIFTH AVENUE, Thirty-fourth Street ’ of will commence season’s stock The Final Clearance Sale Men’s Winter Overcoats to-morrow (Thursday) om the Sixth Floor The new prices will be $38.50 & 68.00 The assortment comprises all of the quality Overcoats remaining from this ' A quick disposal should ensue at the prices quoted, as very exceptional value is assured im every instance NEW YORK Thirty-fifth Street ing of their ® Imve a uel - be spared to him, and he was telling mony, seni, te. a goa