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Show Department of Justice Probing 'Leak9 Involving High Court 'Dry' Decision By Universal .Service. WASHINGTON, Dec. lo. The department de-partment of justice is "going to the very bottom" of tho alleged al-leged supreme court leak by which certain persona are supposed sup-posed to have received advance information informa-tion of the court's ruling today sustaining sustain-ing tho constitutionality of the wartime prohibition act. This was emphasized tonight by Captain i Burke of the department's bureau of in-1 vestigation. "Wo did not. intend t hat the matter come to light until we had finished our j in vef ligation," said Captain Purke. "We . regret very much that it did. However, wo are going a head and to the bottom ' Of It." ! The alleged leak, Burke said, was being ' investigated at the direct reouest of j Chief Justice White. The matter was1 f brought to Justice White's attention, he said, by Marten 15. Pew, general manager ! of the International News Service. "Mr. Pew came to Washington," said Captain Burke, "and saw Chief Justice ! White. He told the chief justice that a i friend of his (Pew's) had volunteered the j information that this friend had been I approached by a Washington lawyer, who ! claimed to be in a position to anticipate i decisions of i be court and that a lot j of money might be made in this way." The Washington attorney referred to, according to Captain Burke, was B. E. , Moses, with offices in t he Munsey bundling bund-ling here Moses N alleged to have told ' Pew's friend, whoso na me was not d is- closed, I ha t he was havhitr much diff i- culty to find anyone with enough money to go into the proposition on a large enough sr-;t!c. Moses at the same ti:n is said to have involved ;ui attache of tiie department of justice, whose name was not disclosed. Both Moses and the department of I justice attache were questioned hy Chief ' (Continued on Pase.2, Column 3.), DEPARTMENT PHi DRY CECE11 W (Continued From Page One.) Klynn of the bureau of investigation this afternoon. "Moses admitted," said Captain Burke, "tha t he had been trying to ?et money to finance such a scheme, but denied that he was in any position to get dva nee information on supreme court decisions. He said he used his ability as a lawy.-r trt draw his own ded net ions from the records and testimony of cases before the court. Tlie department attache said he aid not know of any leak or a nyone in a posit ion to know of any leak. And there is nothing to show that lie did." The department of justice has established, estab-lished, said Burke, that on N- vember ! Moses and t he depart meat at tar-he were in New York and sold Southern Pacific short. This was the day the court handed di-wn its adverse decision in the Southern Pacific ca-e and the toek drnnped three poi'U-i. They ae suid to have i-o.-m.-d to-si-ther at the W.V iwf Astoria w.'.li o:-iy |