Show Federal Building Filled I With Bootleggers and Fixers Committee Told Buckner Describes Lawlessness and Corruption in Pro Pro- Prohibition Prohibition hibit on Enforcement in Great City But Avers Conditions Have Improved in Last 13 Months More Jail Sentences Needed AnVY April J 7 By 7 7 By y The Thc Associated Associate An Press Press VI intimate picture of the trail of lawlessness an and corruption uncovered in prohibition enforcement in New ew York was given to a senate committee to today ay by Emory R It R Buckner fe federal eral district attorney for the metropolis An n atmos phere phero of ot cot col col- col collusion cotI collusion r lusion in the federal buildIng build build- I log Ing was ed by the wit wit- tj Ah ness He lie told toldo l i ot of finding a aS S 2 seething mas mass masso of r boo b bootleg tie g fr w waiters 1111 e r sand and others in the building when he took office tt 13 months ago j Jurors were bribed even Inthe in the federal Y l building bu Itself 5 al d but thes these thess conditions are arc now Im- Im Improved improved Im Improved proved and the courts are ar catching up UI with their dockets i MILLIONS S Of OP 00 GALLONS G Alcohol diversion was described by the ss as the major culty In lit enforcement DIversion Di now amounts to lolls gallons a year par he ho said over o the th entire country You mean sixty millions In one year asked Chairman Means leans I yes on one ona year ear Buchner said I GL GETS S LUG LAtCh II The only way I can visualize that sixty million gallons callous to you Is In terms of ot bootleg booties liquor Buck Buck- Buckner Buckner ner ncr explained Taking the for tor- for formulae tor for whisky given yesterday esterday by Gent General ral Andrews and placing the price pric at 5 E 5 a bottle you ou get et the astounding total of ot J- J 4 Its 10 0 a bottle out out out in my said ald- ald Senator t Missouri you ought to know cut l In Chairman 2 1 Means cleans ans I 1 do returned Senator Reed Heed and the crowd which jammed the committee room howled Buckner thought the th e destroyed was very small Since the alcohol squad was sent en to lo New NewYork NewYork NewYork York last September he said di- di diversion di dl diversion version lied had decreased but he ha had l calculated the total amount the squad had kept oft off the tho market would mak make about of bootleg liquor The district attorney said the chemists found traces of ot poison noison la in 98 per imer cent of at the bootleg booties liquor Ther There to bp be no failing prohibition oft in the interest in the tion hearings the tIme committee room roomi aln being crowded with an over over- overflow overflow overflow flow into the halls NIGHT I ITo To speed up the proceedings the committee decided to hold a alI I lI session tonight That will take lake up the unused three thre hours the wets now now have p accumulated to their credit because ot of the tho failure to bold 1101 afternoon sessions as origin origin- originally originally illy ally planned They are arc to have havethe havethe haveth the equivalent ot of six hour tour tour hearings th this wee week It and next week a 11 like amount of time will be set aside aido for the drys District Attorney Buckner pro pro- proceeded pro proceeded most of ot the th time In his own way with Senator Reed need Democrat l Missouri rl the one wet Ct on tho the committee putting in an occasional question My y 1 position with respect to petty arrests has been misunderstood misunderstood misunderstood stood said Bald the district attorney There havo have been petty arrests but my plan has been to get ret the tho pro pro- proprietor proprietor pro proprietor Injunctions and Issue padlock lions rather than ar st a walter waiter or a clerk DENS iS OP OF THIEVES ES Buckner testified that his office operated the the operated co-operated with the city police In Inan Inan Inan an effort to break UI up dens ot of thieves thle and other crooks These criminals criminal gather Bather In Sn these places he h said They dont don't hold each ench other up there they thoy are not violating any state stat law If It the po- po Con tl lJ 1 on rage Page Ten Tn I n E HI R IS WITNESS Continued from Page One lice find liquor or there thero they make arrests and they are arp entitled to have ha federal trials We dont don't eon con convict con convict vict all ot of them but at least they a are re put to the trouble of a defense In court Prohibition Isn't going to be enforced until people begin to go goto goto goto to jail lall In largo large numbers It Jt would take one judge one year trying 10 cases a day to dispose or of o the cases that the city elty police bring la In dur dur- during during ing fug one ono month Then It would take tako 12 judges sitting all the time to keep abreast ot of the calendar suggested Sen- Sen Senator Senator Sen Senator ator Harreld Republican Okla Okla- Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma homa Yes res to take care of ot the city police cases eues Then there are aro arche he alcohol diversions smuggling and the like |