Show I IREST UNDER COVERS COVERS' REST IN JAIL JAll JAILa RUSE VICTIMS a Trapped By Claim Claim They Buy Booze From Cop WASHINGTON July 19 IBy By By Th The Associated Press Two Two of the cap- cap capItals capItal's capitals capital's Ital's tal's squad of under cover agents in irs Jail today on a charge of perjury in connection with a story of f having bought whisky from a mem mem- member member ber her of the police force Their arrest last night came as as' a result of police officers becoming sue sus- over the color of the evidence obtained l by the two agents which they said In nearly all cases was red while the raiding squad usually found gin ginor ginor ginor or corn BACK ACI WITH EVIDENCE IDE E CC The agents Charles D D. Davis Da and Jesse Hall were told to try and get geta a buy from Police Officer Curtis the authorities said After this order was Issued a squad of officers sta- sta stationed themselves in the Curtis home Late in the afternoon the agents re- re returned turned with a pint of colored whisky It t was charged reporting it had been purchased from a woman at ot the ad address ad- ad address address dress given Police Pollee said Davis had not riot been near the place and that the evl lence dence den e had been bought from a boot boot- bootlegger bootlegger bootlegger legger In another part of town CAUSE OF CONTROVERSY CO TRO The Washington Post said Davis recently had been the causo cause of a misunderstanding between the police department and the Citizens Service association an organization of citizens citi citi- citizens citizens zens that seeks evidence of dry law violations An Au agent of the association had claimed the organization brought about arrests and when asked for foran foran foran an explanation the Post said police were advised ad that the association counted the arrests that had been made as a result of Davis' Davis The paper added that one of the two agents whom it did not name had been recommended to the police department by Harry N. N Douthitt field secretary of the organization The district attorneys attorney's office indi Indi- indicated Indicated that nearly two dozen cases might be nolle as a result of the arrest of the agents |