Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-06 | Page 1 | Rum Runners Declared Worst Kind of Crooks

RUM HERS DECUEDW0R5T KINO DP CROOKS Trouble Encountered in Find-irtiCj Find-irtiCj Good Men to Go After Bootleggers WASHINGTON. Jan 6 Revenue officers under the Volstead act "are up ngalnst the touglust proposition j any men were up atraJnst.'' according I to Paul F. Myers, asslstsjit commls-; commls-; sieLtr of internHl revenue, whose tes- timOny before the house approprla-1:0113' approprla-1:0113' Committee was made public to-I to-I day. I Myers declared they were dealing nrlthj the worst element of crooks In 1 the country Citmmis'doner Williams explained ; ; that the department was having dif-fljultv dif-fljultv in finding the right type of 1 men to go after violators at the rale of way offered and that they were I open to all sorts of temptations, par- 1 i ticularly as to bribes 1 "tiorno of them have fallen and that j wail to be expected," he r..ild. "When ! ican feels the pinch of hunger, ho is ajpt to go wrong." CLOSING BKLW Lit 1 1 G CHICAGO, Jan. 6. Announcement j that three government experts on 1 bri fery Investigations are expected ! here today from the east to facilitate the ttloslng of Chicago breweries sus-I sus-I petted of making real instead of near beer, followed closely the refusal of Rami W Stone slate prohibition director, di-rector, to renew the federal permits Ol 5 13 wholesale liquor dealers in Illinois. Illi-nois. ' 'ihy. sit .ans anil dmsrgists hae slm-I slm-I ply been substituted for saloonkeepers saloonkeep-ers in supplying the thirsty witn whisky." whis-ky." Mr. Btone declared. ! Mr Stone said numerous physicians in Indiana, where whisky cannot be prescribed for medtclmil use had opened branch offices in Illinois in ordreri to obtain prescription books but he sidded that he had revoked their permits In inanV instances. At CUBED OF BRIBERY. Stw YORK. Jan. 6 Lawrence MaltLWiSta. "'i agent of the National Surety companv, was nrrcsted today at the corporation'- Broadway .office by set-rat service men rei chugev of of-ferlag of-ferlag government ;igtnts bribes totaling to-taling more than flflO.OOO for nastst once In connection with liquor permit frauds. 00