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* Seize 100-Gallon Still InDunbar Mountains In 1 st Of Series Of Raids*OTHERS TO FOLLOWClean-up Comes On Heels Of Phillips’ Far-Flung Vice Campaign.... On the heels of Special District Attorney' linn V. Phillips’ vice crusade which ..has; landed scores behind the -bars during the past two weeks on numbers-racket and miscellaneous crime -charges, state and ' federal. liquor agents .swept -into the county early today and ' launched what is expected to be aai .inten-sive illicit liquor cleanup. .The agents, rising .with .the . morning.' sun, “struck” first- in the- remote Dunbar mountain- region. , The raid there was believed to be . the'.first-. of. a series contemplated.. in aii -..endeavor - to stop the mountain 'liquor, flow.... , .:'The agents after a 5. o'clock start ..- from tJniontown quietly approached V. a small, house, concealed by the ; trees in the. Dunbar, mountains and : arrested 61-year-old Nelson “Jack” Sloan as the operator of the still •• while he was asleep.in the cabin. ..-The 100-gallon still was housed .in, a small outbuilding near the cabin and was equipped with a. 50-gailon filter'’with an inch and ahalf copper coiL. * • \ * .Evidence in Creek- Officers also confiscated six 50-gallon barrels of. rye mash and a five gallon can of whisky while the 'Old. man was. in possession ' of a. quart- .of whisky. Agents said that: -the. alcohol could be smelled far. | down in' the valley -and that the grain could be seen running down - the mountain in:■ a.-., small -stream.... Sloan was brought to Uhiontown• this morning afterhe had eaten his; breakfast of ‘•warmed-over-’ hot-' cakes for questioning.While Sloan is being. ..held for ■. further investigation, officers were of the opinion that the old man j living alone in: the one room cabin i was merely a. blind for the still. 1 Cecil Hughes, owner of the prop-, erty, will he brought to XJniontown for questioning, officers said.
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Daily News Standard
Uniontown, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Mar 31, 1937
Page 7
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