Trickling Hose Betrays Attic Still to Dry Sniffers

Trickling Hose Betrays Attic Still to Dry Sniffers Noses Lead Federal Sleuths to 300-Gallon Apparatus in Fairview — 2 Men Nabbed — Beer Seized in Saloon Raid In the big Rock Candy mountains You never change your socks, And the little streams of alcohol Come trickling down the rocks. While that ditty meant joy to thousands when the song was the rage three years ago, the same melody somewhat modified today spelled gloom for two Camden men who substituted a garden hose for the rocks, and as a result, are lodged in jail in default of $1500 bail charged with illegal sale and possession of alcohol. The trickling stream was discovered by federal prohibition agents under direction of Harry E. Johnson, chief of the South Jersey dry forces, when they sniffed the odor of alcohol as they drove through Fairview shortly before noon. Following their noses, the agents detected a length of hose attached to the exterior of a house at 3215 Alabama road. The hose led to an attic window. Inside the building the dry men found a 300-gallon still in operation, with 1000 gallons of mash in barrels on the attic floor. Twenty gallons of moonshine was discovered in the room and an additional 30 gallons in a garage at the rear. The men, who were arraigned before U. S. Commissioner Wynn Armstrong, gave their names as Henry Benzuk, 36, and Alex Slusaruk, 48, both of the Alabama road address. In a second raid, the agents seized five half barrels of high-power beer in a saloon at 521 North Seventh street. James L. Mulhearn, 32, bartender, and Mrs. Louis Nettinger, 42, alleged proprietress, were arrested. They will be arraigned before Armstrong today.