National Affairs: While Cat's Away

Where might be the-last-place-in-the-world that prohibition agents would look for a moonshine still? One such place might be the clump of trees in the field behind the barn on the farm belonging to Dry Crusader William Eugene ("pussyfoot") Johnson near Smithville Flats, N. Y. So thought some shrewd person. Last week, in the clump of trees in the field behind the barn of Crusader Johnson—who visits his farm only in the summer—State troopers found vats, stoves, coils and 14 copper boilers to contain 200 gallons.

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