The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-27
FREE REIN TO
NEW OFFICIALS
New Staff of "a Given
Complete Authority to
Fight Bootleggers.
CITE LINES OF ATTACK
Secretary Andrews Says Forces
Will Fight Smuggling and
Illegal Manufacture.

Washington, D. c.. -Prohibi-
TONS new staff of twenty-four federal
administrators who will be given COM
plete authority in as many districts
over enforcement of the law Septem-
Der was named today at the treasury
The administrators and cities in
which they will have their respective
headquarters, follow:
District 1: R. S. Sans, acting adj
ministrator, Boston. r E88
District 2: X. A. Foster acting
New York.
District 8: R. @. Merrick, Buffalo.
District 4: Frederick Baird, Pitts
burgh.
District 8: william c. Murdoch
Philadelphia.
District s: Edmund Butnitz, Bal
timore. @
District 7: R. A. Fulwiler, Roam
oak, Va.
District 8: B, c. Sharpe, Char
lotte, N. C. ~.
District .: Halsey DpnwoOdy, Tampa
District 10: O.. b. Jackson. New
Orleans. ~ 4
District IL: Sam Collins, Louisville
District ~: E. L. Porterfeld
Columbus.
District 10: B. E. Ewing, acting
Chicago.
District ID: A. c. Townsend, act
ing, St. Paul.
District 10: A. w. Mccampbell
Omaha.
District 10: W. D. Moss, acting
st. Louis. @ ~
District IT: Herbert H., White
Fort Worth.
District 18: John R. Vivian, Denver
District 10: Elias Marsters, Helena
District 20: Roy C. Lyle, Seattle.
District 81: E. c. Yellowley, San
Francisco.
District %: Robert E. Firth, Los
Angeles.
District %. E, C. ]. CrabBe, acting
Honolulu. -
District "a: A. j.. Hanlon, saH
Joan, Porto Rico. ,.e. +n.,o4 u ~
Those designated as. acting admin
istrators, are expected to fill the new
positions only temporarily.
The position 4 of chief of general
mobile agents was abolished, with ap-
pointment of E. C. Yellowley who
has held that post to head the 21st
administrative district at San Fran
cisco.
In a statement announcing, the ap-
pointments, Assistant Secretary An
drews said the new prohibition forces
would be concentrated upon the task
of eliminating the bootleg industry
Their energies, he said, would be
directed along three definite lines of
attack smuggling, Illegal Nanufact-
ure and illegal diversion.
Using Old Timers.
e The new prohibition army will be
captalned in large measure by the
same men who now command Uncle
Sans enforcement squadrons,
Out of twentyfour !, new district
administrators named today by AS
sistant Secretary Andrews of the
treasury, all but six already are in
the service.
Although he had announced a cam
paign to induce practical business
executives to lend new blood to the
organization, General Andrews said
today that after investigation he had
decided there were many now in the
enforcement machine who should be
given chance to make good under
the new plan that is to become
operative September 1.
Get the Big Fellow. ss
Announcing his, selections, the pro-
hibition chief said his new force
would make war on bootleg whole
salers and would make the question
of local enforcement a secondary
consideration.
The market is our most difficult
problem" he said, because of its in
difference to consequences, ignorance
and colossal gullibility. The market
will pay any price and swallow any
bootlegger's fairy tale as to quality.
One by one, they will earn that their
imported Whistles, etc, are being
made in Canal street from Industrial
alcohol, and thus will refrain from
buying them. s
"The bootleg industry, in one form
or another, extends over the whole
country; but it operates mostly in
the centers+ of population"