Evening star., 1925-08-16
DRY CHIEFS GATHER
TOPLAN new DRIVE
Division Heads Called Here
to Get Andrews News of
War on Rum
Rr The Associat.d Press

A call for a general prohibition con
ference here next Tuesday was issued
Yesterday by Assistant Secretary An
drews OF the Treasury, in preparation
for making effective the reorgantaa'
ton of the dry forces September /.
Participa ton will be eight of the 1S
chiefs of divisions. and % of the State
directors. who are expected to have
places in the new orga nization, Some
as administrators and others a s as
sistants.
The officials. who. ii was announced,
have been invited to the conference.
are:
West Well Represented.
Division chiefs F. A. Hazeltine,
Washington. Oregon. Idaho, Montana
and Alaska: Charles Goff. northern
district Of California; W. w Ander-
son. southern district of California;
Carl Jackson. wyoming. Utah and
Colorado: w. T. Day. South Carolina
and Georgia: Harvey l. Duncan,
Florida and Porto Rico; W. d. Moss.
Missouri, kapSas, Oklahoma and Ar
kansas, and +. =. Merrick, New York
and northern New Jersey.
State directors. Benjamin f.. Ewing,
Illinois; Samuel F. Rutter. Cali
fornia; F.. L. Porterfied. Ohio; Elias
Marsters. Idaho; Addison n. Lusk.
Montana: Frank NJ. Poole, Arizona; :;
l.. r. DeHart. Missouri; Joseph r.
Richards. Utah; Joseph A. Linville,
Oregon: Roy c. Lyle. Washington;
William J. Swain. Delaware; Palmer
Garfield, New York: William G.. Muir
dock, Pennsylvani r. \. Fulwiler,
Virginia; Frank T. Putney. Con-
Hecticut: John f. Vivian. Colorado;
:. B. Quale, Minnesota; G.. A. Brun-
son. Iowa: Frederick \. DismHke
Georgia; Alpho w. Hargett. Ala
bama; T. W. Rowden. Arkansas, and
O. ID. Jackson, Louisiana.
To Get Andrews Views
Assistant Secretary Andrews, Pro-
hibition Commissioner Haynes. W. r.
Walker. special field assistant, and
other officials Of the Washington head
quarters will attend the conference
which is called for the purpose of
acquainting the officials from the
States of the viewpoint of the officers
here on enforcement.
This general conference Will follow
the series which Mr.. Andrews has
been having with individual division
chiefs and State directors this week
and which will he continued toda Y
and tomorrow Today the dry field
marshal will confer with officials
from the Pacific Coast and other far
Western States.
The individual conferences were ar
ranged so that Mr.. Andrews might
meet all of the officials personally. Get
their views on the general prohibition
enforcement work, impaTt his own
views and at the same time size up
the officers with view to determining
whether they constituted timber for
the new organization.
New Forces Named Soon.
Soon after the Tuesday conference
announcement is expected of the per.
sonnel of the whole new force, includ.
ing "a administrators, who are to have
charge in the continental United
States. Porto Rico, and Hawaii and
their As assistants.
This force is to take over admins.
tration of the dry laws on The first OF
next month. and immediately after ii
begins to function. MIR. Andrews eX,
poets the bulk of its energy to be de
voted to u general clea ming up from
one end of the country to the other
Work along this line already has
been started under the direction of r.
{. 1ellowley, chief of general agents
who has just returned from the Gulf
coast. he made personal report yes
terday to the field marshal on raids
conducted at points in Florida and al
New Orleans.