Evening star., 1925-08-21
BUDN|Tz IS NAMED
DC. DRY ZONE HEAD;
g OTHERS CHOSEN
Four Army Officers, One Rail
Executive, Among New
District Chiefs.
SELECTION FIRST STEP
IN NATIONAL CLEANUP
Deputy Director Likely to Be
Given Charge of Capital
Rum War.

The Government new field hSht-
Ing force" To enforce prohibition was
announced today by Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury Andrews, VINO
has placed Edmund Budnitz in charge
of the local district, including Mary
land. Delaware and the District or
Columbia. Mr.. Budnitz for four years
has been State director of Maryland.
The new prohibition army mobiizes
September /. but the "a administra-
tors named today have already left
Washington to reorganize their Of
fees in the field.
The headquarters force here, II was
indicated by Gen. Andrews, prob
ably will he much altered by this
change, which will take place gradu-
ally, following the big shakeup in the
field
Gen. Andrews in his new force has
named four men of Regular Army eX-
perience. one railroad executive rec
commended by Judge f. II. Gary OF
the United States Steel Corporation
and filled the remaining 19 admins
trative posts with men who have
formerly been in the prohibition serV-
ice.
Gen. Andrews announced that under
the system of setting up the new ad-
ministrators' Office at Baltimore, which
will administer the District or Colum-
hia, Jake" Francs, prominent attor-
ney of Baltimore, will be counsel Tor
the administration.
Deputy to Head Work.
The District of Columbia probably
will be administered under what will
he known as a deputy administrator,
TO be selected by Mr.. Budnitz and ap-
pointed by Gen. Andrews.
The same system will be followed
throughout the country. Gen, Andrews
announced. with each Federal judicial
district having Il field rEhtInS unit
headed bE Il deputy administrators
This greatly facilitates cooperation
with the Department OF Justice.
Among important changes wrought
in the whole prohibition scheme by
Gen. Andrews was the installation of
a new officer TO he known as chief
prohibition investigator. who will
build up force OF highly trained eN-
perts to report back to Gen. Andrews
actual results achieved in the field
and act as his eyes" at the front.
To the post of chief prohibition in
vestigator Gen. Andrews has named
Walton a. Green. a former Army
officer, Wall street broker and author.
Andrews during the World War. Mr..
Green, who is from New York City,
first came to Gen. Andrews attention
at Camp Dix, where Green was a
major and assisted Gen. Andrews in
the Third Officers Training Camp.
Aided Andrews Abroad
Overseas Mai. Green helped Gen.
Andrews in the organization of mill
Sc h. ~
was connected with a bond house on
Wall street. He is an author of some
note. having contributed to leading
American periodicals, and before the
war was publisher of the Boston Jour
nal.
Mr.. Green's new organization, Gen.
Andrews explained. would have two
principal functions First, to develop
big international conspiracy cases.
and second. accurately 10 estimate
the results obtained hy the new field
army.
As regards the personnel of the pro
hfbition forces in the field. Gen. An
drews explained that his recent order.
to he effective OCiobC" -. would in
effect dismiss everybody in the Sery-
ice In the meantime. the prohibition
administrator will pici; from the pres
ent force the personnel they wish re-
appointed to manage the new ma
chine. On October Is. therefore, the
new administrators will not have to
dismiss the remainder, as those who
are not reappointed will be automat-
ically dropped at that date.
Total Cut Unknown.
How many will be so dropped from
the government pay roll on October
Is Gen. Andrews would not estimate
Seven administrators We're named
temporarily as acting administrators,
to be displaced probably by Gen. An
drews when he finds the men he is
now looking for. The acting admin
istrators probably VIII be retained
later as advisers. They are as fol
lows: r. e. Sans. Boston; J. \. Fos-
ter, New York; r. g. Merrick, Buffalo;
Il. +. Ewing, Chicago; w. ID. Moss,
st. Louis; A. c. Townsend, st. Paul,
and f. c. f. Crabbe of Honolulu.
The Army officers appointed admin
istrators are: A. j. Hanlon, San
Juan, p. R.; Robert Z. Firth, Los
Angeles; Herbert H. White, Fort
Worth, Tex, and Halsey Dunwoody of
Tampa, Fla.
In Florida, especially, Gen. Andrews
said. there was need of an admins
1rator with military experience In
this field at Florida COL Dunwoody,
who has recently been in business in
France, will be expected TO bring
about closer cooperation with all
three forces there connected with
prohibition-the prohibition unit, Gus
toms and Coast Guard.