Evening star., 1926-08-15
ANDREWS MAY USE
NEW DRY TACTICS
Is Expected to Name Zone
Supervisors to Coordinate
Three Field Agencies.

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supervisors to coordinate field work
of the prohibition unit, customs ana
Coast Guard in "a united campaign
against bootleggerS is expected 10 De
one Of the next major onenslVes OIL
Brig. Gen. Lincoln {. Andrews, dry
czar, who returned to Washington
yesterday from London.
Already, Gen. Andrews explained
he has tried out the system in three
different places. under different KINDS
of supervisors, to determine It's
feasibility, and he is expected to de-
eide soon upon d program for the
United States as u whole.
IThe immediate prohibition activity.
of course. will be the putting into
effect of the new executive agreement
worked out at London FOR cooperative
measures between the United States
and Great ITitain to stop smuggling.
Machinery for placing this in effect
is expected to be largely that provided
by consuls. abroad. cooperating with
Washington, and some additional per
sonntl After this is working smooth
ly il is expected that Gen. Andrews
will give much of his attention to the
zone supervisory system, TO war
against distributors of liquor and to
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operation from local law enforcement
officials.
Anslinger May Get Post.
Harry j. AnslinSer, American consul
in the Bahama Islands. is understood
10 be favorably considered by the
Treasury and state Departments to
head the new division OF foreign con-
troll. through which Gen. Andrews
hopes 10 deal a death blow to the
importation of illicit liquor. Mr. An
Singer will be in Washington tomor
row to confer with Gen Andrews and
State Department officials. III the
program is worked out successfully
Gen. Andrews hopes it may be put into
full operation this week.
The executive agreement signed at
London, now en- route to Washington
IN Gen. Andrews trunk, is not a
treaty, he explained yesterday, but
an understanding between the exec
utiVes of the two countries. 1t has
the approval of Foreign Minister Sir
Austen chamberlain and Secretary
OF state kellogg. 1t will not require
the Endorsement of the American Sen
ate or of the British Parliament.
Thus far the text Of the agreement
has been kept secret. ana it is likely
that 1t Will be kept from the public
until It's provisions have been applied
Even then it is likely that the entire
scheme viii not be revealed, as Gen
Anderson explained that some of its
effectiveness will be in it's mystery
Counts on New System.
The new zone supervisory SYSTEM
Gen. Andrews hopes. will prove high
ly effective not only in obtaining CO.
operation between the three principal
arms at his command, but in keeping
hlm closely in touch with field Off
GERS. The zone supervisors under his
new plan would work directly under
Gen. Andrews and would report di-
Iectly To him
The three areas IN which the Sys-
TEN Is being tried out, it was eX
planned, are on the Pacific, Gulf and
South Atlantic coas -
AT San Francisco the supervisor is
ALI Oftedal, head of the Pacific divi-
sion of the Special Intelligence Unit
OF the Internal Revenue Bureau. Mr..
Oftedal also has taken over in that
territory the business OF handling big
conspirdcies and similar cases.
AT New Orleans Prohibition Admin
lStrator o. ID. jackson has been placed
temporarily in command AS zone Su-
pcrNisor, and Gen. Andrews has or
uered Administrators IL. III. White, at
Fort WORTH Tex: Alroy :. Phills
al It. Louis, and William @. MHysatt
Louisville. To confer With him. These
men control territory which Gen. An
dreWS considers as q geographical
unit containing similar problems,
which could he solved by close co-or-
dlnatiou.
At Savannah, Gia. Is located the
first ut these experimental supervi-
Sois, NJ. @. Dunning. the collector of
customs. Nh Dunning. according to
records at the Treasury, has been
highly successful in co-ordinating the
thre" branches of the service in his
territory.
Others l nder scrutiny.
other men. II is understood. already
are under personal scrutiny by Gen.
Andrews for appointment to posts as
zone supervisors and may be named
shortly.
The Potomac River. according to
the dry chief. is the natural dividing
Iuc between the TWO sections of the
country on the Atlantic seaboard
The northern section Gen, Andrews
characterized as the Wetter." He
did not say when he expected to put
u zone supervisor in charge of this
territory.
While the new supervisors would
be subject directly to Gen Andrews
command at Washington, it is likely.
arcorling 10 present indications. that
The centerS out of which they would
work their territory Will be New
York, Savannah. New Orleans. Chi
caSo, Denver and San Francisco.
one of these may be omitted, as the
dry chief has not made up his mind
he said, a. to whether il is necessary
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