Evening star., 1928-12-26
MILLS PLAN WINS
DURANT DRY PRIZE
Boy Student From Hoover's
Home Town Is Given
SCnO0l Award.
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Ry the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 26.-A for
mer New York prohibition administra-
tor and a l5-year-old high school boy
from Herbert Hoover'S home town are
victors in William c. Durant's $4,000
prize contest for The best prohibition
enforcement plan.
Maj. Chester p Mills. who resigned
as prohibition administrator for the
New York City district year ago last
June, won the main prize of $25000
Malcolm D. Almack, a junior in Palo
Alto, Calif.s high school, won the IS 900
school prize, The boy receives 81 900
and his school $4,000
More drastic restrictions and closer
supervision of the traffic in industrial
alcohol to curb diversion into illicit
channels were suggested by Mai. Mills.
Education of the people concerning
Vie prohibition law. teaching more re-
Spect for the law and a more scientific
selection of enforcement officers were
the high points in Almack's plan.
Checks Are Received
Checks for the prizes were received
yesterday by Mai Mills at his home in
Green Farms. Conn. and by Almack
and the principal of his school in Palo
Alto.
Approximately half of the 1920
plans submitted in the contest were sent
In by women. The total number of
suggestions offered by the contestants
was $4,000.
Only 744 suggested modification of
the eighteenth amendment. while 5,340
urged modification of the Volstead act.
OF ( these 1886 favored manufacture
and sale of tntoXicants, and 400 wanted
light wines and beer.
Better use of Federal organizations
was offered as a solution by 1888, while
better State and local cooperation was
suggested by 1859.
Recommendations for education and
propaganda were made by 19,l0S.
Church training formed the theme of
1902 suggestions. General education
was urged by 1923.
Replies From Every State.
The prize offer, which was made by
Mr.. Durant August 27. evoked replies
from every State in the Union, every
territorial possession of the United
States, Canada and many foreign
countries
New York State, with 2,104 plans, led
IN the number of contestants. Penn
f0Fnia offered 1923, Massachusetts, 732
and Missouri 673. Among the foreign
entries was one from general in
the Brazilian army and one from
Chinese Official.
The plan offered by Maj. Mills, he
Gays, follows closely the policy he pur-
sued during his administration of the
prohibition law in New York, policy
not eonSummated when he resigned.
In the handling of denatured alco-
hoi, Mai. Mills urged closer scrutiny
Of persons and concerns to whom per-
mits are issued, and declared for the
elimination Of the independent de-
maturing plants, which, he says, have
no economic place in the business and
are forced to divert part of their out
put into bootleg channels to make a
prodt.
Mills Appointed in 1925.
Stricter supervision of perfume
plants and similar concerns which hold
permits for special denatured alcohol
to- prevent them disposing of the alco-
hol to bootleggers through cover
hoiises" Is urged inthe Mills plan.
Maj. Mills was appointed prohibition
administrator for the New York dis
trfct in February 1926, and resigned
June 81, 1927. after announcement of
his transfer to the position of Eastern
zone supervisor.
He is a graduate of West Point and
served as a member of the general
staff in the World War
At the time of his resignation and
IN a subsequent series of magazine
articles Mai. Mills blamed the activi-
ties of politicians in the selection of
prohibition officers for the lack of en-
forcement.
DRY PLAN OE STUDENT.