The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-19
Hoover Spurs Greatest
Drive in History; Hire
Extra Agents.
PUBLICITY is MAPPED
Educational Campaign Is
Prepared; Court Jams
70 Be Cleared.
yY CECIL OWEN

United fTeSS stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 19.-The
most intensive and widespread ef-
fort ever made to enforce prohibi-
ton is imminent
Spurred on by President Herbert
Hoover, who made law enforcement
a leading issue of the campaign and
the chief text Of his inaugural adj
dress, the federal government is
marsahling it's forces for major
offensive against the liquor law
breaker.
Money aggregating nearly $50
100000 for this year alone is avail
able for the big push" Extra funds
aggregating $2,730,000 we're appro-
priated by the regent congress for
division between all dry law enforce
ment agencies.
Hire Extra Agents
ViolatQrs caught in the enforce
ment machinery, shortly 10 be aug
mented by extra agents hired with
the additional funds, will be liable
to the most severe penalties ever
imposed for infraction Of the fed
eral prohibition laws. The Jones
bill. passed by congress at It's last
session. allows maximum penalties
of five years in Jail and $4,000 fine,
Or both.
Three hundred and seventy extra
prohibition agents, bringing the en-
fire staff close to a total OF 3,OO0
men. now are being hired by the
drv bureau. which received Sl,719,-
900 extra in addition to its regular
$13.5OO,000 appropriation.
Drawn from the ranks OF war VET
Grams or men who have seen mill
tary or police duty of some kino,
the extra agents will be divided
about evenly among the twenty-five
dry districts, James M. Doran, pro-
yhibition commissioner, told the
United Press today.
Publicity Drive Mapped
"This new activity is in no sense
temporary drive" he explained
but is intended as permanent
nolicv. The men we hire now, ana
we expect to have most of them at
work in months time, Will be con-
tinued as part of our regular organ
ization unless congress refuses to
appropriate for their pay next year.
Along with the increase IN en-
forcement work of the bureau, Dor
an is planning $4,000 educational
oo,,,,ooic11 -
Unprecedented in prohibition en-
forcement. this campaign will apply
the publicity methods OF Hoover
food conservation drives during the
war.
CONFIDENT with the stepping up OF
the dry unit activity, the justice de-
partment. which now has about
$4,000 cases pending untried IN the
federal courts. is planning to engage
a number of extra assistant dlSTrlct
attorneys. The department SAID TO-
dav it could not estimate the exact
number of men it can hire Tor the
$15o.O0O additional appropriation
Planes to Be Used
Similarly. the customs bureau and
coast guard are planning to play m
portant roles in the supreme effort
to enforce prohibition.
The customs bureau, whose extra
appropriation of 100000 will not be
available until July /. expects to add
2o3 additional patrolmen to its Dor
der staff. 1t will also take on III
teen more customs agents, seven
teen inspectors and thlrty-Slx
guards.
Four new seaplanes to be used Tor
scouting rum runners of the Florl-
da coast are being ordered by coast
guard headquarters. These planes
viii be in commission in about SIX
months.