The Washington times., 1930-06-27

Mitchell.
Brains" of New System
Tht brains" of the system
after July / will r, as follows:
Attorney General Mitchell, com
mander-in-chief of enforcement.
Assistant Attorney General G.
A. Youngquist, chief of staff.
Col. Amos w. w. Woodcock,
dry director and field marshal.
Secretary of the Treasury Mel
lon, commander of the industria,
alcohol bureau, customs anti
smuggling patrol and the Coast
Guard.
Assistant Secretary Seymour
Lowman, his chief of staff.
Rear Admiral F. c.. Billiard,
commandant of the Coast Guard,
charged with prevention of SNUG
Cling from the high seas.
DR.. James M. Doran, chief of
the industrial alcohol bureau.
Francis x. a. Eble, commits
sioner of customs, and chief of
the anti-smuggling land forces.
Mitchell Apprehensive
Clearly Attorney General
Mitchell was apprehensive, judg-
ing from his statement:
'In those States which have
repealed enforcement statutes
and whose authorities do not
perform a proper share Of the
work, there have been, and will
continue to be, grave de
ficiencieS in enforcement"
A field force of 1913 officials,
10 administrators, IL permit
supervisors, 81 enforcement chiefs
in each judicial district, and the
same number of permissive ex-
perts, will begin to function
July /.
Completing his organization,
Attorney General Mitchell today
announced the appointment of
deputy administrators for mosS
of the 81 judicial districts.
They will be directly in charge
of enforcement operations, func-
tioning under the administrators
assigned to each of the IL
districts. Most of the deputies
were transferred from the
Treasury prohibition bureau,
effective July / when the enforce
ment machinery goes to the
Justice Department. f..
r. @. Merrick. who has been
in the prohibition enforcement
service since 1919, will be in
charge of enforcement in the Dis
trict No. 4, which includes Wash
ington. Since December !, 1925,
he has been in charge of the old
Virginia district, with head.
quarters at Richmond.
Thomas E. Stone, who has
been in charge of the prohibition
district which included Mary
Maryland and the District of Co.
lumbia, will remain with the
Treasury Department in the new
Bureau of Industrial Alcohol. He
will be stationed at Richmond,
Va.
Setup Entirely New
The setup is along judicial
circuit lines, entirely different
from the prohibition ! district
boundaries Of the past The first
organization was along State
lines, and that existed until Gen.
Lincoln C. AndewS, once chief of
the A. E. F. military police, was
"called" to build a real pro
hibition army.
Enforcement districts were then
created so each in abgeneral way
would take in territory through
which the same problems existed.
What will happen under the new
arrangement is a matter for the
future. Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Seymour Lowman eX-
pressed the opinion that with de-
lection and prosecution in the
same department a higher degree
of efficiency could be obtained.
Commenting on the Mitchell
plan to obtain greater State CO.
operation, Prohibition e d N m s.
sioner James nj Doran declared
that no better man could be OBJ.
tanned to carry out this policy
than Col. Az w w Woodcock.
Of Maryland, selected as enforce.
ment director
State Aid
Mitchell declared Flat States,
along with the Federal Govern
ment, have a moral obligation to
enforce the Eighteenth Amend
ment. but he added:
"There is no legal way of
compelling State legislatures
to enact enforcement statutes,
or 10 compel State authorities
10 aid In enforcement, just as
there would be no legal way Of
compelling Congress TO enact
enlargement legislation If 1t