Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-30
BORAH DEMANDS
DORIAN EXONERATE
OR MOVE HERBERT
States Position in Letter to
Commissioner After Talk
With informant.
YNN OF PROHIBITION
BUREAU GAVE REPORT
House Gets Bill to Transfer Dry
Enforcement to Department
of Justice.

After another conference with his
informant in the Government DEPART
ment, Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho.
today wrote letter to Prohibition Com
missioner Doran and demanded that
John F. j. Herbert, dry administrator
Tor Montana and Idaho, either be uub-
hcly exonerated Of the reported charges
against him or removed from that dis
trict.
It was disclosed today by Senator
Borah that the man who made the
report to him on Herbert's record was
Frank S. Flynn.
Flynn Is In the legal department
OF the Prohibition Bureau. Borah
said he was under the impression
Flynn was an agent of the Department
OF Justice, but when he made this
statement, Attorney General Mitchell
challenged 1t.
Last night Flynn returned 70 the
1oahoans ONCE and reafirned his nre.
VlouS declarations against Herbert.
AIter q severe cross examination. Borah
salo ne was convinced that FLYNN Knew
what he was talking about ana far
mat reason he had written Doran.
assistant Secretary Lowman of the
treasury, in charge of prohibition an
1orcement, has defended Herbert
asalnsL the charges reported by Borah
tana. VI 01Ui-
Another development in the nrob,n,-
uon situation came today when. hv
unanimous consent, the House expendi-
lures COMMITTEES ordered fayorabiv re-
ported the Williamson bill TO transfer
the Prohibition Enforcement RuraaI,
Irom the Treasury to the Justice ne
partment with amendments, thus taking
Gne nrst step In the Hoover prohibition
reorganization plan.
1ne measure was amended TO per-
NIT the Treasury Department. IN isss,e
permits for the withdrawal of ind11s.
Glal alconol under regulations to be
prescribed by the Attorney General
Under the original provision the ser.
retary OF the Treasury and the Attornev
General would have drawn up the reaIi.
lations jointly.
A. The bill also was amended TO change
me name OF the new Bureau OF IN
dustr1al Alcohol and Narcotics I,nder
the Treasury to merely the Bureau ~
industrial Alcohol. This action was
TAKEN, Chairman Williamson al TIE
committee said, in order to prepare 4
way Tor the other measures now under
consideration for the setting I'm az :
separate bureau to handle permits deal
ing with narcotics under the Treasury
Department.
Wheeler Requests Report.
Meanwhile the Department Of .n,rkice
received today from Senator Wheeler,
Democrat, Montana, request for a re-
port on certain charges against Col
Herbert, and at the same time, IL was
1lsclosed by Government records that
riynn MED charges some time ago at
and John j. Quinn, prohibition of1car
previously had left the Government
service IN the Veterans Bureau BY re-
quested resignation.
Inc records Of Capt. Flynn disclose. It
was said, that he served as q captain of
ordnance during the war. He Is iisted
IN the Veterans Bureau as having ia
different physical complaints for which
ne Is now receiving as veteran $ls7. so
q month.
Flynn's service as an employee of the
was terminated when his resirnatio
was requested because Of indiscreet tax.
IL was said today. He later entered the
prohibition service,
Flynn Is now employed as a law clerk
In the ONCE Of the prohibition admins
traitor at Baltimore, but was said TODAY
city. S-'-N
No Charge Against Herbert.
Quinn, who was formerly deputy pro-
hlbition administrator in charge of This
city, Was recently dismissed. Col. Her
bert was transferred to Montana. for the
good OF the service" according 10 the
explanation wiven by prohibition on
Gals. These oficials insist that there
are now no official charges pending
against Herbert.
Sentor Wheeler said today that he
believes the matter he laid before the
Department of Justice, which he re-
celVeo from a newspaper man, is iden-
tlcal with the material which Can't
FIynn is said to have taken to the
white House some months ago. Sem
ator Wheeler said that personally he
knows nothing except that this material
was brought to him, and it is believed
tnat either he or Senator Walsh Should
nave been consulted by prohibition adj
illustrators before Col. Herbert or anv
one else was sent to take charge Of
the work in his State. He said that
his only interest in the matter ia To
be assured that prohibition adninis-
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