The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-24
HOOVER WILL
Be TARGET OF
DRYS' WRATH
Clarence True Wilson to
Blast Administration in
His Report.
SERVES FORMAL NOTICE
Hints President Is Playing
With Vets; WiIiebrandt
Also ASsaiIed.

WASHINGTON Nov 24.-Meth-
odist drys. led by DR.. Clarence True
Wilson, general secretary of the
board of prohibition, temperance,
and public morals of that church,
will serve formal notice on President
Hoover next month that any deser-
ton of the prohibition cause by the
administration or the Republican
party will find them lined up against
him in 1882
i will point out, said DR.. Wilson.
In discussing the annual report he
will present to the board, that we
did not oppose Al Smith because he
was a Democrat or a Catholic. We
opposed him because he was a wet
and a. constitutional nullifier. We
would take the same position against
any Republican President who, while
in Office, took the same stand Smith
did as Governor when he repealed
the state dry law. We would pile
I'D against him the same 100000
votes that We rolled up against
Smith
h2Flh DI hOnlASb
wilson's report also will warn
against certain administration pol
icies which. in the opinion of many
drys. may break down prohibition
enforcement through administrative
or executive action.
Referring to rumors that the
Wickersham commission may rec
ommend revision of the dry laws
and to Prohibition Commissioner
Woodcock's tacit approval OF grape
Juice wine concentrates, DR.. wilson
said
NV report will point out that, If
anv change is to be made IN the
Volstead act or in the eighteenth
amendment, It must be made with
in the walls of congress. 1t can not
be made through personal choice
indifference, or political experience,
at the Office of the encouragement
or the White House"
The dry generalissimo, who just
has completed a six-month nation
wide survey. indicated his report
would constitute the most severe
criticism directed against any ad-
mnistration since prohibition, even
though the drys did so much to elect
Hoover two years ago.
WOodcOck to Be Target
It will be particularly hard on
Prohibition Commissioner Wood
cock. head of the reorganized dry
army, whose policies and appoint
ments here we're denounced by DR..
wilson as destructive of real en-
forcement. 1t also will assail Mrs.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Hoo
ver's leading dry champion in 1923,
hut now counsel for California grape
growers.
"The sale of grapejuice con-
centrate that becomes wine by ADD
ing water is wrong and dangerous,
he said. 1T is d betrayal OF prohl-
bition."
Wilson said he also would refer
IN the administration utter failure
tn consult dry forces during reor-
oanization of prohibition enforce
nent and its transfer to the depart
nent of Justice. He himself, ne
added, had never been called to the
, white House, nor, so far as he re-
called. had F. Scott Mcbride OF
the Anti-Saloon League seen the
President. Bishop James j. Cannon
Ir a member of the Methodist
board and the leagues executive
committee, is the only outstanding
drv leader who has conferred with
NFn4-rf, 4 1000
DesertiOn Is Intimated
In short. the Wilson report, while
not condemning the administration
in so many words. will reflect the
views of many drys that the Presi-
dent dropped them after they had
helped to elect him, and now seeks
to play with the vets; they hold
against him, for instance, his formal
Endorsement of Dwight w. Morrow
in the New Jersey senatorial race at
a time when Morrow was being
hailed by the vets as their new
hero.
1.-THE two men placed in charge
of the personnel office by Wood
cock" said Wilson, ARE vets and
hardly sympathetic to real enforce
ment. They are Daniel H. Reichgut
and Edward E. Berney. I intend to
outline their attitudes and records
in my report. and don't think it
viii be pleasant reading for sincere
drys."
Lyle Is Upheld
DR. Wilson also criticised Wood
cocks treatment of Roy G. Lyle
former administrator for Oregon
and Washington. Lyle recently was
indicted and tried for accepting
brides from bootleggers.
The charges were entirely politi-
cal and malicious, according to VIII
son, and Lyle was acquitted by a
Jury.
LYLE" he continued, twas as hon.
est as daylight, and now he is poor
as poverty. I shall tell this story
in my report as an example of how
faithful servants in the field are
conSpired against by unfaithful Of
flcials at Washington"
OF Mrs. Willebrandt, who OBJ
tanned WoodcockS ruling in favor
Of grapejuice concentrate while
serving as counsel for the grape
growers. DR.. Wilson said:
We we're put to sleep by our
friend. Mrs. Willebrandt. We did
not know that she was counsel to
the California grape growers. and
We thought she still was a friend
of prohibition. Under the cover OF
our confidence, she served her new
\ constituency, and left us with moth
ing 70 say and nobody to say it to-