Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-15
Post Provided in Transfer
Bill Approved by Senate
Yesterday.
WAS 'RIGHT.HAND MANI
OF MRS. WILLEBRANDT
DR.. Doran to Be Appointed Com.
missioner of Industrial Alcohol
at Same Pay.

Howard T. Jones, assistant to G. A,
Youngquist, Assistant attorney General
OF the Department of Justice is under
serious consideration for appointment as
the new director of prohibition. The
position is provided in pending legisla-
ton which passed the Senate yesterday.
and would transfer prohibition enforce
ment from the Treasury to the Depart
ment of Justice. The bill now is in con-
ference. 1t would be effective July 1.
AT the Department of Justice there
was deep silence regarding the whole
matter of transfer, and especially re-
garding the appointment of a new di-
rector. But the consideration of Mr..
Jones for the post was confirmed from
an authentic source outside that de-
partment. MIR. Jones would neither
confirm nor deny the report.
The prohibition transfer bill contains
only slight changes from the measure
as it previously passed the House, and
Is expected to be agreed to shortly. It
contains the keynote recommendation
OF PRESIDENT Hoover for improved law
enforcement, and will be signed by the
Chief Executive.
Recommended as Expert.
Mr.. Jones, who came from Pennsvl.
vania, is recommended for the post as
as expert on prohibition affairs, having
peen LII the Department of Justice for
many years. He was the "right-hand
man" OF Mrs. Mabel Walker WILLIE
brandt, formerly Assistant Attorney
General In charge of prohibition pros
ecutions. Since Mrs. Willebrandt's res
1gnation, ne has been assistant to Mrs.
W1lebrandt's successor.
Final decision in the matter Of ap-
pointing new director was understood
still to be held up, pending final enact
ment OF the bill. The Attorney General
probably will be ready to appoint his
director shortly after the bill is signed.
according to indications today The new
job is appointive, filled by the Attorney
General. and confirmation by the Sem
year.
In the meantime, it was also learned
definitely that DR.. James M. Doran.
the present prohibition commissioner
Is to remain in the Treasury Depart
ment, and will be appointed to the new
post created by the transfer bill, en-
titled commissioner of industrial alco-
hol, at the same salary he now holds
as prohibition commissioner.
The Departments of Treasury and
Justice have been closely cooperating
for months on quiet program looking
forward to the transfer Of prohibition.
For instance the program of transfer
Of personnel, as provided in the bill
would follow plan whereby the great
rank and file of civil service employees
now in the Prohibition Bureau Of the
Treasury Department, will not lose
their jobs. Some will remain in the
Treasury Department, and others will
be transferred to Department OF Justice.
Assistant to Be Named.
In addition to the new director Of
prohibition, the Attorney General is to
appoint an assistant director of prohi-
bition and such attorneys as he deems
necessary, without regard to civil serv-
ice regulations.
The number of employees to be trans
ferred to the Department of Justice
from the Treasury Department stands
enforcement personnel and 1873 from the
Washington central Office personnel.
Treasury employees on permissive work
who will remain in the Treasury De-
partment number 1887, of which /, 466
are in the field and 221 are in the
washington central ONCE.
While it has not been decided def
niteiy how or where the new outfit I'M
der the Department of Justice will be
housed. it was considered likely today
that they would probably remain in
their present temporary location in the
Southern Railway Building, which now
belongs to the Government, at Thir-
teenth and E streets.
Narcotics Bill Pending.
Narcotics enforcement remains IN
the Treasury under the transfer bill.
While another bill, introduced by Rep
resentative Stephen G. Porter of Penn
sylvania, provides for the setting up
of a new Bureau of Narcotics in the
Treasury Department. Mr.. Porter now
is i'll in a sanatorium, and, of course,
is not pushing his measure. In the
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