Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
WOODCOCK PLANS
TO CONCENTRATE ON
LARGER VI0LATORS
Continued From First rsge)

July 1, passed from under the Treasury
Department to the Department of JUST
ice. The statement was issued at the
close of meeting attended by IL adj
illustrators, who in as many districts
Throughout the country, have charge of
enforcement work in the field.
This meeting, called by Mr.. Wood
cock for the purpose Of acquainting
the administrators with matters of pol
in progress today Supervisors of in
dustrial alcohol permits also met here
today under DR.. James M. Doran, In
charge of this branch of enforcement.
The IL administrators and special
agents were addressed this morning by
Assistant Attorney General Youngquist,
in charge of prohibition in the Depart
ment of Justice Mr.. Youngquist, who
holds the same relative position in the
reorganized prohibition unit that As
sistant Secretary Iowman held when the
unit was under the Treasury Depart
ment, discussed the obtaining of evil
dence and made suggestions with refer
ence to the subject of prosecutions.
The more effective control of indus
trial alcohol was the subject of a gen.
eral conference which DR.. Doran held
with his subordinates, with the budget
of that division of the prohibition or
ganization also coming in for discussion.
The supervisors summoned to Washing
ton to meet with DR. Doran were:
Philip Hamlin, Boston: w. d. Moses.
New York; S. o. Wynne, Philadelphia
Thomas E. Stone, Richmond; o. d.
Jackson, New Orleans; r. z. Joyce, Gin
cinnati; e. c. Yellowley, Chicago; S.
B. Qvale, st. Paul; S. S. Haley, Kansas
City; G. e. Ellsworth, Denver; William
r. Woods, jr., San Francisco, and F.
r. McReynolds, Seattle.
The establishment in Washington of
a school for training enforcement
agents, and an effort to obtain uniform
sentences for approximately similar
violations, also are to be undertaken,
Woodcock announced.
School Opens September 1.
A school will be opened here Sep
TENDER /, he said, and "a special agents
called in for instruction When the
agents have finished a course of in
administration district to organize and
conduct similar schools.
The aim OF the reorganized bureau.
Woodcock said, is not the number of
people sentenced for violating the law,
but decrease in the consumption of
intoxicating liquor in the United States. -
Asserting that this is the real meas
ure and test of our work" he added
that he disapproved of sensational
methods"
IT propose" he said. ito make a gen.
eral and, I hope, intelligent effort to-
ward encouraging State and local off,
Gals to assume their proper share of
the burden OF enforcing the prohibition
policies of the United States" Com
menting that the policy is not a new
one, he added that It is one he hoped to
develop more effectively.
system Of daily reports from all en-
forcement districts will be instituted, to
furnish "a graphic picture of our ac-
tivities throughout the land" he an
nounced. Woodcock said it was in
tended that newly created division of
research and public instruction shall
gather suficient facts from which an
intelligent opinion can be had as to
whether the consumption of liquor" Is
lower than before prohibition and
whether 1t is increasing or decreasing
from day to day.
A tremendous lack of uniformity"
in sentences for what are essentially
the same offenses was noted by Wood
cock, and he suggested that judges
throughout the country confer with a
view to proposing remedies. This is
not justice. and without justice we do
not promote respect for law"
or his own task, Woodcock said he
proposed to spend a great deal of his
time in visiting and inspecting the work
of various administrators and deputy
administrators in their territories. II
do not propose to busy myself with the
details Of this bureau so that will not
have an opportunity to see, to hear and
to think" he declared
Before issuing the statement, Wood
cock conferred with President Hoover
and with Attorney General Mitchell.