Evening star., 1930-06-27
CAPT. R. 0. MERRICK
| OF RICHMOND NEW
DISTRICT DRY CHIEF
Will Take Office tuesday.
Here Today Conferring
With Officials.
NEW DRY ENFORCEMENT
DISTRICTS ANNOUNCED
Justice Department Reduces Num-
Der From ~ to IL in Nam.
ing Administrators.

| OIllCldlly dIlIlOuIlCGu ny IilGSC LWO uG-
| partments last night, places this city
| under a new prohibition chief, Capt
| r. @. Merrick of Richmond, Va, be-
| ginning next Tuesday morning.
Permissive work for distribution OF
| liquor permits will be handled by
/ Thomas E. Stone, the present prohibit
| ton administrator at Baltimore, who
will become permit supervisor in the
! new Bureau of Industrial Alcohol in the
| Treasury Department.
These changes are in line with the
shifts made throughout the country
when the new Bureau of Prohibition
will be set up in the Department OF
Justice and the Bureau of Industrial
| Alcohol in the Treasury.
In making its announcement the de-
! partment of Justice made public its new
| list of prohibition districts, reducing the
number from 81 to IL, and announced
the names of the prohibition admin
| istrators. At the Treasury it was eX-
| planned that in its permissive work the
| Treasury will operate in the IL new
| districts. The permit supervisors were
announced.
Mitchell Makes Statement.
Attorney General Mitchell also made
| public a statement on prohibition en-
lOICcIlSIlI, III WlIlCIl Ie pOiIiJSu OHL lll6
responsibilities resting on States for
| enforcement and the cooperation con-
| sidered as needed between Federal and
| State authorities. He said, however
| that in some States which had repealed
| their enforcement statutes there were
| grave deficiencies in enforcement"
Capt. Merrick, the new chief in
| charge here, will have a new prohibi-
tion district, including Maryland, Vir-
| ginia, West Virginia, North Carolina,
! South Carolina and the District of Co.
lumbia.
Capt. Merrick was in Washington to-
day conferrlng with officials at the
Treasury and Justice Departments, but
| planned to leave this afternoon for his
headquarters in Richmond He has had
25 years service in the Government. in
Guiding many years in the old Internal
Revenue Service, operating against
moonShinerS in the South for evadinp
the revenue tax laws long before pro-
hlbition became effective. Cant. Mar-
| rick has held responsible posts in sew
eral parts OF the country, including
| New York. Buffalo, Chicago, Savannah
and Richmond.
The District of Columbia is now ad-
mlnistered from Baltimore, in an area
comprising only the District, MARYLAND
ana Delaware, by Mr.. Stone, prohibition
administrator.
Capt Merrick, the new prohibition
| chleI under the Department of Justice
In charge of this city, is a veteran of
tne prohlbition service. and recently
mas been N charge of the district in
Guiding Virginia, North Carolina and
South Carolina, with headquarters N
W. r. Blandford, the deputy prohi-
/ pition administrator in this judicial
| olstrict, VIII remain here in charge, ac-
cordlng TO officials of the Department
! OF Justice, under whom he will oneroto
! after July l. Blandford and All sin1iler =
prohlbition administrators were con-
Ilnueo In their present posts, the De-
parIment of Justice announced.
Col. WoOdcock New Head.
The new Bureau of Prohibition is
| nelng set up in the Department of ms
ice 10 be headed by Col. A. w, w
Wooacoch' VINO Will act as director of
the bureau. under supervision of Attor-
ney General Mitchell and the Assistant
attorney General in charge of prohibit
tlon' aaron Youngquist. Howard T
Jones VIII serve as assistant director.
4ne present Bureau of Prohibition
IN the Treasury Department will he
| changed into the Bureau of Industrial
Alcohol. While the official announce
ment mas been made to the effect II
Is known that the present prohibition
! commissioner, DR.. James M. Doran viii
! become the commissioner of industriai
! alcohol. This bureau, under DR., Doran
IsCalnS the duty of issuing permits for
the manufacture and use of alcohol
ana other Intoxicating liquor for non
beverage purposes and of supervisino
the activities of the permittees.
Inc ~ prohibition districts now ex-
ISCIhg nave been rearranged into II new
uISCIIcIs' WIN boundaries corresponding
IN some measure with the 10 judicial
circuits wa"
In ADDITION to the local district known
as mo. =. which is in charge of Prohi-
oltlon Administrator Merrick, under the
department of Justice, and Mr.. Stone
permit supervisor under the Treasury
Department, thC other new districts
with their prohibition administrators
ana permit supervisors, are as follows:
Other New Districts.
District ! includes the New England
States. with headquarters at Boston:
Jonathan S. Lewis, prohibition admins
/ traitor; Maurice Campbell, permit super
| visor.
District 2 consists of the State of
| New York, with headquarters at New
YORK City, to which Porto Rico will be
attached for purposes of administration.
Andrew McCampbell, administrator, and
w. D. Moss. supervisor.
| District 3-Pennsylvania New jersey
and Delaware, with headquarters at
! Philadelphia; John D. Pennington. ad-
ministrator, and S. o. Wynne, super
! visor
District 5-Florida, Georgia, Missis-
| sippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas,
with headquarters at New Orleans; Rob-
ert E Tuttle, administrator, and o. D.
Jackson. supervisor.
| District 6-Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky
/ and Tennessee, with headquarters at
! Cincinnati; w. N. Woodruff, admins
traitor and r. E. Joyce, supervisor.
District Illinois, Indiana and Wis
consin with headquarters at Chicago;
! Col. John F. j. Herbert, administrator.
and E. C.. Yellowly, supervisor.
| District 8-Minnesota, North Dakota
South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. with
headquarters at ST. Paul; NJ. L. Harney,
administrator, and S, B. Qvale, super
| visor
District 9-Missouri, Arkansas, Kan
saS and Oklahoma, with headquarters
at Kansas City: George H Wark, ad-
ministrator, and S. H. Haley, supervisor.
| District 10-Colorado, Wyoming, Utah.
New Mexico and Arizona, with head
quarters at Denver; John F. Vivian, ad-
ministrator, and G. A. Ellsworth, super =
| visor.
District 1l-California and New Ia
with headquarters at San Francisco, tt
which the Hawaiian Islands will be at
tached, for purposes Of administration: