Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
Vigorous Liquor Campaign
Will Start in This Area
About July |.
300 STILLS SEIZED
DURING PAST MONTH
Woodcock Reports 1000 Persons
Arrested-More Cars Will
Be Bought.

Forty new agents will be assigned
to the local prohibition district July
in resumed campaign against COM
mercial dry law violators.
In making known his plans, Director
of Prohibition Amos w. w. Woodcock
explained it will be a most carefully
planned campaign and will be prose-
cuted more strenuously than any in
recent prohibition history.
The local prohibition district to
which the 40 new agents will be as
signed includes the District of Column
bia, Maryland, the Virginias and the
Carolinas.
1000 Seized in Month.
Col. Woodcock also disclosed that
enforcement figures during the past
month showed more than 1000 arrests
and the seizure of 1900 stills, $4,000
gallons of Illicit liquor and 246,000 gall
Ions of beer.
Surely this must put dent in COM
mercial violations" the prohibition di-
rector said. I'm one State alone, New
York, we seized stills with an aggre-
gate daily capacity Of 10000 gallons. +"
Four points stood out in the forma-
ton Of the new enforcement campaign
I0IOugIIOuL IIle Country.
One was the issuance Of orders to
every prohibition administrator and his
deputies to submit to Washington plans
for dovetailed operations involving the
500 agents.
Autos to Be Bought.
Another was the announcement of
the intended purchase of $4,000 worth
of automobiles.
A third was notification to all admin
istratorS to select their quotas of new
agents from the list of 5000 eligible,
having them ready for duty by July !.
TO school.
Lastly, Woodcock made known the
creation of an intelligence division to
study enemy operations"
I'VE want to have a definite plan OF
action In every section before July i, y
he said. There is no use having in
creased facilities unless there is cam
paign to employ them. And I want
some real thinking done upon it. We
should get away from the old policy OF
operating against violators on day-by-
day bastS."
$50 Put TO Work.
Approximately $50 Of the new force
already have been selected and put to
work, Woodcock said.
In preparation for aSsimilating the
remaining $50 men, the "a instructors
of the Prohibition Bureau will be called
to Washington In June for 'refresher
course.
Each will be back at his post in one
of the IL prohibition districts the morn
ing of July /, to begin two weeks OF
schooling for the new force.
OF the men already employed, Wood
cock said, the largest number have been
thrown into New York State. When
the full force Is at work, he added, 80
new men will be operating in that Sec
ton in addition to the 249 already
there. Making it by far the largest unit
in the country.
Chicago to Get 80.
Eighty more agents will be sent to
the Chicago district, which embraces
Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. While
an additional 10 will go to Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey and Delaware.
Woodcock said the proposed auto
mobile purchase was the first ever au-
thorized for the Prohibition Bureau.
Previously the dry forces have used
confiScated cars.
The intelligence division will grow
from the bureaus present division of
puUllC cQuCdLlDlA anu ItScdICub Lie
authorization for which was deleted
from the last appropriation bill.
Woodcock said it would concentrate
upon tracing "the sources and origin of
Illicit liquor and study of the course
of this liquor to the trade"
Woodcock said he planned an in
spection trip into Kentucky probably
early next week, to be followed by a
trip through Kansas, Missouri, Ar
kansas and Nebraska.