Evening star., 1933-04-02
OLD DRY BUREAU
BELIEVED DOOMED
Drastic Shake-up Foreseen
With "ControI" as Aim
Under DaIrymple.
BY REX COLLIER.

Appointment Of Maj A. v. Dalrymple
of San Francisco as "czar" of the new
deal In dry law enforcement foreshad-
ows a drastic administrative shake-up
and reorganization which will write q
new chapter In the career of the Pro-
hibition Bureau. battle-scarred veteran
of the Volstead era.
While the aggressive, 20o-pound dry
dictator maintained discreet silence
as to his plans, it was learned from
reliable sources that the Prohibition
Bureau may face from the picture and
there will emerge in its place an en-
tirely new bureau for control" rather
than prohibition, Of the liquor trafdc.
1t Is understood that tentative plans
call for a return to the plan originally
adopted in the Wilson administration
for centralizing control Of liquor, mar
cotics and industrial alcohol under one
head. II this is approved, it will mean
the merging of the present Prohibition
Bureau, the Bureau of Narcotics and
the Bureau of Industrial Alcohol under
Maj. Dalrymple Such plans would
have as their objective a more active.
not diminished, war against narcotics,
1t was said.
While it is not expected that enforce
ment activities will be taken from the
Justice Department for the time being,
there is likelihood that developing i'm
portance CT revenue collection with the
legalization of beer and wines may lead
to transfer of Dalrymple's bureau to
the Treasury, where prohibition func-
tions originally centered.
Woodcock to Remain.
COL Amos w. w. Woodcock, retiring
director Of prohibition, will remain, by
special request of Attorney General
Cummings, to assist in the proposed re-
organization. He was appointed yes
terday as a special assistant to the At
torney General.
There was an unconfirmed report on
Capitol Hill that Edward Wrede, secre-
tary to the late Senator Howell Of Ne
braska, would be given an important
executive post under Maj. Dalrymple.
BY reputation vigorous crusader,
Maj. Dalrymple is expected to declare
war at once on the racketeers and other
big boys" Of the Illicit liquor trade,
with view, especially, to protection Of
legitimate beer manufacturers under the
new beer laws.
He is Of the opinion that enforcement
of the new beer laws will be much
easier task than enforcing the old pro-
hibition statutes, because he will have
the support Of the beer manufacturers
and consumers as well as the ardent drys
In his campaign to eradicate Illicit prac-
tices.
Every possible effort will be made to
protect the rights Of dry States after
of beer on April Z.
Dalrymple's previous Service as Fed
eral supervising prohibition agent for
the central division, embracing Illinois.
Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin. Iowa and
Minnesota won him letters of COM
late Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel
of the Anti-Saloon League of America;
E. j. Davis, head of the Anti-Saloon
League of Chicago, and others.
Supported by Drys.
He Is said to have been recommended
for his present appointment by Senator
McAdoo. Vice President Garner, Secre-
tary OF Commerce Roper, Deets Pickett
Of the Methodist Board of Temperance,
Prohibition and Public Morals; Senator
Morris Sheppard Of Texas and Mrs. Mel
lie G. Donohoe, Democratic national
4OI
Dalrymple was sworn In yesterday at
the Justice Department before a bat
terry of cameras and talking picture
recording paraphernalia. He later
posed again at his Office in the old
Southern Railway Building in the act
Of bidding good-by to Col. Woodcock.
He spent his first short day in Office
meeting present executives and en-
ployes Of his bureau and In receiving a
host of friends who called to con-
gratulate him.
Capt. R. Q. Merrick, prohibition ad-
ministrator in charge Of district No. 4,
including the Capital; was. at prohibi-
ton headquarters among the officials
greeted by the new director yesterday.
Capt. Merrick. whose Office Is at Rich
mond, Is in Washington on business
concerning the administration of this
area, but declined to comment upon
what policies he will adoptsfor the Dis
trict until after he confers at length
with the new chief.
Capt. Merrick is a veteran in the
Government service and has occupied
several important posts, being shifted
from one part Of the country to an
other during the various changes that
have been made in the administration
OF prohibition.