Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1923, Page 38

38 National War-Trucking System Devised by Army Officers Here Maj. Taylor Tells Auto Enginers of Plans for Emergency. ‘» Would Have All Trans-! portation Within 50 : Miles by Highway. : ~ Comprehensive plans for the ordination of all transportation faci ties in war with particular emphasis | on motor transport, were described | today by Maj. Brainerd Taylor, of the Army quartermaster corps, in an | address before the Society of Aut Motive Engineers. Ma). Taylor said the army had leen working on organization of highway nsportation for more and belleved a well-or truck service was the tion of the rail and water transportation problem n limit of designation of ge throughout the ¢ to base the of long ha is another Taylor said. ‘Terminal and port cquipme aaid are to be developed at th fic centers so as to effect a pr DAUGHTERS OF 1812 eature of the p URGE PREPAREDNESS ; MAJ. BRAINERD TAYLOR. “ | co-ordination of railway, waterway and h y transport service, and the plan contemplates development on this basis of a nationally co-ordinated transportation system. Co-ordination of the traffic control directed from these centers would be brought about in Wash- ¢ transport r of trans- c board. mititary advantages, an - economic stand- lor said, would effect ns of dollars in the Tt plan from buildings for unpatriotic purposes. ist of officers elected yester- Mrs. Samuel Preston Da- Rock, Ark., president na- R t W. Maxwell of rst vice president; Mrs. SEVEN INDICTED IN LIQUOR RETURN Sharers and Former Judge Must Answer Transportation Charge. GO, April — Federal in- dictments naming seven men, as well as the firm of Grommes & Ullrich, 1i- quor dealers, which recently was dis- solved by distribution of its $200,000 stock of liquors to the stockholders, | were returned before District Judge Wilkerson by the federal grand jury. The firm and the individuals, who included Charles A. Williams, former judge and the attorney who had charge of the legal details in conne tion with the liquidation of the firm; former Alderman R. J. Mulcahy and five others, were charged with viola- federal prohibition law. alding and abetting in the illegal transportation of liquor. Be- sildes the corporation and former Judge Willlams and Mulcahy, the other individuals named as particl- suspension as & result of the case was announced Monday. At the time former Judge Willlams declared the distribution of the liquor dividends was legal. ANDREWS SEES BLAIR. Suspended Illinois Dry Head Con- : fers With Officials. Roscoe Andrews, recently suspend- ed as Illinois state prohibition di- rector, pending an investigation into the distribution of the Grommes and D. 0, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1923. day v/ith Commissioner Blalr of (he'TRADE BOARD TO HELP internal revenue bureau. Varfous questions relating to the case and to the circumstances lead- ing up to Mr. Andrews' suspension were considered, but afterward both Commissioner Blair and the former director declined tc revcal the trend of their discussion. Officials at the prohibition unit likewise refused to add anything to their previous an- nouncement —regarding the suspen- sion or to indicate what effect the grand jury proceedings at Chicago Jlirich liquor stocks, conferred to- | might have on the case. generously developed figure. pants of what has been termed the “booze dividend” of the liquidating liquor firm 3 Frederick Diehl. Arthur P. Christian, Harry F. Tansey and Carl F. Behrens. Muicahy also is charg ceiving a share of the of the men named are wide and none of the extremely wealthy men said to have een among the stockholders who received the liquor dividends were _indicted, but the grand jury did not stop in its work on the case with the return of the indictments. It was understood that further indictments might be re- turned The Groomes and Ullrich case burst | into public view on the p stage a fe weeks ago when it be- came known that the old liquor firm had by a novel method dissolved under an arrangement by which its liquors were divided among the shareholder: It became k stockholders tribution and that it possible by the issuance of permits for the removal of the liquor by Ros- coe C. Andrews, then acting prohi- bition” director 'for Illinois, whose wn_that some of the 0 ‘Belt “TRADE MARK REG full figure is no longer the excep- tion. Designers, recognizing the beauty of physical maturity, have used their tal- ents to create gowns, lingerie and corsets that will render justice to the full or Rengo Belt Reducing Corsets are designed —through their exclusive features—to mould stout figures into lines of grace and beautiful proportion. They are strong and excellently taflored. 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