New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 30, 1930, Page 5

. handling of t NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1930. Prohibition Enforcement Work to Be Turned Over to Justice Officers; State Cooperation Plan Is Urged S Treasury Relinquishes the Task Tonight to Mitchell and Assistants—Confer- ence of Governors Will| Be Called by Leader. Washington, June 30 (P—Re-| sponsibility for enforcing the prohi- | bition laws will pass tonight into the hands of the nation's legal agency | At midnight the department of| Justice, following President Hoover's | plan for strengthening the adminis- | tration of the dry statutes, will take | over the prohibition bureau from the treasury and inaugurate its en- | forcement campaign The move will place Attorney Gen- | eral Mitchell in the command of the dry forces. He will be aided by As- | sistant Attorney General Youngquist, | &s the administrative officer and Amos W. W. Woodcock, and Howard T. Jones, also lawyers, as director | and assistant director of the division | of prohibition. Wants State Cooperation Calling for state cooperatives, Mr. Mitchell last week said that when the eighteenth amendment was adopted it was not contemplated that the federal government would create an enormous police force “such as would be necessary fo enforce the law if state authorities did noth- ing." He added he would #&pecial effort to co ties of each state gree of law o forth a nfer with authori- ‘to secure that de- vance and enforce- ment” which, he said, could some only through the united efforts of the state and federal governments,” 1t is reported he will seek to have eonferences called between governors of state and dry officers to evolve methods of more rigidly enforcing the er rgporfs have it that the attorney general will se crease in the put pu law. Ot} k an in- nber of prohibition agents with a view to tightening the enforcement in wet districts of the country and will concentrate upon those spots The bureau treasury transfer of will for the prohibition take away from the the first time the e liquor problem. Be- doption of the Eight_enth the Internal Revenue law collected taxes from the iness u1d since that time had the enforcement of prohibition but the handling of the industrial alcohol and medicinal 'iquor manufacture Controls Industrial “Alky"” U r the transfer the treasury will retain control of the industrial alcohol and medicinal liquor, though the department of justice is given equal authority over the issuance of permits for manufacture and use of industrial alcohol The change will take approxi- mately 2.700 employes from the treasury to the department of tice. Of this number 1,700 are pro- hibition ts who ate expected to concentrate th efforts upon the illicit distilleries handling in- fore the tered which liquor b has not o toxicants ra tion to mino Physic 1y will be no eonnel from er, there actual- r of the per- present offices. Bot™ the industrial alcohol division of the treasury and the prohibition e Justice department r present offices in building here change will be for Director Woodcock and his assis- tant to take their offices in that building SURPLUS PROBABLE IN YEAR'S CLOSE trans their over Gloomy Predictions for Remain- ; der of 1930, However Ju 30 (A—The fiscal vear of ) at will find a s Washi elose of th midnight tonight of approximately $200,000,000 in the coffers of the government and gloomy predictions prev for the year of At the day a total of been collected spent leaving a $212,520,000 were in sight of the vear. Sees o rplus of business on Thurs- $4.151,057,206 had and $3.938,536,837 favorable margin of No large payments for the closing days close Probable Deficit pposing the engctment of the on-Rankin Veteran Relief bill ry Mellon said present indica- | pointed to a deficit a year from now. Appropriations for the coming year aggr about $4.- £00,000,000, 'a sum greater than the estimated government reve The same situation has evailed in the past, however, and the gov- ernment, nevertheless, has shown a surplus the close of each fiscal year since the budget system was instituted Of the present surplus, $100,000,- 000 is the result of foreign debtor pations making their June 15 pay-| ments in cash instead of govern- ment securities. ‘A sharp spurt in customs receipts just prior to the time the Hawley-8moot act became law, also influenced the total Collapse Effect Slight Income tax payments showel the Wall street collapse of last fall af-| focted the returns of but a compir- ative few of the millions of tax pay- ers. It had been expected the broal in security prices would cruse material reduction in inoeone receipts The surplus at fiscal year of 1920 was §183 tions the close of OPERATED ON Shanghai, June 30 (A—Nelson T, shnson, American minister to| hina, underwent an operation for arnfa here today. His condition was | stisfactory. l JOHNSON | avenuc the avenue shortly before 5 o'clock CHICAGO EDITORS ATTAGH LINGLE | Admit Reporter Apparently in Gralt Organization Chicago, June 30 (A—The Chicago Tribune today, in both its editorial | and news columns, took definite cog- nizance of the sinister rumors that have attached themselves to career of its slain reporter, Alfred (Jake) Lingle It sets forth, report editorially, erning the reporter's finances, ould indicate that Alfred Lingle was killed because he was using his Tribune position to profit from crim- inal operations and not because he as serving the Tribune as it thought he was."” Points Out Conclusions Pointing out the developments re- sulting from the investigation, the newspaper says: “Alfred Lingle now takes a differ- ent characier, one in which he was inknown to the managtment of the | une when he was alive. He is ad and cannot defend himself, but any facts now revealed must be accepted as eloguence against Mim. He was not, and could - not have n, a great reporter. His ability not contain these possibilities. He write storles, but he could ormation in police circles. reasonable appearance : Lingle now is that he was accepted in t for something office and that he used this rtakings which made him ught him to his death murder of this repor! cketeering reasons, as the ¢ nce indicates it may have made a breach in the wall which criminality so 10nz maintained tions here. Sometime, somewhere, will be a hole found or made and the Lingle mur- der may prove to be it. The Tribune will work case upon this pre- aumption ith this It has gone into the cause is fashion and its notice to gangland is that it is in for duration.” Describes Reporter vs page story under the signature of Robert M. Lee, cily editor of the Tribune, a picture of Lingle as he appeared to his fellow workers is given. This account states that Ling erstood to be well-to-do and not dependent upon his $65 a week salary. vears ago, Lingle explained rough the death of his father come into considerable the story said. “It is tr records of the probate court vealed that this estate $500. No one on the took the trouhle—be- rder—to 100k into this ascertain if, in fact, the in und money and ¥ x x the er, even for r about its In a e's story large not only amor 4 police heads but also ges and gangster acqua looked upon at the it Lingle were to 2 po to report properly and accurately the afairs in gang- land. In ~iew of developments since story points out, nceship, gangsters a among financ anceships time as necessary acquaintanc torney's ade public yesterday, tail concerning Lingle's affairs as revealed by a sur- ey of his banking accounts. It r aled ts runnipg into ousands of dollars, far in e mone any &s of his salary e report did not what source the indicate from money came, but offort was being made to SUmS running up to severai dollars loaned to to the information tained, by pot putedly ¢ affairs. find out thoysand werk vtorsio ted with gang The state's attorne plained that no inform report ex- tion as to the ess of the hunt for would be made pub- at this time for fear of hamper- ng the investigatio aiders from the state's attorney’s vesterday made a series of visits 1o resorts. near Burlington, Wis,, in an unsuccessful effort to p James (Red) Forsythe, hunted | as Lingle's slayer. The officers be- ieve Forsythe was in the vicinity, but that he was tipped off and es- caped before the raiders arrived As near as the financial statement made public yesterday could reveal Lingle in the past two years, had an ome of approximately $60,000 a year. ROOSTER DECIDES VEXING PROBLEM FOR POLICEMAN Fowl Walks to Chicken Pen of An- thony Ferone in Test to Decide Ownership. It is a wise rooster that knows its own roost, Policeman Grabeck demonstrated yvesterday | When Miss Ella Webb of Hartford and an escort walked down | yesterday morning Miss Webb saw a rooster which she said belonged to the proprietor of a poultry market at 89 Hartford avenue. Assisted by thg gentleman, Miss Webb caught the rooster d wanted to return it [s the Lady of Scandal’s Name on the New Britain Police Records? the | that the | of the state’s attorney's | invéstigators, which goes into detail | to the coop. Harry Goldberg, baker, |telephoned of 86 Hartford avenue, appeared and | that someone was trying to steal the [tion he the fowl | bird. Policeman Grabeck was sent to |and F the scene and an explanation fol- proprietor of another nearby poul- |lowed. 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