Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 77, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1929 — Page 17

AUG. 9- 1929.

DRY AGENTS OF HIGHER TYPE, SAYSWADER Many Crooks and Grafters Weeded Out, Asserts Mrs. Willebrandt, Continued From Page One) The youthful agent was terrified. He began shooting wildly. An Italian bystander was wounded. The agent was arrested. He and his mother came to my office begging the protection of the feder*4 government. Youth Not to Blame He was wrong. I couldn't legally defend his official conduct. But who was to blame that poor, frightened, 22-year-old boy, with his life ruined, facing a t r ial for assault with intent to kill in a hostile state —or the politically strangled higherups who turned him loose with no preparation except a gun he didn’t know when nor how to use? The first civil service weeding resulted in retaining far more wellmeaning but “dumb” men than those who actually were corrupt. The force always has needed, and still needs, systematic and extended training on such subjects as how to gather sufficient evidence legally, when papers can be seized, when a defendant should be put under arrest, what facts justify the issuance of a search warrant, and under what circumstances an agent is' justified in shooting. There are, of course, many other subjects on which instructions should be given before a prohibition agent is allowed to exercise authority. I worked hopefully with the train-ing-school plan for months, but eventually it died in the mire of inter-departmental diferences of opinion, division of authority and responsibility, and political interference with policies. Just Newspaper Headlines The net results were just newspaper headlines that all prohibition directors would cal! in agents and give them four days’ training! In the last year some steps have been taken to train special agents who work under the assistant prohibition administrator, but that has not been extended to enough of the force to say yet that agents receive any real training such as is given in other investigation services. . To place on the rank and file of prohibition agents all the blame for past and present unsatisfactory conditions would be wrong. The responsibility must be placed where it belongs—higher up. It will take many a day for law enforcement to recover from the setback it suffered from General Lincoln Andrews. I recognize that many people believe General Andrews to have been a martyr to the Inhibition cause. He multiplied publicity; he created a public psychology in his own favor; but shortly after his appointment as “generalissimo of prohibition," as he styled himself, he began to put in office men who were temperamentally and in every other way unfitted for the task to which he assigned them. Two Bad Appointments Two of his most notorious appointments were Roscoe Harper, later tried for conspiracy to issue illegal alcohol permits at Buffalo, and Frank Hale. To the latter General Andrews gave unlimited control of the alcohol output in the whole New York territory. Hale had been in the service before, and had been suspended by the commissioner of internal revenue after I had stated on four different occasions that I would not direct any United States attorney to conduct a prosecution on evidence he gathered, because of his unreliability. This opinion was based on facts reported from our field offices, now a part of official files, and later given to a senatorfal committee. Soon after General Andrews assumed office in the treasury de-

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partment, J. N. Chamberlain of Atlantic City, his close personal friend, took an unusual interest in the difficult district of New Jersey. Chamberlain wrote General Andrews to appoint Hale, because he said, “Hale* is a good ‘soger,’ ’nuff said.” Becomes Suddenly Rich Subsequent circumstances indicated that Hale's association marked the beginning of great “prosperity” to Chamberlain. Before Hale was appointed to the prohibition job, Chamberlain never had deposited more than S3OO in the bank at one time; but immediately after the “good soldier” Halq was given unlimited authority by Genera! Andrews. Chamberlain began to make deposits of from SI,OOO to $5,000 a month. Chamberlain died suddenly. In the process of the administration of his estate, his safety deposit box was found to contain huge sums in cash. Its source never has been traced. Another one of General Andrews’ grand flourishing appointees, who left a devastating trail on prohibition enforcement, is Major Walton Green. Major Green was made chief investigating officer, though his past record had been one of opposition to prohibition. The fact is that Major Green was a writer and not an enforcement officer. As an enforcement executive, he was sartorial perfection! He spent much time in assembling material which he carried out of office with him, and which has been used in preparing articles of a profitable nature that have wide circulation. But much of the information furnished by Major Green’s investigators was of the stuff of fairy tales. Training for Job And though, as I have pointed out, Major Green had no adequate past training or experience qualifying him to make generalizations on the way to succeed in assembling evidence to enforce prohibition, his repeated inferences that “it can’t be enforced” have carried weight, simply because he held so high an official position. The psychological damage he has done this country by constantly presenting a distorted and unreliable picture of the whole enforcement problem is a big factor in present public pessimism on the subject of prohibition. Another utterly demoralizing appointment of General Andrews was another military man named Green. This one was Colonel Ned M. Green, who served as prohibition director in San Francisco. He was an old army iriend of General Andrews, and publicly boasted of being a “sport" and a hard drinker. That was his outstanding qualification for so important a post. Os course he degraded the office. He was indicted and tried on the charge of unlawful diversion of government property which came into the possession of agents working under him. A jury acquitted him.

After his acquittal General Andrews recommended that Colonel Green be reinstated, given back pay, arid that the government pay his expenses for a trip to Washington! Blair Stopped That But David H. Blair, then commissioner of internal revenue, saved the government, honor by stopping such proceedings. He called General Andrews’ attention to the flatly contradictory statement Colonel Ned Green had made at various times under oath as to illegal use and possession Os intoxicants, his frank admission of misappropriating contraband liquor, and concluded his rebuke to the general by stating: ‘T can not bring myself to believe that we ought now to put our stamp of approval on such conduct, just because Colonel Green happens to be acquitted in a criminal case.” These illustrations show that the harm done to the cause of effective prohibition enforcement is not attributable properly to the men in the lower rank. They have lacked training and judgment and many have gone to the “bad.” But prohibition has been dealt its hardest blows by those at the head or near the head of the enforcement organization. I am not saying something now that I did not dare to say before. The fact is that I wrote regarding General Andrews’ appointments to the attorney-general on Aug. 2,1926, three years ago, as follows: “I feel that before this Republican administration faces another campaign, something must be done about the prohibition situation throughout the country. It is marked by such inefficiency and lack of training that the public is losing confidence in the sincerity of effort. In my judgment, failure to succeed in as high a degree of enforcement as one might wish never will be fatal to any administration; but continuing to place the reins of responsibility in those exhibiting hopeless lack of training will prove unexplainable.” I already have said that the shooting and maiming of innocent people is inexcusable. But even more inexcusable and criminal, in my judgment, is the incompetence of “chiefs” who place authority and weapons in the hands of untrained, unfit men, mapy of whom have been given their jobs merely as a reward for petty political services. The mere fact that there is now provision in law for civil service examination to govern appointments will not cure the sore. While staWiards have been improved, they ought to be raised and the tests made more practical, to bring to the prohibition service men of the same high caliber as the postal inspectors.

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the special intelligence sendee of the treasury department, the bureau of investigation of the department of justice, and the secret sendee. Must Develop Pride Those services have been getting the right kind of men for years, and they have trained their men intensively and effectively. United States attorneys all testify to the quality of evidence they assemble. I refuse to believe that it is impossible to find 4,000 honest men in the United States with the basic character and intelligence to gather proper and dignified evidence for prohibition enforcement and prosecution. I refuse to believe that out of our one hundred million population and perhaps twenty million who believe in prohibition, 4,000 can’t be found who can’t be bought! I know a pride of service must be developed. It is sprouting in the small group of special agents under Alf Oftedal and in the districts of some of the able administrators. It ought to be further nurtured. The prohibition law can and will be enforced properly and effectively. Courage, vigor, intelligence and experience must begin at the top and spread down. Until then, the country will continue to be influenced against prohibition by the acts of incompetent agents. But thinking people ought to quit blaming the “end men.” (“Are the cities hopelessly wet?” is Mrs. Willebrandt’s next topic.)

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SENATE MAY PROBE PENROSE MYSTERY FUND Mabel Willebrandt Declares $250,000 Paid for Wet Favoritism, By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—The senate may investigate an allegation by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt that a fund of $250,000, found in the safety deposit box of a deceased senator eventually went to a political organization. In articles now appearing in The Indianapolis Times and other newspapers on prohibition conditions when she was an assistant attorneygeneral Mrs. Willebrandt refers to a story which has long been known in Pennsylvania political circles. Soon after the death of Senator Boise Penrose of Pennslyvania on Dec. 31, 1921, $250,000 in cash, mostly in bills of large denomination, was found in his deposit box. Penrose Collects Funds During his long service with the Republican organization, Senator Penrose frequently collected large sums of money for campaign purposes. It was assumed that the $250,000 had been collected for an approaching campaign, but since Senator Penrose left no memoranda showing from whom he obtained the money and for what it wa ; intended no claim was made or it by the Pennsylvania organisation nor the Republican national committee. Asa result the sum was passed along to Senator Penrose’s heirs as part of his estate. Money Goes to Politicians Mrs. Willebrandt, however, in her article says the money did not go into the estate “because the heirs released the money to another politician, also of national rank.” She explains that none of the politicians who handled the money “profited personally by its possession.” Mrs. Willebrandt alleges that the $250,000 came from persons who were satisfied with the way the prohibition law was administered in Pennsylvania by a protege of Penrose. Her allegations has aroused so much interest among senators that Senator William H. King pf Utah, a member of the special senate campaign committee, which investigated the Pennsylvania primaries, announced today he will suggest to his committee that it look into this fund.

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1930 COUNTY BUDGET BEADY FOR COUNCIL Commissioners Determined to Keep Budget Near 1929 Figures, Final tabulating of the items in the 1930 Marion county budget by Auditor Harry Dunn and county commisisoners were under way today. Dunn declared Thursday that, unless something unexpected occurred, the document would be completed for certifying by the county council next Monday or Tuesday. Commissioners are determined to cut the departmental requests down to the lowest possible amount, according to Commisioner John Shearer. “There will be some increases in institution tax rates,” Shearer said. Otherwise, figures in this year’s budget should not differ greatly from those of last year." It was understood that the $1,200 salary boost for Fred T. Gladden, newly elected county school superintendent, will not be touched by commisioners and Dunn, until after

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the meeting of the county trustees Monday. Dunn has a copy of the school budget, signed by Superintendent Lee Swails, carrying a request for an increase of Gladden’s salary from $3,600 to $4,800. but it can not be officially disposed of, he says, until a certified report of the trustees’ vote is received from C. M. Dawson, board secretary. If the preliminary budget report is completed today the council may begin its consideration of the figures Saturday, although fficial action by that group will nvt be taken until Sept. 2. according to Dunn.

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