Show New Attorney General Will W Work Plan of f Handling Liquor Problem May Ask for More Funds to Aid in Enforcement Enforcement Enforce Enforce- ment of Prohibition Law By CHARLES D. D WATKINS Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON March 7 APA APA AP- AP A slender smiling dapper man with witha a youthful face who would rather shoot wild life with a motion picture camera than a rifle emphasized today today to- to day that the national prohibition law lawwill lawwill will be enforced president Hoovers Hoover's Inaugural address address ad- ad dress should be platform enough for forthe forthe the department of justice William D. D Mitchell l time the new attorney genend general gen gen- end eral said he smiled over the problems problems' of 0 time first twenty four hours In office and added I have not lad had tIme to work out any scheme f for r handling tire prohibition question i Wiry and i sparkling of c eye e Mr lJ Mitchell Ices has the look or of a man who would much prefer to be trampIng a pack trail In his hunting clothes jhan to be sitting at a desk In the nations capital dressed lately MAY ASK MORE FUNDS But confidence In himself and his willIngness to devote iris best to his work is his hils outstanding char char- AlthoUgh he has not had Imad time to decide on how best to handle prohibition lie he did not hesitate to say that If Ire found the tho work of his department was Increased through prohibItion bureau from the treasury to the department of jUstice justice jUs- jUs tice he would ask for more funds I Continued on page 5 p 1 New Attorney General Will Work Plan of Handling Liquor Problem Continued from page 1 to carr carry on the work If as President President dent Hoover wishes the prohibition bureau Is placed under the supervision sion sian of the department of justice it will mean nn an immense Increase Inthe in the work worl ot of the department The prospects ot of this however did not seem to worry the new attorney general In the 1 least t. t I think we have interesting work cut out for tor us he said I have faith that we can Improve co condi- condi di- di I will h ve to work out the problem to see whether we will need needmore needmore more funds and if tire the problem means an Increase in work or personnel personnel per per- I will have to ask for more money mone CHANGES PLANNED Mr Ir Mitchell said he had not gone Into the question of the personnel Of his department but that some of the members of the staff had seized upon the change in administrations as an opportune time to make a change chanSe in their occupations but that the they had agreed to remain until he could get his staff organized Ve will make malte no h sty moves he added Mr Mitchell said he had given some thought to the work of the commission to be appointed by President Hoover to investigate the th-e adminiStration of the criminal law by the federal courts and he belle believed d dit I it would result In improving condi- condi This particularly applied he said aid to the congestion in the criminal criminal crimi- crimi nal court dockets But as the attorney general talked he toyed with a pile of pictures on his desk They Were photographs photograph's taken of him on a hunting trip in Alaska LIKES WILDERNESS I I have always liked to get back into the wilderness he said with a I faraway look of longing In his eyes I Back on a pack trail Years ago I got got gota a great deal of pleasure from hunting far off ocr the beaten tracks away from civilization in the forests and mountains But in the later years ot of my life I get more pleasure out ot of taking motion pictures of the wild lire life than I do in shooting Of course while In the cities I 1 get pleasure out of golf lIe He said occasionally he found op- op ity ity to slip away from city life Ufe to go duck hunting on the waters of oC nearby Virginia Virg and Maryland |