Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1925, Page 11

LOYALTY PLEDGED T0 TALIAN KING Deputies Pay Warm Tribute to Victor Emmanuel on Anni- versary of His Coronation. amber of ted the Col = was not only DECOROUS F.. AN CHOSEN IDEAL MATE BY CO-EDS U. of California Girls Set $250 a Month as Another Good and | the n who can than his :|no longer really that. {five years of prohibition,” | |Mrs. Agnes B. Stallings Leads War Against Beverages. Sees Great Progress in Wiping Out Illicit Beverages s and beer will never country, according_to Stallings, who for five been head of this division >hibition unit. ~ Too much toward wiping them out has de to allow for any return, prohibition has been in effect nited States the fate of those sht wines and beer has Mrs. Stallings. ised Tittle trouble, bees. has pro- a difficult and sometimes baf- x problem. An earnest worker is Mrs. Stallings, ind one who was practically brought up in the fight for prohibition. Long > the prohibition amendment was in fa in the days when it vas only & Mrs, Mary ery remote possibility— Huther, the mother of Stalling s one of the best wn Woman's Christian Temper- Tnion workers in the country. Texas that the Huther assing of the prohibition amend- t made a special department nec- Heads Division. She inherited the beer division also ind brought her legal experience to the prohibition unit and was made head of the light wine and beer divi- sion Although the plants involved are still spoken of as brewerles, they are What a start it would give some of the older gen- -|eration who for vears enjoved their a of beer, to hear it called “cereal ige.” That is its legal name and the plants are no longer s brewerles. Some of the brew- however, do not like the idea of beverages—that is, anything alf of one per cent kick— going over this stipulated per- , they run afoul of Mrs. Stall- iny obstacles have confronted particular department during the says Mrs. ;5. “One of the greatest of these has been the attitude of the iblic toward the manufacturers of Many persons who would not ink of countenancing the activities realize that he is just as great a violator of the law as the man who fllegally makes liquors.” In reviewing the activities of her department during the past five years, allings points out the fact that the prnh\hlllon unit acquired, iment, some_1,141 dealcoholizing These plants had an output of 1,855,000,000 gallons of beer yearly. of the plants went into stries. The rest chose to get what return they uld from the capital invested, and interpret the law to their best advan- 2. Some of the brewers, con- lw\ unes in illegal beer traffic, con- |tinued to make and sell beer which contained more than the legal per- centage of kick. Force Was New. “The prohibition unit at this time had a force new and untrained,” sa. Mrs. Stallings, “with few regulations no court decisions defining the meaning of the act.’ During the first year perhaps some lived and Mrs. Stalli got first experience in prohibition e. She was nal Reve ion, when | .| were threatened with violence.” ted with the opportunity to make | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUN LIGHT WINES AND BEER WILL NOT RETURN, WOMAN DRY HEAD SAYS leniency was granted, giving even | !mn » who were deliberately violating | the to_come within the pre limit. They were given the opportunity to dealcoholize their 3 and 4 per cent beer, and make it . however, policy was inaugurated. began in earnest. The new program ed of prompt revocation of permits, which they were all supposed to have, filing of criminal information, seizing and libeling and filing of bills to abate nuisance: This rigorous program worried the brewers a great deal, but as they pos- sessed great wealth, and were able to employ the ablest lawyers, convictions were almost impossible to obtain. Mr: allings says: “It now became necessary to organize special squads of picked men trained in the investiga- tion of brewerfes. The brewers for the first time realized that they faced actual enforcement of the prohibition act, and that they were liable not only to jail sentences, but to loss of per- sonal property. “These men who weré selected as agents faced all sorts of difficulties. Not only were detectives hired to watch them, but they were offered huge sums to substitute samples of | near beer for those of the unlawful product they had obtained. Not only they, but the entire prohibition unit a more drastic The fight Offered Huge Bribes. As much as $300,000 was offered one agent. Mrs. Stallings sa clever means used by the brewers to escape detection are almost beyond belief. They have used every device and pretext known to criminals to further their operations and evade the consequences of their un- awful ac Among the most |used is that of false name of some innocent is most often employed. Some brew- surrounded by high board knot holes completely covered and surmounted by barbed wire. These have a motor cycle patrol for a radius of 10 miles. Others used con- crete tunnels to convey the real beer to other buildings from which it could be remoyed without suspicion. And above all the movements of the agents were observed. The brewers built up one of the most efficient de- tective services in the world. The destina of the inspecting agent was known almost as soon as he left “The artful and common devices labeling. 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It took clever agents and clever minds behind them chain of evidence strong enough to warrant an arrest. in all sorts of disgulses, then it takes sometimes as long as two months to some of the most valuable tips re. celved on illegal operations are re- Everything Musical. to establish a The agents go out and even catch the plant in Strangely enough now, LANSBURGH & BRO. ceived from citizens in the community where the plant is situated. These |, letters pour in by the hundreds. Agent's Home Bombed. One case which caused the unit|caused the beer unit the most trouble. much trouble and rejoicing when it was finally won was the Elgin Ice and Beverage Co. case in Chicago. Al- though an agent's home was bombed in | m the vrocess of obtaining the evidence, arrests and convictions of the leaders | af NE 17, of § ol The next in line is Pennsylvan says, which_dealcoholizing plants 1925—PART 1. f the ring were finally accomplished. all sentences and the destruction of 250,000 worth of property resulted. Chicago was one district which In summing up the cereal beverage r brewery situation, Mrs. Stallings “substantial progress has been Throughout the States in situ- ted 188 criminal prosecutions have nade. | R A A A A A P A A A P R A R AR IR PR R ) been instituted. Seventy-six pleas of guilty and a number of fines and jail sentences have resulted. One hun- dred and forty plants have been seized and 93 libels seeking confiscation of personal property have been filed.” Forty-seven teémporary injunctions have been obtained and 29 permanent ones. Twelve plants have heen pad- locked. 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