Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1929, Page 34

[§ TAPPED BY POLICE Underground Brewery, Capa- i .ble of Producing 500 Bar- ¥ rels Daily, Discovered. @7 the Associated Press. DETROIT, April 5—The spell of the Yukon gripped st.. Aubin avenue yes- smuc Federal miners swung plr.h Policemen swung mighty sl vast audience circled the labor! ex- cavators. Those who weren't in the street sat upon their window sills. Au- $hority sweated for 10 hours. At the end of that time the miners trawled on their stomachs in the mud through a secret door which bore every resemblance to a solid brick wall. In- side they found a subterranean brewery caj nble of producing 500 barrels of beer T “strike” was made by two patrol- §nen, “prospecting” in an alley off St. Aubin avenue. Snugly ensconced on the seat of a huge tank wagon, such as is used for oil, the two saw a sleeping driver. Sergt. Clayton Williams idly turned a spigot. “It Is Beer,” Sergeant Says. “Hm-m.m,” sald Sel ‘Williams. #Looks like beer.” He smelled the flui *Well,” he said, “it smeun like bee: He tasted a bit, “Good,” he added, tastes like beer.” “It is beer,” said Sergt. Williams Positively, and he so reported. Inside the garage, behind which the tank wagon was parked, prohibition agents and police found two pipe lines that ran somewhere. Where they led, the officers started out to learn this morning. The exploration consumed about nine hours. Around noon the trail led .definitely toward a vacant house. The miners quit digging and marched thereto. Inside they found only a pile of bricks and a freshly bricked-in stair case. After several hours of hammer- ing a hole was dug through the two- foot thick wall. Inside was the brewery. Family of Four Held. After another hour of exploration the officers found a section of the brick wall which swung on hinges. They walked through the exit thus offered and found themselves in a Mrs. Caspara Taormini and two sons, who operate the store, pleaded igno- yance, but were held. Likewise, Caspara ‘Taormini, the husband and father, was detained when it was found he operated 2 meat shop on the other side of the brewery. Apparently the plant had run since May, 1928, the date of the lease. Fed- eral agents said it probably élld sup- plied a large section of the Middle West with “Canadian” beer. MRS. TALMADGE PLANNING FOR D. A. R. VOTE CONTEST Georgia Candidate for President General Soon to Open Campaign Headquarters in Washington. ! Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge of Athens, Ga., a candidate for president general of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, is expected to set up campaign headquarters in Wash- ington soon in preparation for the an- nual congress of the soclety, which imeets here April 15. Mrs. Talmadge has been, regent of her chapter and of the Georgia Staté or- tion. She was national chairman of the student loan movement of the national society. Another candidate for the office of president general is Mrs. Fletcher Ho- bart of Ohio. Both women have waged an active campaign, and the election is to be one of the outstanding features of the forthcoming congress. WHALEN PUTS NEW YORK SPEAKEASIES AT 32,000 Crime on Increase in City Due Largely to Prohibition, He Tells Rotary. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 5—Police Com- missioner Grover Whalen said at a Rotary Club luncheon yesterday that New York is the second best law-abld- ing city in the country, but that crime is on the increase here, largely because of prohibition, “We must admit the facts,” he said. “The speakeasy problem is growing. ‘We have 32,000 in the city. All you Deed is a couple of bottles and s room #nd a speakesy grows up overnight.” —_— Enforcement of ordinances—no favors, $o discriminations—cut auto deaths in Detroit 20 per cent in nine months last year. 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Fruit trees blossomed at Jacksonville, I, as the thermometers climbed to 93. Chicago's 79 equalled the previous rec- ord for April 4 and sent many persons to the parks and beaches. Figures in the nineties were reported in Kansas, while as far North as St. Paul and Duluth, Minn., maximums of 72 and 74 degrees were Teached. The hot wave was expected to abate tonight and tomorrow, when precipita- tion is predicted quite generally over the Midwest, with snow in the extreme northern portion of the district. The drop in temperature will be extreme in the southern part of the district, the ‘Weather Bureau predicted. —_— 'Television and telecinema exhibitions were given at this year's radio show in An e T “A vaper IJ‘DHH u eub lh. bnl dinner Dime " l The Crer llll..nl‘ ‘where you ll'. served flll lell food & - able prices. Tablecloths and mum 11 Isun ud napkins exclusively IC inner. 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