Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1932, Page 27

" THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D NS HRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1932. ‘HOME BREW' TAX UPHELD BY GOURT Michigan Appeal, Attacking Levy on Beer Materials, Is Denied. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, January 15.—Michigan’s stiff tax on raw materials used by home brewers was upheld as constitutional yesterday in an opinion of Willlam S Bayres, jr., standing master in chancery in Federal Court. The opinion, which now goes to & three-judge court for action, was given in the case of Standard Brands, Inc, of Cincinnati, manufacturers of a bakers’ malt Plea Previously Denied. The three judges—Arthur C. Denison of the Circuit Court of Appeals and Charles C. Simons and Edward J. Moinet of the District Court here—previously had refused to grant the corporation a restraining order against the State. Sayres held that since a State has the right to prohibit manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors it also has the right to prohibit manufacture and sale of materials used in the manufacture of such liquors. What the State can pro- | Gets New Post SMITH GIVEN AGRICULTURE EXTENSION POSITION. WOMAN EXPLORER |Mrs. Cressy-Marcks Says mule and on foot—more than & year 8go0. go to Thibet. bidden city.” Since 1924 Mrs. Cressy-Marcks has been traveling to the far places of the earth, paying her own way. She has trekked from Cairo to Capetown, away | up into Lapland. down through the | heart of Soviet Russia, across deserts| and over mountains and deep into the | jungle. | Except once, she has traveled alone, | save for native guides. Across the bridge of her nose Mrs. | Cressy-Marcks has a scar, so slight as | to be hardly noticeable. She acquired that in a revolver duel with bandits in the Syrian desert. “I was making the journey alone with one Arabian guide,” she said. “The bandits attacked us, and we started fir- | ing. A bullet just grazed my nose, and | | T probably wouldn't have any scar at | all, only, being three days away from the tiniest Arabian village, I was afraid FIGHTS OFF FEVER She’ll Go to Thibet When She Recovers. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, January 15.—Mrs. Vio- let Cressy-Marcks, & slender, blond | Englishwoman, left New York yesterday for California, where she hopes to re- cover from the effects of tropical fever which attacked her while she was jour- | {0 take a chance on the wound becom neying 28,000 miles up the Amazon and | I0§, Infected ~ So I opened &p oyl | over the Andes—by launch, canoe, on a ' septic.” CLARENCE BEAMAN SMITH, Chief of the office of co-operative ex- tension work in the United States De- partment of Agriculture, has been ap- pointed to the position of assistant di- rector of extension work for the de- partment. C. W. Warburton is director. Dr. Smith came to the department from Special Sale 500 BLOOMING PLANTS A Special Buy from An Querstocked Grower Towans Will Hold Dance. r The Towa State Society of Washing- If T get well,” she said, “I shall next | ton will hold a reception and. di ! I want to visit the for- | at the Willard t Hotel, beginning o'clock tomorrow night. will be made by Mrs. Herbert D. Brown, 8- | author of the book, “Grandmother 30 Brown's One Hundred Years.” Kathas ~ TENTH ST. Every Better Dress Drastically Reduced All Second Floor Dresses Now Marked for Final $25 to $29.50 Frocks 518 Evening, Sunday night and afternoon frocks... many one of a kind. Vel- vets, crepes, satins, chif- fons. Women’s and Clearance 1 $35 to $39.50 Frocks 425 Our finest dresses, for street, Sunday night and evening. Velvets, crepes, sheer chiffons, satins. An nddress| BEGONIAS hibit it can discourage by imposition of taxes, he said. While admitting that | Michigan in 1896. some sections of the act “verge on” in- fringement of the interstate commerce act, he held that as a whole the statute | is within the rights of the State. Tax Nets $491,305. The act imposes & tax of 5 cents a | gallon on wort, 5 cents a pound on malt | sirup and malt extract, a $250 license | tax on manufacturers, $100 on distribu- tors, $25 on retailers and $20 on each vehicle used in transportation of wort or malt. Between May 27, 1931, when the law became effective, and Septem- ber 30, the tax netted $491,305 to the State Spain is estimated to have in its cen- | tral bank and in circulation a total of | spproximately $83,000,000. ll GAS VICTIM'S RITES SET Mrs. Cecelia Dyer to Be Laid to Rest Tomorrow Morning. Funeral services for Cecelia Nicholson Dyer, found dead yesterday in the gas- filled kitchen of her home, 5420 Con- necticut avenue, will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the W. W. Chambers funeral home, 1400 Chapin street. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Real estate sales in Shanghai, China, | are soaring. CYCLAMEN PRIMROSES FLOWER MART 1618 H St. N.W. ME. 8893 misses’ sizes. o Women’s and misses’ sizes. 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