Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1933, Page 3

YARYLAND BEER BILL CONSIDERED Gov. Ritchie Confers With City, State and Legislative Leaders at Annapolis. Py a Staff Correspondent of The Btar. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 17.—Fol- lowing passage of the national act legslizing the sale of beer, Maryland's legislators gave their attention today to the question of how the beverage shall b2 handled within their State and ex- amined with new interest several pend- ing liquor bills. The beer problem was the principal subject discussed at a conference be- tween Got. Ritchie and a group of State, city and legislative leaders last night. While no official announcement was forthcoming at the conclusion of Lhe. conference, it was indicated a State- wide law providing for tax on beer of about. $1 a barrel would be proposed and the various counties allowed to cxempt themselves from its regulatory features. Such exemptions might prohibit the fale of beer entirely within the indi- vidual counties, might impose more stringent regulations on its distribution, or might place additional local license fees on the distributor. Draft Prince Georges Bill. ‘Two Prince Georges County legis- Jators are now engaged in drafting a local law which would permit the county to derive revenue from the sale of beer within its borders and set up an excise board that would regulate the handling of the beverage. Delegate George L. Edmonds, chair- man of the Montgomery County dele- gation, has announced that no change is contemplated in their local option law, which prohits the sale of beer or liquor. Although a bill authorizing the calling of a constitutional convention to vote on repeal of the eighteenth amendment was introduced in the House in January, and another presented in the Senate yesterday, & committee to draft an ad- ministrative measure on this matter was appointed at the Governor's con- ference last night. It consists of Attorney General Wil- liam Preston Lane, jr.; Senators Ridgely P. Melvin of Anne Arundel County and John H. Bouse of Baltimore and Dele- gate George Hofferbert of Baltimore. Discuss Tax Relief Plan, In addition to discussing the beer and convention problems, the convention considered the plan to be followed in the enactment of the administration's program for local tax relief. Among those attending the confer- ence were E. Brooke Lee, Senator Lans- dale G. Sasscer of Prince Georges Coun- ty, Mayor Jackson of Baltimore, Speaker ‘T. Barton Harrington and Budget Di- rector Walter N. Kirkman. Senator E. Milton Altfeld of Balti- more imntroduced the bill yesterday, which calls for a constitutional con- vention to act on repeal of ghe eight- eenth amendment. It proposes the election of delegates to the convention by legislative dis- triets, with each county and Baltimore City having a representative equal to that in the General Assembly. The actual convention would be a mere formality, similcf to the meeting of the Hlectoral Collf,e, at which the majority sentiment, al. recorded in the balloting for delegates, would be offi- clally registered. Aroused by the action of Congress, & group of Baltimore City Delegates announced they would clamor for action on the “poor man’s beer bill” intro- duced last January, which sets up a licensing system in the city for the sale of beer and wines. It has been called the “poor man’s bill” because it re- duces the license fee for establishments which sell beer from $1,200 a year to $300. I Bottle Cap Orders Boosted. BALTIMORE, March 17 (&) —Pas- sage of the beer bill has resulted in increased business for the Crown Cork | & Seal Co, manufacturers of bottle | caps, | “We have received orders for car- load lots,” J. J. Nagle, secretary of the coipany. said. | Beer Sale Planned | By Less Than Half Of Cafes Queried Association Official Al nounces Result of Survey. By the Ascociated Press. | CHICAGO, March 17.—When and if | beer is legalized less than half the members of the National Eismuram‘ Association expect to sell it, thd organi- zation reported yesterday. ! Commenting on the results of & ques- tionnaire sent to association members, | Myron Green, chairman of the National Affiairs Committee, said: “Only 48 per cent of our members | who replied to the survey expect to sell either beer or wine when the pro- ! hibition laws are changed. An even smaller number—23 per cent—favor the distribution of ‘hard’ liquor through cining rooms.” | Many restaurant operators who held to the belief that they should be per- mitted to sell the amber fluid, Green said, did not plan to exercise the right. Forty-three members expressed the opinion that even beer and wine should be restrained in sales to warehouses or grocery stores and not consumed where purchased. Another 43 per cent, who said they would not provide pa- trons with beer, admitted they would change their policies if competition demanded. SPECIAL NOTICES. THE BOARD OF ACCOUNTANCY FOR THE District of Columbia wiil hold an examina- tion for those wishing to obtain certificates the exact time and place t0 be more cifically announced later. Applications vided by the RBY, Secretar: tric_Power_Co. Building. SPECIAL RETURN-LOAD RATES ON FULL loa 0 all points within 1,000 ed vans: guaranteed. service! lo- cal ‘moving also. _Phone Nat. 1460, NAT. D-L. ASSOC. INC.. 1317 N. 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His advice 18 n sought by the pofice of many cities when confronted with particularly baf- fling cases. This problem has been taken from his casebook covering hun- dreds of criminal investigations. Try your wits on it! It takes but ONE M} Murder in the Lulu Bell Bar. BY H. A. RIPLEY. HOTS! Cries! The lights went out. Curses! A momentary silence. A scream, then the thud of a body; & rush for horses outside the saloon. Joe Fordney riding into the little Arizona cattle town met “Trigger” Tabor forcing his horse like mad. - nizing Fordney, he pulled his pinto to a_ skidding stop, wheeled and rode back. “Better stop in the Lulu Bell,” he shouted. “That damn Mexican, Castellano’s been in the ney. “Are yuh crazy? Not me! The sher- iff'll be raisin holy hell in there! I'm not _gettin’ mixed up in no mess!” In another minute he was lost in a cloud of dust. Joe pushed open the door of the bar, hesitated, and called to the proprietor. | “Scraggy! Scraggy!” “Who's 1t?” came a guarded inquiry. “Joe Fordney Where's your uxht?f ‘What's up?” | “Oh, pay day and the boys got playful. Not much damage, I guess,” he con- cluded, lighting a candle. “What tuh! . .. " he stopped and stared at the body of the Mexican stretched on the floor, a stiletta between his shoulders. | is right hand clutched the ace of | spades! “Now, therell be hell to pay” “Scraggy” exclaimed, setting the candie on the ¢able. Its feeble glow disclosed the bar's only other occupant, “Colo- rado” Cal, apparently in a drunken stupor. “Second murder you've had in a ‘month, eh, ‘Scraggy’> Like the other, | of course, you know nothing about this! Not many knives in these parts like | that one sticking in Castellano’s back. Let's see . . . you own one and Cal an- | other!” The bartender turned pale and | ;Llnr!ed to bolt as Sheriff Gill walked | “Not much to this case, sheriff " greeted Fordney. —— just killed Cas: tellano!” WHO DID FORDNEY ACCUSE? WHY? (For Solution See Page A-14.) HELD ON CHARGE i OF ROBBING DOCTOR Accused of taking a_$2.000 car, a watch and clothes from Dr. M. R. Hay- wood during an automobile ride about the city the night of February 19, Matthew Novak. 5400 block of Iilinois avenue, was held for the grand jury under $3,000 bond when arraigned before Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Police Court yesterday. . Dr. Haywood, who lives in the 3000 block of Sixteenth street, picked up a man who later took his watch and | money from him, compelled him | to exchange clothes and drove away in the doctor’s car, according to police. Detective Sergts. J. J. Tolson and E. | L. Lewis arrested Novak after they traced the stolen watch to a Phila- delphia pawn shop. Novak also was tried yesterday on a charge of threatening Mrs. Dorothy | Novak. He was ordered to post $300 bond or serve 90 days in jail. There's A GROCER in your neighborhood who offers telephone called Ford- convenience. 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Scott McBride, general super- intendent of the Anti-Saloon said “the iron hand of the-brewers was|- again in absolute control of many Sen- ate votes,” ‘and added: “If the beer bill, as passed by the Senate, becomes a law, this country will again experience the worst evils of the lquor traffic. * * * Declared Intoxicating. “Those who voted for the bill, as well as those who voted against it, know that the slightly lower percentage adopted is sufficiently intoxicating to create the alcohol habit and to encour- age all the evils of alcoholism which led to the adoption of the eighteenth || amendment.” Edwin C. Dinwiddie, superintendent of the National Temperance Bureau, said: “I can but believe the Nation will rue this action and will see its folly and reverse it.” He said he believed 3.05 per cent beer “is intoxicating, and if s0, it is unconstitutional, and the courts may so declare.” “Many courts have so declared through the years,” he added. “If beer | comes back ‘we shall see whether its brewers and sellers will obey the law any better than formerly, and whether drunkenness will not inevitably in- crease. If better times come, as we, all naturally and feverently hope, they | will come, not because, but in spite of the return of beer.” Hits “Obsession.” Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Pro- hibition and Public Morals, said “the obsession under which they ' (leaders of two great parties) labor seems to be| all the people want beer, are willing to pay for it and beer will pay the taxes and our troubles will be at an end.” Remarking that “man shall not live | by beer algne” and that *“mammon worshippers just now prevail,” he said: “I have seen leaders of two great | parties vieing with each other in selling out the religious standards, the moral ideals, the safety of our home and the | sobriety of our children to the makers | T. * * * The populace will wonder why we did not tell them | that beer rever paid our taxes when w had it flowing like the brooks. * * * TEACHERS HEAR ADDRESS cussed by Dr. Robert Bier. “The Tuberculosls Problem in the| School Child” was presented to the as- sembled teachers of Washington's pub- lic schools in their regular institute meetings yesterday afternoon and eve- ning by Dr. Robert Bier, clinical in- University and resident physicain of (Children’s Hospital. 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Republicans against: Aurtutn, Borah, Capper, Dale, Fess Prazier, Goldsborough, Hale, Hastings, Hatfleld, Keyes, Nye, Patterson, Robin- son of Indiana, Townsend, Vandenberg and White. Total, 17. Grand total against, 30. The following were paired or an- nounced for the bill: Barkley, Byrnes, "Coolidge, Kendrick, King, Lewis and cAdoo, Democrats; Carey, Davis, Re- and Shipstead, Farmer- Labor. These Senators were paired or an- nounced _against: _Bailey, , George, Glass and Smith, 'Democrats; Dickinson and Norbeck, Republicans. Gore, Democrat, of Oklahoma obtained unanimous consent to be excused from voting. The positions of Cutting and Schall, Republicans, and Logan, Democrat, who |* were absent and unpaired, were not announced by their colleagues. There are two vacancies. ABNER DRURY BREWERY PLANS MARYLAND PLANT Expected to Build Across District Line—Four Baltimore Concerns Ready to Deliver Beer. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, March _ 17—Four breweries in Baltimore are prepared to deliver beer of legalized alcoholic con- tent as soon as the Executive order is put into effect, according to officials of the firms, who say approximately $7.- 000,000 will be spent in reviving the brewery business here. Two more breweries, recently incor- porated, are ready to enter the field.' One of these, which is in process of formatlon, is the Abner-Drury Brewery, Inc., granted a charter on December 6 as a $5,100,000 corporation. Its direc- tors are from Washington. Their plant, it is said, will be established in Mary- ! land just outside of the District of Co- ' lumbia, and in their charter they sought permission not only to brew beer, but t) manufacture whisky, wines and champagne. The second plant is the Cloverdale Brewery, Inc.. 1ecently granted a char- ter as a $1,000,000 concern. . Found Dead in Hotel. WY THEVILLE, \a., March 17 (®).— Prank T. 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Richardson, president of the Anti-Saloon League of America, yester- day declared the beer bill, if enacted, “certainly will be taken to the Supreme Court.” “The Supreme Court has passed nega- tively on the same question before, and if its members haven't changed their minds, it will again,” he said. Questions Congress’s Power. “There is no question whether beer of 3.05 per cent alcoholic content is i- toxicating. The question is whether Congress can_legally define what is in- toxicating. “One-half of 1 per cent was estab- | lished as the limit of non-intoxicating beverage by the liquor dealers them- selves in 1867, when they were paying a license fee. That figure was carried over into the Volstead act. “Perhaps the definition of intoxicating | liquor should be left to scientists, but | is obviously fraught with difficulties. | The facts are clear. The question is whether Congress legally can fix the ucohgllc content without regard te | tacts. Advocates Local Option. He contended if the Supreme Court permits the sale of 3.05 per cent beer, local option should be granted to make it possible to prohibit saloons near schools, churches or in residential com- munities where the people do not want them. “If we must have beer, the experience of many years of effort to control this traffic should be conserved,” he declared. | “The law should protect churches and Chief! Prowisions Of .Beer and Wine { Bil} of Senate | S 7 Gl iy By'the Associated Press. Here are the chief provisions of the beer and wine bill as passed by the Senate: Permits the manufacture and sale of beer on wine up to 3.05 per cent by weight, or 3.8 per cent by volume, in States whose laws do nop prohibit it. As passed by the House a limit of 3.2 per cent was stipulated. Subjects both wine and beer to a tax of $5 a barrel and brewers to a levy of $1.000. Requires manufacturers to ob- tain a permit authorizing them to make beer or wine. 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