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FARM RELIEF !
IS EXPECTED
IN TEN DAYS
Congress Gets Roosevelt’s
Plan to Raise Prices,
Cut Production.
PROVIDE CASH BOUNTIES
Taxes on Processing of
Products Are to Pay
Cost of Program.
BY MARSHALL M’NEIL
Time* Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, March 17.—Farm
felicf probably will be enacted with- j
In ten days.
Prompt action on the Roosevelt |
program was assured today when 1
the senate agriculture committee |
decided to forego hearings on the'
pleasure, and submit the bill to the !
penate immediately after the house
lias acted on it.
Representatives of seven farm or
ganizations in a formal statement
to the senate and house agriculture
committees urged immediate action
on the farm relief bill, and warned ;
that "delay will be fatal" if the pro- j
pram is not enacted in time for ap- j
plication to this year's crops.
The act will be intended to raise
the prices farmers receive for their
products this year, and to withdraw
from production many hundreds of
thousands of acres of land.
For the city man, this bill is in
tended to permit farmers to buy
more, which would mean more work
for the urban dweller.
President Franklin Roosevelt in
Ms short special message demanded
farm relief in time to help 1933
crops, and congress apparently will
Comply. But whether the bill as
proposed by the administration will
go through in all of its details is
problematical.
Full Power to Wallace
Skyrocketing commodity prices on
fell principal markets today echoed
a nation’s faith in the effectiveness
of the new President’s proposals to
restore farm income to pre-war
levels by curtailing production.
The presidential proposal would
vest Agriculture Secretary Henry A.
Wallace and the new administration j
with substantially unchecked pow- j
ers to regulate production of major
farm crops and hence raise prices.
As the purchasing power of the
vast farm population is increased,
it is hoped that the lagging indus
• tries of the whole nation will be
stimulated.
Until prices are restored to the
1909-14 level, farmers in return for
reducing production would be paid
direct cash bounties to make up at
least part of the difference, or would
receive rent from the government
on lands retired from production.
The huge funds necessary for
these payments would be raised by
taxes to be collected from millers,
packers and others who process
farm products before they reach the
consumer. The taxes for the most
part woud be passed on to the con
sumer.
Some Changes Expected
The benefits would apply to pro
ducers of all important farm com
modities—wheat, cotton, corn, to
* bacco, rice, hogs, cattle, sheep and
dairy products.
As the senate agriculture commit
tee today started its consideration
or the Rosevelt plan it appeared that
! would undergo some changes. The
prospect is the same in the house.
But the President is willing to ex
periment: and just as willing to stop
the experiment if he finds it won't
y ork.
The Roosevelt bill, prepared by
Agriculture Secretary Wallace: the
hcalßs of the farm organizations;
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SON BORN ON HOLIDAY:
'* PROUD FATHER KILLED
**Sure. It’s a Grand World," He
Says Moment Before Tragedy.
F’" I nil i (I I’rrs*
NEW YOftK, March 17.—Patrick
Hanafin, a subway track worker,
got word today that his wife had
just given birth to a son.
"That lad can't help being a
Patrick," Hanafin said. "As he's
my first, I’d name him after my
self anyway. And just to make sure
he'd be Pat, he's born on St. Pat
rick's morning. It’s a grand world
all right,"
Whistling, tbuiatin set out to walk
the tracks from the control room to
-• a station, en route home to see his
son. Half way there he was killed
by a speeding express train.
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Gets 822.50
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The Indianapolis Times
Showers late tonight or Saturday; slightly warmer tonight.
VOLUME 44 —NUMBER 266
28 Years Ago —
Roosevelts to Celebrate
Wedding Date Tonight
at White House.
Bn I mini l'n **
WASHINGTON, March 17.
A tall young man, less
than a year out of Harvard, was
married to a slim smiling girl in
New York twenty-eight years ago
today.
The wedding w r as the social
event of the day in New York be
cause President Theodore Roose
velt attended the ceremony.
Tonight in the White House,
President and Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt will entertain at a gay
dinner attended by relatives and
a few close friends, in celebration
of their twenty-eighth wedding
anniversary.
Among those present will be Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Parrish, at whose
home on East Seventy-sixth street
in New York the ceremony was
held in 1905. Mrs. Parrish is a
double cousin of Mrs. Roosevent’s
mother.
Others at the family dinner will
be the President's mother, Mrs.
James Roosevelt, his uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Frederic A.
Delano; the Roosevelt’s son-in
lew and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Curtis Dali; an aunt, Mrs. David
Gray of Aiken, S. C., and Mr. and
Mrs. Warren Delano Robbins.
The chatter probably will center
about the wedding day in 1905,
when President Roosevelt gave
away his niece Eleanor in mar
riage to her distant cousin Frank
lin—when Alice Roosevelt (now
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth) maae a
charming bridesmaid and when
Eleanor and Franklin were pro
nounced man and wife as they
stood before a typical cluster of
450 pink roses which were the
fashion at weddings in the "Gib
son girl” era.
103-YEAR-OLD
HOOSIER DEAD
Andrew Jackson's Boyhood
Friend Taken at Home
Near Lebanon.
By I nit id Prefix
LEBANON. Ind.. March 17.—Wil
liam Miller, who celebrated his 103d
birthday anniversary last January,
died early today at his farm home
six miles southeast of Lebanon.
He had been ill with heart trouble
for several months.
Miller was a native of Tennessee
and a boyhood friend of former
President Andrew Jackson.
He purchased his first tailored suit
of clothes from Jackson when the
latter was a tailor in Greenville,
Tenn.
Miller came to Lebanon in a cov
ered wagon, arriving in 1852 with $5
in his pocket. Years later he owned
an entire section of land in this
vicinity.
He had lived on his present farm
since 1861, never had missed an
election until last fall, and had vot
ed in the same precinct for seventy
one years.
Four children are still living, all
in and near Lebanon.
MILK PRICE IS CUT
ONE CENT IN CITY
Dairy Officials Agree to
Slash Cost.
Indianapolis today was paying a
cent less for milk in pints and
quarts, following an agreement for
a price reduction reached at a con
ference of officials of the larger
dairy companies.
The new price schedule is 9 cents
for extra rich quarts. 8 cents for
standard quarts and 6 and 5 cents
for corresponding pints.
NEIGHBORS KICK. WOLF
NO LONGER AT DOOR
Animal Kept in Dog Kennel “Given
to Some Country Folks."
The depression isn’t over, but the
wolf is no longer at the door of Mr.
and Mrs. George Hamilton, 1015
Edison street.
Appearing at the Hamilton home
Sunday, the wolf, a half grown grey
animal, had been cared for in a dog
kennel.
Its masters by accident were loath
to give it up, but were advised by
police Thursday afternoon that
neighbors were objecting and “some
thing must be done about it."
Shortly after police called, the
wolf was given to some persons “who
seemed like country folks,” Mrs.
Hamilton said.
KILLS WIFE.’TWO SONS.
THEN ENDS OWN LIFE
Clothing Firm Official Wipes Out
His Family at Chicago.
R'.t United Pres*
CHICAGO. March 17.—Norman
Heller. 15. died today of a bullet
wound inflicted by his father and
brought to four the deaths in a
domestic tragedy.
The father. Victor E. Heller. 39.
official of a clothing manufactur
ing firm, shot his wife and his son
Sylvan. 10. to death, fatally vound
ced Norman and then took his own
life.
Canning Company Manager Dies
BOONVILLE. Ind., March 17.
An attack of heart disease caused
the death in a theater here Thurs
day night of Carl A. Wnuck, 49.
manager of the local branch ot
the Lippincott Canning Company.
He came here from Cincinnati ten
I years ago. He leaves his widow.
1 three brothers and a sister.
THREE TEAMS
VICTORIOUS IN
TOURNEY PLAY
Logansport, Vincennes and
Greencastle Reach Sec
ond Round.
SHORTRIDGE IN ACTION
City Quintet in Battle With
Kokomo in First After
noon Tilt.
(Early games on Page Eighteen)
BY DICK MILLER
Two favorites for Indiana's high !
; school basketball championship, Lo- j
i gansport and Greencastle, romped j
to easy victories in first round tour- ;
; nament tussles today at Butler field
house, but the third—Connersville—
j fell victim to the initial upset of the
j Hoosier prep classic.
Logansport, displayng a brilliant
defense and machine-like offense,
| turned back Michigantown in the
first game of the tourney, 22 to 12. {
Greencastle ran away from a bat- '
tling Wakarusa quintet, 47 to 25,
and Connersville bowed to Vin
cennes’ Alices, 40 to 32.
Shortridge, carrying Indianapolis’
; hopes in the state championship
I series, was to open the afternoon
round, playing Kokomo at 2. The
winner will tackle Vincennes at 9:30
Saturday morning.
The feature game of the tourna
-1 ment is predicted for 8:30 Saturday
; morning when Logansport and
Greencastle collide in a second
round battle. Both teams have
thousands predicting they willl crash
through to championship laurels.
Logan Is Impressive
Logansport was impressive in
| handing Michigantown its first set
j back in thirty starts this season.
The Berries, performing deliber
i ately, piled up a 7-to-l edge in the
first quarter, increased it to 13 to
3 at half time, and 17 to 7 at the
; three-quarters post. Vance, Etnire
and Jamison led the Wellsmen.
Greencastle also cheered its back
| ers with a top-notch performance
after a shaky start. Wakarusa took
: an early lead over the Tiger Cubs
J and were in front 9 to 8 at the
quarter post, but McAnally and
! Hammond found the range to send
Greencastle ahead, 19 to 12. at the
half.
The Cubs picked up steam in the
last half, and paced by McAnally,
who scored nine field goals, romped
away with the decisive victory, 47
to 25.
Vincennes, victim of a sensational
upset by Cicero in the first round
of the 1932 tourney, turned the ta
bles on the Spartans in the most
thrilling struggle of the morning.
Tickets Put on Sale
Sleet, speedy Negro ace of the
highly-rated Spartans, bagged eight
| field goals before being taken from
j the game cn personal fouls in the
closing minutes of play. He kept
Connersville in the running whi}
he was in the game, but the ac
j curate shooting of Little, Painter
j and Glass gave the Alices the edge.
Vincennes led 19 to 16 at the half,
and only a few points separated the
rivals throughout the final period.
For the first time since the tour
nament was moved to Indianapolis,
a capacity crowd failed to attend
the opening tilts. Nearly 6,000 va
| cant seats greeted the morning
| rivals.
Tickets were available at the gate
for the first time in history, selling
| for $3 for the two days or $1.50 for
j the three sessions of one day.
HOOVER AT CHICAGO:
BREAKS INTO SMILES
Former President, in Good Humor,
Evades All Questions.
■ Bn United Press
CHICAGO. March 17.—Former
President Herbert Hoover came to
Chicago today, a tired man but
smiling as if with relief at being
| a private citizen again.
Hoover, his son Allan and his
| secretary detrained from the Broad-
I way Limited at the Englewood sta
j tion. They were met by Arch W.
Shaw, an old friend, and a squad of
Chicago detectives. They will leave
for California Saturday.
I Hoover smilingly evaded questions
of public or political nature.
Score Card for State Finals
FRIDAY SATURDAY
Logansnort (55).. .. j
f> A. M. i Logansport \
Michigantown (15). /
Grcencastle <!*)... \ l \
10 A. M. Grcencastle • I
Wakarusa (55).....
Vincennes (40) \ **’ / \
11 A. M. vincenn** \ 1 \
Connersville (35)...' / I 1
„ . 9:30 A. M. v > /
Kokomo l
2r M f
Shortridge ' f
.. (Semi-Finals) (Finals) \ /
Martinsville \ /
8 '■ M ' j \ (
Valparaiso > I BP. M. 1
_ „ . 10:30 A. M. ,
IP. M. f ) J
Hazelton . I [ j
_ ... 3:30 P. M.
Franklin v
7:30 P. M. . 1
Muncie )
11:30 A. M. \ /
N. Side (Ft. Wayne). t
8:30 P. M. j I
Beaver Dam
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1933
Muncie Pastor Convicted
of Imprudent Conduct’
■— >■-
Found Guilty by Church Jury and Is Given
One-Year Suspension; Charges ‘Frame-Up.’
Bn United Press
MUNCIE. Ind.. March 17.—Tl>e Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, pastor of
the Madison M. E. church here, was found guilty by an ecclesiastical jury
Thursday night of imprudent ministerial conduct. He was suspended
for one year.
The jury of twelve clergymen returned the verdict after two days
of closed hearings on charges that Conway attempted to attack Miss
Helen Huffman, 18-year-old high school girl, and fought with his choir
master during vesper services.
DUIKER LICENSE
DEADLINE OFF
Old Permits ‘Good Until
Further Notice,’ Says
Bureau Chief.
The April 1 deadline for the new
50-cent annual drivers license w r as
withdrawn today by Frank Finney,
head of the state auto license
bureau, leaving old license "good
until further notice.”
Finney said that printing of the
licenses w’ill not be completed by
April 1, thus making them unavail
able for distribution to the auto
licenses branches by that date.
As soon as they are printed and
distributed ready for sale, a dead
line will be set, he announced.
No payments for the new licenses
now w'ill be accepted unless the ap
plicant is without an old driver’s
license. Previously he had said that
all applicants could pay for anew
license now and use the receipt as
the license until it was issued.
SHOWERS ARE DUE
TO ARRIVE TONIGHT
Storm Area to Remain for
Most of Saturday.
Although ideal weather prevailed
here today for the state basketball
tourney at Butler fieldhouse, show
ers are scheduled for tonight and
most of Saturday, according to a
weather bureau forecast.
Temperatures were moderate
throughout the state as fans con
verged on the city for the tourney.
A storm area centering over the
Rockies will reach here late tonight,
but temperatures will remain high.
Saturday night will be slightly cooler
from rains during the day, it was
forecast.
Miss Helen Huffman
; Bishop Edgar Blake of Detroit
pronounced the sentence.
Charges of “frame up” and “dou
[ ble cross” were made by Conway,
j after hearing the verdict.
“A factional fight which centered
j on me after I removed several per
| sons from the church at the sug
! gestion of District Superintendent
j F. K. Dougherty is responsible for
I this ‘frame up,’ ” he charged.
He termed Bishop Blake as a fair
! and impartial judge, but added, “I
could have obtained a better chance
of vindication before a jury of
farmers and laymen."
Girl Gives Evidence
Fear by the jurors of insinuations
against the profession resulted in
| the conviction against weighty evi
; dence of his iinocence, Conway
I charged.
Miss Huffman, a member of the
| congregation, and William Aurand,
: who was knocked over the chancel
rail of the church during an argu
! ment with the minister, both
testified at the trial.
Charges in connection with the
two instances were incorporated into
the one charge of imprudent con
duct.
Counter-charges as the result of
the deposed minister's public state
ment were made by Mr. Daugherty
and the Rev. W. B. Freeland,
ecclesiastical prosecutor.
Criminal Charges Pending
Mr. Dougherty denied he had
asked Conway to oust any members
| of the congregation and Mr. Free
land asserted he would make public
j all evidence in the secret trial if
j necessary to show publicly the
minister's guilt.
Criminal charges against Conway
involving the attack charge and as
sault and battery on Aurand are
pending in Delaware circuit court.
The attempt to attack Miss Huff
man occurred after she had accept
ed a ride downtown in the minister’s
automobile, she told the grand jury.
Conway drove to a country road,
she said, and made improper ad
vances. He stopped when an auto
mobile approached, according to the
testimony.
The deposed minister is married
and the father of several children.
He is about 55.
ECONOMY BILL RUNS
INTO WEEK-END DELAY
House and Senate Adjourn, Forcing
Postponement in Signing.
Bit United Press
WASHINGTON. March 17.—Con
gress broke most of its speed records
i to pass the $500,000,000 economy bill,
but the emergency measure can't
become law until after senators
have enjoyed a week-end of golf.
The delay is due to the fact that
| the house and senate adjourned
Thursday night before Speaker
Henry T. Rainey and Vice-President
! John N. Garner signed the measure.
The law requires them to do this
while the respective chambers are
in session.
Rainey can sign it today. But
the senate has recessed until Mon
day and Garner can not sign until
then.
As soon as he signs, the bill will
go to the White House where Pres
ident Roosevelt's signature will
make it law.
Confidence Held Nation's Need
Business leaders first must show
confidence if the nation is to re
cover from the depression. Dr. Con
O. Lee of Tampa, Fla., said in an
address at noon today at a meeting
of the Exchange Club in the Wash
' ington.
CITY THEATERS
MAY CLOSE IN
WAGE DISPUTE
Owners Announce Decision
to Suspend If Agreement
Is Not Reached.
UNIONS BALK AT CUT
25 Per Cent Reduction Is
Rejected; Stand Firm
for Contract.
Closing of the majority of Indi
anapolis’ motion picture theaters
after next Thursday night's per
formances appeared certain today as;
owners and union employes re
mained deadlocked in a wage dis
pute.
Announcement of the closing or
der was made by a committee rep
resenting a group of theater own
ers after union agents refused to ;
accept a 25 per cent W'age scale re
duction without extension of exist
ing contracts.
Decision to close the theaters
came after the Lyric theater sus
pended last w'eek, when the man
agement could not complete ar
rangements for wage cuts for its
union employes, composed of ma
chine operators and stage hands.
Say Receipts Are Down
"Operating expenses have in
creased steadily during the last I
three years, while theater receipts j
have been affected by the general
business depression,” the owners de- j
dared.
D. R. Barneclo, business agent for j
the stage hands, declined to com- I
ment on the situation, although it j
had been reported that there was a i
possibility of the stage hands ac- j
; cepting the reduction.
Arthur Lyday, business agent of j
the motion picture machine opera- 1
tors, said the employes would
maintain their position, insisting
I that the “theater owners live up to
their contracts.”
Contracts with machine operators
jin downtown houses, calling for
wages ranging from S6O to $54.50
weekly, have been in effect only five
months, Lyday said. Agreements
for neighborhood houses, which are
two-year contracts, will expire in
September.
Stand on Contract
Managers said that "the closing of
the Lyric last week disclosed the
fact that moving picture machine
operators were receiving $64.50 for
approximately forty-five hours’
work.
Some of the local managers also
stated that more men were used
than necessary for effective opera
tion of equipment.
“We informed the owners that we
would be willing to discuss wage re
ductions provided we were assured
that our contracts would be ex
tended from the date the new scale
went into effect.” Lyday said. "We
w'ill maintain that position.”
Handled by Local Unions
Although a number of theaters in
j the country now are involved in
wage disputes with union employes,
there has been no indication that
the stuation would be handled by
national arbitration, Lyday said.
“The matter of contract reduction
will be handled by the local unions,
although if there is a general agree
ment to reduce the scale there prob
ably •will be a national meeting for
arbitration,” he said.
Theater managers declared that
all non-union theater employes had
accepted cuts ranging as high as 50
per cent, and asserted that approx
imately 800 to 1,000 employes would
be thrown out of work if the houses
were darkened.
WOMAN FLIER DIVORCED
Marjorie Crawford Wellman Wins
Suit Against Movie Director.
Bn United l’rats
LOS ANGELES, March 17.—Mar
jorie Crawford Wellman, noted
woman flier, won a divorce and a
j $30,000 settlement Thursday from
! William A. Wellman, movie direc
tor, who became famous directing
aviation pictures.
Hourly Temperatures
6 a. m 38 10 a. m 53
7 a. m 39 11 a. m 58
Ba. m 47 12 (noon).. 60
9 a. m 50 1 p. m 61
Paul Fry Named to ‘Beer
Czar 9 Post by Governor
I
Paul Fry, Linton, was named by
Governor Paul V. McNutt today as
state excise director.
The position, commonly known
as “beer czar,” became a post that
nobody seemed to want, so McNutt
named Fry, who already is head of
the state purchas
ing department.
He will continue
in both capacities,
with a salary in
crease from $4,800
to $5,200, th e
Governor an
nounced.
McNutt is re
ported to have
tried to obtain
Virgil (Skits)
Simmons, Bluff
ton. his number
two hi nchman.
or the excise post
but Simons is
said to prefer to
Fry
become chief of the state conserva
tion department.
Fry was one of the first McNutt
appointees named. He became state
'purchasing agent aqd the legislature
Entered as Second Class Matter
at I’ostotfice, Indianapolis
BEER ON APRIL 4
IS PREDICTION OF
CONGRESS CHIEFS
Present Program Would Send Bill to Presi
dent Roosevelt Monday, With Prompt
Signing Certain.
SENATE VOTES FOR 3.05 BEVERAGE
House Figure of 3.2 Per Cent Alcoholic
Content Is Reduced and Wine
Provision Added.
BY LYLE C. WILSON
1 nited Press Staff Correspondent
W ASHINGTON, March 17.—Congressional leaders
agreed today on a beer-wine bill program calculated to put
the Volstead modification act in the White House Monday
and place a legal bottle in the consumers’ hands by April 4.
“You can rest assured,” said Chairman Pat Harrison of
the senate finance committee, “that the beer bill will be
signed Monday.”
The bill would become operative fifteen days later. House
Democratic leaders planned to send the bill to conference in
an effort to restore the original provision for 3.2 per cent
beer.
MOVE AGAINST
GOLD HOARDERS
Local Banks Instructed to
Prepare Lists of Large
Withdrawals.
The federal government today
took its first steps in Indianapolis
toward exposing of gold hoarders
when local banks were instructed to
prepare lists of names of persons
known to have withdrawn gold in
the last several months.
In wires to heads of all banks
here, officials of the Federal Re
serve bank of Chicago threatened
punishment of all persons who
failed to redeposit before March 13,
all gold or gold certificates previ
ously withdrawn.
Names, addresses, and amounts
of hoarded gold were being pre
pared today lor forwarding to Chi
cago, it was learned.
Cash and check deposits in clear
ing house banks Thursday totaled
$5,876,000.
Postal savings deposits Thursday
reached anew high point of $43,-
626, according to Leslie D. Clancy,
postmaster.
Withdrawals decreased S4OO to
$5,189. Steady decrease in money
order exchange volume also was
noted. Clancy said.
Fleming Man Killed by Train
Hi/ United Press
SEYMOUR, Ind.,- March 17.—El
mer Sweet, 30, Fleming, was killed
late Thursday when his truck was
hit by a Baltimore & Ohio passen
ger train at a grade crossing near
here.
We’ll Rocket
Through the
Universe
We'll start for the moon Sat
urday.
For the next six days we’ll go
by rocket and get a good look
at the universe. David Dietz,
science editor of the Scripps-
Howard newspapers, w r ho whites
daily for The Times, will be our
guide.
On the editorial page Satur
day, Mr. Dietz will start the
trip and you’ll find it greatly
worth your while to go along.
Watch for the getaway. Turn
to the editorial page Saturday
and be in on it. You’ll learn
lots of things about the uni
verse you never dreamed of
before.
expanded the scope of that office
and made him head of the state
purchasing department.
He will draw S4OO of his salary
from this work and the remainder
from the excise department.
rifliculty in getting a man for the
job, among his trusted coherts, was
encountered by the Governor because
of the political pitfalls. The excise
I director will be charged with grant-
J ing permits to a restricted number
| of breweries, importers and whole
. salers of beer in the state. Those
failing to get permits may look upon
the director as a pubic enemy, it
was pointed out.
Work on permits was to get under
way at once, the Governor declared.
The licensing of b?er retailers and
medicinal whisky drug stores also
is under the excise director.
A1 Feeney, head of the state
safety department, had been han
j dling the liquor permits, pending
naming of the permanent occupant
; of the post.
McNutt said Indiana will be ready
for beer as soon as it is legalized
nationally.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE TWO CENTS
Outside Marion County, 3 Cents
The senate in passing the
measure Thursday night, re
duced the alcoholic content to
3.00 per cent, and added wine.
Efforts of the house leaders to
send the bill to conference were
blocked temporarily by objection of
Representative Malcolm C. Tar
ver (Dem., Ga.), making it neces
sary to delay, for the time being,
the process of adjusting.
It was planned to bring the mea
sure before the house again later
in the day.
Three Issues in Dispute
Three issues are in dispute be
tween senate and house, both of
which have voted to modify the
Volstead act. The house bill was
for 3.2 per cent beer and nothing
else.
The senate lowered the percent
age to 3.05 and included two other
amendments, one legalizing wine
and fruit juices and the other pro
hibiting sale or gift of the legalized
beverages to persons under 16 years
of age.
Speaker Henry T. Rainey said he
favored retaining the alcoholic con
tent at 3.2 per cent, and that he
beileved the house conferees would
hold out for this percentage, rather
than the 3.05 written into the bill
by the senate.
Wine “No Good”
“Brewers have told me,” he said,
“that they always make beer under
the maximum, so that if we had
3.05 as the limit, the beer actually
would be about 3 per cent alcohol.”
Rainey added that he had no
particular objection to the senate
amendment legalizing 3.05 wine.
‘ It will do no harm and no good,”
he said. “It is an impossible thing.
You can’t make that kind of wine.”
It is believed senate leaders would
not be displeased if the house re
fused to accept the amendments,
and sent the bill to conference to
be restored to its original form.
The slight reduction of alcoholic
content was voted by the senate
after many Democrats had protest
ed against the limit fixed by the
house.
With an eye to possible trouble at
home, senators desired such protec
tion as they might obtain from last
session’s judiciary committee deci
sion that 3.05 per cent beverages
w r ere not intoxicating.
Brewers’ representatives here said
that there would be no appreciable
difference in the quality of 3.2 or
3.05 per cent beer. Dry leaders de
clared one was as bad as the other
from their point of view.
Mcßride Assails Bill
“The change in the alcoholic con
tent from 3.2 to 3.05 was im
material,” said F. Scott Mcßride of
the Anti-Saloon League. “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.”
There are indications that the
house decision on W'ine will de
pend on desires of the Pacific coast
and Ohio delegations representng
large grape and apple districts. They
may seek to eliminate the provision,
and press later for a separate bill
to legalize 10 per cent wines.
The final vote showed far less
than the 2 to 1 margin expected by
Democratic Leader Robinson. On
the division, thirty-one Democrats
and twelve Republicans favored
modification, while thirteen Demo
crats and seventeen Republicans
voted against it.
STRONG ARM OF LAW ~
TAMES ‘HOGAN’S GOAT’
Cowboy Squad Confides Animal to
Shed; Still Going Strong.
Voice of an excited woman in
formed police by telephone today
that a goat was running wild in the
600 block Birch avenue.
“It’s probably Hogan's goat,” re
marked Captain John Mullin, being
Irish and taking note of St. Pat
j rick’s day. “I’ll send my cowboys
down and get somebody’s goat.”
Sergeant Noel Jones and Patrol
men Charles G. Burkett and Chester
Timmerman captured the goat, and
[confined it in a shed, against the
i sides of which the goat was
enthusiastically butting its head at
the last report.