Evening star. [volume], December 05, 1937, Page A-14, Image 14

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REPEAL TO ENTER
FIFTH YEAR TODAY
Bootlegger Still Exists, but
His Activities Are Greatly
Reduced.
By the Associated Press.
The fourth anniversary of Federal
prohibition repeal today finds the
bootlegger still in existence, but his
activities "greatly reduced.”
The fifth year of repeal opens with
43 out of the 48 States permitting the
sale of hard liquor, with liquor tax
revenues rising and with the first large
supply of bonded whisky about ready
to tap.
From the consumer standpoint, of
ficials say the quality of whisky is
gradually going up and the price
down. This process, they believe, will
be speeded up next July 1 when be
tween 10,000,000 and 15,000,000 gal
lons of bonded whisky will be ready to
come out of warehouses. Bonded
whisky must be aged for four or more
years and next July will be the first
release date for the post-repeal
product.
Impact to Be Watched.
The impact of this supply on prices
will be watched closely by enforce
ment officers. They believe that, al
though bootlegging probably never will
be wiped out altogether, cheap legal
whisky will make most bootlegging
unprofitable.
Measured by seizures of illegal stills,
bootlegging has been cut in half in
the last two years. Before then, the
Treasury's alcohol tax unit confiscated
an average of 300 stills a week.
"We get less than half that many
now and work twice as hard to find
them,” said Stewart Berkshire, head
of the Treasury's alcohol tax unit,
"We have checked up on our men and
know that the reason they aren’t get
ting more stills is because they aren't
there to get,”
Five Stales Are Dry.
Many of these still seizures, he add
ed. are in the five remaining dry
States—Tennessee, Georgia, Missis
sippi, Kansas and Oklahoma. Tennes
see and Georgia defeated repeal pro
posals in elections in the last year.
Government figures show substan
tial increases in the consumption of
legal litjuor during the last three fiscal
years. The gallonage figures on quan
tities of tax-paid alcohol for the three
years ended June 30 in each case were:
1935. 83.544.332; 1936, 110.186,311;
1937, 130,196.858.
The Federal Government has col
lected nearly $2,000,000,000 in taxes on
liquor since repeal and the States
many millions more.
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FUNERAL TOMORROW
FOR JOHN F. SCHMIDT
Building Contractor Will Be Bur
ied in Arlington With Mili
tary Honors.
Funeral services for John F.
Schmidt. 73. of 715 Farragut street
N.W., building contractor who died
Friday in George Washington Hos
pital, will be held at 1:30 tomorrow in
Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth
street N.W. Burial will be in Arlington
National Cemetery, with military
honors.
During the 45 years in which he
had been in business here, Mr. Schmidt
had contracts for erecting many large
buildings. He was a member of the
Anacostia Lodge of Masons.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary
Schmidt; three daughters, Miss Gesine
Amelia Schmidt. Miss Mary Martha
Schmidt and Miss Irene Katherine
Schmidt; a son, Oliver F. Schmidt,
and a granddaughter, Lorraine Helen
Thiele, daughter of the late Mrs.
Helen A. Thiele.
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KING’S BIRTHPLACE*SOLD
FOR APARTMENT HOUSE
LONDON <£>i.—Norfolk House, town
house of the Dukes of Norfolk since
the 17th century, is giving way to
London’s current craze for stream*
lined flats.
The present Duke of Norfolk, who
has used the house only for corona
tion occasions as hereditary earl
marshal, has sold the mansion to a
firm of contractors. Modernistic
apartments w ith curved glass windows
and the best of what London calls
central heating probably will take its
place.
The price was not announced, but
the Duke, in 1930, withdrew the house
from auction when a bid of $1,250,
000 was reached.
George III, against whom the
American colonies revolted, was born
in a back room of Norfolk House in
June. 1738.
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