Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-22
TO
FIX RUM PRICE
NOW PROPOSED
Author Regards Measure
Would Insure Conviction
of BOOtleggers.
MOVIE FIRMS RUSHED

Special to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger.
NEW YORK, Aug. pa Congressman
from New York has been approached
with the following proposal for a new
section of Article XVIII Of the Federal
constitution:
Liquor prohibition amendment, sec
ton / In view of the estimated $500,
100000 annual profits Of those engaged
in the Illicit profession of 'boOtlegging.
and the purse-emptying hardships there
by falling upon all law breaking citizens
TO the detriment OF their creditors and
others, the following maximum schedule
of prices is fixed as fair and reasonable 1:
Scotch. s. quart; rye, IS quart gin, 81
quart and beer and light wines at pre-
VoIstead prices plus no more than 10
per cent The penalty for failure to
comply with the foregoing maximum
schedule Of prices. subject to annual re-
vision, shall be Imprisonment for not
more than ten years and fine Of not more
than $4,000, or both fine and imprison-
ment for each offense."
The Congressman said, THE point
made by my constituent was that under
. his proposed amendment there would be
no difficulty in obtaining convictions
from jUries in prosecutions against boot
leggers.
Arsenic y. Luz. manager Of the Phil
ippines commercial agency, commenting
upon the intimatiOn that the United
States Government had an Irish" ques-
tion IN the Far East. said: The MOrOs
ere AIohammedans and number about
100000. The balance Of the Philippines
population. some 9,5OO,OOO, are Christians.
chiefly Roman Catholics. Inasmuch as
the problem in Ireland is q religious one.
the analogy is not altogether wrong.
However. there are fewer Moros in the
Philippines than there are Ulstermen Ia
Ireland At any rate the overwhelming
majority of the inhabitants of both Ire
land and the Philippines desire indie
peGdence.'
- 80 80
William T. Burns the new head of
the Bureau Of Investigation Of the De-
partment o. Justice. United States secret
service. passed the weekend at his home
I'm Scarborough. y. Y, freshening up on
the work which a decade ago brought
him fame as the greatest detective in the
world. He goes back cheering to the
area Of endcavor which made him inter
nationally famous
p IL
4 regard this appointment as the
greatest opportunity i'm my life he said,
and IL is my determination to give the
people Of the United States the most ef-
fective secret service in the world
Hearing that being bare skinned" in
news moving picture from some ocean
beach offers the possibility Of subsequent
sliding by the New York State board Of
censors. many stars are rushing the or
fees Of the motion picture firm, offering
themselves as sacrifices" For they find
newspapers viii publish q still" Of the
rejected film and he glad to get II. A
certain star was first over the wire in
that race for the spotlight. She had seen
what coolies Of newspaper publicity was
caught on the beach and Immediately
hied herself to Atlantic City.
80 -I- 90
I was in the Office OF Louis Dreyfus
the music publisher in West Forty Fifth
street. listening to Al Jolson try out some
Of his new songs when the Duncan sis
tiers. Rosetta and Vivian entered. The
telephone rang. THAT you. Waltz" asked
AIR Dreyfus and there followed one of
those usual conversations between hus
hand and wife when the former would
be home and what the latter had been FOR
dinner. No sooner had the telephone
been hung up. than Rosetta Duncan
asked.
rs VaIH vaHi your wife :"
Il am sure Of it," replied the music
publisher.
What do you know about that" said
Miss Duncan and continuing. sever
years ago was little girl appearing IN
a moving picture called the High Road
out in Los Angeles In one scene there
was a factory fire and the forelady o.
the shop had TO throw me ont OF win
dow. That forelady was Vslli Vaui. the
opera star, who was making her debut
In pictures
Theatrical people seem always 10 b
finding themselves in such strange man
uer Here is another. instance:
Separated from her family two years
Isabel OMadigan. actress was reunited
last week. through q chance visit to The
Shubert theater. with her brother, DAME
OMadigan. Mr.. O'NadiCan. who is
structural engineer with the international
Cement Company Of St Louis. was 81
New York after an absence Of six years
passed in South America. He attended
the performance Of Just Married" and
- be opened the program the first name
he noticed was that Of Isabelle OMadi
gan He sought out the company man
ager, explained the situation and wat
taken back stage, where he was presen
ted TO Miss O'MadiEan.
They had lost track OF each other sew
eral years ago while living in St Louis
when Miss O'Madigan decided to so OF
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