Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1922-06-16
HARDING LINKED
WITH RUM SALE
Claimed President Permits Liz,
uor on u. S. Ships.
BREWERY MAKES THE CHARGE
Anheuser- Busch Folk Assert Chairman
Lasker of the Shipping Board Got
Tacit Assent From the
Executive.

st. Louis June ia second letter
on the subject of the sale Of liquor on
vessels OF the United States shipping
board will be sent A. ID. LasKer of
! Chicago. chairman of the board. in
few days by AnheuserBusch, Inc, it
was announced.
The letter will state that the An
heuser-Busch organization reserves
the right ito protest when the United
States government buys German beer
to sell on its ships and will not let
American beer be made"
The announcement promises that 'if
the government decides to make an
investigation of This matter we viii
establish, by a reliable witness. that
Mr.. Lasker has said thar he went 20
President Harding with this whole
matter and told him that the sale of
liquor on the shipping board ships
would help to solve the boards finan-
cial problems, and that he said that
President Harding replied to him:
Mr.. Lasker, you are chairman of
the shipping board you know what to
| do"
Lasker Winked, Story Goes.
/ o. T. Reminders, counsel for the
Anheuser-Busch corporation. asserted
that witness could be produced to
show that Chairman Lasker said that
/ several dry members of the senate and
house called on him to protest against
the sale of liquor on the ship and
that, according to his version of the
matter, he called IN the chief of the
commissary and, shaking his finger at
him. said
II want you to understand distinct
ly that no liquor is to be sold on these
ships"
Continuing, Mr. Remmers said:
"At the same time as he told it. he
gave the chief of commissary a broad
wink"
Mr.. Remmers emphatically denied
Mr.. Lasker's charge that the Busch
interests were acting in the hope of
creating a public revolt against pro-
hibition, utterly regardless of how you
might burt the American merchant
marine. in an effort to create a situa-
ton 70 benefit your brewery"
Denies Kaiser Friendship.
The charge by Mr.. Lasker that dur
ing the war the late adolphus Busch
was possibly tie kaiser's closest
Friend in this country" brought a
statement from Auheuser-B Busch, Inc.
that it would deny this and would
state that the Anheuser- Busch organi-
cation reserves the right TO protest
when the United States government
buys German beer to sell on it's ships
and will not let American beer be
made"
Adolphus Busch II wrote Mr.. Las
ker June s, inclosng a letter from his
father, August A. Busch, written while
en- route to France, in which the
charges of "bootlegging" by the gov
government were made 1t declared
that breweries thus had been forced
for two years to meet unfair and il.
legal competition and that the matter
should be brought before the Presi-
dent.
Promises Vigorous Action.
Washington. June 15--Prohibition
Commissioner Haynes declared in a
formal statement referring to the
prohibition afloatr pamphlet issued
by the Anheuser-Busch, Inc, that he
would "act in a vigorous manner To
enforce the law" rs soon as the De.
partment of Justice and the courts
have determined where the Volstead
act applied TO vessels sailing under
the American flag. He added that he
would not "break one law to enforce
another"
Dry leaders in the house are pre-
pairing an amendment to the ship sub
sidy bill to provide that no ship upon
which Intoxicating liquors are sold OF
carried can receive subsidy benefits
Suggestions also were made that ar
investigation would be asked of the
charges made by Adolphus Busch be
fore the ship subsidy bill is finally
acted upon.