Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-22
FIERY ASSAULTS
UPON VETS MARK
SENATE HEARING

WASHINGTON, April .21.-Fiery as
saultS on the vets in general and
some of their witnesses in particular
including the leaders of organized la
Dor, furnished the high spots of, to-
days presentation of the case OF the
drys before the senate prohibition com
mittee. Incidentally, United States
District Attorney A. e. Bernstein of
Cleveland took issue with Lincoln C..
Andrews, dry enforcement chief, that
the sale of n-into1icating beer for
consumption only in the home might
aid in making administration of the
prohibition laws more effective. He
asserted that every place where such
beer was sold would become a potion
tial Gispensary for hard liquors, thus
increasing present difficulties in law
enforcement.
Attacks on labor leaders, some of
whom have appeared before the com
mittee to urge the sale of light beer,
were launched by Charles SteIzle of
New York, who said he appeared on
behalf of himself only. He declared
that during the past few years it has
been almost impossible to have la
Dor leader who valued his job. come
out in favor of prohibition enforce
ment no matter what his personal con-
victions might be. Prohibition has
been made a political question within
the ranks of labor, he said, adding
that as a result 'it has been impossi-
BILE to secure fair vote in any labor
convention. regarding the prohibition
question"
Motion pictures came in for attack
from Canon William S. Chase of the
International reform federation, who
declared that they, and not prohibi-
tion, were responsible for the crime
wave in this and other countries
Testimony recently gwen before
the committee by Father Francis
Kasaczun of Sugar Notch, Pa, re-,
garding moral conditions among the
anthracite mine workers, wasI de-
nounced by another Catholic priest,
the Rev. J. J. Curran of Wilkesbarre.
81 know that the citizens of Sugar
Notch are not drunkards, much less
their little children" Father Crran
declared, "and 1 am not afraid to re-
pudiate this statement whether made
under oath or not, be the witness a
laic or a cleric"
Father Curran also took a pot-shot
at the vets, declaring he knew them
well and knew them to be "a badlot."
During a two-hour session the COM
mittee got additional expressions of
official opinion that the dry laws can
be enforced and also received through.
S. L. Strivings of CASTLE, N. Y,
message from the National Grange
against any weakenings of the VOL
stead act. and in favor of vigorous
enforcement of the constitution and,
the law.
AS a parting shot for the day, the
drys called to the stand DR.. ]. M. Do
ran, chief chemist in the prohibition
union to refute the statement of Dis
trict Attorney Buckner that approxi-
mately 6O,00O,00O gallons of industrtsI
alcohol found it's way into illegal
channels last year Asserting that
only S7,5OO,OOO gallons in all were
released in 1925, DR.. Doran estimated
that not more than 100000 or a.
100000 gallons reached the bootleg
trade.
whether the hearings are to be
closed tomorrow still is problemati-
cal, as the drys made formal request
that they be given an additional three
hours because of the inroads into
their "a hours made by the cross ex-
animation of their witnesses by Sena-
tor Reed, democrat, Missouri, the one
wet member of, the committee. This
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