The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-07-28
u. s. ACTS TO
CURTAIL SALE
OF REAL Beer
Special Guards Established
in Many Large Cereal
Beverage Plants.
CHECK ALL BREWERS
No Election Beer, No Let
ting Down of Bars Before
November, Is Edict.
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WASHINGTON, July 2s.-Sey-
mour Lowman, acting Secretary Of
Treasury. undertook today to cur
tail real beer illegally placed on
the market.
He ordered special guards estab-
lished in many large near beer
manufacturing plants to see that
their beverages contain less than
one-half of one per cent alcohol.
1--WE are now checking on a num-
Der of manufacturing plants, es-
pecially in New York State" Low
man said. Federal officers are on
hand at all times to see that the
law is not violated.
"The situation in Illinois and
Pennsylvania is slightly better than
in New York, but all breweries there
also are under surveillance"
Lowman said incidentally that
there will be no election beer, and
no letting down of the bars between
now and November.
"The dry forces are working
steadily, without blare of trumpets
and they will continue in this man
ner," he said.
Make Leakage Impossible
He pointed out that about 140,-
100000 gallons of cereal beverages
are produced annually by dealco-
holizing real beer, and that because
of this large output brewers have
been letting some genuine beer get
on the market.
Under our new system, how
ever, this leakage virtually will be
impossible" he said. 1.-The volume
Of real beer on the market this sum-
mer has been considerably smaller
than in previous years.
Most of the beer bootlegged now
is wild cat stuff made in alley
breweries. Prohibition agents have
been instructed to watch out for
this type of violators, and we be-
lieve the synthetic malt beer is also
disappearing"
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and coast guard forces in the last
year for the first time since prohi-
bition have reduced the amount of
whisky legally exported from Can
ada from the previous year.
This was announced today By
treasury officials, but since the in
formation was given out conf1den-
TALLY by the Canadian government
the exact figures are not available
Arrest Records Broken
Most of the whisky legally ex-
ported" from Canada goes into this
country through bootleg channels
by being smuggled across the Great
Lakes in fast boats or over the
border in automobiles.
All records for arrests and seizure
have been broken during the last
year. The extent of the bootlegging
operations and of the attempts OF
the three Government agencies to
suppress them were revealed today
in reports from Detroit, center Of
the smuggling operations.
One report made by Thomas E
Stone, prohibition administrator in
the Michigan district, shows that
in the ten months ending July l
prohibition agents In his district
arrested 2,071 bootleggers, seized
1926 quarts of whisky, 1,450,S9t
quarts of beer and conf1scated 32T
automobiles and three launches.
The total appraised value Of the
property seized by prohibition
agents in the Detroit district was
given by Administration Stone as
$2,412,351. The value of the liquor
and property seized by customs and
coast guard forces was reported as
81 $4,000, but Treasury officials say
this valuation is at least five times
too low.