New Britain herald., 1930-03-13
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 (Continued From First Page) not carry bars in violation of the law.
 Do you know" LaGuardia went on, that young Dollar asked Sena- tor Copeland (democrat, New York; to keep me from repeating that charge, because it would damage his business if he had to close the bars?'
 Wants It Stricken Out
 Representative Dyer, republican, Missouri, asked that this part of the testimony be stricken from the rec ord, saying it was untrue as he had travelled on six Dollar ships.
 LaGuardia, however, insisted the presence of bars had been admitted.
 Another witness, John A. Mo- Sparren of Furness, Pennsylvania, said he had sought to keep the pro- hibition issue out of the democratic national convention at Houston, Texas, but the party had forced it in and that he did not know of a can- didate running on a straight tick et' who had received fewer votes in the electoral college than Alfred E. Smith.
 Fisher Statement Ready
 As Stagg testified those in charge of the witnesses appearing in sup port of prohibition held a brief en- dorsing the eighteenth amendment prepared by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale, the well know economist. room and it was undecided whether the brief would be ready at today's session.
 Stagg, whose name is known to college students throughout the na- tion, is one of the veteran coaches of the Western Conference, an organi- zation composed of ten big universi- ties in the midwest. He said his home training fin comparative poverty was all that could be desired but the environment in which I play ed was far from helpful.'
 Saloons Instead of Movies
 "The saloons,' he went on, were our substitutes for the movies, the theater, the motor car, the radio, the seashore, reading and all. In bad luck men drowned their sorrows at the bar; in good luck, they celebrat- ed it there.
 ''In my judgment since prohibition has been put into effect, hundreds of thousands more children have had a falrer start in life than existed in prohibition days. With the breakdown of the home life and with all the complexities of new op- portunities for being misled, I trem- ble to think what this revolt of youth might have led to were prohibition not in operation"
 Cross examination of q number of the women who have urged support of the 18th amendment was under taken today by the committee and 5. w. Peabody of Beverly Mass. who has been in charge of presentation of the women witnesses. She was absent from the committee room at the time.
 Chairman Graham said she would be present later and the committee then had its attention directed by Representative LaGuardia to a let ter from Baron De Mum to Horace Taft, brother of the late iurist, deny- Ing that his wine growers organiz- ation was engaging in a tremendous anti prohibition campaign in this country.
 Women Appear Today
 At yesterdays session Mrs. Pea body had insisted that the women she presented be permitted to finish offering their prepared testimony be- fore being questioned. This finally was agreed to. Several of the wom- en were interrogated and others re- quested to appear this morning.
 Sdl llOll M. CIe1 JUL. Ol NeW York, executive secretary of the citizens committee of one thousand, was introduced at the first witness. He had prepared a brief accusing the vets of having become fan atics', but before he had an oppor- tunity to proceed with his testi- mony, the committee took up cross examination of the women witnesses.
 Alonzo Stagg, the veteran athletic director at the University of Chica- go, sat in the room waiting to testi- fy in support of prohibition as soon as the interrogation was concluded and Sherwood had finished.
 A statement that the vets have become the fanatics" was made be- fore the committee by Carlton M Sherwood, executive secretary of the Citizens Committee of One Thous- and of New York city.
 His testimony, presented in the committees hearings on proposals for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, was concentrated upon a denial of evidence given by the vets to the effect that American TINT TAT@