Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
VETS TO RESUME
GIVING TESTIMONY
-F0ur-Day Limit for Each Side
in Dry Law Hearings
Is Abandoned.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
The House judiciary committee will
resume its hearings on measures to re-
peal the eighteenth amendment next
Wednesday, with the vets still present
ing their side of the argument.
The plan to limit the hearings tc
four days for the vets, an equal period
for the drys and brief rebuttal teSti-
mony has been abandoned, so that op-
ponents of the dry laws may present
witnesses who could not be heard in the
four days that the inquiry has already
been in progress.
However, Representative Linthicum
Democrat. Maryland, chairman of the
unofficial House wet bloc, who is in
charge of the anti-prohibition side of
the case, expects his testimony to be
completed in one more day OF hearings,
Hundreds of prominent people, he
saws, have asked for an opportunity to
appear in support of repeal measures.
However, he adds, Il am afraid We will
have to end our argument next We'd
nesday."
DR.. Church Witness.
Prior to Chairman Graham of the
committee declaring the recess yester-
day, DR.. Samuel Harden Church of
Pittsburgh, president of the Carnegie
Institute, appeared as a witness. DR..
Church said there is a swelling wave
of evidence on hand that, in the opinion
Of many millions of the American peo-
pie. prohibition, after 10 years of trial.
is unenforceable because 1t is opposed
by the popular will"
The Pittsburgh educator asserted the
dry law was a social and legal failure
and had resulted in an increase of in
temperance, corruption and crime. He
charged that the Methodist Board of
Temperance, Prohibition and Public
Morals, Bishop James Cannon, jr., Of
Virginia, the Anti-Saloon League, the
Ku Klux Khan and the Lords Day
Alliance were debating to the legislators
laws to enforce prohibition.
Another witness was Frederick Clark
of New York and Cleveland, leader
of "the Crusaders as an organization
of young men terms itself. He ex-
planned that the associations member
ship Is recruited from all sections of
the country with the avowed purpose
of bringing about the repeal of prohibi-
ton.
AS an organizer of it, Clark said the
members we're determined to substitute
real temperance for prohibition intern
perance He said that while "the
Crusaders" was a young organization.
it had more than $4,000 members and
was constantly increasing.
Norris Resolution Up.
THE youth of America" he declared,
shaving fought the World War. now
rises up to fight for temperance 20 sub
stitute for the present chaotic state, a
condition under which the children of
those who fought in the late war, in
Guiding those who died in service, may
I've and enjoy the inalienable rights
guaranteed to them under the Declara-
ton of Independence.
Before the House group returns to its
inquiry the Senate judiciary committee
viii again consider Chairman Norris
resolution for general investigation of
prohibition enforcement. Norris said
late yesterday that he favored prelim-
mary hearings on the ACCESSIBILITY of
undertaking the investigation. The COM
mittee is scheduled to meet on Monday
and Norris intends, to present at that
time some evidence on violations of the
dry laws that has been sent to him
Walter K. Liggett's testimony before
the House committee that crime is ram
pant in Boston was aSSailed late yes
terday by Representatives Luce, Repub-
Hcan, Massachusetts,, as a foul and
vicious libel He received unanimous
consent to insert in the Congressional
Record the report Of a Federal grand
jury that he claimed proved that none
Of Liggett's charges was capable of be-
ing sustained
Liggetts testimony also had an echo
last night in the publication of COM
nunication forwarded to the House
committee by @. D. Eaton, the editor
OF Plain Talk, magazine for which
Liggett writes. This had TO do with
charges Liggett made against Gov.
Green of Michigan and four Detroit
Circuit Court judges. Liggett said they
attended a party at which liquor was
served. Green has denied this asser-
ton
Eaton challenged Green's denial with
the assertion that the governor had de-
clined to go before the committee and
be questioned. He and Liggett, he said,
Gere ready 10 swear to the details about
the party.