The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-11-05
Making Wine of
 Vine-GlO Ends
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as legal under the prohibition laws which permit the keeping of fruit juices" in the house.
 Mabel Walker Willebrandt, for- mer assistant United States attor- ney general, has been active in Washington as the attorney for Fruit Industries Limited. During the past week she has made sev. eral calls at the White House but whether they had any connection with to-day's announcement, was not known.
 Reports that sale of the concen. trate would be discontinued were heard about Washington last night. Several persons received telephone calls warning them that if they desired to stock their cellars they should place their orders before midnight. To-day Conn confirmed to the United Press the report that the sale of the concentrate would be discontinued.
 Walter Newton and Theodore Joslin, secretaries to President Hoover when questioned, denied that the White House had any con- nection with the discontinuance of the sale of the concentrate.
 Fruit Industries has been under the financial wing of the federal farm board. It was reputedly the first organization of agriculturists to receive loan from the board after congress voted a half billion dollars to aid farming.
 Up to this spring, loans from the farm board to Fruit Industries amounted to $2.500,000. A com- mittment to loan approximately $700,0 additional has been made by the board but thus far this fund has not been drawn upon. The government has been under attack from time to time because of it's financial aid to an organiza- tion allegedly dealing in the mate. rials for making w1ne.
 Others, however, have defended Fruit Industries method of pur- veying grape juice for wine making on the grounds that it satisfied with a less potent product, an appe- tite for spirits and was in reality a step towards temperance. Some dry leaders were included among those who leaned toward that view.
 Amos W. Woodcock, director of prohibition enforcement, returned to-day after a brief absence from Washington and said he had not been informed of the discontinu- ance of it's sale.
 He said, however, that he was contemplating issuance of new in- structions to his agents on the basis of decisions rendered in the recent cases which the government won against the Ukiah company at Kansas City and the California vineyardists. at Los Angeles. both of which were prosecuted for deal- ing in grape concentrates for wine making.
 These instructions, he said, would inform agents of basis for &C., tion."
 The Ukiah case, decided in fed- eral court at Kansas City, Wood cock said, "gave the government broad powers against the sale of grape concentrate"
 The new orders. Woodcock said, would supplement those issued in 1926 and 1928 in which agents were instructed not to interfere with sale of fruit concentrates used for making wine in the home. Mrs Willebrandt, who was in conference with Conn this morning. would not comment on the decision to discontinue sale of the concen- trate. There were indications in official circles that the attitude of the farm board towards Fruit Indus tries, Ltd, had changed since the Los Angeles and Kansas City court decisions. The board, it was said, had unofficially taken the position that it should not finance an or ganization dealing in commodities with a questionable status at law To-day's action, some officials said, was due chiefly to a desire to remove any objections of the farm board so that its position would remain "dignified." The action does not affect the company's sales of such commodities as sacramental wines. jellies, sauces and grape concentrates in buik-that is grape concentrates not designed for sale for home-wine making under the "Vine-Glo" method.