Evening star., 1933-04-04
ARRANGE TO SELL
BEER HERE FRIDAY
District Commissioners to
Issue Temporary Permits
if Bill Passes.

Temporary permits are to be granted
for the sale of beer in the District so
as to expedite the flow of the beverage
following passage of the act by Congress,
the District Commissioners decided to-
day in adopting long series of regula-
tions.
The Commissioners, in indorsing rules
and regulations prepared by the District
Beer Committee, withheld formal action
only until Congress has placed its final
stamp of approval on the beer bill
Printing Ordered.
Meanwhile the city heads ordered
that the various regulations and Official
application forms. covering issuance of
LICENCES, be printed today at the Gov
ernment Printing Office. Expectation
was that these official blanks would be-
come available for distribution tomor-
row and that as soon as applicants had
filled them out properly issuance of
temporary permits could begin.
While it still was not definite lust
when the formal licenses or the tenta-
tive permits could be issued, DR.. Luther
H. Reichelderfer, president of the
Board OF Commissioners, said It proba-
bly, would be "in just a few days" The
national beer law becomes effective
Friday. DIR. Reichelderfer said it was
possible the Commissioners might be
able 10 issue the permits late this week.
Subject to Recall.
The temporary permits would be
subject to recall by the Commissioners
and would be substituted later by the
formal permits as soon as the operation
OF the license machinery made that
possible.
In their tentative regulations. the
commissioners did not indicate what
their policy would be as to the grant
ing OF licenses for the sale of beer in
Government buildings should Congress
leave that matter to their discretion.
The section of the tentative draft of
the regulations dealing with the tenn
porary permits reads as follows:
Where the application for beverage
permit shows upon its face no reason
why the desired permit should not be
granted, the Commissioners NAV issue
a temporary permit, which, If accepted
by the applicant, shall be subject to
the following conditions:
Open to Further Investigation.
THAT such permit is issued subject
to further investigation and is revoc-
able without hearing or prior notice;
that in the event said permit Is re-
voked for cause arising subsequent to
the issuance of the permit or for any
statement contained in the application
or accompanying statements, no part
Of the license fee shall be refunded:
that If said permit is revoked for any
other reason the license fee shall be
pro rated, and the balance refunded
to the applicant. When the annual
permit is approved and the holder of
the temporary permit SO notified, he
shall within five days surrender the
temporary permit and receive the an
nual permit and failure to do SO shall
constitute a cause for revocation OF
temporary permit arising subsequent
70 the issuance thereof"
New Board Created.
The regulations provide for creation
of a new agency in the District Gov
ernment service to be known as the
beverage permits board"
All applications for permits, the
Commissioners decided, shall be made
on forms prescribed by them. A
separate application is to be made for
each place of business. and each must
be verified by the affidavit of the ap-
plicant, If an individual, or by MEM
bers of a partnership, or by officers Of
a corporation. The required license
fees must be deposited with the COL
lector of taxes, who is directed to Issue
a certificate of deposit for the fee IN
triplicate. The application then will
be forwarded to the beverage permits
board, which is authorized to call upon
any agency of the District Government
for any information needed in passing
on the application.
Other Regulations.
One section of the regulations pre-
scribeS that no ION sale" permit shall
be granted for any establishment To-
Gated within radius of 200 feet OF any
public, private or parochial, primary
or high school, or church. or place of
religious worship. This section, how
ever. is not to apply to the renewal
of permits.
Another section prescribes that no
beverage shall be sold or served by
any ION sale" permittee except in an
open drinking vessel. or open bottle.
The Commissioners decided permits
may be transferred upon application
upon condition applicable to granting
the original permit and the superin-
tendent of licenses is directed to issue
a certificate of tranfer in such cases
when they have been approved by the
Commissioners
The District beer bill, as now con-
sidered by Congress, permits private
clubs as well as hotels and restaurants
to sell beer for consumption on such
premises. In this connection the Com