The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
BY JOHN NJ. GLEISSNER
NEA Service Writer


ties in Indiana. However, the state
in the first month of legal beer col
lected about 100000 in gallonage
taxes and license fees.
These fees are $500 for a brew
er or importer, $1,000 for whole
saler, $500 for a hotel or restau-
rant, and 500 for groceries and
similar places. The tax is 5 cents
a gallon.
Food is supposed to be sold with
all beer, but this provision of the
law generally is ignored. Pretzels
are served instead, and this answers
the technical legal requirement.
Eight Breweries in Operation
Paul Fry, state excise director, re-
Gently reported eight licensed
breweries employing 718 men COM
pared to 181 before beer returned.
Their weekly pay roll is $16,500 and
their capital investment $4,674,000,
with $1,0O0,000 in improvements
projected or under way.
The present capacity of six brewe-
ries will yield the state $909, 900 in
taxes in a year, and if the eight
are operated to capacity, this sum
would be more than doubled.
Glass factories in Terre Haute.
Evansville, Muncie and elsewhere
are working day and night to fill
orders and box factories are rushed.
Half of Speakies Eliminated
Ohio collected $1,329,15 in per-
NIT fees in the first six weeks of
legal beer, and $4,000 in the barrel
tax. Elimination of half the states
speakeasies is estimated on the ba-
sis of reports from police, brewers
and statesmen.
The state liquor control commits
sion estimates that each of seven
new breweries licensed spent $780,
600 to start operations. Employ
ment in many lines was stimulated.
And 1000 new restaurants were
opened.
NO Ohio communities have as yet
utilized local option privileges of
the state law, but petitions to bar
beer are being circulated in Wes-
terville. home of the Anti-Saloon
League, and war on beer as well as
repeal has been declared by some
OF the states outstanding prohibi-
ton advocates.
Just Like Armistice Day
Wisconsin hailed the return of
beer with celebrations reminiscent
of Armistice day.
Breweries in Milwaukee and other
cities are sending flood of beer
throughout the country and reaping
a golden harvest. Many jobless men
got jobs in breweries.
The state tax of 81 a barrel on
beer yielded more than 100000 dur
ing the first two months.
Reports from Minnesota are that
beer has greatly increased employ
ment. Restaurants and cafes are
f1ourishing and makers of brewing
and accessories have put
on hundreds of additional workers.
Bootlegging is waning; in st. Paul
the number of federal prisoners con-
fined to the county Jail has been
reduced from 800 to IS.
Situation Is Complicated
The situation in Illinois has been
by defective law, and
the racketeering situation in Chi
,ago.
Breweries that operated openly
before beer was legalized are going
ahead as always, and many of them
awe not paid taxes and otherwise
complied with the state law.
The legislature has been busy at
to plug loopholes in the
aW which allowed most of the an
icipated revenue to escape, and has
attempted to find out why the price
II beer remains SO high in Chicago.
The Illinois attorney-g general has
'rderS to act against $50 brewers
md distributors to force them to
Jay taxes and to take out state
No Prosecutions Attempted
In North Dakota, a law to per-
nit sale of beer was adopted, but
has not gone into effect because
II the circulation or referendum
Nevertheless. 80 beer may be
bought almost anywhere in the
tate. Some arrests have been
made but no prosecutions attempted.
Sale Of beer will not be legal
n Nebraska until Aug. 9, but in
omaha and other wet spots can
'e bought with little difficulty.
Omaha in prohibition DAYS had
i've breweries, which will produce a
million barrels year if they are
gain operated to capacity. Pros
'ectlve sale of beer has stimulated
in lines allied with
The state tax will be 90 cents a
'allon. Estimates of the amount
Il revenue to be derived vary.