Evening star., 1933-05-23
BEER LAW TERMED
sPEAKEAS|ES' DOOM
5anymple. Declares $4,000
Have Already Been Driven
From Business.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 23.-At least
$4,000 speakeasies have been driven out
of business by the new liberal beer
laws, in the opinion of Maj, A. v.
Dalrymple, national prohibition di-
rector, and many thousands more will
%e closed when better beer is manu-
mctured.
Not that the beer being sold at pres
ent is not good" Maj. Dalrymple said,
''but it could be very much better and
should be ripened more fully before
being put on SALE"
OF the $4,000 speakeasies driven to
the wall, or forced to be converted into
legal beer parlors, Maj. Dalrymple said
10000 are in New York City and az
least that many more in Chicago.
The prohibition director, here on
national tour Of inspection. said last
night that steps have been taken to
prevent racketeering in legal beer by
throwing safeguards around brewei
and retailers. such as the system OF
duplicate invoices and revenue stamps.
Will Fight Profiteering.
Mai. Dalrymple, former San Fran
cisco attorney, said he also had IL
mind a measure to prevent profteering
by druggists in medicinal wines ana
liquors. Druggists may buy wine at
from rs to 95 cents gallon, he said,
and retail it at from SIS to ST. He has
prepared regulation, he added, SUD-
ject to approval of the Attorney Cen
eral, providing that case lots OF the
wine may be sold at wineries maintain
ing a licensed apothecary on the staH.
If necessary, he said, he would go be-
fore Congress with request for passage
of a price fixing law.
Under the new deal'' of prohibition,
Dalrymple pointed out, physicians may
give their patients unlimited prescr1p-
tions without having to state the nature
of the ailrnent or the length Of time for
the treatment. Dalrymple said he would
fight any attempt to monopollze WINE
sales or create a new racket from the
sale of medicinal liquor. He added that
he would fight just as vigorously to
protect legal breweries and legitimate
beer retailers as he has against the
liquor rings.
"Have Support Of Public"
And in the fight, he emphasized, he
and his men will have the support OF
the American public.
Under bone dry prohibition we
OlQ11 nave d 1I1cIlO, 4AC oo30' ~'o"
we have thousands. Citizens who did
not sympathize with the dry law, or
at least took little interest in 1t, now
want the bootleggers smashed because
they are cheating the Government OF It's
Just revenue"
He declared the stigma Of graft must
be removed from the Prohibition De-
partment. Commenting on reports he
had received here that Northern Cali
fornia wineries and distilleries were be
ing solicited for protection money"
the prohibition director said:
VIII Turn on Publicity.
"Cockroaches die in the light. We
will kill off the human cockroaches in
this business by turning on them the
glare of pitiless publicity.
There is not a man in America who
can deliver protection under this ad-
ministration. If there has been any
corruption in the Prohibition Depart
ment-and there has been plenty of
talk about tive are going to get 1t
out. From now on we are going to kill
the public belief of graft"
He added that Bureau of Industrial
Alcohol, combining the Prohibition Bu-
reau and the present Industrial Alcohol
Bureau, might take over the work Of
both organizations.