Evening star., 1933-12-18
,DORAN APPROVES
|. WHISKY BLENDING
Says Procedure, Producing
Good Liquor, viii Prevent
Supply Exhaustion. L
by the Associated Press.

SSy the Associated Press.
= So much good, old, whisky has
sleaked out of barrels or evaporated in
= the last II years that DR.. James M.
rDoran, diStillerS' spokesman, thinks the
> plan to blend much of it with new
sspirits is readily defensible.
/. Announcing that he intended to file
with the Federal Alcohol Control Ad-
:. ministration this week the price list
: OF the distilled liquor code authority,
3Dr. Doran predicted that these prices
: would answer a great deal of current
: criticism" about retail charges.
= Barrels containing 48 to so gallons of
: whisky stored away when prohibition
1came now hold only 18 to 20 gallons,
he said, adding that if all this ''irre-
-placeable" liquor were offered for sale
Immediately at low prices, spectators
= and the wealthy would snap it up in Is
-days. And there would be none left
for blending to carry the country until
new supplies could be aged properly.
= Sees 15-Day Supply.
= "were the distillers to offer this lin
~ited and costly supply, which is ire
yJplaceable, at prices that many well in
Mentioned but not completely informed
!, people are demanding" Doran said,
: the supply would not last Is days after
snapped up by Spectators and wealthy
Apeople at once. More important, there
rwculd be none left for blending pur-
~poses to carry us over this readjust-
ment period while reserve stocks of
9aged whisky are being built up"
y Two members of Congress, Senator
= Copeland Democrat Of New York;, in
sprivate life a physician, and RepreSen-
.tstive O'Connor Democrat of New
York, recently condemned the sale of
s"blended" whisky in drug stores. Doran,
without referring to these two attacks
Son the blended product, included an
explanation Of blending IN his state
%ment.
misunderstanding as to the constituents
Sof blended WhiSkies. The use of the
Term alcohol in connection with these
blends is a misnomer No ordinary al
scohol is used in these blends. Neutral
amiddle run spirits, which is the purest
suistilIate obtainable, is used for blending.
= Holds Product Is Pure.
= "This. with distilled water used for
high purity and has no relation to So
-ralled cut whisky, where alcohol OF
questionable origin and purity may have
gbeen used"
I Doran said the industry wants above
sall to have labels bear truthful state
-ments."
: Despite suggestions that it might be
-tesirable for the Government to place
ssome of the reported thirty or forty
smillion gallon supply of illegal liquor
into legal channels, with the tax duly
paid on it. officials have been repre-
sssented as opposed to any such plan. A
Treasury Department official, appearing
before a liquor code hearing more than
Two weeks ago, pointed out that such
procedure would be legally Impossible,
Since existing law requires that illicit
sliquor be seized Immediately 1t comes
into evidence.
!. A rocky path through Congress, is
foreseen for the S2.10 to $3.50 a gallon
s.siquor tax the administration leaders on
sCapitol Hill said they expected to be in
.1luded in the liquor levy bill.
Z The members of Congress who origi-
-nally opposed any high Federal levy on
sliquor indicated no recession from that
stand.