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Evening star., 1933-11-02
TUESDAY MIDNIGHT
TO DECIDE REPEAL
Wet Maiorities Seen in Six
States by Administra'
ton Officials.
Iy the Associated Press.

1y the Associated Press.
By next Tuesday midnight the Ma
ton should know whether the eight
zenith amendment is to be deleted from
the Constitution.
Ballots in six States will tell the tale,
although actual ratification of the re-
suit, in State conventions, cannot come
before December 5.
Kentucky Tuesday posJpones tabula-
alton of ballots for day, but returns
from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Utah and
North and South Carolina should show
the outcome.
doubt about the result, claiming that
all these States will join the wet pa
rade now numbering 33 Common
wealths. Thirty-six States are neces-
sary for ratification of the substitute
constitutional amendment, leaving but
three to be added.
Hours When Polls Close.
The hours. in Eastern standard time,
at which the polls close in the six
States are.
Pennsylvania, pm; Ohio, $50 pm. !;
Utah, pm; North Carolina, sundown,
about $40 pm; South Carolina, 4 pm,
except 6 pm. in three cities, and Ken
day.
Early tabulation is expected in most
of the States because of the few issues
Reports to administration officials
from the States indicate;
Pennsylvania. vets leading by sub
KentucEy. anti-proh1bitionists conf
dry n a close
Utah tight squeeze for vets as drys
pursue fight.
North Carolina, drys in western sec
ton along with complicated voting fore
casts uncertain outcome.
South Carolina, vets forging ahead
despite little interest.
Other Elections of Interest.
Besides repeal elections Tuesday, the
end of the three -cornered mayoral con-
test in New York City. and election OF
Assemblies in New York, Virginia. Ken
lucky End New Jersey are scheduled.
In view of the Republicans recent
opening shot for the congressional cam
paign next year, interest in these and
other scattered elections has been stim-
ulated
Among other election questions up
Tuesday are:
Ohio-State repeal, old age pensions
limitation of real estate taxes, reorgani-
cation of county governments
Pennsylvania-Twelv proposed State
constitutional amendments including
modification of the Sunday blue law
bond issues for unemployment relief
and bonuses for ex-service men.
Virginia-Selection of a United States
Senator, Governor other high State Of
ficials and 100 members of the State
House of Representatives.
Utah-State repeal, minimum wage
law for women and children.
Kentucky-House of Representatives
a number Of Senate seats. various dis
trict judges and attorneys.
Evening star., 1933-11-02
ROOSEVELT VIEWS
LIQUOR DOCUMENTS
Begins Study of Conditions
Following Repeal of
Dry Law.
BY the Associated Press.

President Roosevelt has before him
today voluminous document compiled
by representatives of all Government
departments and agencies concerning
the repeal of the eighteenth amendment.
At the same time it became known
that the President had begun his own
study of what would happen if repeal
were had. His intention not to lift the
embargo on the importation of liquors
from abroad was reiterated.
Longer Embargo Seen.
The President was represented as feel
ing that, since the law permits importa-
tion of whisky and wines only for
medicinal purposes, it ought to be OBJ
served until repeal becomes an estab-
ished fact.
Unless that attitude should be
changed, it would not be possible for
importers to bring any more whisky
or wine into the country legally until at
least after December 5, the earliest date
on which repeal could be accomplished
One of the questions which the study
now before the President seeks to an
swer is how to stop the flood of foreign
liquor which, because it has the ad-
vantage of years of advertising, exploi-
tation and aging, might pre-empt the
domestic market.
The difference of IS a gallon in the
tax was expected by some officials to
help the domestic diStillerS to some eX-
tent, but those who have been dealing
with the whisky question have advo-
Gated an embargo as long as legally
possible.
Those who have been studying the
question have noted that much of the
advertising which has been carried on a
basis Of III and when repeal comes
has exploited foreign brands.
In some quarters there has been talk
that the embargo on imports might
be used as the basis for more favorable
trade agreements in other fields. No
closed SO far '- @i-
Government Has Power.
The Federal Government has the
power, until prohibition is repealed, to
stop any legal importation of whisky
by refusing permits. Recently great
number of applications have poured in.
Whisky and wines were brought in and
bonded. to be released after repeal, the
permission being given on the technical
ground that the supply Of medicinal
whisky was short and must be re-
plenished.
The embargo on such imports has
been effective almost a month.
The President is studying not only
the amount of the import tax to be
levied to protect the home market, but
also the amount of domestic tax to be
levied.
The closest secrecy has guarded the
preparation Of the report and there has
been no indication in any quarter what
rates the President would recommend.
The most generally favored rate for
the domestic tax has been between $3.50
and So a gallon and SO a gallon has
been mentioned frequently as the prob
able rate for the import tax
Evening star., 1933-11-02
COST
i. s. S3,ODO,o)O,ODO.
Federal Fiscal Experts Esti-
mate Loss in Revenue
During Dry Law.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The Government lost about $3,000,-
100000 in revenue during prohibition,
according to unofficial estimates by
Federal fiscal exeprts. This was based
on the average yearly receipts for the
five-year period before the eighteenth
amendment became effective.
Earnings of Federal prohibition en-
forcement units were shown by off,
cial figures to total approximately As
per cent of their cost. Expenditures
of these units aggregated s141 .335.-
458, while receipts totaled $64 ,099 ,209.
None would say how much actually
had been lost to the Federal Treasury
by the prohibition law, which became
effective in 1920, but from the volumin-
Gus files of the Bureau Of Internal
Revenue-groWn muSty through the
years - the following figures were
cleaned:
Taxes on distilled spirits and wines
ran from S114,119. 500 in 1915 to high
of S365 ,211,252 in 1919-when every
body was stocking a cellar, and low
of S7,935 ,095 for the fiscal year Of
1888. Taxes on beer ranged from S79,-
328,946 in 1918 to hlgh OF SlZo, ,Zo3,-
857 in 1918.
The yearly average for distilled
spirits, wines and beer in the 1915-1919
period totaled $326,550,4 AL - which,
multiplied by the 13 years since 1920
aggregated S4,345, 1885, ,733.
In figuring the expenditures for pro-
hibitiOn control, the Bureau OF Prohlol-
tion included both the industrial alco-
hol and enforcement units.
The year 1924 supplied the most
revenue for these unitS-S6, ,538, lis from
fines, penalties and sales Of condscated
IN the period from April the
lrgall1atlOn day for 80 beer and wines
approximately s92,0OO0OO has been
collected by the Federal Government
in beer and wine taxes and license
fees.
Evening star., 1933-11-02
CLAIM ADJUSTER
FOUND STRANGLED
Walter S. Kleinert's Body Discov.
cred in Greenwich Village
Apartment.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 2.-Slain by
a stranger who bound him hand and
foot, the body Of Walter S. Kleinert,
35, a claim adjuster, was found in his
Greenwich Village apartment yesterday.
DR.. Charles Norris, chief medical ex-
aminer. pronounced the death a homi-
eide, caused by strangulation, and said
Kleinert had been dead 10 or IL hours.
The body was found by a friend,
Martin McDcnels. who found the door
unlocked and walked in.
Kleinert, an adjuster for the Com
mercial Casualty Co.. Newark, NJ j.,
had lived in the apartment only four
or five months.
Evening star., 1933-11-02
After Repeal-What?
Bratt System Limits Liquor Consumption and Profit
in Sweden-Local Option
Prevails in Norway.

be entitled to as high as four liters a
month. Young men. getting their first
passbook, are usually granted two liters
a month. Young working women, as a
rule, get only one liter every three
months
Restaurants. which are permitted only
a definite margin of sales profit, serve
spirits and heavy wines only with meals.
Retailing companies employ private
capital, but all revenue over per cent
of the actual cash subscribed by the
shareholders is payable to the state.
Wholesale companies, OF which there
are two in Sweden, are likewise re-
stricted to a certain profit and are sub
ject to control by the state.
TT can be claimed" declares Director
John Bergvall, director Of the Bratt
system in Stockholm, "that the alco-
holic legislation now in force In sweden
has been responsible for the decrease
in chronic alcoholism and drunkenness
in general"
Local Option in Norway.
OSLO OP.-Norway gave up prohibi-
tion after a decades trial.
The system now in force includes
local option-whereby each city, town
and village determines WneIiier II she,iA
be wet or dry-and a government mo-
nopoly in the trade with wine and
spirits.
The government monopoly maintains
sales organizations in the largest cities.
Customers are allowed to buy over the
counter any amount of wine or liquor,
but none is served for consumption on
the premises. Certain restaurants. cafes
and hotels are granted the right to
serve alcoholic beverages
Many places are Stlll dTy, 80 ma'
neither beer. wine nor spirits may be
sold or served. but importation of these
beverages for personal use is allowed
Liquor Prices High.
Since it is difficult in many rural
districts to obtain legal liquor moon
shining" is practiced to certain ex-
tent. Liquor prices are high. in many
cases being prohibitive for the com
mon people, which has been one OF the
contributory causes to the illegal dis
tilling
Norways prohibition period dated
from December, 1916, and in the sue
ceeding years the nation experienced a
wave of smuggling, illegal trading in
liquor, establishment of private stills,
crime and deaths caused by the con-
sumption Of poisonous substitutes.
After a plebiscite in 1926, In which
a big majority voted against prohibi-
tion the law was repealed. Since then
the number of arrests for fntoxication
has steadily decreased, though it has
not reached the low pre-war figure, and
smuggling was practically stopped i'm
medlately.
Evening star., 1933-11-02

This Is the fifteenth OF a series OF
articles which haze appeared in The
Star under the title, "Atter Repeal
-What?" The articles today briefly
summarize the situation in SDeden
and Norway.
STOCKHOLM (F).-While some Bal
tic countries have reSorted to high tax
alton and definite state monopoly as a
means of liquor control, with free sale
permitted, Sweden, through the Bratt
system, continues to regard sale and
consumption of liquor primarily as q
social problem.
In basic principle the Bratt system
insists upon:
Cd DiSinterested management and
control of private profit.
CD Revenue to the state.
CD Distinction between liquor sold
for home consumption and in res
taurantS.
"a Emphasis on the individual con-
sumner.
In its daily operation the system as
now developed provides for (a) sale of
liquor at special stores and only to
persons possessing the "passbook" iden-
tif1cation; (b) complete information for
the state regarding holders of pass
books, including drinking habits, Oc-
cupation, size of family if married, in
come, general qualifications as a cit
izen, and so on; (c) sale of strong
liquor at restaurants in restricted guam
titles and only when food is served at
the same time, and Cd regulation of
amount OF liquor sold to individual &C.
cording to age, sex, and so on.
Effective Since 1919
Foundations Qf modern Swedish al
cohol legislation go back to 1855 when
special taxation put a stop to private
were established. In 1909 the prohi-
bitionist movement reached the height
of its power. In voluntary plebiscite
more than 100000 men and women
over 18 years pronounced for prohibi-
tion and only about 10000 against. III
1919 the Bratt system was placed in
effect.
1t divides Sweden into districts, each
with retailing company, which is also
the center of registration. Each COM
pany keeps an alphabetically arranged
central register containing data regard
ing all persons with whom the company
has dealings, a sales register containing
names of approved customers and a
register of all purchases made, accord
ing to date.
Maximums Set.
If single, the individual can be en-
titled to as much as three liters (about
three quarts) of spirituous liquor a
month. Married, with family, he can
Evening star., 1933-11-02

Negroes capitulated that the Seminoles
ever thought of emigrating."
Prof Southall related sevral in
stances of influence of the Negro on
the history of Florida, including the
American expedition in 1916 against
free Negro fort in the northern section
OF the State. The fort was demolished
and 240 of the 334 Negroes in it were
killed.
At a meeting yesterday afternoon DR..
Charles H. Wesley of Howard University
discussed The Emancipation of the
Free Colored Population in the British
Empire"
The first step in this process" he
said, was the abolition of the laws
which kept the free Negroes from being
free. They were physically free, but
they were restricted in their private and
public activity. Their emancipation was
an intermediate step in the progress OF
the Negro population toward freedom,
which came partially in 1888 and finally
in 1888.
The free Negroes were engaged in
skilled trades. they were property hold
ers and slave holders, and some lived
in comparative ease and luxury. They
were restricted in the inheritance of
property prior to the nineteenth century,
they were not allowed to serve on juries,
they could not give evidence in the
courts. they were disqualified for Office,
they were denied the franchise. These
distinctions were maintained in spite
of the fact that the free Negro popu-
lation outnumbered the whites in all
the colonies"
He then told of the struggle of the
Negroes for equality of rights with the
white man and the steps by which it
was obtained.
At the same session DR.. Thomas P.
Martin of the manuscript division,
Library of Congress. told of the sources
of Negro history available to scholars.
Study Recently Made.
He said a comprehensive study of
Negro history is comparatively recent
ana the only ma jor collection of sources
in this country is the one given the
Library a few years ago by DR.. Wood
son, director of the Association for the
Study of Nego Life and History
This collection embraces, the &SO.
citation was told. certificates of eman-
cipation. freedom. ordination, extracts
the District of Columbia, bills of sale of
slaves, including one of slave sold by
Thomas jefferson to James Madison: :
press clippings, articles, poems, letters,
diaries and journals.
Evening star., 1933-11-02
DISCUSS VALUATION
American Petroleum Institute

American Petroleum Institute
Accountants Hold Meeting.
NEW YORK, November (Ep.-Mem-
bers Of the American Petroleum Insti-
tute and the American Institute of Ac-
countants met yesterday to discuss uni
form methods for inventory valuation.
Representatives of the petroleum in
stitute were F. S. Reitzel of Philadel-
phia, r. M. Higgins of Bartlesville,
Okla. controller of the Phillips Petrol
cum Co.: H. A. Gidney of Pittsburgh.
controller of the Gulf Oil Co.; T. C.
McCobb, controller of the Standard
Oil Co. of New Jersey; R. S. Durkee
comptroller of the Socony- Vacuum Oil
Co, and v. L. Elliot of Philadelphia
controller of the Atlantic Refining Co.
The Institute of Accountants was rep
resented by Edward A. Kracke, Leonard
S. Davey. Warren w. Nissley and Walter
A. Staub.
Evening star., 1933-11-02
Missing Boy Found.

Sixteen-year-old Ellsworth Rapp, 435
Fifth street northeast, reported missing
since october 80, was reported found
in Pittsburgh, Pa, this morning, hav-
ing hitch-hi there, police learned.
He is reported to have explained that
he was on his way to Niagara Falls,
N. Y, to visit relatives.
Evening star., 1933-11-02
Smoker Is Held.

The annual Fall smoker of the
Joseph H. Choate chapter of the Sigma
Nu Phi fraternity, legal fraternity of
National University, was held last
night at the Hay Adams House. JUS
tice Oscar H. Luhring and Godfrey
L. Munter were guest speakers. En-
tertainment was furnished by the Phil
Hayden Dance Studios.
Evening star., 1933-11-02
PLAN AIRMAIL WEEK

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, November 2
@.-The government proclaimed yes
terday an airmail week-November
to Ito Stimulate the growth of
enterprises benef1ting the country" in
commercial aviation.
Special airmail stamps will be issued.
The decree mention decided increase
Evening star., 1933-11-02
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

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SPECIAL NOTICES.

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offce OF the association, Eleventh and
streets northwest Monday November 13.
1888. at seven-thirty O'Clock pm.
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Evening star., 1933-11-02
COTTON PICKERS KILLED
Three Die and Nine Injured in
Motor Truck Accident.

Ell PASO, Tex, November 2 P).-
Three Ell Paso cotton pickers were killed
and nine others were injured last night
when a truck in which they were re-
turning to the city from a valley farm
collided in rain with another machine.
Seventy-four cotton pickers were in the
truck and trailer.
The dead: Romolo Chavira, Manuel
Romero and one man who was not
identified
Hospital attendants said three of the
injured were in critical condition.
Evening star., 1933-11-02
LETICIA HOPE GROWS
Colombia and Peru Meeting May
Bring Settlement.

RIO DE JANEIRO. November 2 tP):
Representative of Colombia and
Peru had their first meeting yesterday
of a conference from which they hope
will come a settlement Of the Letic'a
border dispute between the two coun-
tries.
Foreign Minister Mello Franco OF
Brazil was named chairman. The next
session will be Tuesday.
Evening star., 1933-11-02

This Is the fifteenth OF a series OF
articles which haze appeared in The
Star under the title, latter Repeal
-Whdt?" The articles today briefly
summarize the situation in S,oeden
and Norway.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
BR|TON, CALLED
SPY, ADMITS
GIRLS AID
Supported by Woman, Claim
of Young officer in Court
Martial Defense

LONDON, March "a Q.N.S0.
without a trace of shame, Lieut..
Norman Baillie4Stewart, 24-year-
old officer in the Seaforth High
landers, on trial before a court
martial on charges of violating
the official secrets act, branded
himself as a "kept man" today.
Testifying under cross-examina-
tion, Baillie-Stewart, who during
his studies at Sandhurst Military
Academy was orderly to Prince
Henry, third son of the King Of
England, insisted that all the
money he received from Germany
last year was paid by a woman as
"a gift for our friendship"
Sent Him $315
The woman he identified only
as Marie Louise" Under vigor'
GUS questioning he stoutly insisted
that she had fallen in love with
him and sent him a total of 80
pounds ($315) when he returned
to London after their love affair
in Berlin.
The intimation by Major H.
Shapcott, prosecutor, that the
money was paid for military infor-
nation was characterized by the
officer as ridiculous and absurd" 3"
Baillie-Stewart's flat declara-
ton that in his relations with
Marie Louise he was "just a
Gigolo" came when he was ques-
toned concerning a letter she
wrote in November last year en-
closing so pounds "as repayment
of a loan"
Friendship Gift
He declared:
when she said I loaned her
money she was lying. She sent
me the money to buy a car and
pay for my return trip to Ger.
many"
"Was the money for immoral
services rendered."
"It was gift for our friend
ship"
"YOu understand the expIana-
ton of keeping a woman. Have
you ever heard Of a woman
keeping a man."
EYES,"
"DOes this come within that
category"
eyes, think it does"
The prosecution charges Marie
Louise" was a blind, alleging the
money in question actually was
sent to Baillie-Stewart by a Ger
man named Otto Waldemar Obst,
described as an agent seeking to
sell British military secrets to a
foreign power.
Baillie-Stewart admitted meet
ing Marie Louise" through Obst.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
Boycott Begun in Reprisal
For Nazi Persecution

only about 10000, and overflow
meetings are expected to be held
The speeches from the Garden
will be broadcast to the overflow
meetings by loud speaker hookups.
Boycott Move Gains
Among other important rallies
to be held simultaneously will be
a protest meeting in Boston,
which will be addressed by Gov
ernor Ely of Massachusetts,,
Colonel Samuel Harden Church,
president of Carnegie Institute,
will address a similar meeting in
Pittsburgh.
The movement calling for a
boycott of German products until
the Hitler government shall have
ceased to persecute the Jews was
reported gaining ground.
Officials of German steamship
lines admitted they had suffered
a number of cancellations of
sailings since the agitation was
begun. About Is passengers
booked to sail on the liner Europa
Wednesday night sud denly
switched their bookings to the
United States liner Manhattan,
it was stated.
Exhibitors of German films also
complained that theaters showing
these films had suffered a loss
of patronage.