Evening star., 1934-03-21
PROTESTS HEARD
BYL|QUOR BOARD
to Seven Peti-
tions for Licenses Filed.
62 Passed On.

Protests against granting liquor
licenses to seven applicants were
voiced today before the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board when a new
list of petitions for permits was pre-
sented at a hearing at the District
Building
Sixty-two other applications went
unChallenged and were forwarded 10
the headquarters of the A. B. C.
Board for approval unless the appli-
cantS cannot meet legal requirements.
Meanwhile. a warning to all liquor
dealers concerning intractions of the
District liquor law was issued today
by George w. Ofutt, chairman of the
control board, after reports of nine
violations.
Five retailers holding licenses to
deal in beer and light wines are sus
pected of having on their shelves for
sale bottles of beverages containing
more than IA per cent alcohol. -Four
wholesalers are suspected of having
sold beverages of more than IA per
cent alcohol to retailers having Ii
censes to deal only in light wines and
beer.
Chemical Tests Made.
Chemical analyses are being made
to determine definitely the alcoholic
content of the bottles of wines seized
The objections were voiced to licens-
ing David Parlmutter and c. William
Theodore Lyman Moody. 1909 Connecti-
cut avenue: the Little Tavern Shop,
500 Georgia avenue; Lily Rose Ker-
man, PAIL Franklin street northeast:
Joseph Muchnick, $500 Eighteenth
street northeast; Morton j. Berghers.
3112 Rhode Island avenue northeast.
and Lewis Mendelsohn, 141 INLAND
terrace northeast.
A license to deal in all kinds of
bottled liquor was requested for an
establishment at 502 Nineteenth
street. Opposition came from Joseph
A. Rafferty,, representing residents of
the All States Hotel, located nearby
Protest was made that sale near
the Washington Auditorium would
serve as temptation to hundreds of
persons attending events there and
the result would be a noisy COM
munity.
Objects to Increase.
Harry D. Copenhaver, 1921 Con-
necticut avenue, argued against the
issuance of license to the Moody
establishment, 1909 Connecticut ave
nue.. He complained that already four
places in the same block have been
granted beverage licenses and he OBJ
jected to any increase.
The application of the Little Tav-
ern Shop for a license to deal in
light wine and beer at 51O0 Georgia
avenue was opposed by Herbert P.
Holman. SOLO Thirteenth street, who
said the section was generally of a
residential character and that groups
of youths went to the shop regularly
to obtain meals. He voiced no OBJ
lection to the character of the place
or the applicant.
M. c. Wilson, 3005 South Dakota
avenue northeast, representing the
Rhode Island Avenue Citizens Asso-
citation, opposed the granting of an
off-sale license to deal in beer and
wine for the Herman establishment
on Franklin street northeast, and the
granting of an off-sale beer and wine
license to the establishments at $500
Eighteenth street northeast and 3l12
Rhode Island avenue northeast.
Harry o. Hine, secretary Of the
Board of Education, opposed the
granting of license to the Mendel-
sohn place on INLAND terrace. Argu-
ments will be later.
Retail beverage licenses were IS
sued yesterday by the Alcoholic Bev-
erage Control Board to the following:
Anna Paskow, 1880 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast: Mancari's Restau-