Evening star., 1934-02-21
WHOLESALEL|QU0R
LICENSES ISSUED
TO z FIRMS HERE
First Permits Of Type Are
Granted-Others Due as
Errors Are Corrected.
PETITION TO EXTEND
SALES HOURS REFUSED
Commissioners Reject Amendment
to Authorize Store Purchase
After s O'Clock.

The first group of liquor licenses for
wholesalers here was approved today
by the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board, which acted speedily after re-
ports had been received from the
eight policemen serving temporarily
as board inspectors.
An even dozen wholesale dealers
were included. The board planned to
approve an additional number later
in the day. Under the District liquor
law, wholesale licenses may be issued
without the two weeks delay required
in the cases of retailers, except in
the case of wholesalers whose estab-
lishments are located close by large
residential sections.
OF the IL licenses, 10 were for
wholesaler class A licenses, permitting
their holders to deal in all classes of
liquor. The other two were for whole
saler class B, dealing only with the
sale of beer and light wine.
Glass A Licenses.
The class A licenses will go to the
following
The Hopfheiser Co., 808 Twelfth
street; Dixie Distributing Co. Inc,
926 Fifth street; Benjamin F. Grouse,
for the Marion Distributing Co., 1924
Florida avenue northeast; Milton S.
Kronheim Co., Inc, 410 Ninth street;
Potomac Sales Co., Inc, 1242 Sixth
street northeast; Bethel & Co.. Inc,
1857 New York avenue northeast; the
House of Stover, 8o8 Earle Building;
Dove, Carter & Co.. Inc, 6l9 Wood
ward Building; District Wholesale
Corporation, 1104 Ninth street, and
International Distillery Distributing
Corporation, GIT E street.
The class B licenses 60 to the Valley
Forge Distributing Co., 901 Seventh
street southwest. and the District
Beverages, Inc, IS G street.
officials Of the A. B. c. Board said
q larger list of wholesale licenses
could have been issued today if it had
not been for mistakes by the appE-
cants in filling out questionnaires.
Breweries Licensed.
The. board already has issued
licenses to two breweries, the Abner
Drury Co. and the Christian Heurich
Brewing Co.
Retail licenses are not to be issued
until next Thursday. Public hear
ings on the retail applications are to
start Monday.
The District Beverage Permits
Board, which has handled beer per-
mits since the adoption OF the Dis
trict beer law last year was disbanded
yesterday by order of the Comrnis-
sioners. It's business is taken over by
the A. B. C. Board. No employe lost
his Job by abolition of the Beer Board,
since it was constituted of District
employees loaned from other depart
ments.
The Commissioners yesterday de-
MED a petition for amendment of the
liquor regulations to permit the sale
of bottled goods at stores after
pm. This had been requested by
John e. Dwyer, attorney for a num-
Der of storekeepers.
Corporation Counsel Bride, in a
report on the matter, said it was
purely a question of policy and that
the regulation. was considered care
fully by the Commissioners before 1t
was adopted.
"On-SaIe" Plan Rejected.
A proposal that retail stores 10
Gated in residential areas, having q
''non-conforming status under the
coming regulations, be permitted to
obtain "of-sale" liquor licenses also
was rejected by the Commissioners.
The matter was raised by re-
quest for an amendment to the Dis
trict liquor law in a telegram for
warded to the Commissioners by Sen
ator Tydings of Maryland. which had
been received from Samuel U. Sugar,
secretary to the United Drug Stores.
Bride reported that zoning was
adopted here in 1920, after the Dis
trict had been made dry. There
fore" he said. none of these nom
conforming uses was engaged in the
liquor business at the time of the
adoption Of the zoning regulations.
To now grant to them the right to
sell intoxicating liquors would give
them a value which they did not for
merly possess. 1t would tend to per-
petuate them, whereas the purpose
and intent of the coming law was to
get rid of them as soon as possible.
While a hardship may be worked
upon the proprietors of these non
conforming uses, the granting of Ii
censes to them would be detrimental
to the communities in which they
exist"
On recommendation by Bride, the
Commissioners noted but took no ac-
ton on a formal petition by Chris
tian Heurich, president Of the Chris
tian Heurich Brewing Co., that the
LIQUOR law be amended to prohibit the
sale here of beer having an alcoholic
content greater than 80 per cent by
weight.