Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-05
STATE LIQUOR
SNARL CROWS
COMPLICATED
Resorts Along Barbary Coast
To Fight Order Prohibiting
Sale OF Drinks.
CAPITAL HEARING COMING
Board OF Equalization To Hear
Pros And Cons On Revocation
Of Licenses.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 5. U.P) =
Proponents of liberal liquor laws
were expected to converge here on
Wednesday for first land informa
ton regarding equalization board
action on 1913 suspended licenses.
Reiterating its intention to leave
actual control problems in tho
hands of local officials, the board
said it would continue to suspend
licenses of establishments against
which complaints are made by
peace officers.
In the face of protests that the
board was exceeding its power, Fred
E. Stewart, board member, inform
ed Assemblyman William B. Horn
blower, San Francisco, that any
member could suspend licenses, ard
that the board could even revoke
licenses without hearing. In the
present controversy, however, Ii
censees whose permits were sus-
pended will be given a hearing.
"I'll be at that hearing Wednes-
day," Hornblower, one of the states
wettest assemblymen, promised
Stewart. He was indignant because
tie board suspended licenses OF
nine Barhary Coast establishments,
and insisted the places should na
permitted to serve wine and beer
with meals.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. S. U.p) -
Local police, backed by the state
board of equalization, enforced a
"sora pop regime on the city's
famed Barbary Coast today in the
face of threats of injunction pro-
oeedings to restode the sections S
post-repeal status.
Police took over supervision oil
nine gaudy cabarets in tie section
Immediately after the state board,
charged with liquor control. revoked
the licenses of the establishments
because they allegedly sold liquor
by the drink.
Police Complain
JOHN Taaffe, prominent attorney
representing several of tie resort
owners, threatened to obtain the
injunction unless the state board
granted immediate hearings on the
license revocations. The effect OF
this move, should it succeed, would
restore to the nine places tEeir
rights to sell beer and wine with
meals. There was no indication
that the board would act before
Wednesday.
Taa!fe came into the case after
police raided the Coast resorts and
arrested bartenders who purported-
ly sold beer. A crowd of close to
1000 persons swarmed around tie
raiders but there was no violence
as the lid came down tightly on
what years ago, was the worlds
wickedest spot"
Meantime at Sacramento the
board revealed that it had acted
on the revocations only after COM
plants by the San Francisco police.
Spokesman for the control agency
indicated that it's future policy
would be cooperation with the local
police in investigating alleged vio-
lators and in issuing license sus-
pensions if and when police ask
for them.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5. U.H -
The duty of inspecting 10 Los An
geles establishments whose liquor
licenses we're suspended by tie
state board of equalization fell up
on the police vice squad today.
Police Chief James E. Davis or
dered the squad to watch all estab-
lishments closely and guard against
their dispensing intoxicating drinks.
The enforcement order was is
sued after local hotel men indl-
Gated they would continue serving
patrons liquor despite the superior
court ruling at Ukiah. outlawing
lard liquors from hotel dining
rooms
Licenses of approximately 100
other local establishments are ex-
rected to be suspended in line Win
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