Evening star., 1934-05-20
LIQUOR BUSINESS
BRISK IN VIRGINIA
|. OFFICIAL OPENING
Governor in Message Calls
on People of State to Sup
port A. B. c. Law.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, May 19.-Vir-
ginians bought liquor legally this
week for the first time in 1s years.
The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board opened the first Of the
State stores in Richmond with a
brisk business, which on the first day
averaged $3.50 per store hour-in the
rain.
AS the stores were opened Gov.
Peery issued a Statewide message
calling upon citizens of the State to
lend support to the A. B. c. law.
Meanwhile the fashioned liquor
troubles still were having their airing.
In Lynchburg city councilmen have
asked for an investigation of the po-
lice department after hearing charges
that an officer piloted a bootleggers
liquor-laden automobile from the city
limits to a place of delivery within
the city and that another officer was
seen drunk in his uniform.
Still another angle to the liquor
trouble came from Danville-the city
that voted the State wet, but the
country dry. Both vets and drys are
claiming a margin of victory in an
apparently forthcoming local option
on whether the city is to vote itself
out of the privileges Of the new A.
3. c. law.
Clamor for Stores.
Norfolk Newport News, Portsmouth
and other coast communities are
clamoring for liquor stores before ar
rival Of the feet in Hampton Roads
and the opening Of the bay and ocean
resorts for the Summer season. Both
of these events will occur late this
month.
The Virginia horse show circuit
opened this week at Hampton with
half a million dollars worth OF horse
flesh, represented in more than 500
entries, taking the jumps.
Tomorrow will be another gala day
in that section. The Newport News
Shipbuilding g. Dry Dock Co. will
throw open its gates for an open
house on board the new aircraft car
rier Ranger, which last week end
completed, successfully, her major
trial run off the New England Coast.
She will be turned over to the Navy.
as its first aircraft carrier built as
such, about May 25.
Most of the Virginia cities rested
quietly in their wars against slot ma
chimes during the week, but Hope
well grand jury indicted Dr. D. Lane
Elder mayor of the city, and his wife,
along with SO other residents, after
an investigation Of slot machine oper-
ations there.
Base Ball Player Acquitted.
In Norfolk Corporation Court jury
acquitted Norfolk Piedmont League
base ball player, charged with vio-
lating blue laws by playing with his
team in base ball game on Sunday.
and the city manager Of Norfolk said
he and his men would abide by the
decision.
Confederate veterans in Richmond
will receive free transportation to
the Confederate reunion in Chatta-
nooga, June 6-8. Among other Vir-
ginians going will be Gen. Homer T.
Atkinson of Petersburg, commander
in chief of the U. c. w., and Maj.
Giles B. Cooke, the only surviving
member of Gen. Lees staff, who at
his home in Matthews County this
week celebrated his 96th birthday.
Sons of the Confederate Veterans will
meet in the same city at the same
time. The Virginia group will be led
by Walter T. Hopkins of Richmond,
commander in chief of the organi-
zation.
The week brought announcement
that the National Advisory Commit
tee for Aeronautics will hold its re-
search conference at Langley Field
next Wednesday, and the eighth 1nsti-
tute Of Public Affairs at the Uni
versity of Virginia, July 2 to IA,
will feature II round-table discussions
on current events.
Plenty Of rain came to most Sec
tions of the State during the past
week, allaying any fear Of drought,
and in one or two sections washing
away highway bridges.