Evening star., 1935-06-24
Capital Included in Places
Treasury Would Probe
With Relief Funds.
BY the Associated Press.


Extent OF bootlegging In Washing
ton and in four score other cities with
populations of 100, 900 or more would
be investigated with q fund of 81 ,086.-
GAL requested by the Treasury Depart
ment from work-relief money.
The investigation would be made
by the Treasury alcohol tax unit. the
department explained today in a state
ment.
"A test program Of making house
toulouse canvass in certain collection
districts, 1t was said, has furnished
evidence that certain dealers are be-
ing used as outlets for the untax-paid
products of bootleggers, and that the
Illicit operations Of the post-prohibi-
ton period due to the activities OF
organized bootleggers. are totally diff
ferent from those encountered by col
lectors of internal revenue prior to
prohibition.
Keg Liquor Supported.
Meantime 1t appeared on Capitol
Hill that whether President Roose-
welt likes 1t or not o House Ways and
Means subcommittee Is insistent on
permitting the sale Of liquor in kegs
and barrels as well as In bottles.
The differences with the admins
tration were caused by attempts to
draft q bill replacing the. Federal Al
cohol Control Administration, doomed
to death with the Supreme Court rul-
ing on N. r. A.
Under Treasury regulations, sale OF
LIQUOR in anything but bottles was
barred. Secretary Morgenthau and
Joseph H. Choate, jr, chairman Of the
old F. A. C. A., sought to let those
regulations stay In effect as well as
to create q new, independent agency
known as the Federal alcohol control
commission
Democrats on the House Ways and
Means Committee demurred. They
rewrote the proposed bill to permit
barrel sales and put alcohol control
under the Treasury.
Then Secretary Morgenthau-who
had an opportunity but did not ap-
pear before the committee during Its
hearings on the new bill-told news
men that it would take an army" to
enforce liquor laws II barrel sales were
permitted.
Committee Is Irritated.
He added that the President agreed
with him. And he said. too, that
alcohol control ought to be under a
separate agency.
Committeeman were obviously irri-
tated at Morgenthau's press conference
discussion. So the subcommittee re-
sumed work on the bill in secret ses-
sion.
First, it approved the ban against
Treasury regulations forbidding liquor
sales in kegs and barrels. Then 1t
| voted to put the control agency under
the Treasury. And next, as one COM
mitteeman-who asked that his name
be withheld-put it:
I'VE had Choate in and told him
what we had done. And we told him
to tell the President that whether he
likes 1t or not, we're going to insist
that they permit liquor to be sold In
barrels"
Besides the Treasury request for
funds to make its liquor survey, other
applications for part of the $500 ,oo0.-
600 that is to be used to employ the
white collar" relief class were under
consideration today by the Works
Progress Administration.
Topographic Job Approved.
Funds for 2,5O0 engineers and
draughtsmen to aid in completing
a Typographical map of the United
States have been tentatively ap-
proved, they said. Other projects
likely to be carried out include $685.
900 900 to provide part-time jobs for
1000, 900 youngsters between l8 and
! "A and undetermined amounts for
compiling q guide to- the Nations
historical and recreational facilities.
These would be under the direction
Of other Federal agencies, they said
but a substantial number, notably
those providing employment for actors
musicians and artists, will be di-
rected by local works progress admin
istrators.
Numerous surveys to collect in
formation for studies of the Nations
economic life were planned to provide
work for young college graduates
and others with little or no work
experience. Others likely will be
given jobs directing playground activi.
ties, while unskilled clerical and serv-
ant classes will supplement loca
works progress stats.
No plans will be completed, Of
ficials said, until a survey Of the
kind Of work those on relief can dC
Is completed, probably by July ].