OCR Text |
Show CRUSADE TO STAMP OUT HOMEBREWING INTERNAL REVENUE BUREAU PLANS TO MAKE NATION REALLY DRY. Beer Manufactured for Home Con sumption Declared Illegal never- age, While Salo of Materials for Manufacture Is Illegal. Washington. Thu Internal revenuo bureau, In formal statements on November No-vember 11!, continued reports that n crusade against homo brewing of alcoholic al-coholic beverages is planned by the government's prohibition enforcement ugencies. The bureuu did not reveal, however, the mentis It proposed to employ em-ploy In the campaign nor ndmlt that It had approved preliminary Instnic-tlons Instnic-tlons by Prohibition Commissioner Knuner directing thnt sales of mnlt nnd hops be restricted to bakers and confectioners. "If malt extract, hops, Isinglass, gelatin or other mutcrluls are sold or advertised for uso In the unlawful iiiiinufuctiire of Intoxicating liquor," said u statement Issued Krlilny by Commissioner Williams of the Interval revenue bureau, "It Is tho purpose of the bureuu to prosecute persons so offending. of-fending. "The so-cnlled home-brew beer manufactured manu-factured In the home for beverage, pur-pones, pur-pones, even though for the sole uso of the family and bona fide guests, Is, under the bureau's construction of the law, Illegal, and the sale of materials ma-terials for such inniuiftiuture Is likewise like-wise Illegal." There wns nn nppnrent difference of opinion between officials of the bureau of Intetrnal revenue and Commissioner Kramer's stuff of advisers as to the powers granted under (lie Volstead act with respect to prohibiting the sale of articles employed In the manufacture of beer nt home. Commissioner Will-tains Will-tains conferred with uldes familiar with tho net, nnd this wns followed by numerous other conferences In tho bureau, bu-reau, the nature of which was not disclosed. |