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Show ITsWf BEER TEST CASEj i Federal Judge Rules 2.75 . i Per Cent Beer Is Intoxicating. XETC YORK, July 21. Beer of 2.75 per cent ak'oholie content is heri to be intoxicating within the nieaiiin of the warrimo prohibition :jc'. in a decision returned today by Federal Judge Thomas J . Chat field of Brooklyn, .in a tut ca.-se brought by the go vcrnment auufnst Martin Seiimaud'T of New f I inert, Conn., who was charged v.ith celling boor in iolation of the wartime prohibition. Schninuder demurred to the government's govern-ment's charge on the ground that t he information against him did not specify spec-ify that the supposed beer alleged to have been sold was intoxicating. Judge Lh at fie Id overruled '.he demurrer and ordered that ISchuiauder must plead to the indictment. ' ' Under I lie internal revenue laws and all standards by which congress could have viewed the matter, tho beer described in the present information (2.73 per cent beer) was of the class known as intoxieat ing liquor and as such its sale was prohibited," says the opinion. opin-ion. Constitutionality of the war time prohibition a el. was upheld in an opinion opin-ion handed down yesterday by Judge ('hal field in a test ease against Stephen A. Minery, a jVleriden, Conn., saloonkeeper. saloon-keeper. Tt is reported that an appeal will be taken in each ease. |