| Show 75 12 2 75 Be Beer r JV Wont Won't nt S Solve Dry Problem Wickersham am Says Does Not Favor Enforcement Enforcement Enforce Enforce- ment Investigation by Sen Senate te WASHINGTON March 17 As Associated Asso Asso- elated Press Chairman press Chairman Wicker sham of the time Hoover law enforcement enforce ment commission said today he did not think tho proposal for per percent percent cent 1 in beer would meet the prohibition problem The commission chairman made this statement at tho the capItol toda today in talking with newspaper ne r correspondents correspondents cor cor- respondents after ater he ho had appeared before tho the senate judiciary commit commit- teo tco on tho Norris proposal for an Investigation allon of of- prohibition en en- en I lie lie- had been asked by the correspondents cor cor- lc respondents for his I views ws on the Dyer ropo J proposal al to permit the tho sale of ot I such beer Before the senate committee said saM he could se seo no I Continued on page pas 7 BEER WONT WON'T SQL SOLVE VE PROHIBITION WICKERSHAM SAYS Continued from tram pago page 1 I. I good In tho the suggestion that the sen senate enato en- en ate ato Investigate prohibition enforce enforce- ment URGES TRANSFER lIe Ho urged Instead li that the senate Jen- Jen enata ate ata P pass the hou house o bill to transfer the dry enforcement machinery from the lie treasury to th lie tho ju Justice de tie tie- pamm This tran transfer vOs t mende b by the eo commission insisted there had hall b been cn a a. a steady stead improvement ement in Iii the tho dry law enforcement of ot recent m months He sal said aId tho thia commission probably would make another re report report re- re port to congress before the session lon Vends ends on its Investigations in into pro iro- Smiling broadly when naked asked about th the 2 n beer proposal saId Maid al I 1 donti think that would satisfy a robust taste lie He expand that particular particular lar statement statement- WIckersham was before the senate committee for two hours hour No o vote was wa taken on the resolution of or Senator Senator Sen Semi ator Republican Nebraska for Cor the tha prohibition investigation in SEES IMPROVEMENT There Thero lm hums has been a IStead steady Im Improvement Im- Im provement I in prohibition enforcement enforce enforce- ment said f MI attribute attribute attribute attrib attrib- ute this to increased vigilance to Increased Inere attention on tho the part of or the be administration and to the tho general general gen sen- eral perfection of or methods o of en en- en en t. t Senator Norris orrl remarked after the tile committee session lon that there Is 13 still room room-mi for improvement In n pro pro- enforcement tine He mie gave SO notice that tat t ho lie O would pre press s his icso- icso for fot- the tue Inquiry It was waa the he opinion of or O lI orris who is chairman of or tho to Judiciary com that tat had bad not opposed the lie senate Investigation and that he had held heir a 1 senate to Investigation gation atlon would not seriously affect prohibition enforcement Mr 11 paid after the tho I committee meeting Our commission naturally could I tot not suggest to the lie senate what it should do O In hi the tho wn way of or an nn Investigation tI- tI I I gation atlon I felt It that the time la d dealt alt with tho time subject so adequately ade ade- that hint It hardly seemed necessary necessary sar sary that an n investigation should be made What hat has beet been Jane done seems sufficient to develop the line of or im Im- Im provement lO We I recommended the thc transfer bill and It was passed ed b by bytho tho time hou e and nd now is before the s senate sen sm-n- n- n I Ia a ate to committee 3 LIQUOR SOURCES I told the committee that there here were three principal sources of oC liquor imported that tat in iii bond and that th recaptured recapture from de denatured tie tie- e- e natured nature alcohol lb Ho said salti the tho commission still sUI had bad 2 25 volumes of oc reports from field a agents before beCore it Il to be bc digested este estes As s for fOt corruption of prohibition enforcement officials said ho hJ had no proof of it lI lIe said however r. r he lie had hind made madeno no special Investigation in m irs that line lie said he be usually found upon Inquiry that it was was last lat year ear or soma somo tuna time in the tue past Norris anno announced ho would call caU callup callup up his resolution for a vote yote in the committee next Monday fon la |
