Show HEARINGS END ENDON ENDON ENDON ON SCHEME TO LEGALIZE BEER Senator Hi Hits Dry ry Leaders for Unwillingness to Appear Appear Appear Ap Ap- Ap- Ap pear Personally TWO WITNESSES PRESENT One Speaks in Favor of Bill Other in Opposition Br By Associated Press WASHINGTON F Feb b. b 19 19 Six Six weeks o of hearings on a hill bill to legalize legalize legalize legal legal- ize ize 4 per cent beer ended today with II approximately words of direct testimony on both sides of the question question question ques ques- tion in the record Senator BIngham CR R. R Conn said today at the hearing on his b bill 11 that dr dry leaders had shown they did not want to come on the stand and be DC asked questions The Connecticut senator an anti- anti prohibitionist referred to a letter from rom F F. Scott McBride superintendent dent of the league in which he declined to appear before belore the senate committee hearing testimony testimony testimony mony on the Bingham measure to legalize 4 per cent beer They want to present a signed memorandum through their attorney and let it go at that Bingham said I Bingham said he had wanted to ask McBride particularly about a letter dated January 2 2 1932 which the senator senator sen son ator said had been sent out by the league asking contributions contributions ions in view of failure lailure of a bank in Westerville 0 O. with which it did b business 3 us Ln In ess TELLS OF LOANS LOA The letter quoted said the league had required some very large loans and that failure to meet its obligations obligations obliga- obliga ions would mean litigation and publIcity pub- pub with disastrous results I suppose said Bingham that itIs it itis its Is s none of our business but I wanted to o inquire wh ther these very large loans had anything to do with the failure lailure of the bank of Westerville Two witnesses testified today on I the he bill one bill one favoring and one opposing OppOSe I ing ng it I Rufus S Lusk an official o of an anti anti- prohibition organization advocated it itHe He said prohibition propaganda in inthe inthe inthe the schools schools' has been c. c n undertaken through prohibition organizations and the National Education association Canon William Sheafe Chase superintendent superintendent super super- of the International Reform association opposed the measure say ing ng it would encourage the liquor traffic DISCUSSES EFFECTS The c effects of alcohol on the human humans s system stem were discussed at length b by Chase He said his organization felt congress congress con gress is under oath to enact legislation legisla tion to enforce the amendment and arid to pass this beer bill would seem Ito to be in violation of that oath I |