Show 0 Modification cation of f Dry Law Urged ged Upon US U U. SI S S I 1 Governors Governors' M Meg Meeting is eting j f 00 oj Stern Punishments W Wont Won't on Solve Crime P Problem ob Dern Says Say i Utah tah Executive ive Presides j at Conference o fer nc E EASTERN STERN PO C Conn nn July Jury 16 iI Unit United d Pre Press Governor Go f or Fr Franklin FranklinD D D D. D Roosevelt t o of N New Nw York today made public a l letter latter t r from G George W. W Wi Wickersham chairman n of President dent dont Hoovers Hoover law Jaw enforcement co commission in which the the gov governors governors' gover r. r nors nora co conference for nce W was I urged d to recommend rec rae modification tion of the Vol Vol- stead act ct Y I k declared d bringing pre prevention JUon o of Ii importation port Ji n manu manufacture nanU- nanU I rac facture ure a and nd d shipment h. h p le t. t oj of intoxicants I in interstate under fede federal fed fed- co merc e eral l l control and nc leaving to state authorities s- s of s sale le saloons and speakeasies speakeasies' would make malce the Y V ad act mot morp c enforce enforce- able at nt the same time Ime virtually strike a. a a death blow to bootlegging of 4 letter ietter a aV is 1 read by et Jt foU r y J f. f i gf o o or r e n of l e re se rIous' rIous subjects we must I is Enforcement of the tho eIght eighteenth eith amendment il The e l e fers on on- the states concurrent juris jurls jurisdiction diction th national gove goven ment for lor enforcement eno ni nt of or the measure mea mea ea sure 1 UiS Ui U.- BEARS S. BEARS BRUNT r TJi Thiis s far government al alone e ha has borne b rn the the brunt brunt of ot this enforcement rc m nt F It lIt seems to me the governors governors' conference 1 might w welL consider ap approaching t the te e h federal deral government t tons ons on s m feasible p proposal to share this thIs' burden r. r t V tilt If it the government ero were to att attend nd te to preventing Importation s and shipment in Interstate Inter inter- st stilt state t bC ot tho the 1St tate state tte n internal police pollee regulation to p prevent pent ent sale saloons al etc the national and nd state laws s ml might ht b b modified so as Co Continued ed on p page s 4 4 LIQUOR SALE CONTROL BY ST STATES AT BY HEAD Continued from page 1 J to become reasonably ento enforceable and one great source of demoralising ing frig and pro crime removed Every state tato gov governor has hu sworn to support the tile constitution of ot the United d States The eighteenth amendment leT I isa a. a part put of ot this timis constitution constitution just as as- asan an any other part Surely it Is is pertinent p to the governors governors' gover cover nora nors' confere conference ce t to sugg st and consider con con- sider how best to carry out this solemn solemn solemn sol- sol undertaking 1 ROOSEVELT COMMENTS Ro sevelt Interrupted reading of the letter tetter to comment Here he said Is something th that t affects not only New York Tork Massachusetts and Rhode Island but all of or your our southern and all alt of your our western states The twenty six governors and other ther guests were silent as ns the theWl Wl kersham l letter was read read but when It was was' finished a II abuzz buzz of comment ran around the h hall JJ Roosevelt made no comment on the letter from the platform After his sp spee speech h he told the United d Press he did not wish to commit himself I In an on n the the proposal proposal at nt this time but favored around round table discussion of oC the tile problem gov governors The Tile public is aroused by bj recent flagrant murders told Roosevelt the conference They flourish h he said S al with less leIs hindrance than In the darkest darkest- d da days of ot Sicily Unless tho states do something immediately immediately and and take tako drastic action to enforce the law Jaw they ther will find th time heavy bea hand of Washington n laid Id upon their shoulder and the citizens of ot the states will be able to utter r n no no protest protest protest pro- pro test because the state has ha failed to enforce reo Its laws due either to atu stupidity or Inefficiency |