Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-05 | Page 1 | U. S. Drinking Taste Runs to Hard Liquor

U. U ij S. S DRINKING TASTE RUNS UNS TO rO HARD LIQUOR WASHINGTON June 5 JP P- P Half Halt a year ear o of o repeal has found lound the drinkers of or America putting away just about as much legal hard as before prohibition But the taste for legal beer and andale andale andale ale is lc less than the half the old time average of or to 2000 gallons a year So the tax figures indicated The statistics do not reckon the supply which officials have declared to be still enor enor- mow maui Repeal six months old today is paying th the federal government I t taxes of ot around monthly or four to five million more than lower rates returned rn d before belore prohibition Rev Revised treasury tax figures indicate i hard liquor withdrawn withdrawn- for consumption totaled about gallons gallon a month monti or or- 78 a year should the he rate be bema ma maintained ined Beer consumption has hac been averaging barrels a I mo month l