Show Maes Mae's Ma e S 'S Sister Sis ter Hot Ho t Dog King and Noted No ted Bon Vivant Vie for First Drink Honor Scourge of Riverside Drive Is Confident Hell He'll Be First Under Wire NEW YORK YORK Dec 5 UP I Benja Benja mm Decasseres the scourge of Riverside Riverside River River- side drive waited with philosophical patience today for word from from Salt SaIt Lake confident he would be the first person to take a Ie legal al drink in the United States since 1920 All MI I can say he declared is ls that I am read ready and fit iL iLAt At 2 o'clock Decasseres author and epicure planned to go to the Waldorf Waldorf- Astoria where a special wire has been set up to carr carry the news from Utah to New York Some such ord word as Go or Down the hatch or Grab it it Ben will reach him a few seconds after the gavel cavel falls talIs in Salt Lake whereupon Decasseres will polish of off his highball with all the speed at his command Studies Its Legality He has communicated with the department department de de- de- de of justice to determine as near as possible the legality of his plans I I want neither red tape bureaucratic bureaucratic bureau bureau- cratic buncombe nor legislative horse feathers to defeat m my ends he de de- de- de dared I i am informed that when the thirty-sixth thirty state ratifies I am entitled to assail my gullet with intoxicating intoxicating in in- liquor That I intend to todo do Informed that a hotdog king in Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago will try to beat him Decasseres declared that just adds to his tire tive I understand he declared that somebody in Chicago has suggested a set of rules They believe e the bartender bartender bar bar- tender should not start mixing the drink until the flash comes com In other words I must wait until he gets ets it Inthe in inthe inthe the glass lass before I can get to it It also is suggested that I should be forced to drink a sized full whisky highball highball- not one that can be downed in one gulp To hell with that thaL He lIe Just Means leam Drink take the When I say Im I'm going to first legal drink I mean drink not drink not quart To me a swallow is a drink What do they mean by sized full whisky highball If U I had my way sometimes a whisky highball would be the size of a rain barrel And as asfor asfor for the other point Im I'm going to have my highball in my fist when the thc flash comes in and if it I dont don't knock my myown myown own head of off oU getting it into my mouth then the strength that Jehovah put into my right arm is on the wane Decasseres expressed regret that his old aId crony H. H L. L is not com corn But Henry cant can't take it any more he said He sits down in the lynch country and swills beer and complains com corn plains about his health I If necessary he added Ill have myself shipped to Washington to be calibrated r i t bI P fV I Beverly West 1 |