Show I 1 GALLON GALtON LIQUOR LEVY IS PROPOSED t Rv Revenue nu Would Woud Be B Shared Shad ir d With th Sta States es v Under Special Committee Plan J DETAILS ARE WITHHELD y Receipts Are Estimated at a year rear B Br fly WASHINGTO WASHINGTON Dec Dee 8 A 8 A triple program providing a tax of a gallon on sharing of the revenues with states statts and legislation legislation legislation legis legis- lation to facilitate negotiations of ot reciprocal trade agreements on foreign for eign elga liquor imports imports- was recommended recommend recommend- ed to congress today by the presidents presidents president's presidents president's dents dent's special commUte com corn mUte The recommendations recommendations' contemplate an annual revenue of approximately including from beer Committee members member's said the program program pro pro- pro pro- gram grain is Js intended to bring about reasonable reasonable rea rca prices to to- consumers encourage encourage age the drinking of ot light wines and beer rather than hard liquor and omd end bootlegging Th The report was given the house ways and means committee by Henry Jr acting treasury sec sec- sec sec- Joint Meeting Scheduled It lt is to be made public formally Monday when the ways ways' and arid means and the senate finance committees meet Jointly to c consider the liquor tax bill for congressional action in January r Ih held Id an organization meeting to consider the marketing the agri agricultural adjustment adjustment adjustment adjust adjust- ment administration has proposed and to discuss discuss- prices es While i ruin rumored m red threats threat of f a government government gov gov- dub club to force down the price e of ot liquor were current the distillers distiller displayed little concern Dr M. M Doran Dorant head of ot the newly created distilled spirits Institute institute tute declared that government nt intervention intervention Intervention inter inter- to t bring lower prices would be unnecessary ry Want Fair Prices Prices Prices' Th There re is no no one one group as anxious to see the business get under wayon way wayon wayon on a fair air price basis as as the distillers themselves Doran said t This confusion over overprices prices Isn't strange We knew that these local difficulties would be inevitable There of course i is a ch chaotic condition condi condl tion lion with the distillers not knowing to whom they can ship iship or where they can sell Word from western Pennsylvania that padlocks had been knocked from the doors o of establishments closed under under un der the prohibition law brought from Continued on Pate Pale Nine flae 1 CHEAP WHISKY LEVY FAVORED House Committeemen Want to Assure Good Liquor at Reasonable Price Continued from Page Fan One the he justice department an nn unofficial explanation that these matters were entirely up to JO the federal courts The act provides authority fo for mod mod- of padlock orders reposes in inthe inthe the he court The only requirement is that hat the required bond be posted pasted and that hat the court be bc satisfied that the law aw will wUl not be violated In the fu- fu ture ure Clause Easily Met let Since the tho law referred to now is isI l I extinct this second requirement is as easy to meet Sir Ronald Lindsay ay the British I ambassador conferred with tary ary Wallace but declined to discuss i the Jie topic No announcement was made at the s secretary's s o office NEW YORK Dec 8 UP uP UP-i. A possible pos k sible liquor famine In the metropolitan I tan lan area was predicted today as thousands thousands thou thou- sands of thirsty customers jammed k the few licensed liquor stores already If C in operation t Warehouse c and wholesalers wholesalers' stocks soon will be bo diminished to the point where the retailers will wUl not be able to supply more than tenth one of ot the theS S demand B. B tro treasurer of at the liquor exchange said ald PORTLAND Ore De Dee Dec 8 UP UP- UP Home rule governed the liquor traffic In Washington and md Oregon toda today while the legislatures of the tw two s states struggled to 0 enact state control contro r. r laws With few exceptions the situation II left the two tate state as dry as IU they were I before repeal and indications were that the they would be in the same pos poal- poal r. r lion tion on January 1 1 |