Show Beer Beer- Beer Everywhere But aut Not a Drop Legal Sellers Facing Arrest Arres Only One Dealer Obtains State and County Sale Permits i NONE ARE ISSUED IN CITY Vending of 32 Continues Openly Uncontrolled 4 Legal beer with no place to sell it Licensing offices closed S Saturday Only one person person person-a a Bingham mer merchant chant had chant had obtained a stale state and county coun county ty license nse permitting legal sale we of ot bee beer No licenses had been issued in the tho city Beer continued to be sold openly without control That was was the in Utah Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day two days before the state stale will win recognize 32 beer legally These and other paradoxical realizations realizations caused Chief of Police Pollee wm William am L. L Payne to create a new morals squad delegated to enforce the beer law and arrest Illegal mega venders of th the brew af- af after alt t ter Monday r-Monday win Will Enforce to Letter LeUer In announcing creation of the new morals squad Chief Payne said his department department department de de- de i. i is going to enforce the law to the lett letter r and and that those selling beer without a license will be prompt promptly ly arrested The new squad which will augment the present one is headed by DeteC Detect tive D. D H. H Clayton and will Include Include- five other officers three of whom have been named They are A. A A. A Reese Earl Bertleson and L. L C. C Cro Crowther Crow Crow- ther there Ninety eight applications for fot beer licenses had been received by City License Assessor Frank K Arnold at t t. noon Saturday and it was expected others would b be bt received betor th th office closed S at 5 pJ p. p m. m L' L n 20 0 Of 01 these 20 h had d been approved by city commissioners and sent to the police and health department for their approval It If both place their official okeh on the application a city license will be issued and then the dealer can obtain a state license A state license cannot be issued until alter after that tune however City commissioners indicated Saturday Sat Sat- they will consider a receipt for license fees fec e sufficient permission to sell beer until the proper investigations lions can can be made but Chief Payne said he had instructed his men to arrest ar ar- arrest rest all th those e selling beer without the actual license In addition Chief Payne said the morals squad had been Instructed to arrest all licensed beer dealers denIers selling hard Shard liquors Over the week-end week they are instructed to see that Salt Lake has a safe and sane New Year celebration n so far as sales o of liquor are concerned Will Continue Selling D Despite Chief Paynes Payne's warning against selling beer without a license several of those who applied for li licenses Ii 1 censes ceases at the city and county building build ing Saturday said they Intend to continue continue con con- selling beer until it is possible for lor them to obtain in the license We paid a 01 license fee last July Jull when we were fined tined 25 one beer parlor owner said and I 1 think most of us will consider that sufficient permission permission permission per per- mission to operate until we have time timeto m to obtain a regular license In addition to prosecution by city and county authorities those selling sellin beer without a license subject are-subject to prosecution by the state tax commis sion It was pointed out that the commission commission com corn mission can keep a close check cheek on those hose operating without a state license by comparing the lists of city and county licenses licenses' with the state license list The tax commission announced th that hat t Utah's only operating brewery the he Becker Products company at Ogden Og- Og den had fulfilled all requirements to allow manufacture and sale of beer in n Utah beginning January 1 at 1 I Ia a a. a m m. m The first wholesale state slate beer II II- cease ense was issued Saturday by the state late state tax commission to the Logan Distributing Co of 01 Logan upon receipt receipt re re- of a fee Will Aid Revenuers Utah bootleggers of hard liquor laced faced a new threat Saturday when it was announced agents of the Rocky mountain district alcoholic beverage unit had been sworn in as deputy ty coY col- lectors of ot Internal revenue and would aid the regular Internal revenue agents in a war on bootleggers Ephraim White in charge of ot the district unit issued an appeal to U Utah citizens to cooperate with his men by giving information concerning those selling untaxed liquors Such a plan worked with considerable success in Colorado he said with the result that a great many of the bootleggers in that hat state bad had been forced out of ot bw business Many of them have come to Utah lie he 10 said but the they will have no more chance hance of operating in this state thanIn than thann thanIn In n Colorado he declared I I I |