Show S. S SI-LI SI L. L CELEBRATES WITH LEGAL RUM 2 Pint Price Brings Groans as Bootleggers Dump Illicit Cheer By JENNINGS J. J PHILLIPS JR the night before New Years Year's I And all aU through the town Not a speakeasy prospered For blend wore the crown Bootleggers m moaned 0 a ned pat patrons r 0 n s groaned groaned but but there was nothing apparently apparently apparently ap ap- ap- ap to do about it You could take it or leave it Some took it it-at it at 2 a pint Others toasted the New Year and I roasted Uncle Sam with the 32 beer which became legal at 1 a. a m. m Many unable to obtain moonshine or bathtub gin at their favorite dispensaries dis dis- dis- dis and aware of the lack of stimulation provided by the new brew scorned both blend and beer and saved headaches by attending a n I movie Such was the picture of ot Salt Lakes Lake's 1934 1034 New Years Year's celebration the celebration the driest in a decade and a half Banned by the United States internal internal in in- revenue office moonshine was unobtainable Warned that all liquor sold must bear benr government stamps local bootleggers Saturday dumped many gallons of corn and sugar whisky whisky whis whis- ky into sewers The new nelv blend replaced the C Continued on P- P PaRe Pace e Two SL SI CELEBRATES LI WITH LEGAL RUM I Continued f Siam om Paso Face on One I moonshine at double the tha price satisfying satis tying Uncle Sam but rousing indignant indignant indig-I indig indig indig- nant protest from hundreds of disappointed disappointed pointed celebrants Testers of the blend denounced it as slightly reminiscent of paregoric and containing all the stimulating properties of 01 soothing syrup Others likened it to crude oil All protested at the standard price of 2 per pint Blends Disliked I IOne One of the towns town's leading dispensers I ers era predicted that unless the new blend alend is Is' replaced soon by bonded liquor or the government lifts the ban banon banon banon on the moonshine Salt Lakers have been seen drinking thinking for more than a n decade dec dec- ade and a half haU repeal will accomplish what prohibition to do I People wont won't drink the blend and we we cant can't get bonded liquor he complained complained com com- Weve been selling 32 beer so long the novelty h has 3 worn off oU and prices have dropped with the demand de de- de- de mand Attesting to the aridness of or the celebration celebration cele- cele bration only 10 drunks were escorted escort escort- ed to the city jail The sheriffs sheriff's office made no not arrests for Intoxication or liquor law violations Creation by Chief ChiP of Police W. W L. L Payne of a flying lying squadron to aid the squad in enforcing proVisions provisions pro pro- visions of the states state's new beer control control con con- law and of 01 the city licensing ordinance ordinance ordinance nance observers believed forced m many ny unlicensed bootleggers to close shop for the holiday Only one retailer and one wholesaler wholesaler wholesaler whole whole- saler had been licensed by the state to sell the new beverage although a total to to- tal of applications for licenses were on file Monday with City LIcense LI Lt cense cease Assessor Frank K Arnold Prospects were that the bulk of the applications applications' would be passed on favorably favorably fa Ia- by the tho city commission Tues Tues- day Under the new law the state cannot grant a license until the applicant applicant cant Is licensed by the city or county in which ho he intends to do busin business More than 80 of ot the Salt Lake applicants ap ap- ap- ap paid the HiO class C retail license fee All wholesalers' wholesalers w were re accompanied by a fee More than in these fees tees are being held in suspense account pending pend pend- ing jag action by the cit city commission The state commission appointed recently recently recently re re- re- re by Governor Henry H. H Blood to study tudy the liquor situation in Utah will hold its it first meeting at the captol capItol cap capI- tol Tuesday at 4 p. p m. m With a nucleus of IS members the commission will organize determine how the membership is to be augmented augmented augmented aug aug- to give representation to all sections of the state and map out a aplan aplan plan of action to enable it to commence com corn mence its us work without delay |