Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-27 | Page 3 | Brewers Give Faa New Worry

I. I f BREWERS GIVE FAA cAA N NEW EW WORRY Jf r V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Sept 27 UP UP- UP Beer seer Beer and brewers became the greatest greatest great- great est problem of the revised federal alcohol administration today as asi alarming reports of activities once illegal megal arrived at headquarters Officials feared the old i days when days many a brewer owned many saloons and thereby I gave p the dry forces one of their greatest talking points were points were re- re turning They said certain brew brew- cries including some of or the largest jn In the country apparently had takene taken the he e supreme court N WA RA decision in last last spring as a signal to revive practices outlawed by the new deal I The alcohol administration died with the he blue eagle cagle end and d was was' not ilot ot revived lre by statute until Jast ast Tuesday Tues Tues- Tuesday s- s day when Judge Franklin Chase was waS named administrator fc Reports in trade circles indicated that one of the midwest's biggest brewers brewer h had d used the f interval 1 to tale take leases s. s on 1000 pieces of real estate in Chicago alone and saloon sites in numerous other cities Other breweries were reported to have donated thousands of dollars worth of equipment to saloonkeepers ers era as inducements to h handle p particular par particular r- r brands The rho federal law calls the brewery brewery- owned on orl c controlled s saloon l m illegal but says th the federal statute app applies ies only in those states where state la law applies similarly The law is so so tricky the experts said sald that court tests are almost inevitable wherever ever the F FAA elects to apply it