Show rik Toc Much Solon Charges i HOUSE MEMBERS UR URGED D TO fiGHT POISON AlCOHOl Celler Demands Prot Protection c- c tion Law Facts Facts on Und Undercover Un- Un d Men Asked OPENS HOT DEBATE Pr Probe be of League Dealings in Deadly Drink Requested WASHINGTON Jan 3 AThe API AP- AP I The blunt that ot of the house and senate drink tl to excess wa made on the house floor today by Cener Celler Democrat New York ork who upon upon his colleagues to keep poison polson denaturants out ot of Industrial alcohol alco- alco hol to protect those who ape their betters Cener's ch h started a. a heated debate during which Representative Blanton Democrat Texas declared that It already jS is against the laws lawsto lawsto to drink thI this shift while LaguardIa Republican n New ew Y rk c called lle l UP and demanded Immediate action on a resolution requesting requesting re- re questing Information Information from Secretary Secretary Secre- Secre tary Mellon about undercover prohibition prohibition pro pro- In New York City In the midst of the exchanges Representative Fairchild can cans New York introduced a resolution resolution tion to d lare to federal officials l s i h le legalized that there the such as murder and ed that ny- ny J eral official that c causes us s poison polson to I be used In denatured alcohol does does' So upon his own responsibility and at his own risk DEBATE ON DEATHS The house debate centered uPon deaths from alcohol during the Christmas holidays The use of lethal substances and deadly drugs In denaturing alcohol Js Is a most cruel form ot of enforcement enforcement enforce enforce- ment said Celler The guilt forthe for tor the slaughter ot of thousands of peo- peo pIe should be on the conscience ot of every member of the house who tailed failed to heed the warning While Celler spoke Represent Continued on page 8 fA HEAVY DRINKING ING CHARGE AT AI Continued from flom page 1 Black Democrat and Fairchild Fair Fair- child RepublIcan of New York Introduced introduced In- In resolutions Black for infOrmation as to denaturing and FairchIld proposing that attention atten- atten tion be drawn to lo the declaration that could be no legalized murder Senator Edwards also sc red the thear ar dry law la sayIng This nation has been wallowing In a trough of prohibition pro pro- I corruption for Cor nearly eight I Years Conditions concerning the enforcement en- en of the act are worse today than they were ven the bootlegger was just beginning to realize his power powel and was becoming acquaInted with the golden avenues of wealth would be opened to him he saidI said I 1 am sincerely of the belief that it Is time for the United States Slates senate to take the In this matter and nd to do ao something constructive con con- constructive remedy these bl conditions Prohibition deceit and hypocrisy have hae become a tact fact and are no longer to be considered l In the light of theories Edwards said Tomy To Tom m my nind It is one of the most serious seri serl- ous domestic problems I now confronting confronting con con- fronting this congress SCORES POISONED I During the holIda holiday season just passed when the spirit of Bethlehem Bethlehem Bethle- Bethle hem should have prevailed In every township nd home our pUr cheerful Christmas spirit was se severely erel shocked by news dispatches from every section o of the country an- an scores of deaths from poison poi poi- son rum Here are the figures from representative American cities in which legalIzed murder Is looked with favor by this this' s called so-called paternalistic government ot of ours Xe York Philadelphia Boston Chicago St. St Louis 56 Columbus 8 San Antonio Antonio An- An tonio since June I 1 3 Omaha Neb 10 Harrisburg Pa- Pa 6 Detroi Detroi De- De troi troi New Orleans none Los LosAn An Anes les 30 Minneapolis 28 Seat Seat- tie 23 Pittsburg The Youth of our nation is beIng being be- be Ing driven and cajoled into a life of crime because of the sinful operatiOns operations oper- oper Not so very long ago go a o official official-of of one of our In the national ca cali- cali ital i- i taj tal told me that he had been bee forced to eject a suite of rc rooms oms some half hal dozen young seminary girls who indulging In a drink drink- i illg g carousal for two days day and 1 two o nights In n the company of boys who had to be assist d d. d Into taxicabs in order to be conveyed t tl their homes WASHINGTON WASHINGTO Jan 3 1 AP- AP Full Information whether the AntI AntI- Saloon league or Its general counsel Wayne Vayne B. B Wheeler 1 has had any hand In the poisoning of industrial alcohol would be requested of Secret See Sec ret ry Mellon In in a resolution prepared prepared pre pre- pared today b Senator Edwards New Jersey The Tue resolution also would ask under un- un del der which authority the treasury has required that Industrial alcohol be ell polson-ell l to render It unfit for beverage purposes The treasury would be requested to furnish thE th senate all data available available avail avail- able on the subject particularly all correspondence had by the department department depart depart- ment with the Saloon Anti League Df America or with Wayne Vayne B. B Wheeler bearing on the poisoning of alcohol CHARGES PROPAGANDA While the New Jersey senator was preparing to address the tue senate sen- sen senate ate in support of his resolution Assistant Secretary Andrews in charge ot of prohibition enforcement was predicting early elimination of poison as a denaturant Andrews descrIbed rec recent nt alarm over the situation as a ar perhaps perhaps' attributable to wet et propaganda propaganda ganda Of course ye we all want the poison out said the dry chief and our chemists are working overtime to to find a substitute but we we are faced by the law which requires ires that this alcohol must be made unfit for beverage beverage bev- bev use Indu try Itself Andrews declared d preferred that Its alcohol be denatured denatured dena- dena so that it could be preserved from beverage be use and he also said that Industry preferred alcohol alco- alco hol ho as a denaturant because it was so much like the real product that it did not interfere s seriously Ire He added added add add- ed however that industry is s cooperating coop coop- crating with government chemists in the search for practicable substitutes substitutes for wood General Andrews expressed doubt that the numerous holiday deaths had resulted from the drinking C denatured alcohol Drinking of too much alcohol he said was m more re probably the cause I I |