Show ALCOHOL ILL lE KS I H T IT BY GOV GOVERNOR GOVERNOR TELLS SECRETARY OF GROSS CROSS VIOLATION UNDER PRESENT PERMIT SYSTEM Alcohol Maker Are Worse Wor Than Breweries He Declares Asks Ak For Conference On Prohibition Subject Fa Ashing that action act be lie taken to end gross violation of the law by holders of federal alcohol alcohol alco alco- hol permits Governor In a aletter aletter letter to Secretary of tho Treasury Mellon has hns suggested a personal conference con con- terence ference with the secretary on the question of prohibition enforcement The governors governor's letters written after after af af- ter conferences here with state police heads prohibition prohIbIt enforcement and Major William O. O Murdock Philadelphia Phil Phil- adelE adelphia hla of the federal enforcement administration on was In reply to Secretary Secre tary Mel Mellons Mellon's Ions Ion's promise in a letter dated dated dat dat- ed November 4 of close operation co-operation with the Pennsylvania tate state authorities ties tie In the control of breweries After thanking tho secretary for tor his hi as assurances that federal permits would be withheld from breweries that have been operating unlawfully Governor declared that the I violation 01 on at of the law In the denatured alcohol field had been more vicious and far moro more Important than tho breweries He lie asked that action be betaken betaken taken to put a stop to these gross violations ons and offered the a assistance of the state police In doing BO so Tho governor said he was prepared to offer the details of more than a bundred bun bun- dred such auch violations lie said illegal diversions lons of alcohol was pos possible mainly because government regulations regula regula- allow the distilleries to ship their products to a denaturing plant planta a at a distance 1 It Is not cot nece necessary sary said the governors governor's governors governor's gov gov- letter to discuss mistaken statements In your letter further than to point out the present regulations regulations' do not forbid putting strong beer Into racking machines that no permit I Ican Ican can trace has ever been revoked in Pennsylvania for putting strong beer Into racking machines barrels or bottles and that the state polled have not actually been given the right to Inspect breweries at any time Ume as your letter assures me they have Several days after the tho date of It they thoy were refused admission to a number of permit per permit per per- mit holding breweries I assume this will be corrected at once Citing a number of specific cases In tn which he declared that violation of cf federal alcohol permits were were made possible Governor letter said I The final decision as to the these e per permits mits was not made mado In Philadelphia per per-I but In Washington t is obvious that men In Washington who are n. n sible for foi granting or restoring permits permits per per- mits under such conditions have havo no proper place In the government ser ser- vice |