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Show Japs Negotiating For Purchase of Distillery Plants LOUISVILLE. Ky.. April 11 Japanese Jap-anese agents are negotiating with American Am-erican distillers for the purchase of machinery In their plants after prohibition prohi-bition becomes effective. The machinery machin-ery would hf -hipped to Japan tor use In distillation ol whisky there, according accord-ing to Y. Kayahara, agent for a .lap anese-American importing concern. -V bill before the Japanese diet worrld prohibit use of rice in the manufacture manu-facture of sak, the Japanese nation il Irink Japanese distillers now want foreign made machinery In whirh corn and other cereals can be substituted substi-tuted for rice. Kawahara said. He added that 24,000,000 bushels of rice are used annually in making 300,000, U00 gallons of sake American distillers are reluctant to sell their machinery now, in view of the suit to test the constitutionality Of the prohibition law. oo |