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Show OMAHA VIEWS BEER BREWING IN CITY HALL i City Chemist Makes It to Determine Legality of Hop Seizure ' M A H A Neb.. Ayll 19. They are f making beer today at the Omaha City I h.,ll By Friday the first brew will be bot-Itled. bot-Itled. Three days later the beverage 'will be ready for a test to determine how much of a "kick," If any. It con- tains, Professor C F. Crowley, city chemist, Is brew master and Is to make I the test assisted possibly by James ; II. Hanley former federation prohi-j prohi-j bltion director. .!( i EatS V BBKI) Lave Bernstein and Max Fric. who '. rwl , r i irt-nrrv xr arrotl. ed several days ago by federal agents! ind a quantity of malt and hops prom-j inently displayed ln their store were seized. The officers also confiscated a recipe, posted in a conspiclous place neai the malt and hops, and it is this formula which the city chemist ls( j following In Ins brewing opcratolns W I riNG POR Kit K Mr Hanley is counsel for Bernslrin (and Frle and he contends ihat if the .ingredients seized nt the grocery and; used according to recipe do not make 'a beverage of more than half of or.e I per cent alcohol lhe seizure is Illegal I If the brew Is not ready by Saiur-j day, when the hearim: In federal court! 'is scheduled to be h'-ld. Mr Henley says he will request a postponement! until such a time as the percentage of( I "kick" to the beverage now being : brewed can he determl ned. |