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Show CALLS U.S. GOVERNMENT I CHAMPION BOOTLEGGER Brewer's Letter To Harding I Viewed As Pro-German Plot I To Smash Merchant Marine I . 1 THE REPLY 1 WASHINGTON, June 14. The ship- ping holds that "neither the Vol- sS stead act nor the right of the amend- sH ment apply to American ships outside thrc three mile limit," Chairman Lask- IH er declared today in a letter to pij Adolphus Busch, III, vice president of the Anheuser Busch Brewer company sJH of St. Louis Confirming reports that sH alochollc drinks were being served on fjpj American ships at sea. Mr. Lasker as- sjsj bi'ni'u wirti. kuu oiiifi'inc uu-.tu ------------ proved this custom "both from ih I standpoint of legal right and from Mi standpoint of the life and security of our national merchant marine." IH (ON I IM I s KIM I . The shipping board has permitti d jH land Will continue to permit the serving sH of liquor on its ships," he continued, IJH "so long as foreign flag ships are al- sjsj low(l to enter and depart from out sjsj 1 shores exercising that privilege." fB Mr. Lasker s letter was In reply te ssH la communication addressed by Mr pH jBusrh to President Harding with ret- IH 1 erencc to alcoholic drinks being rcgu- tjsJJ ilarly sorved on shipping board vessels. 1 at sea. The matter had been referred to him. the shipping board chairman tjsj ! explained, since "the president Is un-iacquulnted un-iacquulnted with tho subject you I cover." If the sale of liquor be prohibited on all i'oats entering or departing from : American ports thero is no voice In IH tho shipping board that would bo rals-led rals-led In protest ..." GALLS IT PROPAG VND I ','Your letter to the president anil the letter from your father which you attached thereto have on thelt face been written entirely with a view 'to their effect on the publli when pub- jllshed .and In an attempt to Insure ,thelr publication- I am Informed that I you havo sent printed copies of your ietters to tho press of America. "Wherefore, my reply to you Is not merely Intended for you, but Is am written with a view to public rejoinder BREWERY BEFORE M IRINE I "I believe you to h$ thoroughly sel- m I 1 fish and that you aro acting in the hope of creating a public revolt against prohibition so that you may revi- 1 the sale of your liquors, utterly 're-gardless 're-gardless of how von mlcht hurt th American merchant marine In your ef-forts ef-forts to create a situation to benefit (your brewery- "It Is, of course! notorious that the Adolphus BuSch who founded your H brewery was pos.slbly the Kaiser's clos-ct clos-ct friend in America and that ypui family Cor many years has maintain'- I astie in Germany; your action In any event will not displease your Ger- H 'man friends whose greatest hope OC 8 H restored German merchant marine 11 in a hurt to America's new-borjl mer- 11 chant marine. HANDS il LARJ D 1 N l-l N ' I refer to these extraneous facts . not In resentment, but that il may be 1 made clear that in my opinion you do not come before the bar of pubho H opinion with clean hands 1 Mr. Lasker made public at the saint! time the text of an opinion Just render- ii 10 nun dj miuur uhtd'"i b" ujj eral counsel of the shipping lioard, up 1 holding anew the legitimacy the serv H Ing of liquor on American ships at H Mr. Schlesinger declared prohibition H laws to be effective 'throughout the 11 entire territorial limits of the United M I States " v. I The opinion cited numerous cascs4 ga to 11 n thai Ami 1 in ihlp outsldj tli three mile limit could not be con- 1 ii ontlnued on Page Two.) THE REPLY (Continued from Page One) sldered within the jurisdiction of thi United States government vrr U lv Ci N 1EM N EI "An effort to discredit prohibition." was the interpretation placed on the Ruaeh Utters bv Wayne B. Wheeler. general counsel for the Anti-Saloon league. "I cannot too strongly condemn tnli attack bj the brewers upon the government." gov-ernment." said Mr. Wheeler, "and it-" officers but rejoice that tho decision of the supreme cour; has now removed all doubt upon the construction of the law so that the discrimination against American ships yyhlch has been seized upon by the liquor interests as an argument against prohibition, need no longer exist." .Mr. Busch attached to his letter to the president the copy of an edi torlal printed in the Chicago Tribune Trib-une of May 6. 1922. following a visit to the editorial offices by an official offi-cial of the United States shipping board. EDITORIAL EXPLAINED. Declaring there was an Insinuation that the editorial had been "Inspired by the visit," Mr Lasker said' "I was the official who visited the Tribune on May j, and I wish to record re-cord my emphatic denial that I in anv way knew before or at the tlm" of my visit the views of the editor at the Tribune on this subject I did not disi usa the subject of prohi bltion with the editors of the Trlb une at that time or at any other time before or since. The fact is that I had no more advance knowledge than any other reader of the Tribune thai it was Roing to publish such an editorial. ed-itorial. "Your mean Insinuation regarding uncorruptible officials and editors re. fleets on you alone " o, |