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f 0 1919 — 1 HE AMEF iLLINOBfflDITION *"— ■ ■ —“ --... ~ ~ — 1 —■■■ Volume XIV. WESTERVILLE. OHIO. SEPTEMBER 26. 1919 Number 19 BEER MEN ON TRIAL LANDIS EXPOSES BIG |jQUOR CONSPIRACY Beer Smugglers Lose Trucks and Are Held to Grand With Beer ' Jury Makers and Sellers. Boomerang Case Brings Great and Small Into Court EFFORT TO REGAIN TRUCKS CAUGHT AT WILL START TWO BIG CAMPAIGNS ZION RESULTS IN CONSPIRACY EXPOSE TO RAISE FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS TO CARE FOR Judge Landis Calls Big Brewers to Testily on Alcohol Con- FUTURE ACTIVITIES of Product into Illinois tent of Beer and Methods Bringing Five-Year Plan for Providing Resources Is Agreed Upon; Inten- sive Drive Also Is Provided; State and National Men DOZENS INVOLVED IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW Are in Unanimous Accord HELD TO JURY FOR TRIAL UNDER BIG BOND GRAND GREAT CONFERENCE OFFICIALS HELD IN CHICAGO RESULTS IN APPROVING FORWARD LODKING PROJECT Chicago Brewers Shown lo Have Made and Sold Illegal Beer Since War , Prohibition and Illinois Law Became Effective Burdens Are to be Divided Between National and State % Organiza- tions; They and World League Against Alcoholism Will CHICAGO COURTROOM SCENE OF GREAT LIQUOR TRIAL Share Benefits of Big Program AMERICANIZATION OF FOREIGNERS IS ONE OBJECT OF THE ORGANIZATION WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ATTORNEYS FOR BEER SMUG- Will to the GLERS TRIED TO GET THEIR TRUCKS AWAY FROM Explain People Just What Prohibition Is, What It ZION CITY OFFICIALS TO SAVE THEM FROM DE- Requires, How It Came About and Its Benefits STRUCTION UNDER THE ILLINOIS PROHIBITION EN- to This Nation FORCEMENT LAW WOSH 0, Truck drivers and owners held to the federal grand jury under TtMRERANC: IN OTISES LANDS T3 RECEIVE GREAT I...PETUS law. I $13,000 bonds for violating the Wcbb-Kenyon c held to the Portion Dozens of Chicago and northern Illinois saloonkeepers Large of Funds Will Be Used in Extending Work to of the hcderal Prohibition law. grand jury charged with violation Countries That Have Asked America to Help beer dealer held over to the grand A Kenosha, Wis., wholesale Them Oust Liquor Traffic jury under $20,000 bond charged with conspiracy to violate the Wcbb- Fifty million dollars as the financial enforcement and Kenyon law. FEDERAL KENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS necessity; JUDGE of Prohibition in the United under bond and held over stability States; ultimate world Prohi- An Illinois State Senator placed $20,000 i Who is it for the V/isconsin-Illinois Beer Runners Making Interesting bition; closer the state to the federal grand jury for conspiracy to violate the Wcbb-Kenyon co-operation among Leagues and of the state law. Leagues with the national organization; the aloncAall j gaged, in interstate traffic .and thus tightening; up tfito 'coufi to J!ttMWeTS TN THE ’Bfcgft- ItffeVTor'oiic liiihcn'oi? are Officials of big 'XliTwaukce breweries"rSTTefl testily immune from prosecution under state 'pFr'c’ent' efficiency—these things expected and manner in which same 1 SMUGGLING CASE to result from action taken iti t on alcoholic content of their product laws according to tlic contention of Chicago Wednesday and Thursday, I I reaches Illinois customers. the truck attorneys who apparently September 17-18, by a conference of the officials of the Anti-Saloon and sold beer over ** Evidence that a Chicago brewery made legal were on For the truck owners and not quite up to date liquor League of America and the state superintendents and the headquar- limit since 1st. laws. drivers: July ters committees. on of Chief of of Chicago invited into court to hear testimony Various drivers upon ques- George Remus, Chicago. police being A permanent financial E. V. five-year violations of liquor law. ! tioned asserted that they had no Orvis, Waukegan. This is the genius of the Anti- campaign was agreed upon, in which knowledge of where the beer they For the State: Saloon League. Jt explains why there will be raised twenty-five mil- the has were was to be delivered. C. W. Middlekauff, Spring- i League always been suc- hauling Ton dollars for national and Several weeks ago officials at Zion City captured about a dozen becr- state, cessful. In the conference there stated that received no field. Assistant Attorney They they was more or less motor trucks on the to Attorneys for the truck owners | world work on a graduated scale, run- of diversity of laden way Chicago. directions and that the General. | shipping ship- from the first to opinion, especially legarding de- secured a temporary injunction under which the trucks were released to ning $2,375,000- year ments carried bore no marks or Geo. C. Dixon, Dixon, Assist- ; tails, but no of they more than ten million dollars the fifth diversity opinion their owners the appointment of a receiver. The case was heard by through labels identifying the consignee. One ant Attorney General. regarding the main lint of en- Federal Sanborn of Wisconsin who was called into the case during year. deavor. After thresh- Judge I witness testified that another man James G. Welch, Waukegan, thoroughly the absence of the local federal judge. Upon the return of Judge Landis, In addition there will be put on an ing out propositions before them went with him to give directions as to Slate’s Attorney in Lake for two and court to have days arguing back attorneys for the truck owners came into the federal and asked intensive drive lor twenty-five million ! the destination of his beer cargo. County. anti forth over details, the mem- the temporary injunction made permanent. When Judge Landis learned dollars or more to be used in the bers of the The judge called attention to the fact A. V. Smith, Waukegan, As- ; conference voted unan- that the trucks had been engaged in transporting beer from Wisconsin into Americanization of foreigners and in imously on the propositions before that it was rather unusual for an extra sistant Attorney General. them Illinois he ordered Wisconsin brewers and their agents into court to tell the world-wide Prohibition light, when they came up for hnal man to accompany a common carrier Theodore Forhy, Zion City, decision. what they knew about the rase. This started the investigation which ex- working in foreign countries through for the purpose of giving directions in City Attorney, Zion City. the method of brewers and saloonkeepers in carrying on the traffic the co-operation ol the World League Vvm Lclucate posed the absence of labels on the goods to F. B. Ebbcrt. Chicago, Attor- People in beer stronger than onc-half of one per cent in Illinois since the first of Against Alcoholism. One of the be transported. ney, Anti-Saloon League of tilings planned to be The contcrcnce was an ad- done L July. Illinois. Chicago to go before the people of the Illinois should be The question at issue was whether the state of per- Drivers Held to Grand Jury journed session of the couterence re- United States in Many of the witnesses were public meetings ami manently restrained from destroying the beer trucks tinder the Prohibition cently held in Washington at which explain to them the The first indication at the hearing represented by their personal provisions ot the or whether the said trucks should be the enforcement act effective July 1st, Ernest Clicrrington, secretary of constitutional amendment en- before Landis would develop into lawyers. All the brewers had and the to for under the law. oil turned back the officials disposition Committee Tinancial Management forcement act, winch a something entirely different from the lawyers in the court room and concerning of the Anti-Saloon League of Amer- great deal of misinformation, most of Warrant Not Needed discussion on the question of whether simple question of a disposition of many of the saloonkeepers en- , ica, submitted a tentative program for it promulgated by the foes of Pro- the liquot was actually non-intoxicat- the trucks came when one of the driv- gaged lawyers to protect their The first move Mr. Remus, chief the future activities of the League. hibition, lias been circulated. by ing. Judge Landis intimated that in- ers refused to answer a question mte.csts. was At the Washington conference the Americanization or attorney for the liquor interests, asmuch a^ the Illinois law set one- foreign ele- asked by Judge Landis. Instantly _ a to that the warrant I general provisions were agreed upon ments, it was leit, would nattempt prove half of one per cent as the maximum, after the judge asked the truck accomplish owner] some details tinder which the truck drivers were but there were upon two results: first, the inculcation ot all testimony and argument as to whether lie did any business from for such complainants as this you I j state arrested was insufficient. Earl Cas- which the representatives of the proper respect ior law and whether the beverage was actually in- Wisconsin points, attorney Remus in- j have somehow gotten injunction re- authority, Zion constable, who organizations sought more intelligence the teaching of persons hitherto used person, City toxicating was immaterial. During terrupted to say that the witness had straining the state from holding these the arrests had testified as to and which they wished to take up and to that such made this discussion attorney Remus ad- been instructed that he need not cars. intoxicating beverages an-1 folks back home. the mode of After consid- discuss with the beverages are not only unnecessary, procedure. vanced the theory that exposure to swer. He brought out the fact that! “Did you tell Judge Sanborn that erable which Mr. At the Chicago gathering these de-1 but absolutely harmful; and in the argument during the sun had raised the alcoholic con- the man on the stand was under your witnesses would not testify? and were threshed out: Remus out that the search crim-j tails came up second place, so showing to them the pointed tent of the beer beyond the legal limit inal charges in Lake county.