Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1933 — Page 4

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‘POOR ORPHAN' CAB ORDINANCE HUNTS A PAPA 1933>Model Taxi Law Is Still Cruising, Fails to ‘Park’ With Council. Unable to find a father to park'' it in city council, a brand new 1933 model taxi ordinance still is cruising around the city hall today. James E Deery. father of the ordinance. 6pent weeks studying a survey of twentv-slx other cities regarding control of taxis and writing his findings into an ordinance to conform with the Indiana law. Vacation called "father - ' Deery and he enlisted the aid of Ernest C. Ropkey. president of the council, to introduce the ‘‘baby’’ at Monday night's council meeting. Ropkey first called on the board of safety, which kicked the "baby" out into the drafty corridors of the city hall Undaunted. Ropkey cruised into the board of works, trying to find a godfather for the christening in the council chambers. The. works board would have none of it. but suggested the city controller. Across the main lobby to the controller's office dashed the suave council president. Ev*r> "Woollen Jr., newest member of the official administration family, was not caught in a political squeeze, but did call for a conference with Mayor Reginald H Sullivan. Two hours were spent in the parley and the finesse of an odl-limo politician must have prevailed. because Woollen came out all smiles, while Ropkey trailed with a bewildered look upon his countenance. "Ropkey will Introduce the •baby.” was the word that made the rounds of the city hall in nothing flat. Newspaper men and councilmen sat upright in their chairs when Ropkey made his appearance in the council chambers on time, his pockets crammed with important looking papers Exudation was in the air. but nothing happened. The regular order of business proceeded. Other ordinances were introduced, but not the taxi bill. Finally a recess was called and the uneasy councilmen could not stand the strain any longer. They began to shoulder up to Ropkey and demand. "What's up? Why not introduce it and get it over with?" "Why should I bring it here? Why should I be the father of this orphan?" Ropkey demanded. “Jim will be back by next meeting. It’s his baby.” AGREE ON RAIL RATES Fares F.fTective During State Fair Are Announced by Board. Indiana steam railroads will charge one and onc-half fare for a round trip ticket and the Indiana Railroad I’ 2 rents a mile for round trip to Indianapolis duiing the state fair. Sept. 2 to 8. it was agreed with members of the state fair board today.

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JOHN BARLEYCORN TO DON NEW GARB

Repeal Will Change ‘Liquor Traffic'to Big Business

Tiie n*w in the llauor inCuetry S* <3e*cr:b*d in the foilotrlrix article. the second of three written lor The Times. BY WILLIS THORNTON NF.A Serrlee Writer NEW YORK, Aug. 8— If America finally says. "Come home —all is forgiven” to John Barleycorn. the country scarcely will recognize the prodigal What used to be called "the liquor traffic” will be more like "the spirituous-purveying enterprises.” It will be aH decked out with holding companies, stock issues, subsidiaries, scientific merchandising and all the fancy clothes that big business put on during the twenties Though only half the needed states hare ratified repeal, the setup in the liquor industry is already a far different thing than it ever was in 1918. Consolidations, reorganizations, dissolution of old companies, formation of new ones, new plans for selling and distributing, all figure in the frantic rush of the Industry to prevent being caught flat-foot-ed by repeal. That's a real danger. For a nation which used to consume between 60.000.000 and 80.000.000 gallons of whisky within only a year probably would greet repeal with only a couple of months' supply. This deficiency can't be supplied overnight. "Bottled in bond” means that a whisky has aged at least four years. Blended whisky, however, can be bottled at any age, and distillers believe they can build up an adequate stock of this type of liquor in from twelve to eighteen months. But the distillers are doing their best to follow the advice of Major A V. Dalrymple fereral prohibition administrator. Dalrymple admits that prohibition is doomed, and urges that American distillers get busy so the country will not find itself entirely dependent on the Canadian and European stocks of whisky which are eagerly waiting for the word “Go." a a a USE the grain that is bursting our warehouses and that we can't sell,” Dalrymple advises. "Stoi;e the liquor in bonded warehouses and be ready to supply the American demand with good American whisky.” So the distillers are frantically scrambling to do that. National Distillers Products Corporation, for instance, bids fair to develop into a liquor organization like nothing ever seen before prohibition It Ls a $25,000,000 corporation founded in 1924. and it is headed by the social-register-ite Seton Porter. Through a subsidiary. American Medicinal Spirits Company, it quietly has been getting a strong hold not only on the small stock of aged whisky, but on distilling facilities. It now has some of the more famous old brand names —Old Grand Dad. Green River, Mt. Vernon, Old Taylor. Sunny Brook and Mcßrayer, and is acquiring Old Overholt. The passing of the Old Over-

holt distillery, with 31.000 gallons / , , of mellow whisky, to National i / *MK jKM ? | V HE alcohol companies have Distillers. Is emblematic of the 1 C ifW -1- been active. United States change in the industry. TTiis dis- < A MU' ■ , industrial Alcohol, which makes tillerv, at Broad Ford, Pa., has m mm ....... . been making whisky since two i 1 mostly denatured alcohol and solyears before the war of 1812. It Is ' .§. M j vents for lacquers, can turn out the distillery in which A. W. . ; Tfit 40.000 000 gallons of alcohol a Mellon once had an interest. year, part of which could be very National Distillers created an- fc . *l# r' , , , . .. . . . ether sensation by offering the useful In expanding the slender strangest dividend ever declared "*■ ■ - stock of aged whisky, or in makby an American corporation. It ■ W ..... or other liquors that can had on hand some 700.000 cases of %' '■ ? „ ': ' v < be built on an alcohol base, whisky in the wood more than .Commercial Solvents Corpora, fifteen vears. It decided to dis- tion. largest present producer of tribute a part of this to stock- . ~ m *, r f** a* grain alcohol, enters the picture holders. through the same door. It recently acquired the industrial alcohol 0„ ~ , , noA , K4e Mm business of the Rossville Alcohol N Oct. 1. 1934. this huge com- jELL.,., A.*—. ,IL.LrgIU and Chemical Corporation and is will rritm O WQrohmiCO . . „ .t

holt distillery, with 31.000 gallons of mellow whisky, to National Distillers. Is emblematic of the change in the industry. This distillery, at Broad Ford, Pa., has been making whisky since two years before the war of 1812. It is the distillery in which A. W. Mellon once had an interest. National Distillers created another sensation by offering the strangest dividend ever declared by an American corporation. It had on hand some 700.000 cases of whisky in the wood more than fifteen years. It decided to distribute a part of this to stockholders. a a a ON Oct. 1. 1934, this huge company will give a warehouse receipt for a case of whisky to every holder of five shares of the company’s stock, the actual whisky to be distributed to holders of the receipts when, as and if the law permits. National Distillers has been the sensation of a sensational stock market, rising from a low of 16 7 s to a peak of 124 Other stocks connected with repeal prospects have also skyrocketed. Longneglected rye rase to a place beside dollar wheat. Standard Brands, the famous food combine launched by the House of Morgan, is rumored to be "surveying the liquor field.” As this firm includes the Fleischmann Company, large alcohol producer, it seems likely that the national distributing system of Standard Brands might be used in a brandnew method of selling liquors tnrough food stores rather than saloons. All producers of alcohol look forward to a potential interest in the liquor business, for alcohol is used to “rectify” or cut aged whisky down to the legal 100 proof. Also, as many citizens have learned for themselves, alcohol can be used to make gin. Proper gin is distilled, but gin of a sort can be made by simply mixing

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iPictures bv courtesy of the Joseph Pinch Cos.. Schenley, Pa.) Above—There'9 enough grain to make a quart of whisky in that paper. Upper Left—Bottles of whisky leaving the distillery. Upper Right Barrels are opened prior to the bottling of the whisky. alcohol and certain flavoring matters. Other distillers are making heroic efforts to prepare for the home-coming. The Schenley Distillers Corporation, for example, recently sold nearly $3,000,000 of new stock to finance new warehouses and other facilities- The stock was sold before listing at sls a share. Immediately after listing it opened at $34 and has touched $47. Schenley Distillers has been acquiring other distilleries and stocks of whiskies since 1920—one of the most recent ones the famous old James E. Pepper & Cos. Inc., and its reserve stock. One of the Schenley subsidiaries, the Joseph S. Finch & Cos., owners of the Golden Wedding brand, is now enlarging its plant and warehousing facilities at Schenley, Pa. Another subsidiary, the George T. Stagg Cos., at Frankfort, Ky., is now producing large quantities of Kentucky Bourbon and rye.

'T'HE alcohol companies have been active. United States Industrial Alcohol, which makes mostly denatured alcohol and solvents for lacquers, can turn out 40.000 000 gallons of alcohol a year, part of which could be very useful In expanding the slender stock of aged whisky, or in making gin or other liquors that can be built on an alcohol base. Commercial Solvents Corporation. largest present producer of grain alcohol, enters the picture through the same door. It recently acquired the industrial alcohol business of the Rossville Alcohol and Chemical Corporation and is planning to increase the output of its Peoria alcohol plant from 18,000,000 to 35.000 000 gallons a year. At Peoria also, before tjie first of the year there is expected to be under construction one of the largest distilleries in the world, capable of making 100,000 gallons of bourbon and rye whiskies a day. The Canadian firm of Hiram Walker—Gooderham & Worts is back of this, probably with one eye on future import tariffs. The American Commercial Alcohol Corporation is planning improvements at its Pekin (111.) distillery that will enable it to turn from 6,000 to 7,000 bushels of grain a day into whisky and gin. Rumors of a continental merger between distillers of this country and four of the great Canadian companies persist. Canadian liquor shares have risen sensationally, for these companies have immense stocks of properly-matured whiskies on hand. The British Isles wait hopefully, and mumble something about paying the war debts in whisky. With mixed feelings a great country waits to see what the long-banished John Barleycorn will look like at the home-coming —if there is a home-coming. Next—The future line-up of the wet and dry forces.

IMPORTED BEER SALES GAIN IN LASTOF JULY Indiana-Made Brews in Drop, Figures of State Officials Show. Sale of beers produced outside of Indiana boomed in the state in the last fifteen days of July, while Indiana-made brews dropped off, figures compiled in the office of Paul Fry. state excise director, showed The figures were produced by Sam H. Lesh. auditor and cashier in the excise department, and showed taxes received from the ten importers in the state as $5,784 11, compared to $4,903.27 in the first fifteen days of July. Indiana breweries paid taxes totaling $13,751.55 in the last fifteen days, compared with $14,065.76 in the first half of the month. Total taxes received for the mc-nth for both imported and state-made brew were $38.504 69. The largest tax paid by an importer in the last fifteen ejays was by the Hoosier Brewery Company, the firm of William Clauer. which ! paid SI .948 95. The other Indianapolis importer, the State Brewing Company, the firm of John Burke, paid $487.60. The smallest tax paid by an importer wras $8434. by the Southern Indiana Beverages, Inc., Evansville importer. Five state breweries paid taxes, and sixteen, to which licenses have been granted, have not started operation. The largest tax was paid by Berghoff. Ft. Wayne. $5.288 85. Other payments were: F. W. Cook Company, Evansville. $3,526.54; Indiana Brewers, Inc., Indianapolis. $2,251; South Bend Beverage and Ice Association. $1,969.76, and the Kamm <te Schelllnger Company, Mishawaka, $715.40.

DIVORCE SUIT DELAYED

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Bp Vnitrd Prr* LOS ANGELES. Aug. B. A third delay was caused Monday ir. the hearing of the divorce suit filed by Kathryn Carver against Adolph Menjou, film star. Miss Carver was ill and the hearing was set for next Monday. GAMING CHARGE FILED Owner of Spark Plug Inn Under Arrest After Raid by Police. John Starkey, 54. owner of the Spark Plug inn. 3733 East Thirtieth street, was under arrest today on a charge of keeping a gaming device. Raiding Starkey's establishment on the report that a "bunch of drunks” were in the place, police found one "jack-pot" coin machine and five punchboards, they reported.

_ATJG. 8, 1933

CITY CHANGES ITS POLICY ON BANK DEPOSITS County Council Will Be Made Responsible for Safety of Funds. Full responsibility for placing city money in safe depositories was laid on the Marion county council. In a ordinance passed by city council Monday night. The city has had the power to select its own bank and depositories except for funds controlled by law prior to passage of the ordinance. .Reports from time to time will be made to the county finance board by the city controller and a list of ail funds to be deposited will be contained therein. The finance board in turn will select the bank or trust company in which to place the funds, after receiving bids for the interest rate and also security for 50 per cent of the money deposited. The ordinance is the result of the impounding of $102,000 by closing of the Aetna Trust Company recently. and is to protect to some extent other funds that might be impounded in any bank in the future. Michigan street was made a preferential street from the east city limits to the west city limits in a new ordinance. Power was given the city attorney to employ additional attorneys in venue cases, in an ordinance introduced at the session. All persons or corporations filing petitions before the zoning board must pay $3.50 in the future for “inspection and costs Incurred in publication of notice of hearing.” another proposed ordinance provided.