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Believement Assessment on Each Gallon of Beer Would Aid Enforcement FLOOD SWEEPING COUNTRY Andrews Claims Brewers, Are Tempted to Produce Il legal Drinks. Continued from Page One, lease from the Atlanta penitentiary. Reinus, who testified before the grand jury, was not indicted. Prominent Names. Others indicted include A. J. Hell rich, collector of internal revenue for the eastern Sissouri circuit; Nat Goldstein, former circuit clerk of St. Louis and one of the partcipants in distribution of the Lowden campaign fund of 1920; Fred Essen, former congressman and present St. Louis county republican leader; M. J. Kin ney of St. Louis, a state senator and democratic leader; William J. Kin ney, brother of the state senator and former deputy under Collector Hellrich and gunger all the Daniel warehouse here during the time when conspira tors are alleged to have been “milk ing” the barrels there: Lem Motlow, wealthy Tennessee disfiler, who shot and killed a Pullman conductor on one of his trips there, but was acquit ted of a charge of murder; Tom Lef ferman, an associate of Matlow in ownership of the whisky and one of the alleged participants in its sale to a syndicate backed by Remus; H. L. Duablmah,the third partner in ownership of the liquor prior to its sale, John Marcus, former couvict, who was arrested in Indianapoli on Christmas eve, 1923, with an auto mobile load of Jack Daniel whisky; D. H. Robinson, Thomas J. McAul iffe, Thomas F. MccCafferty, Leonard Stone and Edward Meininger, named by Remus as purchasers of whisky for $125,000 from Motlow and asso ciatex Michael J. Whalen, democratic city committeeman and former alderman, here ,Mlony from St. Louis. Twenty-two of those indicted were from St. Louis or vicinity. District Attorney Curry said enpi ases would be issued at once, not only here, but at Cincinnati and Nashville, Tenn, and the defendants would be fought in to make bonds ranging from $20 to $10,000 for appearance in feral court at Indianapolis on Sat urday at 10 a. m. The indictment specifically charges conspiracy to violate the Volstead act and sets forth seven alleged overt acts, including transportation of some of the whisky to Indianapolis, culmi nating in the arrest there of Mar cus Tis arrest brought the venue in the case in Indianapolis. Would Affect Bootlegger, in Washington, Nov. 2—How a re duction in the tax on alcohol would affect the bootlegger was a question on which the house ways and means committee today sought the opinion of Lincoln C. Andrews, assistant sec retary of the treasury in charge of prohibition enforcement. In urging a reduction in the alco hol tax now amounting to $4.18 a Wine gallon, representatives of the re tail druggists and proprietary medi cine associations have argued that its repeal or reduction would hamper the bootlegger by cutting the profits of his business correspondingly. Spokes men for drug manufacturers, however, have opposed any cut in the tax, argu ing it would make bootlegging easier by cutting the amount of working capital necessary.
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Moline Daily Dispatch
Moline, Illinois, US
Mon, Nov 02, 1925
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