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Industrial heads urge fair trial of prohibition law
New York June 4. A message to the American people urging prohibition to be given an honest trial was published yesterday bearing signatures of Henry Ford Thomas A Edison Captain Robert Dollar J C Penney and 20 other business leaders. The list includes Ralph H Burnside Jumber Portland Ore Patrick Henry Callahan Vermish Louisville Ky Frederick S Chase Waterbury Conn and many more. The letter cites President Hoover with a plea for law observance and invites all Americans to join in giving the eighteenth amendment an honest chance for enforcement. A letter also disapproves the Voluntary committee of lawyers opposed to the amendment and includes a reply by Joseph H Choate Jr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry Ford
Thomas A. Edison
Robert Dollar
J. C. Penney
Hoover
Ralph H. Burnside
Jumber
Portland
Ore
Patrick Henry Callahan
Varmish
Louisville
Frederick S. Chase
Waterbury
Conn
Charles B. Cook
Hartford
W. H. Crosby
Buffalo
R. I. Fulton Cutting
San Francisco
Thomas,a. Edison
West
Orange
N. J. Henry Ford
Detroit
Alfred C. Fuller
A. A. Hyde
Wichita
Kan
James N. Jarvie
Clarence H. Kelsey
R. A. Long
Kansas City
George F. Milton
J. G. Penney
George A. Plimpton
James H. Post
Fred W. Ramsay
Cleveland
Winslow Russell
Hertford
William Jay Schieffeltn
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Ambrose Swasey
A. A. Welch
Voluntary Committee of
Joseph H. Choate, Jr