BEER FOR AMERICA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18058, 7 April 1933, Page 7

BEER FOR AMERICA

NEW LAW OPERATIVE 19 STATES AFFECTED SALES LEGALISED TO-DAY (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received April 7, 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 6. Nineteen States and the district of Columbia go off the near beer standard at 12.1 a.m. to-morrow, when the sale of beer containing 3.2 per cent alcohol by weight and -1 per cent by volume becomes legal. Breweries in sonic States plan to deliver liquor as soon as it becomes legal, but others arc ruling out jubilee parties at midnight, and say beer will not be delivered before breakfast time. The 19 States are Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Now Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin. Six other States have set later specific dates ranging from April 3to July 1. Louisiana, Vermont, North Carolina, Wyoming, West Virginia, North Dakota, and still others nave proposals pending to legalise the sale. The regulations vary as to where and how beer can be sold. The price is expected to vary. One price quoted frequently in New York Avas 160 cents Avholesale for a case of 24 bottles. LARGE ENGLISH SHIPMENT LONDON, April 6. The first legal consignment of beer since prohibition was adopted in 1920 loft England for New York by the Majestic, which is taking over 8300 bottles. COCKTAILS IN RESTAURANTS NEW YORK, March 11. Some of Manhattan’s better hotels offered to-day as part of their diningroom menus all of the enticing cocktails to be found in the better speakeasies. The innovation, unknown since prohibition went into effect, was tho direct result of the announcement that prohibition agents would not raid speakeasies. Managers of the BroadAvay district hotels explained that they hoped to make a little money and keep their properties out of receivership. The cocktails ivere offered to even the most casually known patrons, but not to complete strangers. Most hotels Avill not serve liquor until the Eighteenth Amendment is repealed, hotel organisations said.