HIGHER LIQUOR RATES

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1933, Page 9

HIGHER LIQUOR RATES

BOOTLEGGERS APPROVE. EXTRAORDINARY GAOL STORY. New York, Aug. 9. The patriotic bootleggers of the United States have placed themselves squarely behind President Roosevelt and his plan to inflate prices. In New York rye whisky prices were raised from 16 to 20 dollars a case this week, and real Scotch is expected to go so high that only the rich will be able to afford it. Night. clubs charge one dollar a drink. America’s best liquor story concerns the dismissal of three leading officials, Including the chaplain, of Leavenworth goal for notable favouritism to the most distinguished prisoner. Terry Drug'gan, a Chicago gangster, who was frequently named among America’s No. 1 enemies, and is serving two years for failure to pay 300,000 dollars income tax, was allowed to conduct his liquor business just as if he were not in prison at all. It js true, that for many months Druggan slept in the gaol, but that was the only .terror prison had for him. He was able each morning to walk down town, visit his sweetheart, Bernice van Houten, and run his beer business by long-distance telephone from the girl’s apartment. He had .all his meals outside the prison.