RACE OF LIQUOR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 286, 4 December 1933, Page 7

RACE OF LIQUOR

ACROSS THE ATLANTIC UNITED STATES STOCKS UP. Received Dec. 3, 5.15 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 1. The New York Times’ Washington correspondent states that the race ol liquor across tho Atlantic begins tomorrow. The starting gun is expected to be fired eaily in the morning in the form of a cablegram to the Consul al Glasgow to give clearance to a cargo oi liquor aboard the Cameronia. Officials here are working late into the night to lix quotas and go thorugh other red tape. Importers are happj over the outcome of the code and marketing agreement negotiations, from which they have sanction to bring over immediately four million gallons. Both brewers and importers codes are ready for the President’s signature. State Department negotiations indi cate to importers that the quotas will be raised in the very near future. The department is deluged with inquiries from diplomats concerning the statu* of tho respective countries in the quotas, as well as the possibilities for negotiating a reciprocal agreement. It is understood that negotiations have begun regarding shipments of pork and butter to Britain, and apples to France, in return for liquor shipments therefrom. South American countries that have been improving vineyards, are also reported to be anxious to arrange agreements. LIQUOR IMPORTS UNITED STATES POLICY. COMMITTEE’S DECISION. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. The executive commercial policy committee which is concerned with ways and means of developing foreign trade has decided to allow the importation of liquors from Canada and other countries for a four months’ period on the quotas based on the 19101914 average for each country. The import policy will be effective when the repeal becomes operative on Tuesday. WINES FAVOURED Received Dec. 3, 6.25 p.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. It is revealed that Italy leads and Germany is second, with smaller allotments to France and England, among the allowed liquor quotas. Whisky allotments are under five per <cent. of tho total, and that chiefly Scotch. This is held to indicate that in regulating imports, Mr Roosevelt’s policy of favouring wines instead of spirituous liquors is being carried out.

GIVEN HIS FREEDOM ROOSEVELT HELPS PRISONER Received Dec. 3, 7.,30 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 2. A message from Warm Springs states that in the last official a*ct of his fortnight’s holiday there, Mr Roosevelt to-day extended executive clemency to a prisoner whom he saved from a death sentence 15 years ago while Assistant-Secretary tor the Navy. Gus Menefee, formerly a naval enlisted man, who was found guilty of killing a petty officer during the world war, had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment in 1918, and to-day he was set free.