The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 1

1 i -At WEATHER FORECAST ITT Fair Wednesday un- settled In northwest P-5 IDAHO Rain or snow Wed- nesday Thursday WYOMING Cloudy Wednesday Thursday iXnrtXi fl 'If t-'l Delegates to the Utah constitutional convention which ratified the twenty-first amendment to the United States constitution thereby repealing the eighteenth amendment and returning the control of the liquor problem to the several states Left to right: A Hollenbeck A Brown A Ellis Franklin Hansen Dr Earl Clements 'Sophus Bert el sen Glen Allred iah Day Lawrence Clayton Sam Thurman Hampton Mrs John A Hendricks Franklin Riter Ephraim Bergcson Mrs McCor-nick George Ballif John Beeslcy Front row left to right officers of the convention: Mrs Paul Ke'yser secretary Olson president Clarence Bamberger vice president Rear Milton Welling secretary of state Mat Gilmour of Price was absent having been called from the convention floor 'I President Appeals For Temperance Lindberghs Well On Way Over Sea Decisive Ballot Flashed to Nation 3:32 TO PLUG DP TAX HOLES US TREASURY IN 18 STATES Aviator Wife Wing- rifa ACTS TO SPEED A fc f- 'X 4 FINANCE PLANS Half Dozen Ollier Com- monwealths Rush Plans to Legalize Sale Convention Casts 36th Vote for Repeal at Capitol Ceremony Blood Ivins Address Meet Temperance Urged Changes in Revenue Law Urged to Prevent Levy Dodging (By United Press) NEW YORK Wednesday Dec Colonel and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh were flying into unsettled- weather on their flight from Batlwwat- Short-'- Term -if Paper May Be Offered at About 2 Per Cent (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON Dec Striking at large Incomes and personal holding companies organized to save a house ways and means subcommittee (Text of Proclamation on Page Eight) (By United Press) WASHINGTON 'Dec 5 President Roosevelt -issued a plea for temperance tonight as the end of 13-year experiment with constitutional prohibition was proclaimed officially In a proclamation issued at 6:55 an hour after Acting Secretary of State Phillips formally had announced the passing of constitutional prohibition Mr Roosevelt called upon all citizens to confine their purchases of alcoholic beverages to duly licensed dealers a plea that Was in effect an appeal to eliminate th bootlegger from the- nation The president also appealed to the states not to permit return of the old-fashioned saloon The Roosevelt proclamation automatically repealed taxes yielding $225000000 a year which the government will place by liquor levies The proclamation as issued by the White House was somewhat confusing in that this was not specifically stated only the text -of the tax withdrawal provision as passed by congress being quoted White House officials explained that the taxes automatically were canceled with signature of the repeal pfoclaiha tion by the president and that it was not necessary for the taxes involved to be listed in the proclamation The special taxes which the liquor levies will supplant are the 5 per cent dividend tax 'A cent of the 1 -cent federal gasoline tax the 1-10 per cent capital stock tav and the 5 per Cent tax on excess profits on corporations earning more than 12 'A per cent of their capital value In his plea for temperance the president saidi trust in the good sense of the American people that they will not bring upon themselves the curse of excessive use of intoxicating liquors to the detriment of health morals and social integrity objective we seek through a national policy is the education of every citizen toward a greater temperance throughout the of thehouse of at the stats capltol beginning Friday at noon About the nearest thing respect for the dying eight eenth amendment came'from Anthony Ivins niember of the first presidency of the church who addressed the convention as a member (Bt Aorittl FrMi) WASHINGTON Dec Plans for revenue jaw to bring in an esti- today reeommended ehanges the mid-December borrow-' yfted additional $237 000000 to tfie ine were nil hut readv for announce- gQygfjjjnpnt ing were all but ready for of the last preceding consti- British West Africa to Brazil as dawn broke over the South Atlantic ocean today The radio station of the Pan-American Airways at Bahia Brazil which was in regular communication with the seaplane reported receiving a message from Mrs Lind-" bergh at 1:27 a (eastern standard time) which said that the sky was partly overcast and that there were scattered squalls They had covered 630 miles about one-third of the 1870-mile flight at that time Visibility was three miles according to the message which ended with the words They expected to make the 1870-mile flight in 14 hours Lindbergh in the dead of night de eided to take advantage of a freshening breeze off the Afri' an coast They had waited three days for the' calm to end and permit them to get their heavily loaded seaplane into the air They headed southwest over the Atlantic for Brazil Figuring 14 hours for the flight to Natal Brazil believed to be their objective the Lindberghs should reach that port about 4 (11 a T) Natal is three hours behind Greenwich mean time hence they were looked for there around 1 local Brazil time It is two hours ahead of New York time By CECIL DICKSON Associated Pros Staff Writer WASHINGTON Dec With a dash of ceremony Utah late today wrote an end to national prohibition in a decree that opened the doors of 'jliquor shops' in 18 slates Almost half a' dozen other states were completing plans for legalizing sale under their own laws The remainder of the nation remained dry Word that the thirty-sixth had ratified repeal was flashed to the capital a few hours after Pennsylvania and Ohio A little later the final formalities were completed with the issuance -of proclamations by the state department and President Roosevelt declaring prohibition at an end There was little ceremony at the signing of the presidential or the state department proclamation but in wet states and some dry ones there were celebrations Ends Dry Spell Nearly 14 years of alcoholic drouth enforced by the eighteenth amendment of world-war day inception was ended by the Utah vote It found the federal government prepared to control the flow of liquor in wet states through a virtual dicta-' torship oyer the industry and to protect the arid ones Several of the 18 states Wltore liquor could be sold im mediately however were without regulation Repeal celebrations however found liquor supplies for immediate consumption restricted in some sections In a hurried' effort to meet the demand and thereby thwart the bootlegger the government today decided to allow large importations of American type bourbon and whiskies from Canada It also plahped to release for beverage purposes medicinal liquors held in bondedwarehouses and customs houses FRANCE FEELS GOLD FIGHT NEW YORKERS WET PALATES Obsequies iforihe eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States were conducted Tuesday at the Utahstate capital The constitutional convention of the thirty-sixth state ratified the twenty-first amendment to the federal constitution and thereby gave It nation-wide effect The funeral services were decorous and dignified but not sorrowful Thurman Casts Final Vote It was exactly 3:31 when Delegate Thurman of Salt Lake cast the final vote of the thirty-sixth state for the ratification of the twenty-first article of amendment to the federal constitution which vote he said was the decisive vote this vote Is he announced proposed twenty-first amendment will have been ratified President I vote aye" There was prolonged applause When It had partially subsided President Ray Olson of the convention brought down his gavel and announced that at that moment 3:32 twenty-first amendment Is in full force and effect he continued with pride at being the which brings about this change In the constitution Which is a change in the Interest of good Few Friends of There were not many friends of the' at the funeral services held In the hall to Glistening Glasses Long Drive The full committee headed by Representative Doughton (D C) met and received the report of the subcommittee but took no action pending hearings to be held later The proposals were designed to simplify the present law and plug up holes through which wealthy persons have avoided taxes Liquor taxation was left to be han died in a separate bill after recommendations from President Roosevelt and joint discussions by the house and senate tax committees Leaves Lower Bracket -The subcommittee which said it later would make more recommendations especially with respect to new sources of revenue did not disturb the lower income brackets but proposed a single normal rate of 4 per cent on all net income instead of the present 4 cent on the first $4000 and 8 per cent on the balance Other recommendations included higher surtaxes with only 27 brackets against the existing 57 increased rates on dividends and partly tax-exempt interest a 35 per cent tax on the adjusted net of personahholding companies abolition of consolidated returns and withdrawal of the right of partners to offset against their income losses sustained by partnerships-' appears to be no good reason for having both a graduated normal tax -and a graduated the subcommittee reported the principle of ability to pay can be adequately taken care of by the graduated surtax alone Certainly it is much simpler to have onenormal rate of No Revenue Cut It is the change could be made decreasing the revenue through adjustment of surtax 1 The new surtax schedule proposed rates ranging from 4 per cent on net announcement tonight with indications that short-term paper would be offered the investing public at an interest rate somewhere near 2 per cent Preparations for the financial operations which include refunding $727 000000 in maturing obligations were pushed ahead following the return of Earle Bailie special assistant to Acting Secretary Morgenthau from conferences with New York authorities in the investment banking field Although he would give no intimation of the results of his trip to the financial center he radiated a cheerfulness hardly indicating any lapse in confidence that the financing would receive the enthusiastic public support characteristic of similar previous operations Deny Policy Harm Critics of the administration monetary policy especially of the goldbuying program have asserted that depreciation of the dollar by this method would make it difficult for' the government to borrow Administration officers deny this and expect the results of the December 15 financing to support their position Two issues of treasury certificates of indebtedness will fall due then One totaling $254364500 was floated a year ago and on it the government is paying three-quarters of one per cent interest The other totals $473-328000 and bears 4(4 per cent interest the highest rate the treasury is permitted to pay by law To meet these maturing obligations new issues will be offered In exchange The expected rat? of about 2 per cent would result in a substantial saving in interest charges A year's interest on the two maturing issues combined would total $22000--000 Two per cent on the same total by comparison would come to but $14000000 Millions Witlid rawn England Holland Switzerland Dusty Reappeai Opens on Speakeasies tutional Convention held in tJtah £fiatof 1895 which drew up thb basic law of the state President Ivins said he was riot there to speak of politics or of prohibition He might in some sense be said to resemble Marc Antony at the burial of Caesar Recounts Past The speaker however neither burled the eighteenth amendment nor praised It His Interesting discourse was rather directed to calling the attention' qf the delegates to the important part they were playing in government' He did so and at the same time relieved the rather oppressive monotony of trying to make up a flawless convention rec- ord by adding a totich of humor to the occasion In tell- lng of the proceedings of thej constitutional convention of which he had been a member Instead of an honor guest Recalls 10-day Trip President Ivins remarked on the changes that have taken place sinCe the time when he spent 10 (Jays driving one of the best trains of horses in the state frornhis home at St George to the constitutional convention at Salt Lake Many had beenlfound NEW YORK Dec 5 A radio message from Mrs Charles A Lind bergh reporting she and Colonel Lindbergh had taken off from Bathurst British West Africa for Natal South America for a flight over the south Atlantic was relayed here tonight from Pan-American Airways radio station at Miami Fla The message said: 2:02 Making average time ANNE The Miami station was in direct communication with the plane some 4100 miles distant CHILD LAW RATIFIED DES MOINES Dec 5 The Iowa legislature today ratified the child labor-amendment to the federal constitution making this the 16th gtatd' to add its approval Move -Blocked A move of the International Reform federation to block the issuance of the repeal proclamation wd rejected in District of Columbia-supreme court when Justice Dicktn-son Letts rejected a petition filed by Canon William Sheafe Chase of Brooklyn on the ground there was no basis for the action He ruled repeal was effective upon ratification by the thirty-sixth state and not through the proclamation Repeal was brought about through NEW YORK Dec 5 Glistening glassware dusty for 13 years came to 'the tables of a thousand and restaurants stretching Park avenue to night for gay toast to legal liquor Simultaneously a vigorous police drive sprang up to shut the legion of speakeasies behind whose grilled doors cocktail shakers have tinkled illegally A few hours before conven tion met to signal the start for a lusty' chorus of and Police Commissioner James Bolan told every patrolmari to report any suspected speakeasies so that plainclothes detectives could raid them and arrest the managers The sparkling celebrations spread to Greenwich Village and Harlem night clubs from swanky hotel dining rooms where many of the social ly elite saw the start of prohibition Only a few retail liquor shops re- The News (Cmttnud on Page Nine) Column Five (Continued on Pane Elshtl (Column Onei PARIS Dec 5 (UP) Foreign capital estimated as high as 25000000000 francs ($1500000000 with the franc at 6 cents) is slowly being withdrawn to England Holland and Switzerland mainly because of budget uncertainty the United Press learned today It is estimated that the Bank of France will announce on Thursday a reduction of 700000000 francs in gold reserves the thirteenth successive decrease The continued loss of gold was attributed largely to the repatriation of foreign capital Bankers expressed belief that a speedy vote by the finance commission on the revision of the financial and economic project would exercise a favorable psychological influence check withdrawals Bankers admitted that purchases of gold by the-Reconstruction Finance corporation of the United States might accpunt for a small part of the gold loss but termed the major part the result of psychological awd technical factors Foremost of the psychological factors is the budget difficulty Another is the fear of possible German attack The latter has grown since Germany withdrew from the league of nations and the disarmamhnt conference Heading the list of technical factors has been the normal functioning of the gold standard-permlt-ting withdrawal of considerable gold to Holland and Switzerland The Dutch florin and Swiss franc recently ave been firtn in comparison with the French franc This has made it profitable to cohvert these currencies into French francs which- could be presented for gold at the Bank of Franco Th gold subsequently was withdrawn from France necessary In the constitution drawn up by that convention which its members had lievedLto be a good Job and Insull Faces Government Request To Leave Greece by December 31 Literary Rebel Claims Distinction Of Being First to Take Legal Drink (Continued on Page Six) Column One) the Gang's All Will Rogers Says: into Here God" said Decassere three times over as he set down his glass "This is second Fourth of July On the first Fourth of Jujy we broke- from the old lady This time in tribute-to the old lady I drank Scotch and soda the choicest product of the British (Br Associated Press) DOMESTIC SALT LAKE National prohibition- repealed by Utah's ratification at 5:32:30 (eastern standard time) R-osevelt in rep0 si proclamation asks state? not to bring back saloon and individuals to promote temperance NEW YORK Broadway throngs toast as police Start drive to close speakeasies WASHINGTON Treasury pushes plans for mid-December borrowing about 2 per cent interest indicated House sub committee strikes at large incomes in recommending revenue changes to bring added $237-000000 FOREIGN ATHENS Government reported ready to ask Samuel Instill to leave Greece when permit expires December 31 BATHURST Gambia Pros- £ects of breeze raise hopes of indberghs eagAr to start flight to Brazil MONTEVIDEO opposes discussion of -private debt moratorium at Pan-Ameri-CAfl conference ceived their licenses In time and some decided not to open until tomorrow as their closing hour under state regulations is 8 As a result there were private parties drinking to repeal in illegally purchased but licensed restaurants and clubs reported a supply of whiskies and wines adequate for their first thirst Supplies of liquor moved into the city by train and by boat One dealer estimated there were abou1 15000000 gallons of aged domestic wines in the city at present but that the supply would not last until Christmas Meanwhile travelers returning from Europe Bermuda or Cuba weye permitted for the first time since prohibition became effective to first on Ar- NEW YORK Dec 5 Just two and one-half seconds alter prohibition was repealed by the action of the Utah state convention tonight Benjamin Decasseres literary rebel and bon vivant gurgled a Scotch highball publicly in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel By doing so he believed he had clinched the honor of being the first man to take a legal drink after prohibitionVas repealed All afternoon long Decasseres had stood beside a United Press wire in the Waldorf-Astoria waiting for the flash from Salt Lake Hfe had found it a long patience-trying wait Suddenly the word came BEVERLY HILLS' CaL Dec about the The experiment is just starting Every state is In doubt as to how their liquqr wtU biKhandled Say not how the state will handle-its liquor how the folks WlR handle theirs States are going to have' iscandal over the sale ofJt and politicians will fight over the taxes ofit But anyhow the first week will be the hardest Yours ATHENS Dec UPr-U learned reliably tonight that the Greek government will request Samuel Insull former Chicago utilities magnate to leave Greece at the expiration of his police permit December 81 1933 Insull it was explained has no passport The government was said to be-prepared to furnish a laissez passer for any country which Insull desires to en'er from Greece This action would be the result of the Greek government's decision -to do all possible to avoid disturbing friendly relations with the Unitjd States which has made repeated representations desiring his extradition to face criminal charges in Chicago in connection with the bankruptcy of utilities concern -A member of the Greek senate deposited with that body today an in- wasterpellation asking the Greek government what it had decided about In return The senator said he believed it was necessary to forbid Insull to remain further in Greece because of -misunderstanding which might lessen the friendliness of Greco-American relations There were other indications In-sull's refuge in Greece was becoming insecure Foreign Minister Max-imos told the Associated Press the government would pot deny any legal measures facilitating the return of the 73-year-old former utilities king The minister pointed out however the government wax unable to turn Insull directly over to the United States after Greek courts had twice 'denied- Hie- extradition in extended trials based on provisions of the new ly arranged extradition treaty CHICAGO Dec 5 Beverly West little sister of Mae West tonight indignantly claimed she really was the first person in America to toss off a legal drink after the repeal of prohibition Decassees Benjamin Decasseres or whatever his name" is have Decasseres: elbow crooked and off his drink any faster than BANK ROBBED OF S1000 SPRAGUE Wash Dec 5 The First National bank was held up today by two men who escaped with I his customs declaration went to bring in-bottles of liquor The distinction of being the man to enter alcoholic beverages 1 protested the flaxen-hair sister at the-sirenish Mao "The re peal flash came and bingot down wept my highball glass rose to his lips i drank- deeply I An assemblage of friends photog-Iraphers and newspaper men broke $1000 in currency bank officials esti-jthur Ernstthal He Tried home two ibottles pf brandy from Bermuda A.