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“Made Baby Boy Drunk, Gets 3 Months in Jail,” The Globe and Mail. December 29, 1938. Page 01. ---- Chatham, Dec. 28 (Special). - A 29-months-old baby boy was given wine in such quantities as to make him intoxicated, according to evidence given today at the trial of Harry Davis, 26, of Chatham, and Wilfrid Sloane, 43, of R. R. No. 3., Tilbury, who were each sentenced to three months in jail on a charge of having liquor in other than a private dwelling. Magistrate Arnold and others in the court room listened in shocked silence as Louis Ritzer, boarding-house proprietor, told of entering his kitchen and finding his baby stumbling around the floor, drunk, and Davis and Sloane in the same room, intoxicated. Another witness told of remonstrating with Davis when he gave the child win, but his protests failed to make any impression. ‘You ought to be sent to prison for six months at least,’ declared Magistrate Arnold. ‘I regret that the section of the Liquor Control Act under which you are charged does not permit of a longer term.’ The men pleaded not guilty and denied having given the child wine. They obtained lodging in Ritzer’s boarding-house, where the use of the kitchen is given boarders.

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“Fears ‘Liquor Bliztkrieg’ In Store For Manitoulin Island,” Toronto Star. May 11, 1940. Page 02. ---- Irwin Questions Hepburn Statement Regarding Appeal Postponement --- IN PRIVY COUNCIL --- Rev. A. J. Irwin, general secretary of the Ontario Temperance Federation, today asked whether a Hepburn liquor ‘blitzkrieg’ was in store for Manitoulin Island. In a formal statement, he declared he understood no adjournment of the privy council hearing on the Canada Temperance Act appeal was contemplated in direct contradiction of recent reported statements of Premier Hepburn. Dr. Irwin’s statement follows:

‘The morning press of May 9 carried a statement attributed to Premier Hepburn and Attorney-General Conant jointly, regarding the government’s appeal to the privy council from the Ontario supreme court’s judgement on the Canada Temperance Act.

‘The statement in part was as follows: ‘On intimation by the lords of the privy council that proceedings should be stayed until after the war, the Ontario government has cancelled arrangements to present argument, etc.’ On May 10, the same paper quoted Mr. Hepburn as saying that the hearing had been adjourned.

‘A cable received this morning from the legal representative in London of the Ontario Temperance Federation and the county federations concerned states: ‘No indication given by privy council regarding adjournment.’

‘It would be interesting to know the exact basis of the premier's statement.

‘The statement of May 9 was followed on May 10 by an announcement in the same paper from Premier Hepburn that the Liquor Control Act would be enforced in the Canada Temperance Act areas. The L.C.A. gives the liquor board authority to do well nigh everything it chooses.

‘Does this intimation regarding enforcement of the L.C.A. foreshadow a liquor blitzkrieg, which will plant liquor stores, etc., in Manitoulin, which so far has had no legal liquor sale?’

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“Hamilton News – Mother Sentenced,” The Globe and Mail. November 9, 1938. ---- Mrs. Mary Williams, Cannon Street West, mother of three small children, was sent to Mercer reformatory for six months by Magistrate H. A. Burbidge in liquor court today for selling beer to Indians. She was charged under the Indian Act by Constable David Mason of the R.C.M.P. Constables Boecker and Preston of the local morality squad testified against the woman. Accused, who wept during the hearing, admitted a record of six convictions from 1931 to 1937.