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Show ASSAIL THE DRY AMENDMENT Suit Brought by Rhode Island Opposed by Twenty-one States. 'Washington. Twenty-one states joined with the federal government on March 1 in asking the supreme court to dismiss the suit brought by P.liude Island to test the validity of the fed-" eral prohibition amendment. Dismissal of the suit was opposed in another brief presented by Attorney General Herbert A. Bice of Khode Island, who asserted that the government's govern-ment's view that the amendment is "unassailable," could "only lead to anarchy an-archy and oppression." |