Show DISMISSAl ASKED I IN DRY TEST IESI SUIT one Twenty States Join Federal Government in Request Washington Washing March 1 Twenty one states slates joined with the federal government gov gO gov- gov today in asking asking- tho the supreme court to dismiss the suit brou brought ht b by Rhode c Island to test the validity of or orthe the federal prohibition amendment Subscribing to a brief filed by Charles C. C Hughes with the courts court s permission and which asked askeLl dismissal dis dis- missal of 01 tho case on the grounds that no rio justiciable question were Involved In were Delaware North Carolina Kentuck Kentucky Ken Icon tuck tricky tucky Louisiana Indiana Alabama Maine Arkansas Michigan Florida Oregon 1 Kansas West Wert Virginia Nevada Nebraska Montana North Da Dakota ota South Dakota Wyoming Utah and Arizona Dismissal of or the suit was opposed In another brief brIer presented by Attorney General H Herbert A A. A Rico flee of or Rhode I Island Islan who asserted that the tho governments government's govern to ments ment's view that the amendment la is could on only I lead to anarchy v and oppression Another development In tho the proceedings proceed proceed- ings was indefinitely postponed b by permission of or tho court of or arguments to have ha been heard next net Monday to permit appeals front from Kentucky and Massachusetts Involving hl the tho amendments amend amend- ments validity to bo be heard Assistant Attorney General Frierson indicated tonight arguments might be heard March 1 15 l. In permission to m file the brief Mr Ir Hughes told the court that hat that I officials of ot nineteen of ot tho the twenty one states had communicated with him directly relative to opposing tho the suit while the Iho governors governor of oC tIre the other two Nevada evada and Kansas had given n him authority to Include them thorn Rhode Island Mr II Hughes said In his hb brief does docs not bring its Us bill of ot complaint to enforce an any property right or un any uny interest of ot tho the state which winch can cnn bo regarded as the the- proper ct oT or- judicial consideration If It court may consider tho the question when an nn amendment not expressly prohibited b by the constitution can cnn validly be adopted it Is submitted that there thero l I is nothing In tho thu nature of the eighteenth amendment which it to the tho charge of ot invalidity in |