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Show PROHIBITION LAW OF ARIZONA IS UPHELD LOS ANGELES, CaJ.. Dec. 21. The Arizona prohibition law will go into effect ef-fect January 1. The special United Slates Iribunal from which injunctions were sought to prevent its enforcement refused to isnue such Injunctions in a hi'ief decision rendered today. Appeal to the United Slates supreme court will be Uiken at once. Immediately after the decision was rendered, ren-dered, attorneya for 1 he Rev. Thomas M. Come illy, a Catholic priest of Tucson, and for other oetitloners. made a motion lo stay the execution of Ihe law pending the outcome of the appeal to Ihe United Ma es supreme court. This motion was denied, thus clearing the way for the law lo become effective on the date sol, January Jan-uary 1. The decision contained less than a dozen sentences. H read: "We have listened lo the able arguments argu-ments in this case Willi care nnd attention, atten-tion, and would like lo review and discuss dis-cuss them fully, but time u-m no i, , In cases like this, where a, court is asked ,lo inlertere with a slate law, the evi -! ilenee, should he particularlv 'clear and convincing. This was not the rase in jthe present Instance, and the Intimations prayed for are therefore In each anv every rase denied." There wore four applications tor jn-jiuirii,,!,. jn-jiuirii,,!,. ,,(. wan filed bv the R,.v Mr i onnolly, who alleged that the prohibition prohibi-tion law iiilriiiticd upon ronstil ullnnal religious re-ligious lipids, In that it would prohlhit the importation nf wine for saciamenlal purposes. The others were filed bv dnis-'ists dnis-'ists anrl liquor dealers, who held that Die law was confisrntorv. In defense of the law r"presro i natives 1 of the statu declared that no court could rule tiiat it would Interfere with the use of wine In f.siahlished religious ceremonies. cere-monies. -. |