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Show sSis'Sll GB T0CUBA 39,000,000 Gallons to Be Shipped From j Kentucky Warehouses t Before January 16. Supplies Will Be Sold 1 Eventually in the Wet Countries of Europe j j and South America. j Ta'H'ISVTLLI:, Ky., Pec In. A way j out apparently has been found for distil dis-til Ws caught with lurg-e stocks of li-I li-I q.ur on hand by the supreme court's I decision holding wartinio prohibition constitution;:, j A plan was presented to distillers (here today by Keprcr-entati ves of steam- 'ship lines operating; out of Charleston, Brunswick, Jacksonville, Savannah and Wilmington to Cuba, South America and Europe. It contemplates immc diate shipment of liquor Mocks in Kentucky, Ken-tucky, p.-tim;i:rd at oi'.i ",0u0 gailnns, largely to Cuban or'? for Morale aiid subsequent resale in Cuba or shipment to other foreign eountri's. j TIjO freedom of southern ports from J ice, adequate storage facilities, pending pend-ing loading, their nearness to Cuba and the large number of steamship lines operating op-erating to the i-land were pointed to as evidence that railroads and the T'nitod States shipping board eon pern in g, t he whisky stocks could be moved before .January T!, tin; time limit the internal revenue department has placed on export ex-port shipments. The railronds are depended upon, according ac-cording tc ' plan presented today, to furnish cars necessa ry to move t lie wltiky to the seaboard and the ship-j ship-j ping board in expected to allocate suf- fieient ships, in addition to those ;il-I ;il-I ready in scr ice to Cuba, to load the j shipments before the time limit expires. U. S. SUPREME COURT ASKED TO DECLARE PROHIBITION VOID WASinXGTOX, Dec. 16. Permission to institute original proceeJimrs to have the ' national prohibition ametuluient declared uufons:ituti' cial and New Jersey and fed-j fed-j era I authorities enjoined from enforcing it y.hs asked of t ie supreme court today by the Kf-tail Liquor Dealers association I of New Jersey. This was the firr"t question as to the validity of the constitutional amendment to reach the supremo court. Jem-go W. Tucker of New York presented the motion mo-tion together with a printed brief pro-pared pro-pared by the- association, and the court will announce later nether permission to institute the suit will be grant.-,. In addition to enjoinitiL' enforcement (ConuiLea on r'ase 'J. Coi'-unn i t iVAST LIQUOR STOCKS WILL GO TO CUBA (Continued From Page One.) I of the eighteenth amendment, the association asso-ciation . also would ask an injunction 1 against enforcement of the Volstead prohibition pro-hibition enforcement act. Defendants named in the proceedings were the state of New Jersey, which refused re-fused to ratify the constitutional amendment, amend-ment, Attorney General Palmer, Joseph L. Bedine. United States attorney for New Jersey and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Rev-enue Daniel C. Roper. The association's brief alleged that tho constitutional amendment was an interference inter-ference with the state police powers, a violation of the fifth constitutional amend ment 'which prohibits the taking of private property without just compensation, compen-sation, ,that neither congress nor the state legislatures had authority to propose or ratify the amendment and that the amendment when passed by the house did not receive the support of two-thirds of the membership, as the constitution provides, but only of two-thirds of. the membership present. 4000 SALOONS IN CHICAGO TO CLOSE BY FIRST OF YEAR CHICAGO, Dec. 16. Attorney General Brundage of Illinois today announced that the Illinois search and seizure act, which prohibits transportation of the contraband alcoholic beverages, forbade carrying flasks upon the citizen's person, who could not, therefore, remove part of his private stock for Christmas and New Year's day celebrations to hotels or elsewhere else-where from h:s own home. The only .way liquor can be carried outside the 'no me without violating the law, according to.llr. Brundage, is within with-in the body. Four thousand of Chicago's five thousand saloons will close their doors or go Into other business on January Jan-uary 1, according to an estimate today by M. J. McCarthy, secretary of the Illinois Il-linois Liquor Dealers' Protective association. asso-ciation. "We really expected to see the saloons open up after the supreme court action," he said, "and the decision upholding up-holding wartime prohibition took the pep out of the owners." The statement of Levy Mayer, chief counsel for the liquor interests of tho middle-west that the "real fight had not begun" brought some cheer to the saloon sa-loon owners and distillery hands. "This decision is .iust a scratch on tho surface," he said. "The constitutionality of the eighteenth, or prohibition, amendment, amend-ment, will be attacked in a few days. None of the questions involved in the case just decided has any relation to or any bearing on tho momentous fight that will be made on the amendment. "That fight will involve fundamental, controlling and far-reaching q uestions that go to the very structure and formation forma-tion of our government." Report Unfavorable. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. An unfavorable unfavor-able report on the bill to repeal the war-tune war-tune prohibition law was ordered today by the house agriculture committee by ;i vote of Iti to 3. Representatives John T. Ralney, Democrat, Illinois, and Voigt, Wisconsin, and "Ward, Now York, Republicans, Re-publicans, cast the negative votes. Motions Granted. ST. LOUIS. Dec. It!. Motions to dissolve dis-solve the temporary injunction issued against the district attorney and collec- I tor of Internal revenue on December 5, restraining them from interfering with the sale of whisky were granted bv United States Judge Paris in court here today. City Votes Wet. NEYYBURYPORT, Mass., Dec. ir,,For tho first time in a decade this city went "wet" at The municipal election toda y. The vote on license was: Yes, 16.1 5; no, S.'i. Because of the coming of proh Ibi-tinr. Ibi-tinr. the vote will be without effect. All but two of the thirty-e'lght Massachusetts Massachu-setts cities have voted "yes" this year. |