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Show ,j Decision Of Judge Clark Is Reversed High Court's Decision Rejects Every Argument Argu-ment Advanced Against Manner of Adoption of Dry Law Amendment. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (UP) The United States supreme su-preme court today upheld the validity of the prohibition amendment. It reversed the decision of Judge Clark of the United Siates district court of New Jersey, in which Clark held that the 18th amendment was invalid because the method of its adoption was not in accordance with the constitution. Roberts Reads Decision ' C Associate Judge Owen J. Roberts, who has served on the court only a few months, read the court's decision. de-cision. He was emphatic In, rejecting every argument upon which the attack on prohibition was based. ' Justice Roberts started reading the decision immediately upon the ; convening of tho court, after a three weeks' recess, at noon today. The justice, adjusting his eye glasses, delivered the opinion, largely from memory, addressing the crowded little courtroom in tho Capitol building. Justice Roberts announced the reversal re-versal of Clark's decision by a united unit-ed bench of eight members of the highest court irv'thc land. Chief Justice Hughes did not sit in the case. Congrena, the court ruled, has gole discretion as to whether a constitutional con-stitutional amendment is to be ratified rati-fied by state conventions 01 legislatures. legis-latures. Tho point at issuo was thfc contention that ratification of the 18th amendment by state legislatures legisla-tures instead of by constitutiona onvention was improper. |