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Show SOUTH VOTES FOR REPEAL IN 2 STATES Alabama, Arkansas Voters Favor Repeal Move By Three to Two By UMTKD PUKSS The drive to end America's 13-year experiment with national na-tional prohibition smashed into in-to the hitherto bone-dry south today, when Alabama and Arkansas added their sanctions to repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Eighteen states have now voted for repeal. Eighteen more are needed. Seventeen states have set lection dates for this year. Three more, watching the sweep of the anti-prohibition wave, have signified signi-fied their intentions to vote "if necessary to carry out the Democratic Demo-cratic administration's program." Alabama and Arkansas, on the basis of incomplete returns, abandoned aban-doned their traditional support of prohibition by a ratio of three to 1 wo. Tennessee Is Next Tennessee, also traditionally dry, votes on repeal tomorrow, and Oregon, 20th states to consider the constitutional change, goes to the polls Friday. Wet victories were reported likely. Fifteen more states have set elections before November 7. Montana, Mon-tana, leaving the question with its governor, has assured the administration admin-istration of a vote in December "if needed." The Utah legislature was considering consid-ering repeal elections, and the Virginia Vir-ginia legislature meets early in August for the same purpose. The Oklahoma legislature adjourned last week end after providing machinery ma-chinery for a sreciDl repeal election elec-tion to be called before or simultaneous simul-taneous with the July 1934 primaries. primar-ies. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 19 (U.R Alabama, long considered one ol the strongholds of the drys, joinec the procession of states approving repeal of the 18th amendment, tab ulalions of yesterday's election o repeal conventon delegates revealed reveal-ed today. Returns from 1.3G0 of the slate's 2,115 preencts give: For repeal- 93,829. Against repeal 53,729. |