Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-14 | Page 9 | Prohibitionists Marooned in Flood of Four to One Repeal Majority

Prohibitionists Marooned in Flood Of Four to One Repeal Majority Br tOy United Press BOSTON June 14 Massachusetts 14 became the eleventh state to ratify repeal of the prohibition amendment as complete returns from voting toda today showed the election of ot every repeal delegate by a statewide majority of more than four to one The dry rout even ex extended Into the supposed prohibition strongholds of the far western portion of the I commonwealth and the C Cape pe Cod area arca A three to to one vote for repeal repeal re re- re peal was recorded on the Cape in urban Boston th the vote for tor repeal was wasten ten len to one Complete returns from Use the states state's 39 cities and towns showed the following popular vote I For repeal A Against repeal A Drys had made no claims as to the extent of of Ute Use wet victory but it it- was a considerable disappointment to them Less than two score of the smallest communities of the state were estimated to have voted dry and nd the wet landslide was was presaged by the surprising blanket repeal vote of 14 in little New Ashford famed for reporting first in presidential elections The 45 wet delegates to the state repeal convention which Governor Joseph B. B Ely will call within a month were elected on the basis of of three from each of the commonwealths commonwealth's commonwealths commonwealth's common wealth's 15 congressional district t- t