Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-08-31 | Page 3 | Three-One Wet Majority Cast by Three-Fifths U. S. Population Held Significant

Three-One Three Wet Majority Cast by Three-Fifths Three U U. U S S. S Pop pp- Population Held Significant By JOHN F. F CHESTER Associated Press Staff Writer W WASHINGTON ASHING TON Aug 31 A 31 A clear- clear cut possibility that the eighteenth amen amendment ent could b be voted void within within with with- in the next ten weeks emerged today from rom the three thre one ne repeal majority cast by voters representing g nearly three fifths of ot the nations nation's population tion The The heavy recording of Washington Washing ton as fourth the twenty fourth state to ballot ballotin in tavor In-tavor favor of the twenty-first twenty or repealing repealing repealing repeal repeal- ing amendment carried the surge across two thirds of the distance to its goal At least 15 or more stat states will vote before November 8 providing a-provIding a minImum minimum min of three more than necessary for repeal should repeal should the the- uninterrupted procession of the first 24 be contin contin- New England became the focal point of national wet wel and dry interest today today to to- day as Vermont and Maine sharpened pencils for tor early S September balloting They were the first of seven cven states to vote within the next three weeks WOULD BE REPEALED Should 12 of the 15 states sure to vote before the e eighth of November follow the line of or the first 24 the prohibition tion amendment would be formally for for- mall mally abolished on December 5 or 6 Three ratifying conventions meet on December 5 and two more on the thc sixth Statisticians adding up and analyzing I ing ins the vote thus far figured today that although only halt half the states had balloted more than of the nations nation's population lived within their borders on the basis of the 1930 census The popular vote in the 24 recorded states stands in round numbers at 9 9 in favor of ot repeal to against aga These figures of course c urse do donot donot donot I not Include the recording in Nevada and Wyoming where delegates were elected by mass meetings and county conventions o On the basis of present voting dates all but nine states holding of the nations nation's population will have balloted by November 8 These nine Include Kansas and nd Louisiana I SPECIAL SESSION Governor Landon has called a special special special cial session of the Kansas legislature I to meet in September and probably a voting day will be set during the present year Governor O. O K Allen of pf Louisiana ana has stated he also would call caU a special session Should both these states vote this year only about of the population would not have been given an opportunity to ballot on repeal during this period Here are the election days already established during the next ten weeks Vermont September 5 Maine Sep Sep- 11 Colorado Maryland and Minnesota October 3 Florida October October October Octo Octo- ber 10 North and South Carolina Ohio Pennsylvania Utah and Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky tentative November 7 7