Show Plan Worked Out to t Settle Dispute Over Effective Date if Repeal Carries es D Br Associated Pre e. e O W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Sept 29 Justice 29 department officials have worked out outa a 3 plan which they believe would remove remove re re- move the last lingering doubt as 35 to when if prohibition Is repealed the thelast thelast thelast last moment of the dry era cra will wm ar sr rive In spite of a supreme court deer decision deci decision sion to the contrary some have insIsted in insisted insisted in in- that regardless of when the thirty sixth state stale ratifies the twenty twenty- first amendment repealing the eighteenth eight eight- amendment the dry laws will remain effective until the formal prod proe- of the secretary of state is Issued Under the justice departments department's scheme the proclamation would be given the same date as that of the thirty sixth states state's ratification If Ie this his plan use and is used and a final decision has las yet to be made officials made officials say there would be no doubt that prosecutions brought for violations after the thirty thirty- sixth ratification would not stand in inthe inthe the courts However most officials of oL the the dc de department p and eminent constitutional lawyers in private practice here as aswell aswell aswell well believe there can be no no question but that the twenty first amendment will become operative as soon as ratified rat rati lied fied fed regardless of the proclamation This group roup is firmly convinced that should the question as to when prohibition prohibition pro pro- repeal took effect reach the supreme court it will rule rul that all laws enacted by c congress to enor enforce e ethe the prohibition amendment ceased sed to operate when the thirty sixth state lawfully ratified the twenty first amendment In the decision referred to b by the lawyers the lawyers the case of ex parte Dillon DUlon- the s supreme preme court in approving the action of a n trial court pointed out that the ratification of the eighteenth amendment was consummated January January Jan Jan- uary 16 1919 when the thirty-sixth thirty I state ratified It added that the fact the secretary of state did not proclaim I its ratification until January 29 1919 was not material |