Show I DELEGATES SUDDENLY CHANGE HANGE C PLANS PLANS' AND VOTE RATIFICATION Prohibitions Prohibition's Death Will Usher Ushe In P Period of Liquor Experiments MANY QUESTIONS RAISED Federal Official Working on Future Plans By Associated Press ress WASHINGTON Dec 5 Tried 5 Tried al most 14 14 y years ars and ad judged d Van ting ng constitutional prohibition ends today and the American people face curiously curiously curi curio a new period of experimentation experiments tion on how to handle liquor The twenty first amendment takes effect automatically with the Utah vote terminating g federal prohibition policing expected to protect dry states state and leaving the states stales to deal as they Isee see fit with strong drink ant difficulties This reverse in national policy was dictated by a majority approaching ten n million of more than twenty million mil mu- lion ion votes cast since congress submitted submit submit- ted ed the question last February Thir ty-nine ty states with 88 per cent of the population have voted Only Two Stay Dry Dry- Only two stood by the amendment about which such dispute has swirled iw in later despite the high hope held when all the states except Rho c Island New Jersey and ratified It The two weri U the Caro- Caro Unas But that th t today was history something some some- thing hing for the thc chroniclers along with Ithe the many fabulous features of the dry years ears Immediate interest centered In n those three routine conventions In the presidents president's proclamation that thai means tax relief relict January 1 in Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington and state regulatory planning and and after that Just as the almost unanimous approval approval ap ap- ap of the eighteenth ei amendment did jid not settle the matter once and andor for Cor or all neither does docs the action on its rejection signal an end Controversy Controversy now will crackle into open argument when the senate and house return to work on liquor taxes and attempt to get set a amodel a amodel model control law for the District of Columbia Variations of the arguments arguments ments will rebound in flung far legislative legis legis- halls There seems to be agreement on but jut one thing thins now There is no rio telling tell- tell ins ing ng what will happen A feeling be be- tween bewilderment and expectancy Is s abroad a wonder just what doer docs repeal mean Will Vill dire dry predictions predictions lons materialize Will rosy wet visions be fulfilled Is the speak speakeasy to o go o Will drinking drinkin be more or less Cashion fashionable able Will the saloon return by bv jy another name Whatever the uncertainties those who vho voted left leet no doubt where they stood tood three Thirty states before beCore toda tolay to to- da lay day had no notified the state department depart depart- nent ment of ot repeal triumphs Texas only yesterday Dry ry Strongholds Fall Prohibition strongholds in New England England En En- gland land gland south and west gave way before belore be- be lore fore ore advances so mill mill- tant ant as to recall crusades against al al- coh beverages dating datIn well back Into nto the last century Now the or- or drys are reshaping their lines ines and say the combat will go on OR Wet Vet organizations in some instances are re disbanding Utah so long considered Impregnable jable for the drys made it a n point to pave lave ave its convention b be the thirty thirty- sixth and decisive one Pennsylvania and Ohio ratified I uc day ac according to schedule William Phillips as acting secretary secre- secre tary ary of s c had sent along word to officials in all three that thata a quick message e to him would be welcomed In n ord order r to speed the rep repeal al procla procla- mation nation Attorney General Cummings Cummings Cummings' Cum Cum- ruling was that reneal tooker feet Ceet the t c moment the thirty sixth con con- convention on wound up its business but fast ast work on the message is wanted Continued on nn Pw 1 Two IRE REPEAL PEAL BRINGS IN EXPERIMENTS Many Questions Are Raised as U. 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S Prohibition Goes Coes in Discard Continued from Pus Pan One to o make repeat repeal the more regular by y proclamation Maine Acts Act Wednesday W When the Maine convention acts to tomorrow morrow it will be the thirty-seventh thirty to o approve repeal States which have not yet had a D vote voto on th the issue are Geor Gear il gia ia Kansas LOul Louisiana an Mississippi i Montana Nebraska North Dakota Oklahoma and South Dakota Latest compilations show votes otes have been cast with favoring repeal and against It must bo be remembered red however that at these votes were not on the wet wet- dry ry controversy as such but only on retention of ot the federal constitutional amendment Even with wilh rep repeal al the majority of oZ the tales are listed as u dry ry This situation has hu been beers changing as state administrations and tures ures get around to the question Twenty-three Twenty now or within a short time ime probably will allow liquor with witha a variety of methods set up to license lic e and nd otherwise control sales States are watching to see what success a attends tends tho iho various ventures Adopt Code Control The Roosevelt administration meanwhile after alter strenuous repeal ef orts forts forts has committed Itself to the principle prin prin- ciple of federal control by means of codes odes under the agricultural adjustment adjustment adjust adjust- ment act net Administration lieutenants lieutenant have given the distilling and related Indus Indes tries ries far lc less leeway than optimists In n their ranks Tanks had hoped for for and and andave have ave given the impression that th there re will be no important relaxations It was task to get ready eady a report on the tho tax situation In n general and liquor taxes in par for forwarding next month to toa toa a congress whose committees this week resumed work on the problem About the tho busiest of ot the many busy bwy places in the city was the office of oi Joseph oseph H. H Choate Jr commander of ot the ic f federal eral alcohol control adminis ration who found himself appoInted appoint- appoint ed d to that responsible job with re- re eal right on ott to top of ot him and has hIlS the task ask of cramming Into a few days organization work that ordinarily would tako take many We Wa Will be Read Ready His word was we will be ready however as he bustled from a conference con ference with the president having to todo todo todo do with the secret import allotments which have raised such curiosity and concern among beverage exporting nations Officials expressed no worry over the he dry drys' drys effort la in Inthe the District of Co supreme supreme court to restrain the he secretary of ot state from proclaim in Ing ng repeal From the start they confidently con con- expected the court to throw it t out as based on insufficient grounds ground Prohibition agents who have been proceeding under the a act t henceforth with that act generally legally defunct will have to do only with guarding against liquor shipments ship ship- meats ments into states that forbid or ld them |