Show ROOT SAYS DRY 1 AM AMENDMENT is VOID W WASHINGTON March 29 Only twenty four states t tes have actually Y ra rathe ratified the na national prohibition amendment I Root oot contended In in a a. brief brief filed in inthe the supreme court for Christian elgen pan apan New Jersey brewer attacking the validity of ot constitutional onal prohibition As thirty six ratifications are necessary ary Root holds the amendment di is void He I dive state legislatures admitted forty forty rive state legislatures have ratified but asserts the question in one twenty of ot them must be submitted to a a. referendum according to the state constitutions c He enumerated these states as follows South Dakota Nevada Montana 1 Ore Ore- ion gon Oklahoma Maine Missouri Igan rigan l an Arkansas Colorado Arizona New Mexico Ohio California Nebraska Washington North Dakota M Mississippi I Maryland nd Utah and Massachusetts |