Show PLA fl HT 66 WET WT RECESS Dry Forces Against Lifting of W Wartime arti e Prohibition but Hope of Success Is Slight jy Nev Nov G.-Au G. 6 An WASHINGTON W V effort to prevent the lift- lift I. I 1 1 ing g of of wartime prohibition before the constitutional a amendment becomes becomes becomes' be be- I comes comes' e effective e 1 is to be be ma made e by some dry do l leaders aders' leaders leaders' in ct congress congress but buti i I doubt is expressed whether the necessary sary legislation can be enacted before I the end of or the special session late I this month I Representative Randall Prohibitionist i California said today that I when the house took up the bill to toI extend the food control act for tor six I mon months after atter the proclamation of or peace he would offer otter an amendment continuing the wartime liquor act until January Januar 16 16 1920 when the country goes dry by constitutional amendment Opponents of such a move and some of the tho drys admitted that such a 0 proposal would be subject to defeat on parliamentary grounds I LEGAL BATTLE NEW NEV YORK Nov NO 6 6 Arguments G.-Arguments I on three suits by liquor interests to prevent enforcement of or wartime pro- pro i n began today before Judge I Hand in the United States State district court Ellhu Elihu Root and William F. F Guthrie appeared as counsel for Jacob Ruppert Ruppert Rup- Rup pert a brewer to ask that brewing of ot 2 75 per cent beer be permitted until a final decision is rendered as IlS asto j I to the constitutionality of ot the wartime prohibition act and the enforcement enforcement en en- I act Walter alter C. C Noyes argued for an order directing the local collector of or internal revenue to permit Dryfoos Blum mum Co to withdraw from bonded warehouses packages of or distilled spirits including fifty barrels of or orI whisky and tw twelve l e barrels of or brand brandy PUBLIC NUISANCE I In another proceeding Judge Hand was asked t to set aside an order to the United States marshal to abate a a. public nuisance alleged to be maintained maintained maintained main main- b by the Eastern Hotel cor cor- Mr Noyes Kores argued that the wartime prohibition act may have ha been constitutional constitutional con- con when adopted but claimed lit it t wa was not valid when the collector I refused his clients permission to I withdraw liquor from bond II III AS WET AS POSSIBLE 1 JERSEY CITY N. N J. J Nov 1 G.- G. 6 I Governor erect Governor Governor-e J Edward dward I. I Ed ards I announce that he would use all lawful methods to prevent prof prohibition prohibition pro pro- in New Jersey I f For its enforcement by the tho federal I government J I I shall not be bp responsible he said I r construe my ray election asan as asI asan an indication of or the feelings of ot the I people of or this state concerning national naI national na na- prohibition They are aro unqualifiedly unqualifiedly I it it I 0 opposed to I |