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Show MANY STATES TO BE DRY AFTER REPEAL sourl, Nebraska, New Hampshire. North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio. Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah. Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. Vir-ginia. Of these the following have constitutional con-stitutional prohibition: Idaho, Kansas, Kan-sas, ' Kentucky, Maine, Nebraska. Ohio, . Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. Florida and Wyoming have constitutional con-stitutional prohibition alone. Among the states which have statutory prohibition alone no plans for special sessions to act on the statutes have been reported from Alabama, Arkansas. Georgia, Mis sissippi. North Carolina, Tennessee or Vermont. Three More May Get In. The legislatures will meet this fall, however, In Iowa. Michiga and Minnesota, which leaves the way open to adding these states to the list which might have liquor coincident with federal repeal. Also, a special legislative commit tee is considering a control law In Massachusetts, a commission Is studying a control plan In Missouri, and a liquor control commission has been named In Virginia, which recently re-cently voted both for repeal of the Eighteenth amendment and of the state prohibition law. The states most likely to trail the repeal parade -onto actually wet grounds are the 11 which have both statutory and constitutional prohibition prohibi-tion and the two which have only constitutional prohibition. The latter, Florida and Wyoming, are definitely out of the liquor group for more than a year. State Laws Restrict Flow in Half of Them. Washington. Repeal of national prohibition on December 6 is now a foregone conclusion, but a review of the situation Indicates that only about half the states will have liquor this year and in some the wet flood may be sharply restricted by local option. There are 19 states which either never had prohibition by Constltu tion or statute or which have cleared their books of such , prohibition. These will have liquor as soon as federal prohibition is repealed and although , only 10 of them have so far passed control laws It Is assumed as-sumed the others will quickly do so la order to start the flow of license li-cense fees Into the state coffers. Six of these ten states specifically provide for local prohibition where desired. Of the 20 other states, 27 still have! statutory prohibition and of these 27 there are 11 which also have constitutional prohibition. Two of the. 29 have constitutional prohibition pro-hibition only. In only a few of these 29 states have arrangements been made which might clear the way for liquor by the date of federal repeal. re-peal. Nineteen "Wet" States. The 19 states where repeal Is effective ef-fective at once are Arizona, Call fornla, Colorado, Connecticut, Dela ware, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana. Maryland, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico,. New York. Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island Washington . and Wisconsin. Wet organizations here Include Indiana In the above list with the notation that although It repealed Its prohibi tlon enforcement act some doubt exists as to whether a prohibition statute is still effective. States which have statutory prohibition pro-hibition are Alabama, Arkansas. Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Ken tucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mich-igan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mis- |