Show T DEALS DEATH BLOW i iTO TO 10 HOPES OF WETS SUPREME COUR T COUR UPHOLDS THE RIGHTS OF CO CONGRESS GRESS TO DEFINE DE FINE INTOXICATING NG LIQUORS Sustains the Prohibition Prohibition Enforcement Enforcement En En- Act Prohibiting Manu- Manu f of Beverages ContainIng ContainIng Containing Contain- Contain Ing Alcohol Washington ll By By 1 i a margin of one vote Tote the tile supreme court on January 5 upheld the right of congress to define Intoxicating liquors In III so flO far fm as applied ap up- plied to wartime prohibition In ix n to four opinion rendered by Associate Justice Brandeis the tile court the constitutionality of c provisions provisions pro pro- visions In lii the prohibition enforcement enforcement enforcement en en- act prohibiting the manufacture manu facture and sale of ern be beverage e containing contain log ing half half ne-half of one per cent or 01 more of or alcohol Associate ti lusti Justice e Day and anti Clarke dl dissented Validity of the tile federal prohibition constitutional amendment und and nd of portions portions por por- of the act affecting Its enforcement was not nut Involved In the proceedings huilt the opinion n wits was regarded regarded regarded re re- as so 50 o sweeping as mr to leave little little lit lit- littie tle tie hope among wet adherents counsel for fOI forthe Wayne B. B Wheeler general the tile Saloon Anti-Saloon League Iague of America hailed it as a sweeping s victory Ictor and andIn andIn In a a statement Monday sal said tile the only prohibition question left pp open n by the court now Is whether the e I Is of n a nit lat can L be bec e c c a a fe federaL ral I and whether it was properly It a d. d In returning the opinion the cour su sustained federal court decrees missing injunction proceedings to enJoin enjoin en- en Join loIn federal authorities from preventing preventIng prevent prevent- ing Jacob huppert a n New ew 1 York brewer brew brew- er from manufacturing beer bEel contain contain- i Irig h g In Ip excess of one-half one of oZ percent per percent percent cent but which he lie alleged was non- non Intoxicating |