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Show SEEK RELEASE OF $75,000,000 WARTIME LIQUOR LOUISVILLE, Ky Oct. 27 Attorneys Attor-neys for national liquor Interests wore in Louisville today for the Becond step m a contest Inaugurated October 1" in federal COUrl her.' lo teal constitutionality constitu-tionality oj wartime prohibition law and eventually obtain tho release for sale of 7000,000 gallons of whiskey In bond valued at approximately 75,- MIKI. 111)0 The SkJmlsh today contemplated arguments ar-guments on a motion for an injunction against Elwood Hamilton, collector Ot internal revenue for Kentucky, which would restrain him from Interfering with removal of the whisky in Ken- ! tucky warehouses. The motion questions the authority of congress to prevent the sade of dis-tilled dis-tilled spirits manufactured long before th i'nited Slates entered the war and is based largely on the. fifth amend- I ment to the constitution which prohibits prohib-its confiscation of private property without compt ii-atioo. |