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Show THREE LIOUOR SUITS. NEW YORK. Nov 6 Arguments or. three suits by liquor interests to prevent enforcement of wartime prchi , bit ion began today before Judge Hand in the United States district conn J Elihu Root and William D Guthrie , appeared as counsel for Jacob Rup-Ipert, Rup-Ipert, a brewer, to ask that brewinc of 2.75 per cent beer be permitted until un-til a linal decision is rendered as ta ithe constitutionality of the wartime ! prohibition act and the Volstead en- forcenient act. Wralter C. Noyes argued for an order directing the local collector of internal revenue to permit DryfOOS; Blum and company to withdraw from bonded warehouses 474 packages of distilled i spirits, including fifty barrels nt ' whiskey and twelve of brandy In another proceeding Jude Hand was asked lo set aside an order to the United States marshal to abate a public pub-lic nuisance ail. -, (, . maintained , by the Eastern Hotel corporation. I Mr oes argued that, the wartime' prohibition act may have been con : constitutional when adopted, but claimed It was not valid when the icollector refused his clients premls- j Ifion to Withdraw liquor trom bond no |