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Show WETS LEADING I IN PROHIBITION ! VOTEJN OHIO COLFMBl'S, O . Xov. 7 Actual returns re-turns reported to Secretary of State Smith from 64 out of $8 counties tod y still showed the wets leading on all four of the prohibition proposals submitted Tuesday to Ohio voters. Three returns however, are disputed. L. H Gibaon, iuanagM of the Ohio Home ltule association asso-ciation (the wet organization), conceding the loss of two of the proposals, and J . White, manager of the Anti-Saloon league forces, claiming the dry have irorj all four proposals. i 1 Statisticians in the office of the seo- retary of state predk t that ut least one of the proposals, the t'rabbe state prohl- J bitiort enforcement act. will be won hv j the wets and that the final result of I't'j ratification of the state legislature'! endorsement en-dorsement of the federal prohibition amendment will be close. The) Say the other two proposals, the repeal of Statewide State-wide prohibition and the 2 j beer pro- posals. will be defeated bv lh- drvs is tic- majorities are so small the) will be easily easi-ly overcome by the 21 counties et to report' most of which gave substantial dry majority a year ago. (Jibson concedes the- defeat by the 'lrv of the 2.75 beer proposal nnd also th proposal 1 0 defeat statewide prohibition. The wets, he said, won the Crnbhe pron'-bltton pron'-bltton ai I and the federal prohibition amendment. |