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Show iSALEOF LIGHT BEER I LEGALIZED BY JUDGE Court Holds State Laws Take " Precedence Over Federal j, Prohibition Act 1 jj , I MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 1 Man-ufacture Man-ufacture and sale of 2.5 beer in Wis- consln was legalized In a decision , jH handed down today by Federal Judge ; Geiger in the test case brought hy the . iiH Manitowoc Products company for aa j lH ir junction to halt enforcement of th'j 'H Volstead act. ( 11 By his decision Judge Geiger uphe'd .'H tho Mulbcrgor law thus assuming that 1 iH state prohibition laws take precedence , ever federal regulation. i The decision resulted from the filing of an injunction suit by the Manitowoc i iH Products' company, a consolidation of . three breweries at Manitowoc to rf i 'H strain enforcement of prohibition .eg- n jH islation insofar as It interferes with , II. Ihe manufacture of beer containing 2v I v, ' per cent alcohol. 1 1 It was claimed by counsel for the . company that congress acted illegal ( rH in limiting alcoholic content of liquor !' , which can be sold under the constitu- tional amendment to an amount of less than half of one per cent. It was also ( argued that the Mulberger law, permit- ting sale of 2 per cent beer in Wis- , fM consin has precedence over latter fed- j-1 ' IH oral limitations. 1' |