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Show IN DT S0( EASY LIQUOR Agreement Between the Eu-l1x,-ne Willards to Split Cellar S'ork May Be Upset by Prohibition Laws I By Inurn.-itlonal ovvs Zcr tre) SKVf fORK. Eugene Sands vTIU ard. lawyer and member of the Union Racquet ami Tennis, New JTork Vacht ar.d Piping Rock clubs faCCa the sad prospect of losing his private liquor supply via 'he divorce courts dm- t'i the drastic provisions of the Volstead act. Mr. r:i;a Guthrie Willard, daugh-Ler daugh-Ler of William I . '"luthrie. has applied ap-plied to Justice Benedict rr an absolute abso-lute divorce from Mr Willard. and ttied as part ot the legal papers ani agreement between herself and her husband for a fifty -flft) division of (heir supplies of liquors foi beverage purposes. The agreement rpllowi The plaintiff iMr.v W'illard and the h iendant (Mr. Willard agree i" a"n equal division of the wines, llquort and cordials at Locust Valley, L. 1.. and at No 33 Park avenue, Manhattan. Manhat-tan. The plaintiff agrees to submit to the defendant a list of all wines. 1 1 llqiibris and cordials owned bj them, ; wherever situated. The defendant . vrees to assume all liability under I Lhc Volstead act for removal." At the legal department of the local prohibition enforcement office at the Custom House it was said that the circumstance indicated there was no way In which Mr. W'illard could trans-Port trans-Port the liquor from eltncr of the homes mentioned without violating I the enforcement act. The law would permit Mr. W'illard I ere he moving his own domicile from oie place to another, to apply i or S. permit for the transportation of liquors. but both ihe honies mentioned men-tioned are the propertv of Mrs. W'illard. W'il-lard. having been given to her bj bOf fgthpr Moreover. Willard has not been living at either Of the homes re-i re-i eiitly. He and his wife separated and ; In went to live elsewhere. Mi. W'illard did not defend thi divorce di-vorce a tlon A recommendailon ihat Mrs Willard receive an absolute dl-orc dl-orc has been made by a referee. |