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Show oo Elihu Root Asks Judge to Declare Dry Law Invalid , NEW YORK. April 24. EHhu Root senior counsel for the Unfted SU!ca Brewers' association, today asked Federal Fed-eral Judge a N. Hand to declare un. constitutional the wartime prohibition law, enacted, he said, ' under fals pretense as every man and vronan knows." The measure was designed, he aJ serted. not to aid in carrying on the' war, but to bring about a state of prohibition pro-hibition before the date fixed by congress con-gress In the prohibition amendment. The former secretary of state raadu the final argument for the brewers in j ' opposition to the government's motion to dismiss the complaint in the test suit brought by the Jacob Hoffmann Brewing company to restrain the fed-3 eral authorities from interfering with the production of beer of 2 per cent j I alcoholic content. Mr Root based his argument fori i the injunction on the words of the I statute forbidding the manufacture af-i ter pril 30 and the sale after June 30 of "beer, wine and other intoxicat-i intoxicat-i ing malt or vinous liquors for bever-j age purposes," holding the prohibition i stood only as against intoxicating! liquors in which class the brewers wri re read) to show on trial, he said,! that the Z brew was not included oo |