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Show SPECIAL LIQUOR COURT PUNNED, ' V I U. S. Will Force States to Help Dispose of Many Thousand Cases CHICAGO, March 17. A special 'liquor court for the trial of thousand-' or rases that ore now cluttering th dockets of federal and state courts ! was beintr planned today t State's I Attorney Robert K Crowe. This action I followed th request of local federal officials Thursday that th Mat.' lak. Jurisdiction In some 3000 cases pending i In federal courts. ' The request for th transfer of tne 'cases was made by United Slate Dls- trlct Attorney '"barbs Clyn and It l believed here that the move was part of a nationwide plan fnlicd States Attorney At-torney General DaUghAfiy has recently made It clear that he wanted sLato courts to handle their share of liquor prosecutions and that there was n.. In tentlon that such cases be under federal fed-eral Jurisdiction. |