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Show CALIFORNIA IS NOT SO WET AS FIRST CLAIMED Sections Favoring Prohibition Prohibi-tion Enforcement Still to Report SAN FRANCISCO. Nov 10. Belat- ed returns straggling in from Isolated Isolat-ed "dry" outposts ln the state today !vcro threatening to overcome the dwindling lend against tho federal prohibition enforcement amendment, voted on In Tuesday's election Earl figures had favored 8 'wet" victory 1 but about one four'h of the state yet to report. Including sections which are known to favor prohibition, there was much speculation as to whether final ; return) would enable proponen's of the mi asuro to overcome the 23.94l' margin held by the wets on the latest tabulation. u i:ts srifd, ARE n. Reports from 6 O65 precincts out of 6,681 ln the state gave 323,816 votes In favor of making the lSth amendment' to tho federal constitution and the Volstead act statute law of the state,, and 347.7 61 against tho measure. Of the 68 counties, 24 already are on the dry sldo of the tabulating j sheet. The race has simmered down to a-I a-I contest between the wet counties and the drv strongholds of the state. REFUSE TO ARREST-. S AUG US. Mass.. Nov. 10. The Sau-gus Sau-gus police Thursday refused to confiscate confis-cate a still found In an automobile whoso occupants they had arrested onj charges of operating the machine without proper registration, giving as. their reason tho defeat of the refer-j endum on stato enforcement of the. olstcad act at the election Tuesday. j |