Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1919 — JUDGES SUSTAIN U. S. PROHI ACT IN THREE CASES. [ARTICLE]

JUDGES SUSTAIN U. S. PROHI ACT IN THREE CASES.

New York, Nov. 14.—Three attempts to prevent enforcement of the wartime prohibition and enforcement acts failed in federal courts here today. Federal Judges Learned Hand, John C. Rose, of Baltimore, each in a different case, upheld the constitutionality of the law in denying petitions seeking injunctions to restrain interference in manufacture and withdrawal of liquor from bond. ' I Judge Hand denied a petition of Jacob Ruppert, brewer, who sought an injunction permitting him to resume the manufacture of beer of 2.75 alcoholic content. Judge Knox 'denied a petition to restrain William H. Edwards, collector of internal revenue, from preventing the release from bond of barrels of distilled spirits. The pe-

titioners were Dryfoos, Bloom & Co., wholesale liquor dealers, and the decision was handed down on passing on demurrers of two local saloonkeepers who sought to prevent enforcement of the act. The third decision by Judge Rose was on an application by the Maryland Distilling company for an injunction to prevent Joshua W. Miles, collector of internal revenue of Maryland, from interfering in the release of large quantities of whisky now in bond. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 14.- —Three more petitions for temporary injunctions restraining the government from interfering with the sale of tax-paid floor stock whisky were filed in Judge Walter Evans’ federal court here today. Early hearings were promised by the court on the petitions, which seek, to enable the companies to sell approximately 18,000 gallons of whisky.