AMERICAN PROHIBITION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 9

AMERICAN PROHIBITION

A NEWSPAPER POLL INTERESTING FIGURES NEW YORK, May 15. The newspaper Literary Digest’s poll of 4,562,761 votes disclosed that there were 1,386,216 for the enforcement of prohibition, 1,340,441 for modification and 1,836,104 for repeal. Louisians, Nevada, Connecticut, New Jersey and Rhode Island cast a majority for repeal. Arkansas, Kansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee cast a majority for enforcement. SENATOR MORROW’S SPEECH A POLITICAL SENSATION Received May 16, 8.40 p.m. NEW YORK, May 16. A message from Newark, New Jersey states that Senator D. W. Morrow delegate to the London conference, created a political sensation to-night in launching his campaign for nomination to tho United States Senate. He asked for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and the reversion of liquor control to individual States, substituting a constitutional amendment vesting power in the Federal Government “to give all possible protection and assistance to these •States that desire complete prohibition against invasion from States that do not.”