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‘Three More States Give Bone Dry. Majority 1 in N EIGHTH REPORT OF THE LITERARY DIGEST PROHIBITION POLL (From the Literary Digest for May 10, 1980) sible to provide water for hundreds of thousands of acres of land and the water would never be missed from the vast quantity in the Missouri riv- URGES STATE SOLVE a) NATE PROBLEM BY | TAPPING MISSOURI ekWinaltng Dean of University Favors Diversion ‘Into Devils Lake ~ ENFORCEMENT VOTE. | NOW EXCEEDS TOTAL FOR MODIFICATION Repeal Still Continues to Lead in Literary Digest Test of er. Morris Restricts Mutual Insurance State— Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut "+ Delaware District o Total or For ment Modification 15 7,604 a 1 Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois: Indiana Iowa . Kansas Kentuc! , . | Louisiana . & contingent liability upon the town- Nation’s Desires Harviaia One of tho wrying weeds oe cnn | ship, Attomey-General James Morris Michigan. = titi Teal eve jettcAl- | nas ruled in an opinjon to Marie M. 4,000,000 MARK IS PASSED) Minnesota ural and industrial development in| Kann, cashier of a Foxholm bank. 4000, Misslasippl North Dakota is an adequate water| The question is decided, Morris said, on the form of the policy Not the type of company issuing it ‘The determining Ht ets that township board may contingent lability against the = ship without a statute granting them express permission to do s0. Missouri’s June Rise Will Be Smaller Than Usual, Geologist Says Helena, bees May 9—()—W. A. supply and the obvious place to get it is the Missouri river, Dean E, F, Chandler, ofthe University or North Dakota'.college of engineering, told Missouri river diversion advocates at @ meeting here today. Citing records of the flow of North Dakota streams acquired by measure- voce over a Jong period of years, Dean Chandler said the average run off of water from the 70,700 square miles in North Dakota averages only about 3,000 cubic feet per second. Of the average rainfall recorded within Wet Showing Faintly Dimin- x ished; Kansas Heads Drys, | Connecticut Drips Carolina Dakota . Three more states vote bone-dry in ‘The Literary Digest’s main poll on prohibition, as the total vote tabu- lated passes the 4,000,000 mark, ac- cording to tomorrow's issue of the magazine. North Carolina, Oklahoma, and ‘Tennessee are the states which have Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Ixland South Carolin: South Dakota Tennessee . Texas Utah Vermont joined Kansas and Arkansas in vot-| WeSninet the state, only from a half inch to ing over 50 per cent for strict enforce- Me an inch finds its way into the streams, c : ment. Much of the water in the Red, Only three states, Connecticut, New Jersey and Rhode Island, have a ma- jority vote for repeal. Of the 4,150,017 votes in the eighth end current report of the major poll by the magazine, 1,248,589, or 30.09 per cent vote for enforcement; 1,231,849, or 29.68 per cent register for modification; and 1,669,579, or 40.23 per cent are for repeal. While there has been no marked change in the ratios of the three groups, it is noted that there is a general trend in the later reports to- ward a drier vote. For the first time since the poll started the vote for enforcement passes that for modification. Kansas continues to lead as the driest state in the poll and Connec- ticut also continues to head the wet column, Although there is no clear majority, Lousiana and New York each have a ‘vote of over 49 per cent for repeal. States For Enforcing Or Repeal Over 40 per cent of the vote in Ala- bama, Colorado, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Carolina, and Texas is for enforcement while in Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massa- chusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Mon- tana, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wiscon- sin, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia over 40 per cent of the bal- lots are registered for repeal. “The big poll continues to smash all records for returns,” Dr. William * Seaver Woods, editor-in-chief of The Literary Digest, states. “With over four million individual sentiments al- ready tallied in this huge undertak- ing and with hundreds of ‘thousands of votes yet untabulated, we feel that the poll must have a tremendous in- terest to the public. “We have been advised by 67 news- papers throughout the country that they are conducting local polls to check our returns in their own sec- tion. Where the check-up has been at all exhaustive we have been ad- vised that the newspaper returns vary but slightly from ours.” “Three more states go dry"in The Digest Poll,” The Literary Digest states editorially. “In other words they are more than 50 per cent bone- “This rally for prohibition, coupled with the fact that the vote for en- forcement has suddenly shot beyond the vote for modification, gives a stimulating interest to the eighth re- port. “As the repeal of the eighteenth ‘amendment would hinge upon the vote by states, and not upon a popu- lar plurality, the winning of three states for the bone-dry column is Rot to be sneezed at. “Against the fir f aridit mentioned above, only three of nd ACTUAL BUSINESS trainin wet states show clear majorities of | (copyrighted—at Dakota Bees more than 50 per cent for repeal. ieee only) turns out winners. ‘These are Connecticut, New Jersey, | W.G. Olson recently became Ford @nd Rhode Island. agent, Battle Creek, Minn.; G. A pany Laas. pager A. Ruana has been elected cashier, Wyoming ... State Unknow: 1,669,579 1,231,849 4,160,017 THE QUESTIONS 1. Do you favor the continuance and strict enforcement of the eighteenth amendment and Volstead law? 2. Do you favor a modification of the Volstead law to permit light wines and beers? 3. Do you favor a repeal of the prohibition amendment? the North Dakota border it is joined by the Yellowstone, which has then drained 69,100 square miles of terri- tory in Montana and Wyoming. As @ result, Dean Chandler said, the Missouri river brings into the state eight times as much water as is de- veloped by streams within the state. Although costs still are not defi- nitely determined, he said, it would vod eget gh ah arden re nce riv- er by means of a tunnel to the valley | Brady, of the Moise river and to Devils Lake by a system of long but comparatively | ™' inexpensive canals and also into the fal Sheyenne and James river val- ys. Such development, he said, would Provide baat for the yk of their annual June rise, he said, this is expected to be lower than normal. Second Brady Murder to have a chance of going over the| to pour in, but the peak has been top before the poll closes—while | passed and the volume lessens little Maryland, Delaware, and Nevada by little from day to day.” have a somewhat more dubious haz- ard of schieving bare majorities Jn Stock Swindling Will e repeal column. “On the dry aide, Alsbama seems| Be Meetings’ Subject to be the only one that might have a sporting chance of going over the 50| Washington, May 9.—(P)—In the Per cent top for enforcement, and/| first movement of its kind to check sharing the bone-dry honors of | stock swindling, the national confer- Arkansas, Kansas, North Carolina,|ence .on prevention of fraudulent Oklahoma, and Tennessee. transactions in securities will hold a “Meanwhile the poll itself has gone | two-day seasion at the chamber of ‘way over the top—another top in its} commerce of the United States on remarkable history—by. passing the! May 22 and 23. 4,000,000 mark.’ The purpose of the conference is to| pe “A tally of almost half @ million coordinate effarts to check stock se- | "* new votes has been added since the | curities swindles—ranging from $500,- seventh report, which we published } 000,000 to $1,500,000,000 annually—to two weeks ago. In our last issue we} devise new interrupted the sequence of reports | the evil and to extend public knowl- of the general Viele pe tee rye edge of sound investment. in order to present the results of our —__-—— polls, embracing lawyers, HEARING AT CARRINGTON Hearing by the state railroad board six special‘ doctors, clergy, teachers, bankers, and Digest subscribers. “The aggregate of the special polls, amounting to almost a million bal- lots, is not included in today’s stun- ning tabulation of 4,150,017, but is to be reckoned entirely separate from the general poll. “Turning to the totals accruing to the three questions on the ballot, our army of poll fans will find that enforcement, with 1,248,589 votes, has at last surpassed modification, with 1,231,849. 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