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RULING ASKED ON WINE LAW
Seawell Silent on Liquor Act; Expects to Carry It to Supreme Court

RALEIGH, May 17.—(UP).—Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell today was asked to clear up several phases of the new wine law.

W. A. Graham, state agriculture commissioner, said there were a number of things he wanted cleared up before "any rules and regulations are promulgated by the agriculture board for the making and selling of wine."

One of the main questions under discussion is whether wineries can ship wine into this state made from North Carolina grapes produced in other states. He considered the probable results of legislative action allowing liquor in 18 counties, provided the citizens decide which may be declared unconstitutional.

Attorney General Seawell declined to discuss the issue because he expects it to go to the supreme court soon.

RALEIGH, May 17.—A rather general belief that the state United Dry Forces are on the verge of going into the courts at a very early date to challenge the validity of the two so-called "local" laws allowing 18 of North Carolina's 100 counties to vote on the (Continued on page three)
RULING IS ASKED ON
STATE'S WINE LAW
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The decision of Attorney General Seawell to abandon the handing down of a ruling with regard to the constitutionality of the special liquor laws was believed by many to be a prelude on the early move of the drys to take the case into the courts with the request that the supreme court rule on the matter before the first referendum on liquor is held in Wilson county on June 22.
Lawyers of state-wide repute, who earlier in the week thought the high court, because of the nature of the hodge-podge liquor laws, could with perfect propriety, go either way now convinced that the court's if it desires it can find several reasons for holding the two acts unconstitutional.
The silence of Cale Burgess, campaign director for the United Drys, has served to worry advocates of liquor control, but Burgess is not expected to make any move until he goes into the courts with the request for an order to restrain commissioners of a county where a vote has been called and make them show cause why such an election should not be called. That will be the strategy of the drys.