Probable Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment on December 5 Repeal of
the Eighteenth Amendment will take place, it may now be
predicted with virtual certainty, on December 5, nine months and
one-half following submission to the states of the Twenty-first,
or repeal, amendment on February 20, 1933. Virginia became on
October 3 the 32nd state to vote in unbroken succession for
repeal of federal prohibition. Florida is expected to take
similar action on October 10. On November 7 the voters of six
more states—Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, and Utah—will go to the polls to record their verdict
on the question, making 39 states in all that will have acted by
that date. Ratification conventions will be held in four
states—-Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Utah—on December
5. Since this formal action will have been taken before that
date in all but three of the necessary number of states, one of
these four will in all probability be the 36th state to ratify,
thus completing the process