The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 27, 1921, Page 1

1 a il } 4 \ j . ys ' q s 8 . 14: ‘ if : / re a 4 “ “of Brinton that, practically every dol-! The Weather Generally Fair FORTIETH YEAR PROBE LOANS OF © FARGOBANK FOR, LEAGUE BENEFIT Brinton Trial Delves Into Rela- tions of Scandinavian- American Bank STATE TELLS POSITION: Weeks Says Intention is to Show; that Brinton’s Loan State- ment is False In an effort to justify the statements of J .W. Brinton, charged with, perjury and on trial in district court here, the! defense through cross-examination be- | gan tracing the relations of the Scan- dinavian-American bank of Fargo to; so-called Nonpartisan League enter- prises. Taking records introduced by; Nels J, Brevig, assistant receiver of the Scandinavian-American bank of; Fargo’ and formerly’ asgistant cashier} of the concern, Arthur LeSueur, coun | sel for Brinton, delved into the loans! made by the Bank of North Dakota to! the Scandinavian-American bank and by the latter bank to so-called league! enterprises. Among the things adduced by Le-: Sueur was that the Scandinavian- American bank, during the period be- tween Oct. 2 and Oct. 25, 1919, when it) was closed during the “Langer Raid”! renewed a loan of $5,300 to the Cour-j ier-News of Fargo. Mr. LeSueur had called Brevig's at- tiotion to a record of loans during that time and pointed out the Courier-News item. “This was one of the institutions be-| ing run to aid the Nonpartisan League and was being financed by the Scandi- navian-American bank, was it not?’; asked LeSueur. | The witnes said he understood this: to be the case. ! i State’s Position, - i Mr. Brevig was placed on the stand; by J. J. Weeks, special assistant at- torney general, prosecuting Brinton, ; and ‘asked to produce certain records; of the Scandinavian-American bank inj addition to records produced by L. C. Reep, receiver for the bank. They in- cluded the record of the loans from the Bank of North Dakota and the) loans by the Scandinavian pank indi- viduals and corporations; “The purpose of these records,” said Mr. Weeks, “is to answer the charges! lar of money the: Bank of North Da-/ kota placed in the Scandinavian- American bank was loaned to league! corporations. We want to show to whom the loans of the bank were, made.” Anawering a question of Weeks as to the amount of the bills receivable on July 28, 1919, at the time the Bank! of North Dakota began business, Brevig said the total loans of the Fargo bank amounted to about $1,100,000. Regarding Loans, During the cross-examination Le- Sueur learned from the witness that all the loans made by the Bank of! North Dakota to the Scandinavian- American bank were carried as certifi- cates of deposit. No notes were made,' the witness said. The witness assert- ed, however, that collateral was seni the Bank of North Dakota with all certificates of deposit. He also said,! in answer to a question, that during! the period from July 28,/1919, when; | Shipping Board is T; V. O'Connor of,| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE = 2 Ait ioe Represents Labor IN MANY PLACES N vk Heke | | Northern Part of Burleigh ; County Receives Good Rain, Reports Say: | poutvaei ss} | MERCURY GOES: UP TO 100 | Highest Temperature of Season is Recorded at ‘Lisbon and Napoleon : ea | Labor's representative on the U. S.' Buffalo, N, Y., president of the Inter-; national Longshoremen’s Union. | i Timely rains of varying degree fell | in many localities in the western part |of the state Saturday night, accord- . ing to reports reaching the weather ; bureau and The Tribune today. A POOLING PLAN ; large area. was covered by the rain. | was described as the finest rain of . bs j the season by many. It also rained Chairman of Organization Com-! at Regan, Tuttle and in Washburn, i | Mclean county, reperts said. The mittee Issues Statement extended down to on Matter \ Northern Burleigh county recéived 'a good rain, according to persons from that section. The heavy rain extended from north of Arnold to Wilton, cehtering around Baldwin. It ledge of the rain | Bismarek. Relief to Crops : ‘The weather bureau reports rain of at Dickinson Saturday night, .07 at Napolean and 32 at Dunn Center, } ’ | its three western stations. ‘Travelers Grand Forks, June 27.-George E, | who came into Bismarck from Elgin Duis, of Grand Forks, chairman of | said it rained over a considerable the organization committee of the ; area 25 miles west and south of Bis- North Dakota Wheat Growers Asso-|marck. As a relief to crops which ciation, has issued a lengthy state- | have suffered under the heat of the ment in which he discusses the prog: | last few days the rain Is said; to have ress of the association in the forma: | done great good. tion of its wheat pool in North Dakota Persons who have traveled through- and also discusses the United States | out the western part of the state say Growers Inc. | that the crop will be above the aver- Explaining that the state associa- | age, and that within another ten days tion is the outgrowth of the National j grain will be made, In some spots Wheat Growers Association, with | the grain has been burned out. Dunn headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, he | county, especially, ‘has excellent pros- decJares that the association has a | pects, said a man who has just re- FOR COMPULSORY POOL! | membership of 100,000 actual wheat | turned from a tour through the west- iern Slope. Southwest counties, too, jare said to,be in excellent condition. Wants Compulsory Pool i ‘ He objects to the United Grain | Growers Inc} plan for a wheat pool, the Grain Growers have an optional | afternoon sent the thermometer to pooling plan, while the Wheat Grow- | new high records. The thermometer ers igs a compulsory plan. He con-! reached 98 at 4 p. m. Saturday, the cludes his appeal to farmers to sign | highest point of the summer, The the Grain Growers pooling plan: ‘maximum temperature on Sunday “The United States Grain Growers, | here was 87, the weather bureau re- Inc., is a Delaware corporation and on | ported. The highest temperature of their Board of Directors North Da- | the year occurred ‘at ‘Ltsbon.and ‘Na- kota is represented by one director, | poleon, Saturday afternoon, when the Mr. U. ‘L. Burdick. He is, also, as 1 official thermometer touched 100. The understand, Associate Counsel for the | mercury ran up to 99 again at ‘Lis- organization. When the election is | bon, Sunday. finally. held for Directors North Da-| The weather bureau’s report of kota may not have a single represen: | rainfall over the Sunday period fol- tative on the National Board. AS | lows: Amenia, none; Bismarck, .02; Wheat Growers, I maintain that we | Bottineau, 49; Devils Lake, 42; Dick- should have a voice on that Board im! jnson, .66; Dunn Center, .32; Ellen- the marketing of our product. We/dale, none; Fessenden, 54; Grand are the second largest wheat growing | Forks, Langdon, Jamestown, none; state in the union, and sometimes the ; Larimore, .45; Lisbon, Minot, none; first. It is, of course, to be regretted | Napoleon, .07; Pembina, Wahpeton, that, any Farm Bureau members | none; Williston, .88. Moorhead, none. should: ugg’ their organization to, in| {esas SE PLANS REUNION growers. 98 at Bismarck “ The sweltering heat of Saturday’ especially: , here in North | Dakota, where we will have practically no} representation in a corporation that | will completely be dominated by the corn states, to the south of us. “The North Dakota Wheat Growers will be absolutely controlled by its members, in North Dakota, who are wheat growers, The contract is sur- ~ BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1921 RAIN REPORTED BEXE2_P0_ Poo! SATURDAY NIGHT PRICE FIVE CENTS BOWEN MURDER WITNESS SAYS HE WAS PAID i Furnished Mileage Book and Per! ' Diem, to Help Out State’s | Case, Tubbs Declares | cane i EXAMINED BY SMITH. ‘ | i 1 | Former Sheriff of Golden Valley| Said to Have Secured Signed | This Rumanian woman is one of a! Statement tent colony that doesn’t worry about! high rents, It's outside of Jersey | City, N. Jy Hettinger, June 27.—Efforts to con- | ; ect Seaman Smith, former sheriff of rete, ere A K RA | 4Golden Valley county, with building : up the state's cag in the Bowen mur- der trial were the chief maneyvers of ¥ =6|the defense late Saturday and at thfs ‘.., | morning's session of the court. 1 George Tubbs, former hired man of 'D. R. Offley, the first defendant to be ‘tied, was on the stand Saturday. Un- ‘der cross examination, he admitted “'that he was attempting to follow # * ! signed statement which he had made National Soeialist Party in Con-!of the affair to Smith at the Carl . * | Thompson place. vention Has Resolution He testified further that he had been Before it sent a mileage book and his expenses paid to Hettinger to testify by those ——— '{ interested in the prosecution. He said! 7 that he had been paid $4 a day to re HAVE MEETING turn to North Dakota from South Da- nee kota to assist the state in building, up ‘ hits case, Mayor of Milwaukee Proposes | The introduction as a witness of a! General Strikes When War daughter of the murdered rancher is Threatened WOULD \M, K. Bowen was a surprise. She was {not used in the preliminary hearing. | Interest in the case west of the Mis-| rato jsouri river because of the political Detroit, Mich., June 27.—A resolu- 0 1 5 tion inviting all radical organizations | fart te ote saade te eae ane ony of the United States to a conference} which is constantly under the watch next year to form an alliance to pre-! of two bailiffs. vent future wars by the threat of fu-; | Howard, secretary of the Internation- | rounded by every safeguard, and the! AT STATE PAIR ‘except the Bank of North Dakota. the Bank of North Dakota opened un-| National Selling Agency will be con- | ul the time the Scandinavian-Ameri-! trolled by the members from the | Committee Issues Appeal To can bank closed in February, 1921, it! wheat states. A number of plans | did not borrow money from any bank| have been evolved by the United | Members of Former Or- | States Grain Growers, Inc. The prin- | ganization A record of loans made by the Bank! cipal one evolved is the pooling of: of North Dakota to the Scandinavian-; elevators. There is also the consign: ; bank totalling $252,800 was read. “Was there anything to indicate; that these were anything but time de-; posits,” the witness was asked. “No, except they were kept on a separate record,” the witness answer-! ed. “Were there any time deposits o7 the Bank of North Dakota in the; bank.” “No, except we isued c-ds for loans.”! Pursuing his efforts to establish | that the Scandinavian-American bank! wag controlled and operated for the} benefit of the Nonpartisan Leagu' and enterprises—Brinton had charge that it was partly controlled by league! leaders—LeSueur went further into! the bank’s operation. j He obtained the information from! Brevig that a Mrs. Clayton had a desk. in the bank with J. J. Hastings, form-| erly active in the league, and he said) | ment plan, and here in North Dakota, | The 164th North Dakota infantry; The Wisconsin delegation is spon- sor for the move, Daniel Hohn, mayor, of Milwaukee, introducing the regolution. It would invite the Far- mer-Labor patty and various labor unions, including the mine workers, machinists and some of the railroad group, The resolution proposes a program of four points: Opposition to war. Restoration. of political liberty. Collective ‘ownership and democratic control of the means of production where they are monopolistically owned. \ Agreement to use both political and industrial means to this end. By agrebment of txe mine and rail- road workers to call a general strike in the event of war future conflicts can be prevented, Hohn declared. The resolution was offered as a sup for pending motions dealing with po- Ntical gad general strikes and the party attitude toward labor. TWO AVIATOR Sacramento, Cal., June 27.—Flying Cadet Page, of Union City, Mich., and Joseph Wetherby, of Fort Davis, Texas, were killed instantly today: when their airplane crashed to earth | near Visalia, approximately 200 miles ; south of here, it was announced at | Mather field, headquarters of the 91st | aero squadron. The men were start- | ing a flight Sacramento when the : plane ‘fell. ture strikes was introduction in the| national convention of the Socialist party today. i ARE KILLED VALUATIONS HOLD MEBTING Calls Various Bureau Heads| Into Conference Washington, June 27.— President Harding will preside at a meeting Wednesday afternoon of all govern- ment officials dealing with prepara- tion of estimates of expenditures for Congress. The meeting was eallel today at the direction of the pres!- dent by Charles G. Dawes, director of the budget. Those included in the call are the secretaries of the executive depart-: ment and assistant secretaries; heada of various independent commissions and bureaus outside the department | structures; chief clerks of the depart- ments and the chiefs of the depart- mental bureaus i Mr. Dawes said that the conference; | would be a preliminary step toward} |co-ordination of government expendi- | ; tures, ! MADE PUBLIC Washington, June 27.—Supplement- al tentative valuations of ‘railroads made public today by the Interstate Commerce Commission included: Farmers grain and shipping com-;{ panies (North Dakota), $742,822.00. | Brandon, Devils Lake and Southern (North Dakota), $170,000. | !pear before Vice-Chancellor Leaming | ing to law. BOOST CAPITAL + action on the Curtis-Nelson bill to add I understand, the 100 per cent pool-! will hold a reunion at the state fair ing plan is advocated. In other words, | at Grand Forks on Wednesday, July different plans will prevail in differ- | 20, it is announced. A committee for ent sections of the country, all con-/the reunion has issued the following trolled by the ‘National Board. | appeal: ‘ as “It seems to me that any grower! “Should auld acquaintance be for- of wheat should understand that if | got.” North ‘Dakota pools 100 per cent, and| Each year as time goes by, the other states consign their grain, there | friendships formed during the da¥s we is no advantage whatever for North | served together will be more highly Dakota; in fact, it would be detri-' valued, and regimental and company mental to them to have a different | reunions will be looked forward to plan from other states in the same with more pleasurable anticipation, The ‘Wheat Growers; ‘The sooner these meetings are tarted, the more we will get from hem. Many of the former members have already written and spoken to he undersigned, urging the institution ing plan. The United States Grait Growers, Inc., expect to organize | National Financial corporation. ' They of annual reunions, are going to sell $160,000,000 worn ot | The state fair management has con- jsented to set apart Wednesday, the ; twentieth day of July, 1921, for the stock to farmers and others. be principally to others: that the stock | Northern Dakota, $180,468, | Sacramento, Cal. CABNET OF Sete > TTALY QUITS COMPROMISE ON The resignation resulted from a vote; Washington, June 27.—Terms of a in the Chamber of Deputies on the | compromise agreement on the Knox- question of confidence in the govern- | Porter resolution to end the state of ment which was regarded as unfavor- | war with Germany and Austria have able. been settled, Republican leaders said ——_—_—_———— today, and formal acceptance is ex- i WEATHER REPORT. - ; pected at a meeting of the conferees For twenty-four hours ending at; tomorrow after the return of Senator noon June 27. | Knox, Republican, Pennsylvania, au-| Temperature at 7 A. M 69/ thor of the senate peace resolution. | Highest yesterday . 87) Rome, Italy, June 27.—(By the As: | sociated Press.)—The cabinet of Pre- | will be sold. | first annual reunion at Grand Forks, that her duties were to try and collect! “The Wheat Growers Association Noith Dakota collateral notes, including farmers’| contemplates doing business through |“ sp ake eaters Hamarede ges notes to the Nonpartisan League,| regular banking channels. They main- Py ae and ne a Ww Abe Ag oid League: Exchange, Consumers’ United) tain that a bonded warehouse receipt | riends and comrades wi ere. Stores Co., Publishers National Serv-| ice Bureau, post-dated checks and| other collateral. He excepts the Cour- ier-News from the list. | “Who paid her salary?” he was ask-| i j He said he understood the Nonpar-| tisan League and Consumers’ Stores; paid her. Finds His Own Note. LeSueur then pointed out numerous notes signed by individuals, totaling | $49,308.55, which he established as ac-j commodation notes turned into the! bank by the League Exchange and! other league enterprises. i LeSueur caused a ripple of laughter | when he read his own note for $9,000. | The first one was signed by a manj| whom the witness said formerly was! | Association, and not_a Grain Buyers e will enjoy meeting each other and an form a permanent organization. ; ‘hrow off dull care for a day. Every! year we grow older and soon we will) ibe Jooking back and regretting every | lost opportunity of meeting. For detailed information as to rates on a carload of wheat is the best pos: sible security that can be offered t any National, Federal or State bank, and the very best financial authori- ties advise us that the financing of our wheat will be our least difficulty. | Our organization is going rapidly for- | ward, We are asking the North Da-| and accommodations, write ‘E. R. kota Wheat Growers to join us, be- | Montgomery, Secretary State Fai:,| cause we have a real Wheat Growers | Grand Forks, North Dakota. (Signed), “ J. H. FRAINE, \ DANA WRIGHT, | FRANK S. HENRY, | M. H. SPRAGUE, B. C. BOYD. Association, or an Elevator Associa- tion, We have not any large sums of money in our treasury with which to | pay salaries and expenses. Our offi- cers are working without pay, and I appeal to the Wheat Growers to aid | Lowest yesterday Lowest last night Precipitation . Highest wind ve y For North Dakota: tonight and Tuesday; continued warm 10-N Generally fair .None/ lingheuysen of New Jersey, in a state- CHARGES COAL TRUST. Washington, June 27.—Senator Free; ment isued today, charges that the coal industry of the nation had enter- ed into “one big trust.” ~ DIVORCE SET ASIDE MEET FAILURE Reno, Nev., June 27.—The effort of the state attorney general to have the divorce decree of Mary Pickford from Owen Moore set aside failed at Min- den when District Judge Langlan granted a motion to quash the sum- 30,000,000 bushels as early as possi- ble, so that we can begin functioning on the 1921 crop. I appeal to the us in getting our minimum sign-up of | Ki ANDAN SCH 0) OL | mons in the attorney general’s pro- ceedings. The court held that while it was true the state was a party to all di- vorces, as contended by the attorney a bookkeeper in the Scandinavian-| pysiness men and bankers of North American bank and was for $9,000. | Dakota to get behind this movement, “You knew that about all he haa! ang save the wheat grower, who is | of this world’s goods was his salary?"| 9 essential to the business interests | 10 BE IMPROVED asked LeSueur. The witness replied; affirmatively. i F. W. Cathro, director general of} the Bank of North Dakota was call-| ed as the state's first material witness Saturday afternoon, and two direct (Continued on Page 3) of our state. sf Business Men Aid ‘ The state board of administration, “Business men of California got be-| at a meeting here, decided to make hind the Fruit Growers so enthusias- | improvements at the Mandan training ically that there never has been any | school for boys this summer. A barn ifference of opinion between the | and power plant will be built. Con- (Continued on Page 3) tracts will be a6 @ the’ near future. i general, yet the state was represented | by the trial judge and not by the at- jtorney general As the decree had ‘been accepted by both plaintiff and ‘defendant, the judge decided the state | was estopped from proceedings to set aside the decree. ~ ‘ | “Many of the members of the bar | from all western Nevada were present | when the decision was rendered. “Doug” Says They’re Happy. | SUCCEEDS EMERY ‘ALL KINDS OF ~ RAILLABOR IN BIG WAGE GUT New Order Estimated will Effect Saving of Four Hundred Million Annually EFFECTS EVERY ROAD eS Practically all Employes on Class One Carriers Are Involved Thomas J. Bannigan, Hartford.: \ Conn,, succeeds John C, Emery. as a: Chicago, June 27.—The United vice commander of the America¥ Le- gion. Emery is new national com- mander. ee nn | PASTOR SEEKS WRIT TO STOP DEMPSEY FIGHT Sercretary of International Re-; form Bureau Announces Intention NO LUCK, SAYS GOVERNOR Governor Edwards of New, Jersey Says That Fight | Will Gq On | Atlantic City, N. J. June 27.—C. al Reform Bureau, left here today for Camden, where he said he would ap- to seek an injunction to prevent the Dempsey-Carpentier fight at Jersey City, July 2. If he fails to obtain such a writ in the chancery court Howard said he would appeal to the! supreme court at Trenton, FIGHT ON, HE SAYS, Jersey City, N. J., June 27.—Gover- nor Edward I. Edwards today declar-| ed that any attempt to stop the Car-' pentier-Dempsey fight would be a waste of time. “Of course I don’t know what Mr. Howard may have up his sleeve,” said the governor. “This exhibition I can say will be conducted strictly accord- Iam sure of that.” OF FARM BANK Washington, June 27.— Legislative’ about $25,000,000 to the capital of federal farm loan banks for long term loans to farmers was completed to- day with acceptance by the senate of the house reduction from $50,000,000; to $25,000,009. The bill now goes to the president. BELIEVE MAN MURDERED 10 Mayfield, Ky., June 27—County au-; thorities today were working on the} theory that Ernest Lawrence murder- ed ten persons in his farm home necr here Saturday night, drenched the house with oil, set it on fire and then | killed himself. The bodies of five; adults and six chifdren were found in the ruins. CREAM CAN CUTS HOLE IN ROOF A noise like a shot startled per-| songs standing at the west end of the| Northern Pacific station here Satur- day afternoon, A shower of cream followed for those close to the place where the re- port sounded. A big cream can had exploded, under the intense heat, j The lid went off with so much force that it knocked a hole in the tile States Railroad Labor board extended its wage reduction order to practi- cally every large railroad in the coun- try. No change was made in thé 2 per cent decision but it extends to all classes of labor. The new wage decision of the United States Railroad Labor board will make a reality of the estimated $400,000,000 annual saving expected when the board’s 12 per cent cut, ef- fective July 1 is applied to all em- ployes on all railroads known as Class carriers. ‘The decision drawn up as an ad- dendum to the wage reduction order of June 1, adds practically every rail- road in the Class 1 division to the | original list of 104 roads auth ~ ; to. make the 12 per cent reduction. When the reduction order was is- sued, it was estimated that if ap- plied to all employes on all ‘Class 1 roads, it would lop off approximately $400,000,000 from the country’s rail- road labor bill. The new decision will make this cut possible by ordering reduced wages for employes not included in the original case and also by includ- ing employes on roads which were not parties to the first hearing. Applications Received Immediately following the an- nouncement of the boand’s wage cut on July 1, roads from every section of the country poured in their ap- plications to the labor board for au- thority to maké similar reductions. A hearing set for June 8 included a total of 164 roads and in the next two weeks 61, more submissions were ntade and included in a hearing for June 20. A few roads which had not included all classes of employes in their first petitions for reductions came in with the remaining classes in the last hearing. i g ‘Many of the roads which asked re- ductions: for only a part of their em- ployes at the original hearing in May, came back with applications to cover all employes in these two later hear- ings. Virtually every railroad in the country affected by the labor board’s $600,000,000 Wage award of July, 1920, was included in one or more of the three hearings. Following the 12 per cent reduction which was gen- erally unsatisfactory to the roads, the carriers return to the boarg with added insistence that the 1920 wage award be wiped out. The board, how- ever, was not inclined to change its scale of reductions determined in the June 1 decision and merely added to that decision employes involved in the subsequent hearings. Reiterating Evidence At the two June hearings, the roads, for the most part, contented themselves with reiterating the evi- dence presented in May. Their argu- ments consisted chiefly of cost of liv- ing statistics and comparison of rail- road wages with those in outside in- dustries. The employgs took up other factors laid down by the transporta- tion act to be considered in the de- termination of just and reasonable wages. Hazards of employment, the living wage and similar lines of evi- dence were introduced in an effoft to Prevent any cut in wages. While no definite returns have been announced from the referendum being taken by all the railway unions on acceptance or rejection of the 12 per cent cut it was expected the conferences here July 1 ‘would agree to accept the board’s decision without any interrup- tion of traffic. MOVIE MEN IN MILL CITY MEET Minneapolis, Minn., June 27—Prom* inent owners of motion picture play- houses throughout the United States will meet here today in, convention when members of the Motion Picture Theater Owners of America assemble for a three-day gathering. More than 3,000 moving picture pro- Prietors are expected to attend ac- cording to A. W. Steffes, of this city, | president of the Notthwest Theatrical j roof, 15 feet above the can. "NAMED TO NEW EFFORTS 10 HAVE MARY PICKFORDS U. 8. POSITION | Washington, June 27.—J, Raymond | McCarl, of McCook, Neb., secretary of; the Republican congressional cam- | Protective League and a member of the national executive committee. About 1,000 women, mostly wives of the theater owners, will accompany the delegates, he sald. Many important questions of vital concern to the playhouse proprietors will be taken up at the meetings, Mr. Steffes said. Among these will be the President Harding to be comptroller-j | paign committee, was nominated by | following: Attempts by legislatures of various Los Angeles, June 27.—Mary Pick-| 8eneral of the United States, a posi-| states to enact adverse legislation to ford, the validity uf whose divorce from Owen Moore was upheld today| at Minden, Nev., was informed of the| decision upon receipt of the Associat- | ed Press dispatches here but sent! word she preferred to have her hus-: band, Douglas Fairbanks, speak con- cerning the matter. Miss Pickford was married to Mr. Fairbanks shortly after the entry of the Nevada decree. The report concerning the outcome of the litigation in Nevada is very gratifying to both Mrs. Fairbanks and myself,” said Mr. Fairbanks. “We deem it best not to comment at length but the fuling makes us very very happy.” which becomes effective Friday. | Supreme rt to Be Asked. | Minden, N June 27.—The state; on the decree of Mary Pickford anJ| Owen Moore, which was sustained in} a decision by District Judge Franc {tion created by the new budget law/| the motion picture industry. Censorship, both state and federal. Uniform contracts for films between the producer and exhibitor. Effects of the producer entering the ; Supreme court is to be asked to pass! exhibit business. The music tax, and the 5 per cent federal tax. Such states as South Dakota, Kan- C, Langan. Attorney Genéral Leonar‘l| sas, Pennsylvania and New York, are H. Fowler announced he would appeal! attempting to make laws to the detri- and filed a list of exceptions to Judge, ment of the motion picture business, \Langan’s decision preliminary to that’ Mr, Steffes declared, and the theater action, jowners will make plang for organ- The action attacking the divorce; ized opposition to these tactics. In | was brought by the attorney general; some states, many of the attempts |on the ground that the laws covering; were fruitless, but nevertheless, the {divorce had not been observed by the} organization as a whole will combat | Principals. them, he ‘said.