The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-07-07
NO PRIZE FIGHT PICTURES
GOVERNOR CARROLL SAYS THEY
WILL NOT BE ALLOWED.
Attorney General 6yers viii Notify
All County Attorneys To Put
Taboo On Them.

Des Moines, Ia, July Especial:
Headed by Henry Wallace and Rev.
A. G. Douglas, committee of church
people called on Governor Carroll to-
day and urged him to enforce the
Iowa law prohibiting the showing of
fight pictures. The governor said he
would enforce the law and direct the
attorney general, that all county at
torneys are warned to keep the JEFF
Iries-Johnson pictures out of the
state. -... .r
May Show Pictures.
New York, July Especial: Mayor
Gaynor says that the Jeffries-Johnson
fight pictures can be shown in New
York City without interference on
the part of the city authorities so far
as he is concerned. He had no more
right to stop the pictures, he said,
than to stop the publication OF the
story of the fight.
ST. Louis Moral Wave.
st. Louis, July Especial: Presi-
dent Reynolds, of the st. Louis police
board, announces that he viii take
action TO prevent the exhibition OF
the Jeffries-Johnson moving pictures
here.
Would Shock Texans.
Austin, Tex, July Especial: Gov
ernor Campbell win submit to the
Texas legislature, when 1t convenes
July Is, law prohibiting the exhibit
ton of moving fixtures of the Jeffries-
Johnson fight.
Barred From Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ca, July Especial: Tho
Jeffries-Johnson prize fight pictures
will be barred from Atlanta. This
announcement is made by Mayor
Maddox.
Would Stop Them Everywhere.
New York. July Especial: Led by
the United Societies of Christian En-
deavor with 100000 members. and
the International Association OF Pc
lice Chiefs. a movement is on foot to
prevent the exhibition of the pictures
of the Jeffries-Johnson fight, that
promises to be international in its
scope The Endeavor Society tele-
graphed to every governor in the
United States, asking that the pic
lures be barred on the ground that
they reproduce an Illegal act and
their exhibition will be just as Illegal
as the fight. The national secretary
has asked Taft Roosevelt and Hughes
to use their influence in suppressing
the pictures throughout the nation.
The American Vitagraph Co. is be-
lieved to have expended a quarter of
"a million in buying the exclusive
right to the pictures. Among large
cities that put a stamp OF disapproyal
on them are Washington. Boston. Gin
cinnati, st. Louis and Atlanta At
the last meeting of the International
Association of Police Chiefs there
was passed a resolution introduced
by w. A. Pinkerton requesting the
police to stop all picture shows show
ing films casting ridicule on the po-
lice or showing criminal acts that
tend to increase crime.
Washington, July 6.-Maior Sylves-
ter, superintendent Of police of Wash
ington, has announced he will close
any theater or moving picture house
attempting to stage pictures Of the
Johnson-JefFries fight Major Sylves-
ter takes the ground that the pictures
tend to incite to riot. II Is believed
here that the police authorities In
many other cities will consider the
| possibility of barring out the pictures
Cincinnati. July 6.--Mayor Louis
sehwah said that under no conditions
viii he allow the motion pictures Of
tae Jeffries-Iohnsnn bout in Reno to
oe shown in Cincinnati