Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-18
FIGHT FILM BRIDE
STORY REITERATED
BY PICTURE MAKER

been fined as those sold state
righ<-
The selling syndicate, according
to Quimby, included himself, Tex
| Richard, fight promoter, and the
| Jack Kearns-Jack Dempsey Amuse
ment corporation, The contract
| with Muma and his associates pro
Vided for a $3.50 division Of profits
| he said, and he testified to payment
| of $65, 900 to Muma.
Details of the arrangements were
| drawn from Quimby with muc4l diff
! f1culty at times and he was excused
| only with a promise to submit his
| books and records showing the whole
! transaction. This will be gone intS
| further Monday by the committee
with G. o. Holdbridge, of Baltimore
| former department of justice agent
who today was summoned here hur
riedly while Quimby was testifying
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon
tana, conducting the development OF
the testimony read today fragments
from what purported to be a report
by Holdbridge to the department OF
| Justice regarding an investigation Of
/ the film deal"
Tex Richard in Deal
This report, presumably in the de
| partment's files mentioned Muma
| and others mentioned in the trans
action.
Quimby said he was told by Te1
| Richard that Muma was a gooG
friend" of Mr.. Daugherty, Edward
B. Mclean and William J. Burns
chief Of the bureau of investigation
Muma also told him Of his friend
ship with Jess Smith; and it was
under these circumstances that
| Quimby went into the affair with
| assurances, he said, that every
thing would be all right" and that
those interested would not be "dis
| turbed"
and he RickarO told you that
Muma was the close friend Of q
Harry M. Daugherty Edward B. Nc
Lean and that it could be fixed tc
show them all over the country?'
Quimby was asked.
Yes" he replied.
Alfred r. Urion, a WASHINGTON
lawyer, said to be a friend of the
attorney general, also figured prom.
inently in the development of the
film story. The testimony was that
Urlon, with Muma, arranged to have
attorneys in different states select
men to whom the films could be
sold.
Quimby reiterated that his part
only was in making and selling the
fllms and not in their transporta
ton. He desisted entirely from
showing the films, he said, in De
cember, 1922, after being told by
Ralph Navarro, a New York agent
OF the department of justice, that he
would be subject to prosecution for
conspiracy.
Border Irregularities
Meantime, for exhibiting the films
IN New York state, Quimby asserted.
ne had been prosecuted and fined
$1,000, but was told by officials in
the office of District Attorney Hay
ward and in Hayward's presence
that he should 'wait a little while"
before giving further exhibitions. He
SAID he waited about thirty days, re-
sumed showing the pictures, and
then finally made about SIS, 900.
After Quimby's testimony, com
mittee pursuit Of the subject was
deferred until Monday in order to
hear testimony on gun-running and
other subjects from men who had
been waiting for several days.
Baldwin, whose home is at San
Antonio, testified that he had re-
signed as department of Justice
agent on the Texas border, after be.
ing, as he believed, too active" to
SUIT officials at Washington in his
Investigations Of border gun-running
to Mexican revolutionists, bootleg
glng and other cases involving Dis.
trIct Attorneys Zweife1 and Hart.
man, of Texas, and their friends.
with gun running rampant on the
border, he said, he was ordered to
close his office at Del Rio and go
to Dallas, leaving a 200-mile stretch
or border unprotected SO far as the
department of justice was concerned.
His testimony, Senator Wheeler as
sured the committee, was but "a link
IN chain of evidence by which he
expects to demonstrate that Amer
lean oil interests were behind revo-
lutionary activities in Mexico.
Called Off Dry Raiders
Other high spots of Captain Bald
WINS testimony were that he re-
ceiVed orders, after making a report
vi IClNliICL AlLOIuGy LWGllPI, 10
cease investigating federal officers,
and that during the administration OF
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
the department Of justice gave orders
stopping its agents from prohibition
enforcement work, an order which,
he said, was still in force.
District Attorney Zweifel was
charged by Captain Baldwin with
failing to press prosecution Of Jack
Wiley, a friend, charged with i'm
personating a federal officer and Sc
curing $1,000. Baldwin also declared
that Zweifel, in company with JOS
eph Kingsbury, identified as a promi-
nent Republican leader in Texas,
were interested in a preliminary in
quiry into affairs Of oil stock pro-
moters later indicted by wholesale
and convicted. Baldwin said he "be-
lieved" that "blackmail was their OBJ
ject." He said they conferred on
the matter with D. w. Dawkins, post
office inspector at Fort Worth, and
that Dawkins came here and said
later he had talked with Mr.. Daugh-