The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-15
PRODUCER OF
FILMS CALLED
BY COMMITTEE
Tells PrOberS He Understood
That Department of Justice
Would Not Bother
FUND WAS RAISEI|
Expenses of Local PrOsecu|
tiOns to be Met by Own
ers, He Asserts
FUND WAS RAISEI|

Washington, Mar. l5.--Turnin,
aside for the moment from the sen
satlonal testimony of Roxic Stinsor
and Castor B. Means the Senat.
committee investigating the Depart
ment of Justice today began delvinp
into the allegations that exhibitions
from the Carpentier-Dempsey fight
films had been carried on through
arrangements with Jess w. Smith
Acknowledgement Daughcrty's latd
friend. and his associates.
f. c. Quimby, who described him
self as New York motion picture
producer, and maker of the fight
film, testified that the arrangement
as he understood it was that the
rights for showing the fight films
the interstate transportation of
which is prohibited by law, were I'd
be let out to exhibitors in various
states and that expenses of local
prosecutions and attorneys fees were
borne out of a fund of the owners.
Quimby said he understood that
Jap Nuns, Will Orr and Ike Martini
had the plan to display the films and
that Tex Rickard, the promoter, had
told him OF the plan. He said he had
been told to 20 ahead with showing
the films and that he would not be
bothered by the Department of JUS
tice
f. c. Quimby, producer of the
fight films, testified that he and Tex
Rlckard,the promoter, had no inten-
tion of showing the films outside
of the state of New Jersey and abroad
because of the law prohibiting their
interstate transportation until Jap|
Mumma, Will H. Orr and Ike Martin
came to him and explained plan to
permit exhibition of the films in the
various states without getting into
trouble.
Referred to Smith
Orr, Quimby said, referred to the
late Jess Smith, Attorney General
Daughertys friend as a friend of his,
but he (Quimby) said he did not
know the Attorney General Orr,
Mumma and Martin, Quimby testi-
fled, told him to go ahead.
These three gentlemen told me to
go ahead with the pictures and II
would not be, bothered, he testified.
A lawyer named urion, Quimby
said, retained by Orr, Mumma and
Martin was to designate lawyers in
various states who were to look after
exhibitions of the films. The plan as
he outlined it was that the films
were to be shown in each state. first
before some veterans organization"
Then, said Senator Wheeler, the
committee prosecutor, the buyer in
that state would be hauled up before
some justice and fined?" That was
the arrangement wasn't it?'
While Quimby would not agree to
that he testified to a plan of taking
tines and then going ahead and show
ing the pictures was followed in
some states and he identified the
list Of individuals given out last
light by Attorney General Daugherty
Is those who had been prosecuted
or showing the films as the same
men who had been the buyers for
he state rights Under the plans
II distribution he outlined in his
Told To Wait
After prosecution in New York.
luimby said somebody in U. S. Attor-
hey Hayward office told him ito
vait while" and then 60 ahead.
Whenever you sold picture YOU
old the buyer what lawyer to see"
uggested Senator Wheeler. And you
new it he went to that lawyer he
'ould be fined and then allowed to
% ahead"
That was my understanding.