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CALLS CENSORSHIP OF MOVIES ONE HUGE JOKE Roy D. Keehn, lawyer for Essanay film company, told council judiciary committee Saturday that in effect the , hoard of censors over movie films is a joke and has no standing in law. He read from the state laws of Illi nois to show that Chief Healey is the only official authorized to run any censor business. And he read U. S supreme court decisions to show that Funkhouser as second deputy super intendent of police is in teh same po sition as the commissioner of lands is to the sec'y of the interior. Chief Healey is boss over what will or won't run in the movie hous es and Funkhouser is a secretary or .a messenger boy and Chief Healey can kick -over anything Funkhouser does and the law Is with Chief Heal ey, according to Att'k Keehn. Koehn admitted under questions from Aid. Buck that he is attorney for Hearst s JSxamlner. Letters were read by Keehn in which George Clark, city editor Herald, L. Stanton, managing editor Examiner, Ashton Stevens, drama critic Examiner, Rev. John Brushingham, and Chars. Mich- aelson, scenario director Essaney Co., all say "The Little Girl Next Door" is a clean film and ought to show. Hichaelson and Cark, Keehn said when questioned, are former Examiner employes. Judiciary committee is working on an ordinance to cinch Major Funk houser's place legally. Some alder men don't like Jthe way Mayor Thompson tok away from Funkhous er all censoring powers over "The Little Girl Next Door." The mayor's special ' censors for this film were Chief Healey, Comptroller Pike and Mrs. Pike, Rev. Brushingham and a committee from Brushingham's church, Keehn stated. - "I have here the published adver tising bulletin of a film caled 'Vir tru, and passed by Major Funk- iouser," gaitLKeefaa "It Bhowsdfc-J orderly scenes in a house of prosti tution more extreme than 'The Little Girl Next Door.' o o WOMAN BANKER AND WRITER TO MARRY A.NNA HALDEMAN Miss Haldeman, president of the Girard State-bank, Girard, Kas., an active business woman and socially prominent, is to marry Julius Eman uel, socialist writer. Miss Haldeman is a piece of Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, Chicago. o- TO WITHDRAW SIXTH CAVALRY FOR BORDER PATROL Columbus N. M., May 22 With drawal of the 6th cavalry from in terior Mexico is part of the new pa trol plan decided on by the N. S., ac cording to information here. By this plan heavy patrols to cover the entire 9 9flfl milps nf thfi Mfvxirvin hnivlni are inaugurated.- This will be the principal feature of the new police policy. Strong temporary military posts will be fixed along the border sa- battel ior the -patrols i ' - ' "-