AMERICAN CORRUPTION.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 22 March 1924, Page 2

AMERICAN CORRUPTION.

EVIDENCE BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE. MB PBXSB ASSOCIATION —OOVYBIGHI WASHINGTON, March 2u. “Tex” Rickard, appearing before tin, Daugherty Investigation Committee concerning the illegal distribution < ■ the Carpentier-Dempsey fight films, :i. inter-state commerce, testified tha. knowingly he arranged the distribution upon a secret assurance that prosecutions would not be pressed. “Tex Rickards' mode of procedure was to exhibit the films and submit to a light fine and then continue the exhibition, with impunity apparently through th connivance of the Department of Justice officials. Rickard stated that he was first fined 1000 dollars in New York, adding: “Then I went out T,. get my money back. The committee, however, showed that he more tu-.in recuperated his initial loss by producing Rickard’s own expense accounts indicating that the fines within each State averaged 500 dollars against the receipts. of 25,000 dollars. Rickard declared, however, thc.-e methods involved other heavy expenses which made his own net profit only four thousand dollars.