Show Movie Prod Producers hoe ce Trust Inquiry W- W SHI March farch 26 AP APAn An n appe appeal l for tor an antitrust prose prose- prose prose-i against the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors ot of America was laid before the department department de- de ot of justice today by Frank J. J ot of Indianapolis president dent ot of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Indiana Assistant Attorney General D novan no- no van promised an Investigation The producers and distributors by contracts which they enforce upon theatre owners are absolutely monopolizing the Industry and preventing preventing pre pre- venting the operation In It ot of Independents Inde- Inde complained I explained to Mr Ir Donovan the contract forms and pointed out to him the extension which the theSe e producing pro pro- organizations are making Into the ac actual ual field ot of theatre man man- He Informed me that the department would have to have positive evidence before proceeding and assured me that an Investigation tion would be immediately undertaken undertaken under under- taken through department ot of justice jus- jus lice tice a agencies to obtain the facts |