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Show ITOOIPS ARE B11SIS1F SUIT Action Filed in Seattle for Large Sum OLTMPIA, Wash., April 1J. Butt to recover 1476,000 from John P. Duke, stats supervisor of banking:, and the Scandinavian-American Hank of Seattle, Seat-tle, has been Hod In the Thurston county superior court hers by Hklb-saktleselskapet Hklb-saktleselskapet Best urn III, a corporation corpora-tion of Stockholm, Hweden. The plaintiff alleges It contracted with the Anderson Hhlpbulldlng corporation cor-poration of Heat tie In October, 117. for two motorahlps to cost $385,000. In April. 1919. the shipbuilders were said to have ceased operations and to have assigned the two uncompleted hulls, valued at $200,000 each, to the Scandl-i Scandl-i navlan-American bank. The purchaser also seeks to collect ! $76,000 deposited by the Anderson I company with the bank as security fur the completion of tbe contract. |