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Show NOTED NICK CARTER CASE GOES TO SUPREME COURT WASH INTO N. July 11. "Nick Carter," the hero of many a "yellow back" novel, and worshiped by three generations of small boys. Is to be considered by the supreme court. "Nick" was about to appear upon the moving picture stage wlien a New York firm of publishers today claimed tlwt Nick Carter was bom In their Imagination about twenty-three years ago. and Itad risen to feme aa a leading character in the detective stories. A 81. Louis moving picture film com- i 1 panv believed that "Nick" was destined J to be a drawing card, end so they pre-pared pre-pared and advertised a "detective" film I with an attractive title. In their advertisement adver-tisement they declared. "We have struck oil. rVgoah." The mettr got Into the courts. The New York firm claimed the moving picture pic-ture company was Infringing a trademark they possessed to "Nick Carter." After g?tng thtough the federal court of ap-( peels for the eighth circuit the matter! was appealed by tbe publishing concern to the supreme court. J |