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Show LAWYER TELLS BUILDERS' SIDE Attorney Testifies at Trial of Morse.. WASHINGTON, July It Thur-low Thur-low M. Gordon, of the law firm ot McAdoo, Cotton a Franklin of Now Torn, testified today In tho Mores trial that tha Virginia Shipbuilding oompany waa In financial straits la 111 and unable to carry out Its contract with the government because be-cause ot hi Inability to obtain from the shipping board progrss payments pay-ments which were due. The witness testified he made an examination of tha plant at the request re-quest of William O. Mr A duo and that the firm of McAdoo. Cotton Franklin took ovsr the company's legal affaire. ... ' . "We went Into this proposition.' Mr. Oordoa said, -with a vlsw of presenting to the shipping board tha legal claim based on the contracts con-tracts which tha Virginia company bad to progress paymenta." The total of theee payments, he testttled at that time was about ll.Sce 0 and ha added that It waa Impossible for the Morses to put up I20.ooo.oaa In ship and yards without with-out receiving progressive compensation compensa-tion from tha shipping board. Gov-srnvant Gov-srnvant counssd noted an objection to the atatement. ' Mr. Gordon said his firm hid ad-vlssd ad-vlssd tha shipping board of tha legality of the claim of tha shipbuilding ship-building oompany and of ths Impossibility Im-possibility of completing ths ships without the psymsnts. Hs also said he warned shipping board officials of-ficials that withholding of mousy would lea to receivership. |