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Show PiiSllT FOR WIFE DESERTERS BOSTON, Aug. 29. Tho results of a year's investigations by more than a dozen committees on tho Intricacies of various branches of law and legal Ptoccdure, woro presented tonight be-foie be-foie tho 38th annual session of tho American Jiar association, The convention oarllor in tho day held a session in tho Massachusetts Institute of Technology and listened to the .president's address dollvered by Edgar Farrar of Now Orleans, Thlu was followed by tho oloction of tho, general council, Including one member mem-ber from oach 3tate. Tho annual reports re-ports of tho standing committees wcro presented tonight. Ono of tho speakers today, ,was Bar- on Uchlda, Japaneso ambassador, who spoke on "The Teaching of Jurisprudence Jurispru-dence in Japan." A recommendation that the association associa-tion opposo any attempt toward the appeal of thc national bankruptcy law I wns mado In the report of tho committee com-mittee on commercial affairs. Tho committee urged that tho association exert every effort to defeat tho pending pend-ing bill and repeal the bankruptcy act The report stated that the desertion act already has been passed (n Washington, Wash-ington, Kansas, Rhode Island, Michigan Mich-igan and Wlsconslp. It provides for punishment of deserters of wives by Imprisonment at liurd labor, a portion of thc proceeds of which labor to be demoted to the support of the deserted wife nnd children. Tho committee urged that the bar association Indorse the princlplo of the not. |