Show IN l A BLUE lAW DEBATE L Takes 1 Takes Three Years for Movies to Undo Preachers Work LOS ANGELES Dec T-Mem- T 7 Mem- Mem bero ers ot the Los Angeles crimo commission today were ere parties to the blue laws controversy ha as been In progress here Ince uniformed policemen halted the motion picture directors ball at midnight last Thanksgiving Ing yesterday they Issued a tate state statement ment wherein they called atten nHen attention lion tion to th the alarming I of violent crime In the city ond deplored the apparent attitude of the police department toward tho of ot minor Infraction of existing statutes The statement recommended that In In present emergency the tho ert efforts of ot tho police be directed primarily to the ap- ap apprehensIon lon ap of oC dangerous and the protection of ot life liCe and prope In this The crime commissions commission's state state- statement statement ment came as the climax of oC a II week ot alleged puritanical nn the part of the police commis commission sion slon which gave oar car to a n clergy clergy- clergyman's clergyman's mans man's objection to the granting of ofa ofa a cafe dance permit on the round the dancing T I take Ill I'll only t two 0 from hl hi church ed the motion picture directors directors tors annual ball bolI a I 1 event to be abruptly ended at midnight refused to glint the Association of Motion Pic- Pic Pic tur Advertisers ture-Advertisers commonly aa the Wampas a permit to pro pro- pro long prolong their annual ball until 3 a a am am m and caused the arrest of ot nine men alleged to hove have In gome games of oC chance at ot the ch ch circus held by members of oC tan tan Grotto a Masonic organization tion to a nell ell Its Ita charity fund One of the alleged victims ot these police commission the Wampas retaliated esterday by on announcing that Its annual Crolle this would be held In San At the Optimist t club esterday Will Rogers comedian D and the v Re-v James Jamea Whitcomb Brougher of Temple Baptist church engaged In a debate on the of blue laws Preachers are re the poorest ot all professions Rogers Rogera 1 out which shows hows whit a gener gener- generou generous ou ous race of people we ore It will toke take three years ears tor forthe the mo movies molea lea to offset what the ha hale hae e done with the heRthen Meanwhile Fred Niblo ot the Motion Picture association announced that representatives of 22 organizations will meet hero her next Monda Monday night to formulate plans plana for the tho rounding of a non political league to obtain Io by metropolitan for a metropolis |