Show LILA LEE LE WARNS PRESS Denies Illegal Transactions Transactions Threatens to Leave Filmdom LOS A Jan J n 26 Lila 26 Ue motion molton picture actress whose 1 father tather Charles Chorles Appel la Is sought by Chicago authorities on en an om- om em embezzlement charge tonight threat threat- tJ threatened threatened reat- reat ened nd to lease Ira flat on itS Ita t back buk and quit the tho camera camer cold cola un- un un unless less the cloud of ot suspicion InvolvIng Involving ing log me roe In financial transactions In Chicago Is Immediately removed b by those Referring to reports that note notes signed by her had hod been uncovered In connection with at- at al alleged Illegal liquor transactions credited to her father the tho screen declared that thet further pub pub- publication pub publication of ot such unjust and would be f followed by her retirement to private life lite Miss Lee whoso name off ott the careen loreen Is Mrs James Jame KIrkwood ex- ex explained ex explained her hor signature on the notes round found In Chicago as follows folios SIGNED heat Lf summer I paused passed a sell through Chicago At thit t time I was sac not ot of ag age My father tather was then In financial difficulties and asked mo me moto meto moto to sign t two taO 0 note notes lu in blank which were not to be bo used except III as ho he said Mid tor for possible securities A few tew months ago ano my father was here and was on en the verge vergo ofa of ot a nervous breakdown as os a result of hi financial situation Mother MOlher pleaded with me nse to sIgn slim four tour blank notes Just to ease eue father fathers father's mind and ond these notes were Mere ero then thon to 10 be destroyed destroyed de- de destroyed Both mother and I kne knos kno's as did father tather that I 1 had no funds s as all my earnings uto up u to that time lime had gone Kono to father tather s as my guardian and nd ho he made such nuch remittances aa were wera necessary for or my support in my picture work AIDS l I While White I know little of ot business I do know that It was waa understood b all that these notes were not to tobo tobe he bo used or circulated and I do not kno N today who Is la responsible toe tor ho hoIng haing Ing tilled flueS them them In and negotiated atod ate I them It If any paper I could sign would got get my parents out ot of their difficulties I would gladly do so but I would never permit funds that I 1 had earned el to be ud for tor Illegal purposes and particularlY boo bootleg whisky I 1 abhor the thought of ot It on |