Show I TINY STAR AR IN INCOURT I COURT BATTLE Triangular Contest st for Custody of Priscilla Moran LOS ANGELES July By 12 12 By The Associated Press Bargaining Press Bargaining over o the guardianship of Priscilla Moran year old film star was charged in Jn testimony Monday In the court bat bat- battle battle battle tle being waged for the custody of ot the child actress Miss Ruby F. F Smith former gov gov- governess governess governess erness cl ct the child declared on the witness stand that Priscilla's father Leo A. A A Moran now dead told he made the bargain when Then the small daughters daughter's first picture Hungry Arms was shown In Tulsa Okla Oka Moran told me said the witness that Mrs Ella Smith the owner of a motion picture theatre In Tulsa was going to advance for Priscilla's next picture and that the he he demanded that she be made the guardian of Priscilla to o protect pr her Miss Smith sal said 31 Moran said he was vas wasi i going to give Mrs the guardianship but added that there was a 11 lot of difference between a guardianship and an adoption He also said he did not want Mrs ber to adopt Priscilla under any cir clr In the court fight John Ragland and his wife seek the custody of the child on the ground gro that she was given to their care by Moran before belore he died Mrs holds that she was awarded guardianship bf ot the child by the Oklahoma courts The childs child's d grandmother O Sophie Moran PR 1 and ner aunt Margaret ar Becker k de demand de- de demand mand custody of the small smaIl actress as the next of ot kin The case was continued at the close of Mondays Monday's court session |