Samuel Cummins, head of Jewel Productions, producers of the “Hitler Reign of Terror,” has dispatched a letter to Mayor LaGuardia in answer to the charge of the Steuben Society that the film would result in “race riots.”
Among other points the missive asks for an inquiry by the Mayor as to where the Steuben group got their information about the riots, charging that if any disturbances should be caused they will be the fault of those who are interested in closing the film.
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