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ASK LEGAL OPINION ON BANK RECEIVERS Alleged Playing Politics, Not Helping Depositors. Oct. that the central office of the department of trade and commerce being used for the purpose of carrying on political campaign and not for the economical and nec. essary expenses of liquidating failed banks were contained in an application for declaratory judgment in bank matters filed in district court here Saturday. The application was that of Harry L. Breslow, depositor of the failed Farmers and Mechanics bank of Havelock, for declaratory judgment on the right of Governor Charles W. Bryan and Secretary of Trade and Commerce Luikart to appoint Franz Radke and others to handle the legal affairs of the bankhandle the legal affairs of the reThe application quotes the statutes to show that allegedly the legal affairs of the receivership department should be handled by Attorney General C. A. Sorensen. It is claimed that Radke and others who have been appointed to hadle the legal affairs of the receivership department have been appointed without authority of the attorney general The application alleges that "unnecessary employes have been placed on the payroll and large and number of local attorneys employed for merely political reasons: that said central office and its employes has been used and is being used for the pur pose of carrying on political campaigns and not for the and necessary expenses of the liquidation of failed banks or for the best interests of depositors that thousands of political letters and circulars have been prepared by said receivership departments