Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1924, Page 15

QL CHES ISPUTE 1.5 SUT CHARGES ¢ Stewart and Bedford Defend Patents Attacked as Trust Lawbreakers. PACTS CALLED PROPER Standard Officials Declare They Ex- pect Vindication When Case Is Heard. By the Associated Pross. CHICAGO, June 26.__Anti-trust pro- credi aimed at more than ffty 1 0il companies of the United including all the Standard com- panies, were instituted by the govern- ment in federal court here yesterday. The action in equity, taken by At- torney General Stone and filed in district court by Edwin Olson, United States district attorney, asks an in- Junetion restrain the companies named from further violations of the plaint, set up seventy-nine license agreements as evidence of an al- leged conspiracy and which the go ernment claimed affected adversely the production, transportation sale of gasoline and other petroleum products in_{nterstate and foreign commerce. It is contended that the agreements tended to stop all parties to the plan from contesting the validity of the patent rights and to burden interstate trade with heavy charges in the guise of royalties. These royaltles, it contended, range from half a quarter a_ g on gasoline pro- duced by the crack: domestic consumption. is charged that the companies have sought to restrain trade by prohibit- ing large movements of gasoline sup- plies and other unpatented commod- ities and to give the Standard Oil Company of Indiana virtual mornopoly of trade and .commerce in the fifieen states known as “Indlana company territory.” The petition asks that the com- panies be restrained “from further carrying out or maintaining such conspiracies, combinations. attempts to monopolize and monopolizations.” that the system of contracts which violate sections of the anti-trust law be declared null and void, and that the defendants be enjoined from en- tering into like contracts in the tuture. DEFENDED BY BEDFORD. [1 It Previous Settlement of Patent Dis- pute Held Legal. NEW YORK, June 26—Alleged pooling of gasoline patent rights, which formed the basis for one of the charges in the government's anti- trust proceedings instituted vester- day against fifty or more leading oil THE Mellon, on Stand at Means’ Trial, Tells of Conversations Several Questions Put to Treasury Head Ruled Out of Order by Court—Scaife Is Scored Bitterly. By the Asvociated Press. NEW YORK, June 26—Secretary of the Treasury Mellon today was called as a witness for the defense at the trial of Gaston B. Means, former special agent of the Depart- ment of Justice, and Elmer W. Jarnecke, charged with violations of the prohibition laws. Hiram C. Todd, special deputy attorney general, asked Judge Wolverton to restrict the Secretary’s testimony to topics pertaining to the subject of the indictment. Questions Ruled Improper. The court upheld objections to questions put by Thomas B. Felder, Means' attorney, as to the alleged removal from the Overholt distillery in Pittsburgh of 2950 cases and 42,000 gallons of whisky on forged mits obtalned by a man named oodman. Felder then asked the Secretary whether these permits had been found in the Mellon National Bank in Pitts- had had an interest in the Overholt distillery. Denfes Receiving Liquor. Mr. Mellon said he had talked with J. W. Hubbard of New Jersey about the ligquor transaction which caused the indictment of Means. He said Hubbard told him he had pald money to a friend for release of whisky, but that he had obtained neither the whisky nor the money. Mr. Mellon sald he then referred the matter to Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair for investigation. Mellon described a visit that w attorney and former special agent of the Department of Justice, paid to him, representing himself as counsel for the Wo Clean Government Association and asking Mr. Mellon to assign him to investigate prohibi- 1 airs. Mr. Mellon said he told ttorney that he would refer the question to Mr. Blair, but that Scaife did not want to discuss it with Blair. Mellon Scores Scaife, “I asked him,” sald Mr. Mellon, “to put his proposition {n writing and send it to me. He did write to me, but he never made a definite pro- posal. There was nothing that de- served consideration. Mr. Scaife said he had made a note of his conversa- tion with me. That statement was almost wholly false. He exaggerated, distorted and invented the report of the brief session he had.” Returning to the question as to Mr. Mellon's knowledge of the re- lease of the Overholt whisky, Means' attorney argued that this question, which the court has ruled out, was important, since Means contended that he had been dismissed for in- vestigating _the distillery and the permits in the Mellon bank. But the question as to the Goodman whisky was not allowed and Mr. Mel- lon was excused. Jarnecke then testified that Means and erwood, who to ‘assist e him, had told him (Jarnecke) that it they could demonstrate the ineffi- clency of the prohibition enforcement bureau ident Harding would transfer its dutles to the Department of Justice. JURY AWARDS $125,000. Woman Who Shot Son’s Fiancee Loses Damage Suit. NEW YORK, June 26.—Two dam- age suit judgments, totaling $125,000, were returned today against Mrs. Concertta Blanca, sixty-three years old, on the eve of her departure for prison to serve a term of two to five years for having shot her son's flan- cee, Miss Elvira Orgero. Mrs. Bianca two days ago was con- victed of having permanently para- 1yzed the eighteen-year-old girl when she shot her last December, after Miss Orgero had called on her to tell her that she Intended soon to marry the son. A civil jury today awarded the crippled girl an $85,000 judgment against, the convicted woman and . later awarded $40,000 to Miss Orgero’s mother for the loss of her daughter's services. e Boy Killed by Truck. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., June 26.—The four-year-old son of John Ivey, Campbell County farmer, was killed late Tuesday about five miles from here, when he fell from a loaded truck and a wheel crushed his chest. Goes Hunting in Alaska. Special Dispateh to The Kt FREDERICKSBUF Va., June 26. —F. C. Baldwin left this week on a trip to Alaska, where he will spend hunting for wild game. ft you want work read the want columins of The Star. companies, was defended last night by A. C. Redford, chairman of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey one of the primary defendants in the suit Settlement last vear of patent dis- putes involving cracking processes between the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and the Texas (o pany, Standard Oil Company of In- diana and the Gasoline TProducts Company, Mr. Bedford asserted, had clarified the situation in which over- Down With Cooking and stewing Summer mornings QUICK QUAKER — ready in 3 to 5 minutes. No hot kitchens, no fuss, no mass, no frying pans to clean burgh as collateral for a loan to Good. man. This question also was barred Secretary Mellon testified that’ he Sherman act which is| charged 011 pat anti-trust against them. contracts of the Standard Gil Comy ana, cited by At- torney (ienera > 'in his com- plaint, are legal and honest, have been ot ten years and never before heen cked, Col. K. W. 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