Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1925, Page 15

' porations SARGENT TACKLES BIGGEST JOB EVER GIVEN ATTORNEY GENERAL Great Corporations Contr Already or About to B ing Test for Chief Federal Prosecutor. No United States Attorney General n at the height of trust-busting | % ever faced such a mountain of | poration litigation nd pective, as John G - gent finds piled on his the Department of .Jus every vital necessary of life itself—is involved in the complaints invest yns or actual prosecutions undergoing attention there. | It is well that President Coolidge’s | new Attorney General is a physical | giant and endowed with vigor un- | common to his yvears. The prediction | every initiated persc Wash- on is that he will the mext four man, William Attorney ne anti-trust pre 3 the Sherman law But the directing force, as well as hearer of the final responsibility will bhe the gaunt New Englander who has come down from his coun- law office in Vermont “to help my friend, Cal” Mr. Donovan takes office with a fighting (winner of the congressional for gallantry in France) and United States district attorney Buffalo. Caxes Require Much Time. With the exception of prohibition and taxation cases, no activity of the| Department of Justice begins to com- | pare with the time it devotes prosecutions under the Sherman ant trust law. Proceedings against co tions alleged to opera straint of trade, ie., to b listie in character, are incessant At the present time they run the| gamut of such every day mecessities of life as aluminum, peanuts,. gaso-t line, agricultural implements, eve-| glasses, lumber, cement and Sugar. Many cases were instituted long ago and are still pending.~ Some of them | have just been argued before the United States Supreme Court or in| Federal courts. Others are about o | Teach mm*gp It is the big cor- at employ the skillful | lezal talent and that in consequence | know all the tricks of the trade that| bring about tthe law’s delays.” , | One of the big affaird immediatey | rited by Attorney General Sar- is the case of the Aluminum of America, in which the Mellon rests at Pittsburgh are heavily | More than a year Federal Trade Commission lodge: omplaint alleging fllegal pra -es against the Aluminum company. | On the very eve of his retirement from office Attorney General Stone announced that he had directed De- rtment of Justice investigators to “chack up” on the Federal Trade Commission’s evidence. This has been in progress for mearly a month The investigators now ready to | report to Attorney General Sargent 1t ought presently to be known whether the new chief of the Depart- thinks there is a the big Mellon alu- minum combination Two Great Concerns Sued. Against two of the country's big- corporations—the Standard Oil pany and the International Har- ~the Department « ve proceedings pendin counsel are now in Chi- purpose of establishing e Federal court certain basic which the United States with its action in the | ard Oil cases. These are the ac- s instituted in June, 19 Standard of Indiana, the Jersey, the Texas Company, oline Products Company and others, for alleged combinations to control the production of gasoline. | They are charged with monopolizing certain patent rights and using the under a process commonly known the “cracking process.” Every aut mobilist in the country has an inter- est in the outcome of the Standard 0il prosecutions. ! The case against the International | Harvester Co. -called supple- | mental petition for additional relief under an old decree. It was argued to four United States circuit judges in the eighth circuit (Middle Western States) last October. Recently Judge William I Kenvon of Iowa, former United States progressive Senator, | asked relicf from further participa- | ton in the Harvester case, because it w tive in_the Department of S Tt T £ Qakdale Villa GLEN ECHO, MD. Opens Sunday April 12, With a Special Easter Dinner From 5 to 7, $1.25 B Reservations should be 2 made by April 1 Tel. Bethesda 201-F-21 BAD BREATH Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets Get | at the Cause and Remove It | Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets, the sub- | stitute for calomel. act gently on the | owels and positively do the work. People afflicted with bad breath find quick relief through Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets. 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Attorney General Sargent has decided that the Gov- N AMERM A ment_or file any additional briefs coud R ment or file any additional briefs in | REVENUE ORA ICER'S prey foues the Harvester case Other Important Suits, Other important and -reaching ACCUSED OF IMUGGLING anti-trust cases now pending, in one form or another, are as follows United States vs. Sisal Sales Cor- poration, instituted in July, 1 Defendants accused of monopolizing | foreign and interstate commerce in | sisal. a fiber principally grown in Mexico and extensively used in man- ufacture of farmers’ hinder twine Violation alleged both of Sherman anti-trust law and Wilson tarift act. | @,gg_,wm%m\ “m A B~ 1767 CHaRLES TownsHEND Succeepen i : 3 ¢ ROCKINCHIAM AS PRIME MINISTER AND BEGAN AT olling Necessities of Life| ONCE TO FUROMOTE A SCHEME FOR RAISING FUNDS AT THE EXVAENSE OF THE COLONISTS ——= TIME TOWNSHEND AcTs -IT6T i 1.1MPOSIY) A HEAVY DUTY ON TEA,GLASS, PAPER, AAD AND PAINTERS CDLORS - 2.STATIONE> ROVAL CUSTOMS OFFICER'S OF COLONISTS{SUSPECTED OF EVADING THE LAW. 4 DENIED RIGH) OF TRIAL BY JURY 1o COLONISTS BY. 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THE TOWNSMEM OF BOSTON VOTED To BovcoTT Ik ——= b ENGLISH GOODS,AND SAMUEL ADAMS ADDRESSED INSEPTEMBER 1763 TWO REGIMEN \ ‘w/ |1, /| | waicn BROUGHT SYMPATHETIC REPLES | SRR I * | IMEnaces g Town. — = United St D 1 Peanut Cleancrs and Shellers stituted In January NEW ACTS WAS BRIEF AND To THE POINT; THE KING HE ENGLISH CLAMED THAT THE ADAMS LETTER H;‘TowNSNLNb ACTS PAILED COMPLETELY, N HAD NO RIGHT TO LEVY A TAX ON AMBRICANS WITH-- | |\WAS SEDITIOUS, AND DEMANDED THAT IT BE RESCIND-| | SPITE'OF BRITISH EFFORTS YO ENFORCE THEM OUT FIRST CONSULTING THE COLONIAL ASSEMBLIES. | |ED,BUT THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE UPH| THE REFUSAL OF THE AMERICANS To BUN A CIRCULAR LETTER 10 THE OTHER COLONIES COATS WERE LANDED /N BOSTON TO OVERAWE THE 4 3 GOODS OF ENGLISH MANUFACTURE BROLGHT A L0SS OF B0O,000 POUNDS TO THE BRITISH MER- CHANTS AND FORCED MANY OF THEM QUT OF TS OF RED- PROVINCIALS, AND THE GUNS OF A BRITISH FLEET | [BusinESS. TomoRRew - THE BOSTON MASSACRE ® —+ | R g farars ey e v, 351 Sty | ot X e ol TWO BURNED TO DEATH. arbitrary terms, blacklisting and boy- | United States vs. General Electric | cotting purchasers who fail re- | Co., Westinghouse Electric and Man4| {niteq spect same. fixing prices, and pre- [ ufacturing Co. and Westinghouse; venting “orderly marketing” by pea-|Lamp Co., instituted in March, 1924, Dealers’ Association, instituted in January, 1 Defendants accused of Poultry Dealers’ Caxe. cement organizations in ti riland | tes vb_ .Live Poultry|sement industry.also under prosesu-|57° CIeCled against sholestie £29° tion fn Middle West, Rocky Mountain | nia, Utah and Idaho; against makers nut growers. | Defendants accused of conspiring to Qprice.fixing In trade of live poultry region and elsewhere. John W. 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