Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-04
ADJUDGES SUGAR
co. IN CONTEMPT
AMERICAN REFINING FIRM
HELD BACK LETTERS
OFFICIALS SUMMONED, ORDERED
TO SHOW CORRESPONDENCE
Federal Grand Jury Complies Long
List of Papers and Data and
Demands They Be
Produced
tAssociated PressI


NEW YORK, March 3.-Not salts
fed with the millions received IN pay
ment of duty evaded by short weights,
involving the indictment of Charles r.
Heike, the company secretary, ana
the conviction of minor employees, the
United States government is stlIl nght-
ing hard to convict the American Su-
gar Refining company under the Sher-
man antitrust act.
Such action was contemplated When
the company put the Pennsylvania Su-
gar Refining company out of business,
but the settlement of that suit out or
court and the interference of the stat
ute of limitations necessltated anoIner
legal tack and the matter was laid be-
fore the federal grand jury IN New
York early in January.
Not until today, however, did the
scope of the inquiry become public,
when the grand jury handed up a pre-
sentiment for contempt against the
company for the latter's failure to pro-
duce certain books and papers in re-
sponse to subpoenas.
Move to Test Rights
This presentment in itself is but
move of the government to ascertain
its rights to the books in question, but
incidentally disclosed the nature of the
papers demanded and afforded a key to
the scope of the government proceed
ure.
1t has been alleged that the Amerl-
can Sugar Refining company controls
30 per cent of the sugar business IN
this city and a hint of it's intricate re-
lations with various subsidiary compa-
MES is given n the subpoienas.
The subpoenas demanded the produc-
ton of all agreements and all other
instruments made by or TO the Amer
lean Sugar Refining company or any
officer thereof, with any other persons
or corporations in and about the pur-
chase by said company of stock in
forty-four companies.
Papers Demanded
Among the papers demanded are the
following: Agreement between the
company and the sugar syndicate OF
Mexico; contracts with the Sugar Fac
tors company, limited, of Hawaii;
agreement in 1907 with John ID.
Spreckels for the purchase of an in
terest in the Western Sugar Beet com
nany. contract with Hawaiian plant
ers in 1907: contracts with the Chlno
Beet Sugar company; contracts with
the American Coffee company; agency
agreem ents with the Alameda Sugar
company: contract to purchase stock
of the Great Western Sugar company;
solidation of the Utah and Idaho
Sugar company and agreements with
the following companies (between July.
1902, and January, 1869 American
Beet Sugar company. Great Western
Sugar company of Colorado Fort Col
Inns Sugar company, Utah Sugar COM
pany, Western Idaho Sugar company,
Continental Sugar company, Snake
River valley Sugar company; Miehi-
gan Sugar company, Iowa Sugar COM
pany Bay City Sugar company, sag
inaw Sugar company; Saginaw Valley
Sugar company, General Distributing
company of West Virginia, Sebewaing
Sugar company, Great Western Sugar
rompany of New Jersey Amalgamated
Sugar company, Ogden Sugar company,
Oregon Sugar company, Longmont
Sugar company, Billings Sugar COM
pany Utah-Idaho Sugar company,
Menominee Sugar company, Spreckels
Sugar company, Agricultural Invest
ment company Northern Construction
company, san Pete Sewer Sugar COM
pany, Bay City Sugar company.
The order to show cause why the
trust" should not be adjudged in con-
tempt will be signed next week.