The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-31
THE LUMBER TRUST.
SUBJECT or SWEEPING INQUIRY
by FEDERAL GRAND JURY
NEXT WEEK.
Central West involved Including
Eleven Big Corporations
Dissolution Suit Win
Follow Quiz.

Chicago, May 30--War on the So
called lumber trust OF the central
West was formally declared yester-
cay with the calling of special frand
Jury to investigate the Weyerhaeuser-
Lines and associated timber interests
with the institution of criminal pro-
ceedings under the Sherman anti
trust law in view
The special grand jury will be I'M
paneled by Unittd States District
Judge Lands on June and viii
take up the broken threads of the
western end of the investigation re-
emily directed against the eastern
lumber association which resulted IN
suit for dissolution, charging "un-
reasonable restraint of trade" being
siled by Attorney General Wicker.
sham at Washington.
TO Probe These Charges.
The inquiry in Chicago, it Is re-
ported, is one of A series planned by
The Department of Justice. The in
yestigation Is to be wide and con.
Quoted under the direct supervision
Of the Attorney General. Among
the charges to be inquired into are:
That organizations of retailers are
in league to keep up the price oil
lumber commodities TO consumers.
That they force all ultimate con
sumers to buy direct from retailers
That wholesalers who sell to Others
than members of the retail associa
tons are blacklisted and their sup
ply of lumber cut off. Many great
Industrial concerns are under the
charged.
These Bodies involved.
The associations of the central
Vest. West and South. with whom
! racticaay every big lumber dealer
ii those sections are associated, are
aid to be:
The National Lumber Manufactur-
ers' Association.
National Wholesale Lumber Dealers
Association.
Lumber Secretaries Bureau Of In
formation of Chicao.
Lumber Credit Agency of Chicago.
Northwestern Retail Lumber Deal
ers' Association of Minneapolis.
Western Retail Lumbermen's Asso
citation of Sponane.
Southwestern Lumbermen's Asso'
citation of Kansas City.
Retail Lumber Dealers Association
of Colorado and Wyoming.
Michigan Retail Lumber Associa-
ton OF Grand Rapids.
Lumbermens Association of Texas
Retail Lumbermen's Association of
Illinois.
The calling of special grand jury
to hear evidence follows a sweeping
investigation by Department of JUS
tice agents who have been operat-
ing in the central West and West for
several months. They have worked
under the direction of the Attorney
General and their findings have been
reported to him.
Here From Washington.
After the suit to infiict punishment
on the Eastern lumber dealers as
well as TO obtain a permanent in
junction restraining them from con
tinuing the alleged conspiracy was
filed in Washington, the Attorney
General sent Clark McKercher, a
special assistant, to Chicago to co
operate with District Attorney Sims
and Special Assistant District At
torney Goldman in the preparation oil
evidence to be laid before special
grand jury.
The work for the inQuisitorial body
has been mapped out and so rarefully
mas the case been prepared that il
IS predicted at the federal building
chat indictments win be voted within
vo weeks after the jury is lmpan
Cd. More than fifty witnesses Z
ajority lumbermen, will be sub
enaed before the END of the week
Directed at Retailers.
In the inquiry the special agents
sYe investigated Ana9rstiPrlarly tAr
wenurso the bltler's pantry and the
discovered masked man kneeli
over the chest OF silverware.
"4Ahar said he huskily. Stealing
"tOh, no. replied the burglar cal
~. I'm only adapting
srel Ti,.o loffsifnerssh Mango.