The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-01-16
C0LVER Tells. OF
FRAMEUP ON BOARD
CHARGES DEPARTING IN JUS.
TIcE AGENTS IN Pie >sAINsT
FEDERAL com~lss}on
SAYS PACKERS HAD 4 HAND
Big Five Alleged to Have Connived to
Discredit Board.-Competition is
Steadily Lessening in the Meat
Producing Industry

Washington, Jan. 10.-Charges that
arrests of federal trade commission
employees made in the recent depart
ment of justice campaign against
reds have been the result of frame
ups" designed to build the theory that
the commission lis a hothed ~'of boil
shevism' were made yesterday by w.
b. Colver. of that body, before the SEN
ate agricultural committee. colver left
the intimation that the Iarger Chicago
packing concerns had conniv{ 4 in some
degree to attain the result andfnvolv-
| ed Ludwig C. A K Martens, self
| styled ambassador of the Russian SOW
let republic to the United States, and
S. Nuorteya, Martens secretary in his
| account of instances to prove the point
Given a whole day before the COM
mittee, which last night announced its
hearing ended Colver likewise voiced
vigorous campaign TO regulate the
industry, need of which was proved,
he said. by the recent agreement be-
tween the packers and the department
of justice in settlement of antitrust
proceedings.
To this testimony the commissioner
added Il critical analysis of statements
and motives of witnesses who have
opposed packer regulations during the
prolonged hearings of the agriculture
committee on the Kenyon and Ken
drick bills last year, concluding with
the assertion that in the meat indus
try competition is containing TO les
sen and monopoly to increase even
though we exhaust the powers of pres
ent federal laws to restrain it, In
the first instance, the commissioner
said 1.-THE frame-up had resulted in
the arrest of Rafael Mallen. former
clerk for the trade commission, in
raids directed last week at Chicago
communist centers by the department
of Justice. Henton s.. Clabaugh. head |
of the secret service at Chicago, and |
his assistant, Phillip ]. Barry, Colver i
said, both of whom have since resign |
ed. were responsible, and Barry now |
is special agent" for SwiffAand NAL |
len was later released.
Johann Ohsol, another employee of |
the commission, Colver said was ar
while on a visit to Nuorteva. Read
ing an alleged claim of Nuorteva and
Martens that purchases of large meat
supplies from Chicago packer had
been arranged with the object of get
ting it into Russia through the allied |
blockade, Colver said he considered
this connection between meat packers
and the soviet representatives ''signifi-
can't" as it concerned Ohsol's arrest.
and later since the latter had been
taken into custody when he came In
to see Nuorteva in answer to a specific
telephone call.
Dealing with persons who discussed
regulative legislation before the COM
mittee since the Kenyon and Kendrick
bills were advanced. Colver said that 4
put of 1S1 heard, IA had opposed any
federal control of the industry, many
he said, because they had been in
fluenced by propaganda from packer
Institutions.
To show that the consumer was not
getting any benefit from lower live
stock prices, Colver presented a dia-
gram showing that on August 1, live
logs sold at % cents a pound, pork
oins sold in Boston for 34b cents.
While on October %, when live hogs
sold at 12k cents, loins sold at 37k
.ents in Boston.