New-York tribune., 1922-07-09
BilliOn-Dollar
German Patent
Plot Charged
Carvan Says Teutons Plan
infringement Suits if Dye
and Drug Rights Are Re-
turned ON Harding Order
Involves Big Radio Plants
Chemical Foundation. Inc.
to Fight Action; Plans TO
Expose AllegedC Conspiracy

- SIsahtlc plot 1ostefed by group
of German capitalists to obtain from
$500,000,00o to 81 $1,000,000,00o on patent
infringement suits to be brought IN
this country will be disclosed as re-
suit of the fight the Chemical Founda-
tion Company, Inc, will wage against
President Harding's order to the Alien
Property Custodian to bring suit for
the return of the German patents to
the German interests, according to
Francis P. Garvan, head of the Chemi-
cal Foundation. The suits would be
brought If the German dye and drug
patents now in the hands of the Chemi-
cal Foundation and the Sayville, L. T.,
and Tuckerton. N. j., wireless plants
are not returned to the Germans, Gar
van claims.
Garvan has arranged to give an in
terview to-day at the Bar Association,
when more details of the alleged plot
will be divulged. Rudolph Oppenheim,
Hans Wagner and Karl Holderman
three German agents representing the
German cartel, which consists of all
the organic chemical industry in Ger
many and who were named by Garvan
IN a plot to obtain the dye patents for
terday. At the Hotel Plaza it was said
Oppenheim had checked out and left no
| forwarding address. Although Wagner
and Holderman are holding rooms at
the Plaza, they could not be located.
Garvan alleges that the war plotters
found the transatlantic wireless sta
tion sole means of overcoming the
British control of the seas and of
maintaining their touch with America,
and from 1910 to 1914 there were
I begun and completed two hgh-pow-
| and one at Tuckerton. The United
| States took control of the wireless
stations when this country went to
war. The Alien Property Custodian
reported at the time that the Tele-
funken interests of Germany were
back of the wireless plans, said Gar
van
The Telefunken system has been in
stalled on many American coastwise
vessels and has been operating with
great success with the Sayvile plant.
From August, 1914, to March, 1917, the
commercial use of the Sayvile and
Tuckerton stations was enormo Gus, &C
cordlng to government report, said
Garvan Then when war with the
United States was imminent some of
the Telefunken representatives in the
Atlantic Communication Company or
ganlzed new company under the laws
of New York and called it the New
York Patent Exploitation Company To
this new company were transferred the
three patent rights which belonged to
the German interests.
The United States government paid
| $4,000 for the two plants and this
broke the German wireless monopoly
/ tth al
lean control. Garvan maintains the
German interests also seek to regain
control of their patent rights in the
wireless field as they have already at
tempted to do in the Chemical in
dustry.
This will mean that they will have
ground to bring suits for damages on
patent infringements. The amounts
may run to $1,000, 100000, Garyan
| alleges.
1--WE will welcome any kind Of a suit
by any German interest" Mr.. Garvin
said. Let them sue us in a civil,
criminal OR whatever court they wish.
| When a case starts the American peo-
pie will be informed as to What F has
been going on by German plotters
Once the people know conditions the
German interests will not ret very far
in their schemes.
president Harding did not . know
these facts when he ordered Thomas
w Miller, the Alien Property Custo-
dian, to bring suit against the Chem
ical Foundation, Inc, for the return
of the German dye patents the foun-
dation secured from the custodian. 1t
is all a trick by the Germans to regain
their control of the important dye and
| drug processes"
,Almuth C. Vandiver attorney, of
the firm of O'Gorman, Battle. Vandi-
yer & Levy, said at his home last
night he had nothing further tc say
after his statement Of Friday, when
he announced that he had knowledge
that the Attorney General had long
decided to institute suit against the
Chemical Foundation and had so rec
commended to the President prior to his
conference with the German represent
atives and their counsel
Mr.. Garvan would not disclose the
nature of his statement to be issued
this afternoon. 1t is said, however,
that Garvan has a thorough knowledge
/ of the activities of the Germans in
this country who represent the Ger
man dye interests, and is likely to
make disclosures of a sensational
| nature.