Evening star., 1937-10-01
OIL PRICE FIXING
CASES UP MONDAY
f8 Companies, 6 Subsidiar-
les, 3 Publications and Al
individuals Called
~ the Associated Press.

MADISON, Wis, october l.
Eighteen companies, six subsidiaries
three publications and At individuals
leaders in the Nations oil industry,
answer charges of conspiracy to fix
prices in Federal court here next Mon
day.
The defendant companies with indi-
vidual officers and employees who are
defendants follow:
Standard Oil Co. of Indiana-Ed-
ward G. Seubert, president; Allan
jackson and Edward j. Bullock. vice
presidents, all of Chicago; Ira A
Smith, Tulsa, Okla, buyer.
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc
Charles L. Jones and Charles Arnott
of New York, vice presidents; H. T.
Ashton, ST. Louis, Lubrite division
manager; R. R. Irwin, Kansas City
White Eagle division manager; Bryan
s. Reid, Chicago division general man.
eger.
Cities Service Co., New York.
Cities Service Export Oil Co.. New
York-H. E. Brandt, vice president
general manager; Harry D. Frueauff
Tulsa. vice president.
Empire Oil and Refining Co., Bart
lesville, Okla.-Frueauff vice presi.
dent; o. j. Tuttle, Tulsa, tank cal
sales manager.
Louisiana Oil Refining Corp.
Shreveport-Fr Frueauff, vice president
John A. Welch, sales manager.
Wadhams Oil Co., Milwaukee-A. G
Mcguire, chairman of board.
Continental Oil Co, Ponca City
Okla-Dan Moran, president; Harry
J. Kennedy, vice president; L. T
Cramer, tank car buyer; Edward Kar-
stedt of Denver, former vice president
Gulf Oil Corp, Pittsburgh.
Gulf Refining Co., Pittsburgh.
Pure Oil Co.. Chicago-Henry M
Dawes, president; C. B. Watson. vice
president; R. H. McElroy. jr.. tank cal
sales manager; Dewey K. Chamber
lain, manager Of Tulsa, Okla, division
Shell Petroleum Corp, st. Louis
Alexander Fraser. president; P. E. La
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Sinclair Refining Co., New York
j. w. Carnes, vice president.
The Texas Co., New York-W. S. S
Rodgers. president; r. D. Cottmgham
assistant to president; H. w. Dodge
vice president; P. c. Scullin of Hous-
ton, Tex, vice president of Indiana
Refining Co., Texas Co. subsidiary
which is not defendant.
Tide Water Oil Co. of New jersey
Edward L. Shea and Noel Robinson o.
New York, vice presidents; J. w
Warner and r. o. Audrain of Tulsa
Okla
Midcontinent Petroleum Corp
Tulsa-Jacob France of Baltimore
president; Robert w. Mcdowell, vice
president, and Thomas Fitzgerald, his
assistant.
Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville
Okla.-Frank Phillips, president; Fred
L. Koopman, vice president; A. M
Hughes, sales manager; H. A. Gard
ner, tank car sales manager.
Skelly Oil Co., Tulsa-W. G. Skelly
president; James Nagle, wholesale
sales manager.
Barnsdall Refining Corp, Tulsa
e. B. Reeser, president.
Globe Oil and Refining Co.'S of Ok
lahoma, Illinois and Kansas. A.
'Shaughnessy, Minneapolis, presi-
dent
Deep Rock Oil Corp, Tulsa.
The Chicago Journal of Commerce.
Platts Oilgram, Cleveland-Warren
{. Platt, president
National Petroleum News-Platt.
president.
Clyde M. Boggs, Arkansas City,
Kans., president of the Western Pc
troleum Refners' Association.
Arthur V. Bourque, Tulsa, secre-
tary-treasurer Western Petroleum Re-
liners Association
Ten other individual defendants
have been excused from the trial be-
cause of illness, pending court battles
over their removal to Madison, be-
cause they are not named in the in
dictment presently being tried or have
been called as witnesses.