Evening star., 1938-11-15
US. |ndi(ts Bundesen
81 Others and D. T.,
Men in Milk Probe
81 Firms, ; More
Chicago Officials
Also Named
Ey the Associated Press.

Es the ASSOCIATED 1TeSS.
CHICAGO, Nov. 15.-Ninety- seven
organizations and individuals in the
fluid milk and ice cream industries
and allied groups were accused Of
antitrust law violations today in
two Federal indictments.
United States District Attorney
Michael l.. Igoe announced the
number was IA organizations and 43
individuals in the milk indictment
and 20 individuals and 20 organi-
cations in the ice cream indict-
ment.
Among the defendants were DR..
Herman N. Bundesen, president of
the Chicago Board of Health, and
Daniel Gilbert, chief of the Cook
County (Chicago) States attorneys
police.
Ice cream companies listed in the
indictments included the Garry Ice
Cream Co. of Washington, D. c.
Ernest H. Daniel of Washington
the Garry company's treasurer and
president, also was named, as was
Robert c. Hibben of Washington,
executive secretary Of the 1nterna-
tional Association of Ice Cream
Manufacturers, with headquarters
In Washington. The association
was listed as corporate defendant
The indictments, returned Novem-
Der /, by a grand jury that climaxed
a years inquiry by the Department
of Justice with 16 weeks of its own
investigation, had been suppressed
at the Governments request until
today, They alleged:
That antitrust statutes were vio-
lated in the sale of fluid milk in the
Chicago area.
That an illegal combination and
conspiracy of nationwide propor-
tions exist in the ice cream industry.
Price Fixing Charged
The fluid milk indictment charged
conspiracy to fix wholesale and re-
tail milk prices, to throttle inde-
pendent competition and to control
the supply of milk moving into Chi
cago from surrounding States.
The ice cream indictment charged
firms and individuals named had
combined since January, 1929, to re-
strain the sale and transportation
of counter freeZers, device to man
ufacture ice cream on the premises
where sold
Besides DR.. Bundesen and Capt.
Gilbert, two other officials were
named in the milk indictment.
They were Paul Kruger, chief sani-
tary officer of the dairy section of
the Board of Health, and w. J.
Gucrin, chief of the boards city
dairy inspection.
CDr. Bundesen, a native of Ger
many, has been prominent in off,
cial health circles in Chicago for
nearly Is years. In 1896 he was the
unsuccessful candidate against Gov.
Henry Horner for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination. Before
that he had served as Cook County
coroner, health commissioner, presi-
dent of the Chicago Morals Com
mission and trustee of the Munich
pal tuberculosis Sanitarium. He
also has been a lecturer at the Uni
versity of Chicago0
The milk indictment, entitled the
United States of America VS.. The
Borden Co., ct al, stated it covered
a period from January, 1885, up to
the present. and added:
The major distributors, the Pure
Milk Association, large Middle
Western marketing group, and the
Associated Milk Dealers, Inc. carry
ing out concerted plan and agree
ment, met jointly at divers times
and places in Chicago, where they
fixed and agreed upon uniform
terms and conditions for the pur-
chase of all fluid milk bought
through the Pure Milk Association.
These terms and coditions includ-
ed provisions as to prices, as to the
basis for computing price, as to the
classification of milk for the pur-
poseof pricing, as to the quantity
(see MILK, Page A-l40