Milford chronicle., 1938-03-18
AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER OF
"AMFRICA'S 90 FAMILIES" RE-
TRACT CHARGES OF FRAUD
MADE AGAINST DU PONT
COMPANY

Ferdinand Lundberg. author, and
the Vanguard Press, publisher, OF
the book Americas go Families"
have publicly retracted the state
ments in that book charging fraud
against E. /. DUPONT deNemOurs and
Company with respect to contracts
which that company had with the
United States Government during
the World War. They have acknOw-
Iedged that these statements were
| unfOunded and have agreed to eX-
Dunge from future editions OF the
book the matter complained of. In
view of this vindicatiOn. the dupont
Company is dismissing its suit for
libel against the author and pub
fisher.
The public retractiOn made by the
author and publisher is as follows;
ITO the Readers of Americas 90
Families and the Public Gener-
! ally:
"E. l. dupont deNemOurs and
Company has challenged as being
untrue certain statements charging
fraud against il as to war contracts
with the United States Government,
which appear on page 202 of the
first five printings of the book Am
erica's 60 Families and on pages
2O2-2O3 of the sixth printing there
of. of which Ferdinand I.undberg is
author, and The Vanguard Press,
publisher. The dupont Company al
so has challenged the publication by
the Vanguard Press of an advertise
ment of said book which appeared |
in the New Yorw Herald-Tribune on
November 7, 1887, and which made
reference to charges Of fraud by the
Government against the DUPONT ,
COmpany on war contracts.
"(TDOn reference to certain public ,
records, we have found that the
charges made by Government inVes-
tigators against the dupont Com
pany as to war contracts, the sale OF
bodies of its employees, and kindred
matters, were refuted by evidence
later adduced, and that this com
pany was exOneTated in confden-
tial letter written by former Attor-
ney General Sargent to the War De-
partment, reading in part as fol-
lows:
"'An extensive investigation of
the charges of fraud or crime above
referred to has failed to disclose
reasonable or probable grounds for
believing that during the perform
ance of the contracts in question
the dupont Company committed the
offenses with which it has been
charged, or any crimes, and in my
opinion there is no warrant either
for further investigation along these
lines or for the institution of pro-
ceedings against the company based
upon charges of fraud or crime
I'VE therefore believe il our duty,
in fairness to the dupont Company,
to delete the charges of fraud made
against it on page 202 of the first
five printings Of the book Americas
go Families and on pages 2O2-2O3 OF
the sixth printing thereof, from all
editions of said book hereafter
printed andIOr published and from
copies of future editions or print
ings offered for sale, and to cause
this statement to be published. I'm
der the same category we deem 1t
fair to state that the evidence re-
ferred to and the confidential letter
of the former Attorney General were
and unavailable to the
author except in certain unindexed
appendices to a public record Of
nearly fourteen thousand pages.
"In view of the foregoing, The
Vanguard Press regrets its publica-
tion of the advertisement which ap-
peared in the New York Herald
Tribune on November z, 1887.
"(Signed) Ferdinand Lundberg
" (Signed) The Vanguard Press. Inc.
In addition to the foregoing 1t has
been stipulated between the parties
to the libel suit that the dupont
Company. by dismissing that suit.
does not admit the correctness OF
other statements in the book which
relate to the DUPONT Company.
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