TRUST LAW VITALIZED NOT JUDICIAL LEGISLATION
Correspondent traces origin of the rule of reason and explains need to modify Congress words to limit vast power given to the Department of Justice in trust cases. The piece surveys Anglo American common law on restraints of trade, the Sherman Act, and the Supreme Court’s interpretation, noting the broad federal reach over interstate commerce and the dangers of overbreadth. It calls decisions in Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust cases among the most significant and outlines future questions in trade law and enforcement.
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Department of Justice
Eichter Fest
Shey
Awly
Tobacco Trust
White
Supreme Court
Common Law
Thomas Ruffin
Washington
American Tobacco Company
Wall Street
Financial
Dstrict
Standard of
American Tobacco
Standard Oil
Planta
Pair Mysteriously Shot in Coatesville Crime
In Coatesville Pennsylvania on June 4 Edward Atlee survives bullet wounds to his back and chest after a strange man shoots him as he wakes. His wife Maud Atlee is found dead in the kitchen from a heart shot. The district attorney investigates the double incident.
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Coatesville
Maud Atlee
Edward Atlee
Atlee
Diver killed in fall at Bayonne Park show
Hundreds witnessed the tragedy as Edward De Walt, a legless? performer, died after he struck the tank instead of water during a high diving act in Bayonne Park New Jersey Saturday night. Physicians reported a fractured skull and almost immediate death.
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Legiess
New Jersey Park
Spretal
Washington Post
New York
Edward de Walt
Bayonne Park
Bayonne
N. J
de Walt
Chinese Slayer Hangs Self Before Murder Trial
Pittsburg June 4 Tom Yee a Chinese man due on murder trial hanged himself in the county jail this morning. He had made a rope from a towel. Yee was charged with killing Yee Check Wah in a North Side Chinese restaurant. He was under indictment in Philadelphia for the October 1908 murder of Joe Fook.
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Pittsburg
Tom Yee
Yee
Yee Check Wah
Fom Yee
Phladelphia
Joe Fook
Watching the Stanley Steel Trust Hearings in Louisville
Henry Watterson in the Courier-Journal predicts a pivotal moment as Judge Gary of the United States Steel Corporation faces scrutiny over Tennessee Coal and Iron. The piece urges Democrats led by Stanley and Littleton to pursue real government supervision of trusts, overhaul the system, and move beyond demagogic rhetoric to lasting reform.
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Washington Post
Lowinsville, Ky
Henry Watterson
Courier-Journal
Stanley Steel Trust Committee
Gary
United States Steal Corporation
Walter Scott
Alexandre Dumas
Accoss
Gary Ay
Olympus
Stanley
Mr. Littleton
Tennessee Coal and Iron
Morgan
Frick
Roosevelt
Reot
John Sherman
Congress
Littleton
Clark
Underwood
Washington
United States
Steel Corporation
Gary's Plea for Cooperation in Steel Price War
Judge Elbert H. Gary of United States Steel publicly released his luncheon address urging continued cooperation and price stability among iron and steel makers. He warned against wage cuts while profits stay fair, and stressed open relations but warned against any formal price fixing or market division. He noted Republic Iron and Steel's price cuts and left the choice to the industry to continue or suspend cooperation.
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New York
Elbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Iron and Steel
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Gary
Metropolitan Club
Republic
Rsk
Railroad Shares Lift Mood As Steel Market Holds Steady
New York June 4 United States Steel and railroad shares show resilience after a mixed week. The Supreme Court tobacco ruling alters perceptions of the Sherman law while railroads report improving net earnings and steady dividends. Agricultural prospects support broader market optimism as steel prices fall to near production costs.
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Washington Post
New York
Panto
Supreme Court
American Tobacco
United States Steel
Post Europe trip figures on exhibition all day
Standings of contestants in The Post's European trip contest are posted in Hecht's window on Seventh street. The display shows changes since yesterday and Thursday, with Wednesday morning updates including voting receipts. No further subscription vote bonuses after today. coupons must be mailed separately, with closing rules noted.
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Washington Post
New Orleans
United States
Idaho
Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Miss
Donaldsonville
Pensacola
Fla
Hecht
Seventh Street
Europe
Post
Statesmen and magnate speak as Americans with right to be heard
A fragmented discourse portrays statesmen and a steel magnate speaking frankly about truth and judgment. The text praises a Patriot-like magnate for offering a way out and argues that neither he nor Morgannor or Carnegie should be cast as criminals, but rather as Americans with a right to speak and be heard by their countrymen.
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Morgan
Carnegie
Narwhal Submarine Achieves Two Bull's-Eyes at 2000 Yards
Newport R I June 4 Improvements in naval marksmanship extend to submarines. The Narwhal under Lieut Chester W Nimitz fired two bull's-eyes in four shots at 2000 yards while 3% to 40 feet under water. On surface and submerged tests the boat has performed well per submarine flotilla officers.
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Newport
Chester W Nimitz
Postmaster General Expands Postal Savings Network
Postmaster General Hitchcock plans to grow the postal savings system from 100 to 150 offices a week with at least 1000 depositaries by July 1. The system will reach first class offices in large cities on July 1, while second class offices have been designated to date. Fifty more post offices were named depositaries yesterday, bringing totals to 450 ready to accept deposits on July 1.
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Hitchcock Hag
Washington
Naval Graduate Married at Annapolis Home
Miss Ethel Blanch Martin daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Martin of Annapolis and Midshipman Oliver Wolfard son of Nevada, who graduated from the Naval Academy Friday, were married at the bride’s home Saturday evening. The Rev Alexander Bielaski of Maryland Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church officiated. The ceremony was quiet with the bride’s cousin Glady Martin as attendant and Midshipman DP Capehart as best man. A reception followed.
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Washington Post
Annapoli
Ethel Blanch Martin
Edward Martin
Oliver
Wolfard
Nevada
Naval Academy
Alexander Bielaski
Maryland Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Speasst The Washington Post Gordensville death notice
Sneed died this morning at the home of Mrs Mollie Sneed after several weeks of heart trouble. He was 1 years of age. Burial will be at Maplewood Cemetery on Monday.
Iron and steel prices spur timely trade improvements
The comment notes that even at 17,000 tons without capital increase, the steel market sees that low prices historically precede a trade up. It emphasizes memory of past cycles where current discounts foreshadow quicker improvements in demand and prices.
Steel market unsettled as prices cut across billets to rails
New York June 4 steel market moves unsettle buyers with a $1 to $4 per ton drop in billets sheets bars plates and shapes driven by Republic companys $3 drop in steel bars. Agricultural implement makers bid further cuts while railroads and builders hesitate on contracts though May orders totalled high. New business since June 1 includes 100000 tons of rails for Northern Pacific Missouri Pacific and West Indies Car. Grand Trunk orders 45 locomotives.
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New York
Republic Company
Amis
Steel Corporation
Northern Pacific
Missouri Pacific
West Indies
Canadian Pacific
Santa Fe
Grand Trunk
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Chance For the Democrats
Louisville
United States Corporation
Frederic H. Whitley
Fulton Street
Brooklyn
Narwhal
Bank For Washington
NAVAL
C. L. Wolfard
Ethel Martin
Annapolis
J. L. Sneed
Gordonsville
U. S. Treasury Department
Michael G. McCormick
Julius S. Peyser
George R. Linkins
J. Fendall Cain
WM. C. Worthington
H. Owen Thompson
Charles W. Carr
William A. Gordon
Henry P. Blair
Irvin Owings
J. E. Troth
John D. Howard
West End
E. Briggs
W. End
Tenry P. Blair R, E. Burks
J. Fendall Cain A, D. Carpenter Samuel D. Cole Charles W. Carr
C. H. Fred Anthony Gaegler
William A. Gordon Thomas P. Hickman
Arthur D. Marks
P.d. Nee Julius I. Peyser
Lester B, Platt
A. D. Prince
B. J. Smith, Jr
Emanuel
Charles J. Walker
Henry L. West
Benjamin Woodruff
C.M. Woolf
Zantzinger
Merchants and Mechanics Savings Bank
Ave & Cfnw
Equitable Co-Operative Building Association
Equitable Building Association
John Joy Edson
F Frank P. Reeside
Job Barnard
Fredric V. Coville
J. J. Edson, Jr
Equitable Building
F St. N. W
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Gilbert H Grosvenor
Inc
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Geo. H. Harries
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B. Larner
A. M. Lothrop
Fredk
B. Pyre
Mergenthaler Linotype Company
Fred'k J Warburton
Pere Marquette
Senator Bailey
McKinney
Tex
H. S. Smith
Gammeter
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Washington Loan & Trust Company Cor
Metropolitan Bank
Fifteenth St
U. S
District of Columbia
Benge Jet
Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co
Fifteenth Street N. W
Equitable Surety Company
ST Louis
Missouri
Oscar J. Ricketts
Matriet of Columbia
Maryland
New Southern
15Th and
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American Security & Trust Co
15Th Street and
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