Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — INDICT 83 ONION MEN [ARTICLE]

INDICT 83 ONION MEN

INDIANA, MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN MEN NAMED. | Charged With Conspiracy to Monopol- ■ ize Interstate Commerce —Made Big Profits. Boston. May' 25. Eighty-eight corporations and individuals were indigtI ed by rhe federal grand jury beret for., ' .conspiring to monopolize interstate I commerce im onions. The indictments, which were returned aS a result of a nation-wide inquiry into tiie cost of food conducted last winter, by United States Attorney George W. Anderson of this city, allege that the defendants divided the territory of the country between them for the purpose of eliminating competition ; that maximum prices wefe fixed for the purchase |of onions, ami that the •supply was hoarded in order to in-

crease pri'ces. . ■ ■■' Mr. Anderson estimated that the -annual |crop of onions- amounted to 2OO.tMXT,<K)O pounds, three-foiirths of which, he said, was alleged to have been controlled by the defendants. The indictments include the followinc: F. S. Ort. F. C. Ort and E. E: Gandy of F, C. Ort & Co., Churubusco, Ind. ’ A. B. Mosher. F, E. Kenner and L. A. Schrader of the Columbia City Cold S tornge cbmpany, Col umbia Ci ty, Ind, Joseph Deal, Hooper, Mich. Elmer E. Gandy. Churubusco, Ind. Martin Boysen, Doster, Mich. Edward Oliver, Wauban, Wis. Henry J. Vinkeniulder and Moses J. Dark of the Minkemulder company, Grand Rapids, Mich. W. J. Hansche, Racine, Wis.