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Show " BEEF PUCKERS INDICTED K FEDERAL GRID JURY Cudahy Company of Kansas City Accused Ac-cused of Defrauding the Government Govern-ment Out of Over $80,000 in Revenues. Topeka, Kans. The Cudahy Packing Pack-ing company of Kansas City was indicted in-dicted by the federal grand jury here on Friday of wholesale violations of the United States internal revenue laws. The charge is that, the company com-pany has defrauded the government out of over $80,000 in revenues on oleomargarine. The corporation was indicted on C95 counts, and the maximum maxi-mum fine on each count is $1,000, making a total for which the company com-pany is liahle in the event of conviction convic-tion of nearly $700,000. The revenue law provides that each pound of uncolored oleomargarine must bear a revenue stamp of a quarter quar-ter of a cent, but that to each pound to which coloring material has been added to give it the appearance of butter, a 10-cent revenue stamp must be attached. It is charged in the indictments that the Cudahy Packing company has sold the colored product under the quarter of a cent tax, and consequently conse-quently has defrauded the government govern-ment out of large sums. Inspectors have been working on the case several sev-eral months, and have secured samples in towns and cities from New York to Seattle and from Duluth to Jacksonville, Fla. |