Show fiNAl fiGHT BEGUN I IN HARVESTER CASE Company Attorney Tells Court Government Has Changed Its Ground of Attack Washington April 7 The i The crucial contest in the governments government's dissolution dissolution tion lion suit against the International Harvester Mar Har vester ester company compan began today with tho the presentation of or the case to the supreme court in oral arguments On account of or Its Us Importance the court consented to lo give ghe two full days das for Cor argument of or orthe the case Only John P P. Wilson a di director director director di- di rector of or the company compan and one Olle of or Its Ita corps of or attorneys was wae heard toda today Tho The suit wa was waS' begun three years cars a ago o oIn In the tho federal district court of Min Mm- More than 1200 witnesses witnessed were heard b by the lower lower- court which eventually eventually even on held hed the company compan companaS was aS a it combinatIon combination com corn In violation of ot the Sherman antitrust law and directed its tion into at leas Jea least t three equal and amid Independent In lit- dependent organizations Mr Ir Wilson Vilson in his opening address sought to put the facts In tho caso as viewed b by the defendants before the court He emphasized the fact that tho the petition for dissolution char charged e 1 that the tho harvester company compan had been guilty of Ille illegal al practices toward customers customer and competitors He followed this with the time statement that since tho case caso had been tried In time the district court the government guy gov ov- ov had chan changed ed Its position and Instead of or pressing pressIng- these charges Insisted in insisted insisted In- In that the tIle mere mero acquisition of a preponderance proportion of or previously pre competing competing- businesses In and of or Itself constituted a violation of or the Sherman law Den Denying ln the tile governments government's construction construe construe- tion of or the law and insisting that tIme the case caso should be he tried out alon along the lines hues of at the petition Mr Ir Wilson declared the business of tho time company during tho the thoten thoten ten tell years cars of oC Its existence before the suit was as brought ht showed two main purposes prompted II its or organization The These e were to develop the tIle Cor foreign I n trade and to establish an year round sellIng sell sell- lug Ing or To accomplish this he lie said great credit and amid a big big- organization organization or or- was needed and was obtained ob ob- b by tho the combining of or tho the five I leading manufacturers manufacture of or harvesting machines in 1902 As to the time dome domestic tlc ho lie said the company COmpan was as Helling selling many million dollars worth less Jess than during tho the first year car of or its existence |