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Show Checks Sear Fsciioos Names.' Bank Officials Subpoenaed in Beef Trust Investigation. In-vestigation. Sausage Casing Company Employs Methods to Keep Packers' Names Off Books. CHICAGO. April 22. Vice-presidents onu cnshlcrs.of four Chicago National banks have been subpoenaed by tho Federal Fed-eral ofllciols working on the "beef trust" Inquiry. Tho subpoenas called for tho production of the accounts and records of the Aetna Trading conrpany nnd the S. !Opponhelm & Co; Sausage Casing company. com-pany. . .. The Government officials have traced' from bank to bank and through the clearing-house checks which were numbered nd nro said to bear fictitious names Causes Stir Among Packers. The latest move Is said to bo one of tho most Important yet mado In the Investigation, Investi-gation, and has caused a stir among the leading packers, wlio are suspected of having been directly connected with tho operations of the Aetna Trading corn-pan corn-pan v. It required more than two weeks' hard work on the part of several of the cf fleers and National Bank Examiner Starck to trace the cl ccks, many of which were tllacovered In trunks recently seined by Government detectives. Checks Found in Trunks. It was a direct result of tho developments develop-ments regarding the checks that the subpoenas sub-poenas were Issued for. the officials of tho lour banks. The persons subpoenaed are: Vice-President George M. Reynolds and Cashier I. P. Bowen, Continental National bank; Vice-President Don A Moulton nnd Cashier Frank W Smith, Corn Exchange National bank; Vice-President W. T Fen-tor, Fen-tor, i and Cnshler Robert M. McKinnev, National Bank, of the Republic; Vice-President Vice-President Joseph F. Talbort and Assistant Assist-ant Cashier Nathaniel Osch. Commercial National bank. Complicated Bookkeeping. Tt wns found that one of the most complicated com-plicated methods of bookkeeping had been employed by the Aetna Trading company officials and those of S. Oppenlielm & Co. No names appear on any of the books. It Is said, which Indicated that the persons wero In any way connected with tho packing pack-ing industry. - . v ,x ' ' |