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Show : SHOE LAST TRUST IS FOffflJOW II Federal Court Hands Down Decree Agreed Upon With the Defendants. 1 DETROIT. Feb. fi.-he '-boot and shoo last trust," ibunp, it is alleged, the price of every last sold in the United. States, was dissolved here to-d:iy to-d:iy br tbe federal government ;u quick time. Iminediatol.y following- the filinp o a civil anti-trust suit against: the Krent-j Krent-j lev-Arnold Hinpo Last company and a j number of lust manufacturers with whom it was allied by nureemonts. United Statos Jud;e Arthur J. Tattle pntored an agreed decree terminatinc license agreements iu ao far as they fixed the prico of unpatented lasts and 'dissolving a club through which tho alleged al-leged violation of tbe Sherman law was accomplished. The decree, in a'eH., lavs clown tho broad principle that it is "unlawful to tie together pateulcd and unpatented articles so as to fir fne price of tho unpatented commodity. Neither the government "s petition nor the decree questions the rijrht of a patentee to fix tho price of a patented last. By the agreed decree, in which tka defendants de-fendants disclaim all Intention of violating violat-ing tho Sherman law. thev are restrained from continuing the alleged unlawful fea-turou fea-turou of th3lr agreements. The government's petition, 3lsned bv Attorney General Wickersham. James A. Fowler, assistant to the attornev general, gen-eral, and Malcolm Shaleo. special "assistant, "assist-ant, was filed by Unitod Stales Attorney Clyde I. Webster. |