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Show ASSOCIATE COUNSEL IS ENTERED IN CASE Hearing of Plumbers Continues Slowly, Testimony Consisting Principally of Beading Minutes. Aside from entrance into the case yesterday as associate counsel for the '"government of K. Lowry Humes, United States district attorney for the western district ol: Pennsylvania, ' there was nothing of importance developed in the trial of the so-called plumbers'' trust case now on hearing in the federal court for this district. Mr. Humes was ordered here by the department at Washington to observe the case, because he has a case of similar sim-ilar nature to handle in the federal court for western Pennsylvania after this case is ended. Proceedings in the trial yesterday were given over to the reading of minutes min-utes of meetings of the plumbers' organizations, or-ganizations, the evidence being similar to that whieh has been presented to the court in the past two or three days. Court adjourned early in the after-noou, after-noou, but it is expected that Leon Bone, special agent for the department of justice, jus-tice, will go on the stand today to tell of his investigations locally in" relation to operations of the alleged trust. |