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Show CHARGE OIL CONCERN WITH FRAUD IN MAIL NEW YORK, Nov. 23. A conspiracy to use the mails to defraud Investors of millions of dollars through tho sale of stock of the Tuxpam Star Oil corporation is alleged by the government In a complaint com-plaint on which Louis Roumangnac, head of the company; John J. Bryant, a director, di-rector, and Henry Kalb, a broker, were arraigned before a United Stales commissioner com-missioner today after their arrest here. Federal attorneys asserted that 20,000,-000 20,000,-000 shares of Tuxpam stock already had been disposed of at from 50 to &5 cents a share. The sales were made, according to the government's complaint, on tiie representation represen-tation that the corporation owned oil gushers in Mexico. The oil wells described de-scribed in the company's sales literal u re-are re-are not owned by the corporation, United States Assistant District Attorney Axman I said. I The corporation's offices are in New j York. |