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Show WIS SCOIES ! IB FIRM k fudge Orders Telegram Directing Di-recting Revocation of License Li-cense of Company,. rHICAGO, March 15. A3 a result of reftisation of the tangled financial af-Irsof af-Irsof trie Consumers Packing company, ideal Ji"le Landis today ordered a iegram sent to Secretary of State Em-jrson Em-jrson of Illinois, notifying him that the ' reran)' in bankruptcy and "In a ' Id mess," and that its "blue sky" lira, li-ra, ciioiild be revoked. "V.ciudfd in the telegram was the sug-s-ion that the salesmen for the com- jvhould be put to some useful oecu-lion oecu-lion " said the judge, who already has M to the grand jury sis persons and j ai'poin'ed a receiver for the company. The jurist also directed his 'bailiff to td'a telegram to Joseph K. Davies of hinetou, former chairman of the fed-ll fed-ll trade commission, inviting him to rear next w eek and testify regarding rvices he was said to have rendered ! company. "Be sure and state In your telegram taf the court will grant Mr. Davies leave (return the $7,500. which he received bm the company under a misapprchen-en," misapprchen-en," added the judge. S'jii?e Landis also ashed that telegrams ent former Judge Moses Grossman of lit York, informing him that the court kanted him leave" to return a $.1500 al fee, and to David I. Frank of New Irk. formerly a Chicago promoter, In-tire In-tire him also to appear in the case. Edward J. Ader, former secretary of b company, one of the six held to i grand jury, told the judge that Mr. Davies was employed for $7r,00, although '?L st ''"."S S15.000, to appear before the capital issues commission in an attempt at-tempt to obtain a 'government license to proceed with the promotion of the company, com-pany, but he said the license was not obtained. ob-tained. Attorney Joseph Weissenbach, representing repre-senting petitioning stockholders who caused the investigation, declared today he would bring suit against Secretarv of State Eninurson for $f.OO.UOO, the approximate approxi-mate amount of stock sold bv the company. com-pany. Such a suit would be "the first of the kiml to determine liability of the official of-ficial tor money lost by persons who invested in-vested by virtue of supposed faith in the state ' blue sky" law and its administration. administra-tion. Copies of the telegram asking revocation revoca-tion of the company's state license, were ordered sent to the secretaries of state of Missouri, Ohio, New York. Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, South Dakota and Wisconsin. |