Show OIL TRUST DECEIVED PUBLIC Sold Its Products Through What People Peo-ple Believed to be Independent Companies New York Hampton G Westcott vicepresident of the Standard Oil company of Kentucky testified on Monday In the hearing of tho federal suit against the oil combine that In several of lime southern states the Standard Oil company had found It expedient tp sell much of Its products through companies which tho public believed to be Independent The practice prac-tice of selling through socalled Indo pendent companies which were owned I by the combine was discontinued two years ago according to Mr Westcott Mr Kellogg counsel for the government govern-ment drew from the witness that the Standanl OH company of Kentucky which acts as selling agent of oil In Kentucky Georgia Mississippi 1ouls Lana Tennessee and Alabama had purchased numerous small Independent Independ-ent selling companies and through many of them sold oil to the consumer con-sumer Some of the plants of these companies wefe dismantled arid the business taken over by the Standard |