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Show OIL COMPANIES FACE CHARGES WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 UU!V In a sweeping Sherman anti-trust action, the justice department today to-day made public details of indictment indict-ment of 23 major oil companies, 58 individuals and thre publications publica-tions on charges of price fixing and pooling gasoline purchases. It was one of the extensive allegations of anti-trust law violation viola-tion in recent years. Heading the list of those indicted indict-ed were the nation's major oil firms, including Standard Oil of Indiana, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Cities Service, Continental Oil, Gulf Oil, Pure Oil Co., Shell Petroleum, Petro-leum, Sinclair Refining, Texas Co., Tide Water Oil, Mid-Continent Petroleum, Phillips Petroleum, Skelly Oil, Barnsdall Refining and the Globe Oil and Refining Co. The defendants were charged with conspiring to raise and fix the prices of gasoline sold in interstate inter-state commerce, principals in 10 mid-western states. The indictments were returned by a federal grand jury at Madison, Madi-son, Wis., as the outgrowth of an investigation ordered last May by Attorney General Homer S. Cum-mings. |