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Show CHICAGO PACKERS MUST STAND TRIAL CHICAGO, June 19. Judge Oeorge A. Csrpeater is tbs Csited States district dis-trict court todsy dssied aotioa of J. Ogdes Armour aad sine ether Chi-age Chi-age packers for a rehearing af their motion te quaah indictments eherging violstiea of tha Sherman anti trust act. This means the packers must stand trial. Ne written epiaioa had been prepared by Judge Carpenter sad he gave se reaeoa for hia findings. It is sow expected ex-pected that th trial will be held about sent October. Th latest motiouof th paehcrs far a rehearing ef the motioa te quash the indictments were baaed en races! da-eiaiea da-eiaiea of th United States supreme eenrt In the Standard Oil aad American Ameri-can Tobacco companv rases in which the word "unreasonable" bad beea held within th manning ef the statute. Ceuaeel for the packers held that there had beam ne "unreasonable" restraint re-straint of the packing industry and that a aew hearing abould be granted. They alas pleaded that ta provieioa of tha Bhermaa set were to indefinite te warns! war-ns! the return of the indietmeata or firoaecutloa for alleged violatioa ef its nhibitiona. The next move ia the eaaa will be for the packers te enter a plea te the charge ia the indictments . The decision today came as a sur-pria sur-pria ta attorneys, both of the proeeen-tiee proeeen-tiee sad defeaaa. aad neither repreeen-tativao repreeen-tativao ef the go vera meat for the pack-era pack-era ware in court whaa it waa made. |