Show FORTY corn FRT WITNESSES MESSES TO TOBE TODE BE DE HEARD EAR DIN IN INSI SI SUIT AGAINST SUI CAN C A N CO C O. O CHICAGO Aug AUK 31 Taking Taking ot of testimony testimony test test- mony In the governments government's suit to dissolve the American Can Cn company was b begun here here today toay before Jesse C. C C Adkins special ape ape- cial dil examiner Forty witnesses were scheduled to be examined during the hearing which will m continue here for tor a a a. week From Chicago the government pros prosecutor and examiner will wiil 1 go to San Sn Francisco Seattle and cities to hold similar other Pacific coast hearings The bill bi against the so called caned trust filed fled In Baltimore i J a year yer ago charged the he American Can Cab company and Its Is officers with violating the Sherman law lw by absorbing ab- ab comp competitors and machinery machinery ma ma- chinery concerns fixing axing prices and driving Oily Oily- ing In Independent ent manufacturers out of or the fel Meld field The defendant It I watt was alleged In time the first frt two years of oVita Ita Us existence absorbed more than 10 previously Independent plants and that subsequently all al but thir thir- ty-seven ty of these were dismantled or 01 closed close In Iii addition to the parent trust and nine subsidiary corporations prent including the American Sheet and Tin Plate company and the Hawaiian Pineapple company of ot Honolulu there are arc twenty-seven twenty Individuals Indi Included ed In the suit sui Among them are arc rc Fred Wheeler president president and Daniel Daniell G. G Reid ReM chairman of ot the tho hoard board hard of dir directors cc- cc tors of or the American Amerian Can company compan |