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Show tiie journal DAUIAYjVt. -t- HOME TOWN REPORTER By Jarvis u:3S A&P s Reply to Anti-Tru- st Suit Sets Up Five Lines of Defense By WALTER A. SIIEAD IIE BRIEF filed in answer to the department of justice charges against the Great Atlantic & Pad-'iTea company and its subsid-arie- s is an unusual document, up five lines of defense and a conclusion which alleges that the department of Justice is seeking by judicial fiat, new and extremist principles of law which would result in a complete remodeling of the entire economic structure of this country. The first defense is more or less a categorical denial by the defendants, paragraph by paragraph, of government allegations. Defendants are the Great New York Atlantic k Pacific Tea company inc., the Treat Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company of America; the Great A&P Tea Company of New Jersey; the Great A&P Tea Company of Arizona; the Great A&P Tea Company of Nevada; the Quaker Maid company; the American Coffee corporation; White House Milk company; Nakat Packing corporation; the Atlantic Commission company, Inc., and the two owners, George L., and John A. Hartford. The second defense sets np benefits of the corporations operations to the general public and declares the A A P has contributed more than any other distributing organization In the world today to the solution of maintaining the standards of living for Individuals In the face of constantly increasing populations and greatly increased tax burdens. It alleges that instead of being in restraint of trade, A&P operation has greatly promoted trade and Increased competition." It declares that if the food distributors were no more efficient than the distributors of other consumer goods, It would be necessary to add an additional 10 billion dollars to the nations retail food bill. The third line of defense sets out that they have changed their operation since the governments criminal suit against the corporation in 1944 and says: The defendants acts which were their have surveyed the subject of criticism In the previous litigation, even though the courts stated that such acts in and of themselves may not have been illegal; and defendants have made serious and bona fide efforts to conduct their business as a matter of permanent policy so that it will not be subject to such criticism, even going beyond the requirements laws. of the anti-true set-in- Jluv ljmi PYou probably think you've been putting something I happen to over on me Egarp, but you haven't know you wait until I go out then you deliberately mode in here and STAR use my pencil sharpener." DUST Derek, Current Favorite, pPriced Hard for First Break By INEZ GERHARD rose to Hollywood Knock on Any lence In hit the Jackpot again in All 1Xingi Men, and now Columbia hi his first Technicolor picture, DEREK Sherwood Forest, will them. Next comes The Circus. But Derek's uei of .both of Willi to - stardom sounds. A of was not so sudden native of Hollywood, are actors, ne contract to both David parents who Older ick and 20th Century-Fo- x his big break when wives, who are Eve Arden, Vanessa Brown and Billie Burke. Daytime Drama" dresses, named for eight popular radio shows and two heroines, were launched at a Stork club luncheon recently; similar fashion shows will be held across the country. Right to Happiness" is a crisp plaid sundress, Anne Malone" a dark rayon sheer. Big Sister," The Guiding Light Ma Perkins were all and he got 'v '"m- ''Si ' c ' 2vX X, A .v" ' John Broderick, Broadways riot squad, served as bodyguard for everybody from Jack Dempsey and Queen Marie to Pres ident Roosevelt when he was a New York policeman. RKO will show his career In The Life of John Broderick." one-ma- n g tion to have a monopoly, its very nature this (food) is one in which monopoly sible." This defense sets for by industry is imposout that the company has decreased its number of stores from 15,819 in 1931 to 4,647 at the time the complaint was filed last September. The fifth defense seta out that although the company has been in business since 1859 and the Sherman anti-truact has been on the statute books since 1890 and the department of Justice has had Jurisdiction for the past 60 years to prosecute, it made no complaint against the A&P alleging general restraint of trade or monopolization until st 1942. It also sets out an investigation made by the federal trade commission in 1929 which exonerated A&P from all charges. Prosecutions Charges In Its suit the department of Justice charges that the Atlantic Commission company acted at the same time as the produce purchasing agent for A & P and also as agent for the farmer in selling his produce to the advantage of A & P and the disadvantage of the farmer. In its third defense the company says the Atlanic Commission company no longer acts as a broker of produce, and does not buy or sell for others Thus the defendants have completely eliminated the one factor which the district court In the eastern division of Illinois found to be controlling and which it regarded as rendering conducts of the defendants illegal under the Sherman Act. This important suit will be tried In the United Sates district court for the southern district of New York. The department of justice is asking injunctive relief to prevent the A & P from doing In the future what It has been convicted of doing in the .... past. "It Is asking that Its retail op- erations be broken up into seven regional chains divorced from the top ownership. At present A&P operates seven v "i V regional divisions, each with a board of directors, each an entity In itCoof star Singleton, Penny self, but owned by the Hartford! at lumbia's B! on die" series, the top. takes her two small children rid-la- g The government also asked the la the family plane every court to divorce the companies manSsnday. For years she was ufacturing operations from its reBlcndle" on the air; now she tail operation, such as manufacture JOHN DEREK will soon have her own radio and processing of foods by the i show, Penny," on NBC. White House Milk company and is it Th fourth defense alleges L?058 PIcked him to for the A&P corpora the Nakat corporation. 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