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Show ICE TRUST I IN DANGER I H Suffering of Families in jS New York Stirs Of- M ficials to Action EH New York, July 13. The district at- KH torney and tho city police today be- Rll gan investigations of the Kn taker- llH bocker Ice company, which does by ifl far the largest ice business here. The iH charge is that the socalled "ice trust" H has withheld ice from Independent H dealers during the recent prolonged tH hot weather, In otner words, conduct' ed its business In restraint of trade. 1 Ice riots in the tenements district, IH where, during some of the hottest ll days, the poor found It almost Impos- - siblc to buy even the smallest quan- fll tity of ice for their humble needs, has ,H attracted attention tb the situation 1 and driven the authorities to action, 1 Independent dealers met District M Attorney Whitman today. The attor- H ney developed the necessity of ap- H tion, and he will lay before the grand H jury his argument for the dissolution fl of the American Ice company,' ol which the Knickerbocker Ice com- pany is said to be the successor. H |