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Show S" B f"n fl H "U jTfc jf IT" PPfSt FMFN Facts to Be Brought Out ) in Lumber Trust Inquiry. , L Washington. July 1G. The rights Ri fi find the necessity of the much-lalked-t of "middleman" in business w ill be r fought out and determined by the courts, It is expected, In the government's govern-ment's pending suits against the so-called so-called "lumber trust." j. Testimony now being taken against tho Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers' association forecasts, according accord-ing to department of justlco officials, that the issue will gt to the courts largely on undisputed facts revolving about the legal scope of the operations opera-tions of the middleman. It principally will be an economic question and the first time the middleman's problem i" has been presented to n court of Jus- ttice. Four civil suits and one criminal prosecutions against lumber associations associa-tions are in charge of Clark McKerch-er, McKerch-er, special assistant to the attorney general. The taking of testimony in the suit filed at St Paul will bepin on the Pacific coast about August 16. |