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Show ANOTHER SUIT FILED Sensational C hargea Made in Action Against Stone Company Com-pany Cleveland. Ohio, t'cb 12.- rfensn 1 tioual charges nre contained In a civil i c'.nti-trust suit tor the dissolution ot ihe Cleveland Stone io:npauy mid it-- SUbaldarlea. filed here today by ordei ! of Attorney General W'i kcrsham. To acquire a monopoly In the building, build-ing, pa-.ing. curbing and griudstonc business, (he - stone trust" is charged ' with influencing architects "to -i Mionev onidcratlou or by conferring I aors' to specify its stone in their building plana; maintaining separate j ori::in'-..iticn c its subslda rlef to en able them to pppear as competitors in building for contracts. fixing prives of building, paving and curbing stones in the central statea; and con I trolling the prl'-e of griudstoned throughout the Fnited States b agreements with Jobocrs and reba1 The Cleveland stone company, its IS subsidaries and their officers and directors are made defendants by the government's petition in equity which was signed by Attorney Generr Wlckeraham and .lames A Fooler, slstant to the attorney geueral. an was filed by I'nitcd States Alton : LFlvaaes G. Den man The Cleveland Stone company, or- , canized in 1SS6, is capitalized at $4. , I OO.OOO. George H W Washington is president. J II Wade, vice-president i and Edward H. Wade, secretary-trea surer. Today's action followed an inves'i-gution inves'i-gution bl seerai months |