Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-24 | Page 14 | C. C. Richards is to Arrive from the Coast This Afternoon

C. C. Richards Is io Arrive From the Coast This Afternoon C. C Richards, former speaker of j the house of representatives, will arrive ar-rive in Salt Lake this afternoon lrom LOS Angeles where he will spend a month in Utah prior to returning to Washington Mr. Richaids was re ' cently appointed special assistant to j Attorney General Palmer at Washing ; ton. He has been on the Pacific coast I I since Nov. 6 investigating the oil sit- I uation. With his business in Utah complet ed, Mr. Richards will undertake one of the largest suits in the history of the country He has been directed bv At ' torney Palmer to prosecute the Standard Stan-dard Oil company and the I'nion Oil companies of California for criminal conspiracy. It Is alleged that the.- firms, through a conspiracy, raised the ; price on cru.le oil 200 per cent when ; the Pacific fleet passed in review at a number of coast cities. Mr. Richards will pay Ogden a visit J before returning to his desk In the least. While in Los Angeles he was In conference with J. Robert O'Con-ner, O'Con-ner, federal attorney for southern Call ! fornia. oo