Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-12 | Page 4 | Utah Oil Refining Indicted on Coast

UTAH OIL REFINING INDICTED ON COAST LOS ANGELES. Cal.. Sept. 11 Indictments In-dictments charging the Utah Oil Re-j Re-j fining company of Salt Lake and the jficneral Petroleum company, one of I the largest producers and refiners of oil and gasoline on the Tacific coast, ' with illegal practices in connection : with the shipment of gasoline, were returned here yesterday b the federal grand Jury i The action was the result of an in-I in-I Jury conductd about three months ago bv j Stanley Payne, who was appointed ap-pointed special assistant to United .States Attorney O Connor for the pur- pose of directing the investigation t v. .i- concerned mainly with reports that certain railways were giving concessions con-cessions or rebates on shipments of, gasoline and that certain corporations were falsely billing gasoline as crude, oil. In order to take advantage of a difference in freight rates. Yesterdays indictments were the bulkiest documents ever filed in the' local United States district court Tnat' against the Utah Oil Refining com-i pany Includes sixty counts and that against the General Petroleum com-( pany forty-eight Each document contains con-tains several hundred pages oo