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Show UNCLE SAM AFTER BUILDING MATERIALS COMBINE1 PALMER ORDERS FEDERAL PROBE TOOPpNIj Aliened Combination in Building Build-ing Material Market Is Uncovered DISTRICT ATTORNEY OBTAINS ASSISTANT He Will Co-operate With Legislative Legis-lative Committee in Investigation In-vestigation WASHINGTON Oct 29 Appointment Appoint-ment of Joseph Kaufmann. as special assistant to the district attorney at New York to conduct 0 federal Investigation Investi-gation In the alleged combination in the building materials market In that , r 1 1 wa.". announced today by Attorney General Palmer. This Is the federal government's first step in the direction of prose-icutlon prose-icutlon of alleged violation of antitrust anti-trust laws among building materials dee lers. Department of (ustlce f,fl clals said info rmatlon cathered by the united States attorn. 's office in New York ; had diiisc losed evldenct t ho h tht j believed be-lieved pointed to c-oru bl nations In violation vio-lation of the Sherman law I Mr Kaufman wilt cooprraie with the New York state legislative committee com-mittee which is conducting an In ' estimation es-timation Into the situation. |