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Show PACKERS SEEK ' BUYEJROF YARDS Swift and Armour Plead for More Time to Carry Out Court Orders WASHINGTON. Dec. 22. Counsel 'for Swift & Company and Armour Company asked Jostle Stafford in the 'district supreme court Tuesday to ap-' ap-' prow a plan for disposition of their Istockyard districts similar to that proposed pro-posed by k. 11. Prince ,c- Company. Boston bankers and to give the company com-pany time In which to rind new buyer In pluco of Boston company which has withdrawn Its offer. The court Was also asked to t ike into consideration the condition ol 1 he Icosntry declaring that It would bo dlf-iricuit dlf-iricuit to dispose of the property, noit lexcept at a Rrent reduction from the J 10. aOO. 000 value The government has asked tha.1 trustees be mulled to sell the stock-j yard propert) apd supporting this pro- jposal. Assistant Attorney-General Kressel opposed the suggestion to ex-tend ex-tend time fop a new purchaser, snvinc; that ten months h;d elapsed and no. Iconsluctlve plan to dlveSt the packerl of control hud been brought forward I lb- denied that the government hiid I acted in anj bad faith, as intimated: ibv counsel for the packers, who) claimed that the department had apparently ap-parently approved the general outlinesi !of the sale plan proposed by the coin-j 1 panjee, |