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Show HESHNS EVIDENCE BASED ON FIRST WHILES PUEELO, Colo., April 9. An injunction in-junction restraining tho United States district attorney from submitting evidence evi-dence of profiteering, insofar as tho ovidonco is basod on original cost prices, to tho federal grand Jury was Issued hero today by Judgo Robert E. Lewis of tho United States district court of Denver. The injunction was issuod on tho ro-quest ro-quest of fourteen Denver retail merchants mer-chants and threo Colorado coal companies, com-panies, on tho theory that increased wholcsalo valuo of merchandise pur-chasod pur-chasod several months ago represented represent-ed a legitimate profit and that all evidences of profiteering must bo basod upon tho margin between cost and soiling prices at the time a salo Is mado. The Judge refused to rocognlzo tho contoDtloil of tho plaintiffs that tho war has actually ended nnd that the Lover act Is unconstitutional. In Introducing the grand Jury, now in session, tho Judgo declared they should Investigate into nlloged cases of profiteering and if they should find that a merchant was making undue1 un-due1 profits, basod on present wholesale whole-sale and retail prices, an Indictment should be returned. |