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Show THREE OF DIG : FIVE TALKING ! OVER SCHEME Armour Would Absorb Wilson Wil-son and Cudahy in Huge Merger U. S. MUST CONSENT I; Consolidation Planned in 1 Order to Get Services of Leading Executive CHICAGO. April 18. Plat denial that an amalgamation of the Armour. I Cudahy and Wilson packing conip.m-li conip.m-li , l -( contemplated was mad- today by J Ogden Armour lidv. trd adih; presidents of their respective organizations. organi-zations. Thomas E. Wilson, head of j Wilson and company, was not in the! city. "The Cud.ihv company is not In any1 way c.oncei ned in such a merger. '1 said Mr Cudahy. j Mr Armour did not make a formal 'statement but authorized a fl denial. over iiis name REPORT OF MKltGKR. ' HICAGo. April 18. informal negotiations ne-gotiations for a merger of three of the "big five parking companies into a $.".00 000 000 corporation have been ! conducted by James Ogden Armour, bend of Armour and companv, ai -cording to the Herald and Examiner today The corporation would have as it president Thomas E. Wilson, prcsldenl I Of Wilson and company, Qjid Mr. Armour Ar-mour would be chairman of the board of directors, according to the new -paper. FIRMS IN OI. I D The firms Involved are: ArVnour and companv with a total valuation of $829,718,997 Wilson and compnnv with a valuation valua-tion of $S8 097.260, and Cudahy and companv valued at $ 16 520,350 I Consent Of the Interstate commerce : commission would be necessjiry for , the proposed merger. It is said. Persons who are credited with heing familiar w-lth the merger plan say no ' new financing Is contemplated, the proposition being that Armour and company exchange its securities for those of the other two companies. Rl. SON FOR MKKGKR. Mr Armour Is supposed to be actu-j.itod actu-j.itod by the motive of desiring a successor suc-cessor to the presidency of Armour land company, a position handed doV n to him by his father. Having no son to carry on ihe business, he is forced to go outside the family. Mr Wilson's Wil-son's success in the packing Industry has made him the logical candidate and th newspaper points out that to secure Mr Wilson Mr Armour la forced to buy Mr. Wilson's company |