UNITED STATES v. CENTRAL SUPPLY ASS'N

No. 16750.

34 F.Supp. 241 (1940)

UNITED STATES v. CENTRAL SUPPLY ASS'N et al.

District Court, N. D. Ohio, E. D.

August 22, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward P. Hodges and Kenneth L. Kimble, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., Smith R. Brittingham, Jr., Sp. Atty., of Washington, D. C., Thurman Arnold, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Emerich B. Freed, U. S. Atty., of Cleveland, Ohio.

Sullivan & Cromwell, of New York City, and Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis, of Cleveland, Ohio (Patrick J. Mulligan, Luther Day, and Thomas O. Nevison, all of Cleveland, Ohio, of counsel), for American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Co. and others.

McKeehan, Merrick, Arter & Stewart, and Fred J. Perkins, all of Cleveland, Ohio, and Lucius P. Chase, of Kohler, Wis. (Ashley M. Van Duzer, of Cleveland, Ohio, of counsel), for Kohler Co., Herbert V. Kohler, and O. A. Kroos.

William F. Marsteller, of Akron, Ohio, and I. R. Morris, of Cleveland, Ohio, for John A. Ogren.

Collen & Kessler, of Chicago, Ill., William S. Collen, of Chicago, Ill., and Benesch, Marsteller, Friedlander & Morris, of Cleveland, Ohio, for Manufacturers Clearing House, Inc.

In this case there are 102 defendants and about 30 law firms representing them, but the above counsel represented the parties filing the motions.


WILKIN, District Judge.

This case came on for hearing upon the motions for an order releasing witnesses from oath of secrecy and for an order disclosing names of witnesses.1 Witnesses examined before the grand jury which returned the indictment were required to take the following oath: "You do solemnly swear that in the testimony you are about to give you will speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and that further...

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