UNITED STATES v. MARYLAND STATE LICENSED BEV. ASS'N

No. 23212.

138 F.Supp. 685 (1956)

UNITED STATES of America v. MARYLAND STATE LICENSED BEVERAGE ASSOCIATION, Inc., et al.

United States District Court D. Maryland, Criminal Division.

January 10, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Cochran Doub, U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md., Horace L. Flurry and Kenneth R. Lindsay, Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., and Alan A. Dobey, Washington, D. C., Gordon B. Spivack, Silver Springs, Md., John F. Hughes, Washington, D. C., and Charles F. Rice, Attys. for Dept. of Justice, Arlington, Va., for plaintiff.

John Henry Lewin and David C. Green, Baltimore, Md., for Maryland Institute of Wine and Spirit Distributors, I. William Schimmel, R. W. L. Wine and Liquor Co., Inc. and Morris A. Kasoff.

Everett L. Buckmaster and Charles Mindel, Baltimore, Md., for Maryland State Licensed Beverage Ass'n, Inc., and John A. Menton.

William L. Marbury and John W. Hardwicke, Baltimore, Md., for National Distillers Products Corp., Robert E. Joyce, Jeffrey W. Clapp and B. C. Ohlandt.

Hilary W. Gans, Baltimore, Md., for Dant Distillery and Distributing Corp., Melrose Distillers Inc., CVA Corp., Schenley Distributors, Inc., Ralph T. Heymsfeld, Murrel J. Ades, Newton Kook and Max Sager.

Harold Ungar and F. Joseph Donohue, Washington, D. C., and John R. Fitzpatrick, Frederick, Md., for The Kronheim Co., Inc., Milton S. Kronheim and Bernard Cohen.

Read A. McCaffrey, C. Gordon Haines and John Henry Lewin, Baltimore, Md., for McCarthy-Hicks Inc. and Edward S. Buckler, Jr.

Morris Rosenberg, Baltimore, Md., and Hugh B. Cox and James C. McKay, Washington, D. C., for Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc., Hiram Walker, Inc., Gooderham & Worts Ltd., James Barclay & Co. Ltd., Ross Corbit, Raymond Revit, F. A. Wilson and N. M. MacDonald.

A. Adgate Duer and Robert C. Prem, Baltimore, Md., for The Crosse and Blackwell Co. and John T. Menzies.

G. C. A. Anderson, Baltimore, Md., for Joseph E. Seagrams and Sons, Inc., and Frederick J. Lind.

William D. Macmillan, Baltimore, Md., for Distillers Distributing Corp., Harold S. Lee and John O. Brownell.

David R. Owen, Baltimore, Md., for John B. Turner and Ellis D. Slater.

Robert E. Coughlan, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for McKesson and Robbins, Inc., and J. D. Cotler.

George D. Hubbard, Baltimore, Md., for Walter F. Terry.

C. Clifton Virts, Frederick, Md., for Lawrence K. Franklin.

Zanvyl Krieger and John Henry Lewin, Baltimore, Md., for Churchill Ltd. and I. Strouse.

John Henry Lewin and Edwin Harlan, Baltimore, Md., for Gillett-Wright, Inc., and Harry W. Wright.

Ellis Levin and Louis Hoffman, Baltimore, Md., for Reliable Liquors, Inc. and Irving Smith.

Eugene M. Feinblatt and Gordon, Feinblatt & Rothman, Baltimore, Md., for Madera Bonded Wine and Liquor Co. and Harvey Steinbach.

Isaac Hecht, Baltimore, Md., for Maryland Package Liquor Stores Ass'n, Inc., and Jack Wulfert.


THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

The indictment in this case charges two associations of retailers, one association of wholesalers, fourteen manufacturers, seven wholesalers, and thirty-one individuals connected with them, engaged in the alcoholic beverage industry, with violations of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C.A. §§ 1, 2.

Count One charges a conspiracy "to raise, fix, maintain, and stabilize the wholesale and retail prices of alcoholic beverages...

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