San Francisco. June 4.
A Federal Grand Jury yesterday indicted 194 food distribution asso-dations. firms and individuals, including some of America's best known companies, on charges of conspiracy to fix and control prices.
The blanket indictments affected the vegetable, fruit (canned and dried), rice processing and distribu-lion, sardine packing and also the evaporated milk industry.
Many of the indicted firms operate on a nation wide scale, but most of the defendants are firms situated in California, where a large part of America's fruit and vegetables are grown and processed.
The California Packing Corpora. tion, one of the largest food process named in two and Libby, F. E. Booth, Hunt Brothers, Balfour-Guthrie, and Sunmaid Raisin Growers also were named.
The indicted firms among the evaporated milk industry included Borden. of New York, Carnation. of Milwaukee, Petmilk, of St. Louis, Nestle's Milk Products, of New York, Libby, McNeil, of Illinois. Libby, of Chicago, and Sago Milk Products, of Salt Lake City—United Press.
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