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{ k > i Ness oh : “ & . a) oo™~ Ale x ti/sventn ; — ond High Court Rules Against Lens Firm In Antitrust Suit By the ociated Prese. The feupreme Court today upheld Jus! tentions that theASoft-Lite Lens .Co., Inc., "New Wot. Violated the Whaemen anti Sea, FARE VAR RL Adie SRLS | Trust Act by selling pink-tinted eye-- glass lenses only to wholesalers who: would resell oh. Txed prices to “licensed” retailets. Justice Reed delivered the 8-6 opigion. Justice Jackson did not MONDAY, pariicipate. separate case, the tribunal, by y¥ divided vote, sustained a lower -dourt opinion dismissing the: J partment's charges tat thilP: Lomb Optica! do.,| Ne ef gyli AG; by agreeing to sell only to ‘ihe| Bolt-Lite Co. the pink-tinted jeyses, it made. : ° The court denied the Govern- :M™ment’s request for a permanent in- -atead of a six-month injunction against Soft-Lite enjoining it from | . “systematically suggesting” whole- | gale and retail resale prices for its lenses, and from ‘executing “fair , ade” resale price maintenance contracts, ’ . A decree of the Federal District: “Court in New York provided that ; after ihe six-month period, Soft-| Lite must comply with ‘the Miller-y Wrydings Act permitting minimum prices for resale of a commodity! ~Which bears the trade mark of the! idistributor, in States where con-| tracts of that description are lega!| a. dn aor intrastate transactions. approximately 14,000 dbto- tric retailers in the United Stites, Justice Department said ‘1.000! 8,00) are Soft -Lite licensees, |!The t-Lite Co., the department added, g’realizes a gross profit on its sales HOT more than 100 per cent.” | ee kes = \ cee o® rh Laren STAR, Washington, De. APRIL 16, 1944, ad - Se ” Sp