"Dust, Tacks, Nails"

Indirectly a unit of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. is the $60,000,000 Northern Ohio Power & Light Co. Its primary business is furnishing power but, as does many another power company, it also runs trolleys and busses. Last week the Akron, Kenmore & Barberton Bus Lines filed a $1,000,000 damage suit against Northern Ohio Power & Light, charging acts that would be most unusual in a company of Northern Ohio's size and prestige. The base of the suit was the charge that the power company conspired to have an employe work for the bus lines, that this person "maliciously fomented trouble among the plaintiff's employes, placed quantities of carborundum dust and emery dust in the motors of various busses of the plaintiffs and put baking syrup in the oil pans, let air out of the tires of busses, placed tacks and nails in specially prepared molds at bus stops, all for the purpose of destroying plaintiff's equipment, interfering with their business, and discouraging plaintiffs so as to force them to sell their said competing business to Northern Ohio Power & Light at a grossly inadequate price."

To these charges of hexing the power company replied: ''Ridiculous!"

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