FRAUD ORDER ISSUED AGAINST TWO COMPANIES
International Automobile League, Inc., and International Automobile League. Under the Act.
A. C. BEDWELL HEAP OF BOTH Solicitor-General Lamar Declares "This League Has Been Using the Mails to Obtain Money by False Means From Auto Owners."
WASHINGTON, D.C., August In making effective yesterday a fraud order denying the use of the United States mails to the International Automobile League, Inc., and the International Automobile League Tire Company, of Buffalo, N.Y., and A.C. Beddwell, president of both concerns, the Post-Women Department has sounded the death knell of enterprises which government investigations show have victimized thousands of motor-car owners in all parts of the country.
"For years this league has been using the mails to obtain money by false representations and pretenses from automobile owners, dealers, and jobbers of automobile supplies," said W.H. Lamar, Solicitor-General of the Post-Office Department, today. "The order which took effect yesterday concludes one of the longest and most important hearings ever held by this office. The hearing occupied forty-six days and revealed a remarkable complexity and variety of unlawful practices employed by the president of the league and his agents in exploiting the public."
The Inquiry by the Post-Office Department.  Department into the business practices of the International Automobile league was requested last March by the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World and the American Automobile Association to protect motor-car owners as a part of the nation-wide campaign of the advertising clubs for truth in advertising and honesty in business. Details of the campaign. 