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Each case is now before the court on plaintiffs’ motions for partial summary judgment, and on defendants’ motions for summary judgment; each motion is directed to the issue of jurisdiction under the Sherman and Clayton Acts. Both cases raise the identical jurisdictional issues, and are treated together. The court has taken testimony in addition to the affidavits of counsel, and the parties are in agreement that all evidence relative to the jurisdictional issue is now before the court.

Plaintiff C. A. Page Publishing Company owns and publishes the Commercial News, a general business newspaper serving the Los Angeles area.

Defendants are a number of community newspapers serving small neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Newspaper Service Bureau together with several of its officers. The Bureau is owned substantially by the defendant newspapers and represents them in the solicitation of legal advertising.

Plaintiff seeks treble damages under the Sherman and Clayton Acts. 1 It claims that collusive and illegal bidding by defendants caused the Commercial News to lose printing contracts for the 1951 and 1954 Los Angeles delinquent tax lists. More particularly,…