Show MINORITY PEOPLE MAKING LOUD ROAR Trying to Find Out if the Bell Belli Company Swiped the Inde Independent Independent pendent Concerns Now New York Feb 9 91 J P Morgan may voluntarily testify in New York in a few days dars concerning the recent purchase by br his firm of a controlling Interest in the United States Telephone company of Cleveland and the Cuyahoga Telephone company compan of the same state Protesting minority stockholders of the companies are In New York taking depo depositions depositions depositions to be used in the Ohio courts in suits to check consummation of the pur purchase purchase purchase chase maintaining that J J P Morgan Co acted for the American Telephone Telegraph company the time Bell Interests In acquiring six independent companies in Ohio and Indiana and that as competition tion has ceased in that territory the transaction Is illegal Morgan Co have held all along that any purchases they made were simply as asan asan asan an Investment of the firm H B McGraw of Cleveland and Sam Samuel Samuel uel nel B Jeffries of St Louis Jointly representing representing minority stockholders said this afternoon that Mr Morgan lorgan had volun volunteered volunteered volunteered as a witness and that he would be called caned probably In a day or two The hearing Is being held here before a not notary notary notary ary deputized by the Ohio supreme court where the original suit was brought The Tho American Telephone Telegraph com corn company company pany which controls the Central Union company in Ohio and Indiana contends that the deal never went through and that It does not now know who owns the Independent companies and that It has tos no Interest whatever In them It fur tur further further ther asserts that competition In that ter territory territory territory is as strong as ever Evidence taken today toda showed that the American Telephone Telegraph com company company pany jany negotiated with R B L Day Co bankers jankers to acquire the controlling Inter Interest Interest Interest est in the Ohio and Indiana companies n 0 the understanding that the American companies would take these holdings If It Ift It t found It could do so 0 legally R B L Day DayCo DayCo DayCo Co acquired the holdings and later disposed of them but the tho American com con company compan pany pan asserts that It was not the pur purchaser purchaser purchaser chaser |