Show I. I I WORK OF FIELD fJElD AGENTS REPORTED AT HEARING Special Dispatch Ida May fay 12 between be be- tw tween n farmers and field agents of ot the Utah Utah- Idaho Sugar company compan In which it Is alleged that efforts were made by bythe the sugar company corn corn com pany employs s to discredit the efforts kit jt t the B Beet et Growers ers Sugar Company were In- In In Introduced Introduced as evidence In the Tuesday sessions of ot the federal trade commission sugar hearIng hearing hearing hear hear- ing at the Jefferson county courthouse here The respondents to the commissions commission's s com corn are ale the Utah Utah Idaho Idaho Sugar SUral company the Amalgamated Sugar company c Ernest It R. W A A. P P. Cooper and E E. F F. Cullen who are charged with conspiracy to stifle independent Independent inde Inde- pendent competitors engaged in interstate commerce Practically ally all of ot the witnesses were ere farmere farmers farm farm- farm farm- ere ers who declared d that field agents of the Utah Utah Idaho Idaho company had told them that the Beet Growers' Growers company could not obtain beet seed not complete construction of ot its factory could never pay for the beets betts contracted for and would never operate oper oper- ate As an additional witness Lloyd Adams editor of ot the Rexburg Rexburg- Standard was called callec He testified to a a. letter written him b.C. by b. byC C C C. B D. Whitney of ot the Utah Utah Idaho Idaho Sugar Suga company of ot which the following Is is an ez anu ex excerpt o Vc also advise that this company Is now planning planning- to extend Its advertising activities and that the tho m medium which we will wm most naturally choose is the paper that is friendly friend friend- ly Iy and loyal 10 to the beet sugar industry generally generally gen gen- and our organisation in particular It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is our purpose to read your year papers with a aView aview View knew to learning your editorial and general attitude toward a us and we tr trust that it will I at prove such as to warrant a r t future st business I II profitable to us ua both In reply to questions by Henry Ward Beer special attorney for tor the trade commission com corn mission Mr Adams emphatically denied that he be had changed his editorial policy as a result of the letter At the conclusion of ot Tuesdays Tuesday's a hearing bearing Heber C C. C Austin an official of ot the Utah Utah- Idaho company ny was on the stand testifying testifying testify testify- ing to correspondence between himself and Merrill Nibley The letters referred to re relations relations re- re lations between the Beet Growers' Growers company and Anderson Brothers' Brothers bank of ot Twin Falls an old customer of the Utah Idaho Ut Idaho h-Idaho company |