Show WYER TESTIFIES T SUGAR HEARING Given on Bringing Bring- Bring fing ing g of Re Receivership Suit i- i ig Special h. h RIGHT Idaho Idabo May 13 A. A. A E E. Ricks P pocatello catello lawyer an aru l complainant com inse In Ine se e recent suit tor for receivership brought ganat the Sugar com com- anY was called as a witness ss Wednes- Wednes bY Henry Ward seer Beer eer special at- at for tor the United States tates government t the e federal trade commission he hear hear- hear hear- r- r i 1 of pf f the complaint against the Utah- Utah Wip Sugar company COmpan the Amalgamated algama d gili company Ernest R R. Woolley A. A If Cooper oper and E. E J F. F Gullen Cullen Cuhen The re re- re are charged with conspiracy s lie Individual competitors en engaged Red t interstate Overstate tate commerce c commerce m erce In Utah and jaho jaho Mn Rl Mr Ricks ks who Is a a. law in of ot f testified that three weeks ja Ia la month mouth before the filing of his com com- taint he purchased twelve shares of referred and three shares of common tock lock In la the comp company ny Mr leer Jeer in In his examination of o Mr Mr- Ricks to show that Mr Mr- Woolley was way ay connected with the bring bring- the receivership suit Mr Mr Ricks Ricks emphatically stated during I i let course of his cross examination ry ty TA Boyd TA Boyd counsel for the Amalgamated nd Mr Woolley that he had brought ie suit purely on his own Initiative he witness declined to answer questions the acquisition of ot his stock reasons for the bringing of the Lion claiming that such matters were i Alleged The refusal sa of the witness to divulge ifs information brought a storm stor-m of prost prot pro- pro i st t from Mr Beer H. H HAG G. G Knight managing editor of the Dally Daily News was called to tes tes- a letter written to him viC B B. Whitney advertising man for fori fort i Idaho Utah C t h company i In which s sup sup- f ort art for the Utah Idaho company was ked eked and announcement of an advertis- advertis g campaign made The letter was elm elm- arito artto that sent cent to the editors of Rex- Rex JIg papers The witness stated that consIdered 1 parts of the letter to be bethe TIthe the nature of efforts to Intimidate Intimidated his editorial dl policy c Mr Knight hiba org If Blared d that his polity policy as regards the and the farmers far Is strictly Im- Im artial and that the letter from the Utah Utah- company in no way affected It George W. W Kendall a farmer farmer- of the strict told of a conversation with a eldr man of the Utah-Idaho Utah company i which he had been advised not to plant sets ets for the company as be In danger of losing his enre en- en re crop The field agent according to toie ie 16 witness stated that the rs' rs s' s company s' company would be unable to spay pay r the beets and that the s seed ed pro pro- ded by the company would not grow declared he planted the seeds id found o n them successful A t |