Show OFFICIAl REFUSES LIST OF STOCKHOLDERS E lJ G George orge E. E Hill Again on the Stand in Probe He Hearing ri g on on Sugar Situation on i 1 i Special Dispatch tUGBY Idaho May 17 Repeated Repeated rel re- re l Sisals bY bv by George E E. Hill secretary and ret of ot t tJ tha era Sugar Sugar company com com- pany pinY to t furnish l lists of ot the stockholders orth the campan company to Judge D D. N N. chief counsel for lor or the Utah Idaho Sugar SUl c company wee the hid chief feature of the trade Saturday sessions of the federal commission sugar hearing now In progress Te ress ess In the Jefferson county courthouse here bere The Tho Utah-Idaho Utah company the Ule Amalgamated d Sugar company n Ernest R. R Woolley 1 A A. P P. c COoper oper and E Il F Ji Cullen are ure the respondents in the case and are j charged b by tho the government with con pircy pir- pir ec cy to stifle Individual competitors In tn Utah and Idaho engaged In Interstate commerce The he Utah-Idaho Utah counsel during three days of of Mr Hill has tried W success to elicit Information Informs Informs- tion concerning the stockholders of ct th the he company compan Former Governor James Jame- H. H Hawley president of the company company com corn pany and Its counsel has contended that should not be compelled to t Idaho Utah answer a a. question companY Sg which an hun unfair might fl advantage give the as as' as R II competitor tor of pf the Beet growers growers' compan com corn I pan pany x WITNESS WINESS IS FIRM tl Judge d e Joseph J J. t. t Dunham presiding ex exa examiner ex- ex a mIner called Mr Hills Hill's attention to 11 lists ts o of stockholders previously furnished hed a at atthe the Ule hearing by the Utah Idaho comp comb company com corn 7 pany b but the the- t held l firm Judge u p asked K dO dOt t the the- witness rt to cite an nn Instance in instance In- In stance in In which the Utah-Idaho Utah company had interfered with a A. stock sale transactIon trans- trans actIon of tho the company Mr Hill replied that representatives of ot the company compan hs had told him of such C. C A. A Boyd counse coune for the Amal Amalgamated Amalgamated Amalga Amalga- mated company Mr Woolley and Mr Ir Coop Cooper r. r also cross examined th the witness witness Mr fr Boyd moved to strike out the testimony mon mony of Mr Hill Insofar as It referred to the th Amalgamated Mr Woolley and Mr dr tr Cooper on the the- ground that it referred strictly to Intrastate business an and a as al a consequence wM wa not In the Jurisdiction of the trade comm commission son Mr Hill stated that the differences with i Mr Cooper which l led d to hi his discharge from rota the company as 52 engineer resulted from suspicion on the part of the ort ort- daIs of ot the company that Mr Cooper wax wal endeavoring to sell them out and ana otherwise Injure Injure- their Interests ENTERTAINED PROPOSAL Counsel for Mr I Cooper P questioned s the f g witness on the desire desire- e of the company's n officers to sell out in 1918 and referred to alleged conversations on the subject be between officials of the rowers Beet company and former fanner Governor William Spry of oC Utah and James Tames H. H t. t Hawley Ha of Idaho Mr and Mr Woolley Mr Mr lUll Hill stated that the the- officers had never sought to sell out but that they the had entertained a pi tentative proposal or of Mr Woolley which they declined to con can elder eider further when Mr Woolley would not Dot not state for whom he was acting Henry Ward Beer Deer s special attorney attorney attorney- forthe for forthe the government Introduced an adver advertisement t published In the Idaho Falls warn- warn Post by the the- Utah-Idaho Utah company compan inc th the farmers famer against growing beets the the- exception for new companies With of th Utah-Idaho Utah company the Beet Beer i growers growers' company com pan 1 Is the only one one operatIng operating operating ing within 20 miles of ot Idaho Falls ac according ac- ac cording to tho the witness Similar advertisements adver adver- S. S were published l in itt the papers of surrounding towns according to Mr R Hill Hll ll |