Show tHOMAS y I R. R CUTLER i I 5 CALLED TO STAND SUGAR PROBE E Witness Refers to Facts in Connection With Opera- Opera Operations ti ns in Rigby District Negotiations leading to the construction construe construe- tion Hon of ot a a. sugar ugar factory by the Utah- Utah Idaho Sugar company at Rigby Ida were the subject of ot examination when Thomas homas R It Cutler former vice president t and general manager of ot the Utah Utah- Utah Idaho Sugar company was recalled to the stand in the hearing before Judge Judg-e Joseph J J. J Dunham of the federal trade commission commis commis- slon sion toda today The Utah-Idaho Utah Sugar company company company com com- pany together with the Amalgamated Amalgamate d Sugar company a Ernest n R R. Woolley V le A. A P Cooper Sand E E. r F. Cullen I are charged charge ha violations of ot the law in to hampering g individual competitors engaged In interstate interstate inter Inter- stat state business A letter written by Mark Austin general gen eral r agricultural agent for the Utah Utah- Idaho company to Mr Cutler In 1917 was read into the record by by Henry Ward War Beer special attorney for the federal trade commission Mr 1 Beer read excerpts ex ex- ex excerpts from tram the letter which were to the effect that efforts were being made to secure as many beets from the farmers farmer in in the tho Rigby district as could be raised and nd that this was being done to stop Sprunt James P P. Sprunt and his associates associates as as- at that time were negotiating for a sugar factory in the Rigby district ATTENDED MEETING Mr Cutler declared that at the time of the RIgby transaction arrangements had already been made for his retirement retirement retire retire- I ment and that he knew very little con conn 1 the negotiations He declared that he had participated In a meeting a at t Rigby in which he had promised th the te e farmers It a sugar factory If they could raise a a. certain number of beets during the next year and that he be had placed the minimum very low He declared upon being questioned by Mr Beer that he did not know if it the activities of ot Mr Sprunt had been interfered with by the Idaho Utah company The activities of ot John Hart In connection tion with the Rigby transaction were vere also made the subject of numerous questions by Mr fr Beer Mr Cutler declared de de- declared s that Mr Hart had worked In conjunction con con- junction unction with Mark Austin and Heber r Austin that he did dad not know that Mr Hart had ever ever been on the e payroll o ot t the Utah Idaho d c company an b but that he was 1 interested In the welfare of his people Inthe n the Rigby district and as a a. stock stock- bolder holder also interested in the welfare of ot the Utah-Idaho Utah company REQUEST GRANTED The government concluded the examination examInation exam exam- of ot V W T T. assistant secre secre- secretary tary and treasurer of ot the Utah Idaho o company who has been on the stand th the e greater part of ot the time since the hearing hearing hear hear- ing opened April 1 1 At the conclusion o of f the examination Judge D D. N N. N o on n behalf of ot the Utah-Idaho Utah company asked aske d for an extension of time before conducting conductIng conductIng conduct- conduct Ing the cross examination of Mr He lie pleaded lack of ot preparation at the present time since he had been forced to take over the case after the death o of ot Brigadier General Richard W W. Young Toung I who as chief attorney for the company h had d done all of ot the preliminary work In preparing the defense An extension was granted until the he conclusion of ot Mr I Ii Cutlers Cutler's testimony under direct c |