Show I IRA A TRUST TO HIS is LAIR Ohio and Missouri in New NewYorK NewYork NewYork YorK After Telephone Merger NEW YORK Feb 9 To To find out whether or not the recent purchases b bv oj T T. P. P Morgan of six telephone companies com coin panics in Ohio and Indiana were ere really for himself or for the tho Bell DelI interests attorneys attorneys at at- for stockholders in the United States Telephone company and the Cuyahoga Telephone company he began an examination of w witnesses in this cit city to to- day The inquiry here is is the outgrowth of injunction proceedings against the consummation of the purchase brought ht in the Ohio courts 13 E. J T J. Hall vice vice president president of the American Telephone and Telegraph company com corn pany the first fist witness l t declared red the e American Telephone and Telegraph was controlling stockholder in in the Western estern Electric company the lar largest larg larg- est electrical equipment manufacturers ill Sm in the world l Relations of Companies tIn In Ohi Ohio and Indiana we operate we-operate operate the Central Union company said Mr Hall and in in Michigan gan the Michigan Telephone Telephone Tele Tele- phone company The Tho American Tele Telephone one and Telegraph Tele Tele- graph raph nY nas D l any of-any other companies in Ohio excepting the long distance the Clee Cleveland and Telephone company and the Western company of Cleveland elan 1 The Western owns the Ch Cleveland ompa J- J In Cincinnati we dont don't own a controlling controlling- interest Mr l Hall HaJJ said he had been shown a letter etter written by ly President Vail of the American Telephone and T Telegraph company to the attorney y general of ot OJ Ohio o relative to the acquisition b bv by R. R L. L Day Co of the Ohio companies |