Show RIO GRADES GRANDES AFFAIRS AIRED I Stockholders Assert Line Was Milked to Help W P NEW YORK YORI Feb reb D 9 t Representatives tives Lives of the Interstate com corn commission commission mission began the tho tion hon tion of 2 defendants defendant in the suit brought by stockholders against the th Den Denver Denser er Rio Grande Railroad company in November No ember 19 1211 1 I 1 relations relation between the tb Denver 8 Rio Grande Western estern Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads before the Dem Jenter er 6 Rio Grando railroad went Into receivership Rould be bo delved eh ed Into It was announced CONSPIRACY ChARGE I hadI The stockholders alleged there had I ben been unlawful combination and con COIl con and that the tho Pacific piracy and that the Western estern PacifIc I railroad had hod been boon used as a means of milking the Denver Denser 8 Rio Grande of large lare sums Alvin W Krech president of ot the tho I Trust company and chair chair- chairman man chair man ot of f the executive e com committee mitt co or of orthe the Denver JL s Rio lUo Grande refused to testify stating that lie would reada read n a prepared statement into tho the record at a se session slon Saturday R n Baldwin ln a a former fonner ro- ro re receiver and now a vice president ot of the he Denver Rio Grande Grand was sas ques ques- ques- ques questioned as a to the physical condition of the th railroad and it Its earnings t for tor 1 1920 20 and nd 1921 ll QUIZZED I President Bartlett and anti r T rT Jeffrey Jffrey of the tho Dener s t Rio Grande Grando were rero examined In detail as ai to the history of ot the tho railroads railroad's properties and especially as to the tho financial prin prin- principles principle ciple and which practices guided tho officIals of the tho Denver and Rio nio Gande Ganda the we Western tern Pacific railroad aa built today They will be b examined agaIn acain |