Show ACQUIRES NEW PROPERTY Toledo Dee was wasl l made JIl e toda today that J P Mor llor Morgan gan and Company have bought two of tile the Independent telephone prop s In which James Jamos S Bradley Bradler Jr of this ell city so recently lost control On authority from Morgan and Com Coin pany the following statement was Is 15 Issued sued by Clarence Claronce Brown counsel for Cor Corthe time the United States Long Distance Tele Teh Telephone phone company and the Cuyahoga Tei ephone company of Cleveland tor I am authorized h by James Jame S Brad BradIe Ie Icy Jr to announce that J Pierpont Morgan and company have bac purchased for their own account a majority or of ortho the tho stocks of the United States Long Distance and an d Cu ah ga Telephone companies Further than this no state statement ment can be made at present 1 Mr lr Bradie Bradley admItted today that lo 40 has made a deal for the new plants at Columbus and Dayton Dalton O 0 Withhold Announcement Anno Announcement as to these compa companies nies the new Long Distance company the Indianapolis Telephone compan and the thc Tol Toledo do Home Telephone coinS COIn pany is withheld for tor the present but buL unofficial Information that they have havo been or oi will be acquired by Morgan lorgan and is 15 credited Control of oC the seven een companies Is said to represent represent sent a cash outlay of eight million doi 1101 tars lars Tho United States company is the thelong thelong long distance service of oC the Independents In Ohio and Michigan and lie ho new Long Distance company In In Indiana diana dinna The management practically will roo ro romain main the same as now Except for the statement that these o properties will be continued as sep separate separate arate plants in competition wIth the Bell but ut upon conservative hues with without without out disastrous price cutting their tu tim tare ture relation to the Bell company compan Is IsI I left Ct somewhat open as far as official information goes Main Shifts It however that the Ule fight on the part of the principal independents in the middle west VeSt has been shift d to the lie C Telephone and Tel Telegraph company which Is boing pro promoted promoted b by H C Stud and Max KOli ler of St lonis and amid John A howard ot of West Vest Virginia |