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Show iTAYLOR NAMED INSUGARPROBE Hearing Brings out Testimony Ogden Man Furnished Money by Utah-Idaho SALT LAKE. April 7. That the! L'tah-Idaho Sugar company paid $1160 of the expense of Fred G. Taylor Tay-lor of Ogden, now general manager of! the Amalgamated "Sugar company I when he was a member of the food administration during the war, audi thai .Mr. Taylor was requested to .eo j Carl Vrooman, asslstnnt secretary of agriculture, and General Altshlre of! the war priorities board to lmpre&s upon them the Heedlessness of the construction of the SPi'ingvlIle-Majile-' ton sugar- factory at Sprlngville was j brought but In testimony yesterday a-t : the hearing of the complaint of the federal trade commission against the two sugar companies, Ernest K. Wool-ley, Wool-ley, A. P. Cooper and E. F. Cullen. Other testimony on the same sub-' Ject was Introduced in an effort to show (hat the Utah-Idaho company endeavored to enlist the acllve aid of the war priorities board to prevent the .'hipmenl of steel to Ihe Sprlngville-Mupleton Sprlngville-Mupleton plant, on the grounds that there was no need for the factory; that the use of material and labor on itduring the war-would b'e futile, and! that it would not add to food produc-1 lion. I In regard to the last reason, Mr. Pyper said that the company has produced pro-duced sugar. He disclaimed knowledge knowl-edge of the correspondence produced which brought out the other information. informa-tion. A number of the letters introduced intro-duced were written by Merrill .Xibley, and were photographic copies of the original.-. Three factories of the Utah-Idaho company, the Spanish Pork, Payson and Lehl plants, arc located in the general vicinity of the Springville-.Mapleton Springville-.Mapleton factory. Mr. Beer endeavored endeav-ored to bring out that the Utah-Idaho company fought the construction of the Springvlllc plant because the company com-pany thought U would result In a dmunuallon of The beet tonnage for their own factories. Superintendents' reports were submitted sub-mitted as evidence to show thai the three factories operated at from CO to 77 per cent of their rated capacities. . Thomas R. Cutler, former general manager, now vice president of the .Utah-Idaho company, followed Mr. Pyper on the stand. A greater part ' of the questions directed to him were! concerned with the alleged division of "territories" between the Utah-Idaho J and the Amalgamated companies in various sections of Utah and Idaho. j In this regard additional document-; ary evidence in the form of letters I was introduced. Mr. Cutler estified in I reg.nrd to the directors meeting of I .March 15, l'JQU, when the late David Secies assured the Utah-Idaho com-, pany thatrhe would not erect a plant ' m Sevier counly if the Utah-Idaho ; objected. ! Mr. Cutler frequently slated that, there was no agreement regarding lor- ' ritorial division between the coni-J panics, but said thai as general man- agcr of the company he did not con- ; aider it his right as a friend to seek to i operate In the territory a friend had 1 built up and enjoyed. He stated his' belief that Mr. Eccles felt the same; way on the 3ubjeet. The former directing head of the company said there were some slight discussions concerning '"neutral" ter-' ritory in the vicinity of Brigham City, j OO' |