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Show I HNS CALLED TO WASHINGTON U. S. District Attorney Summoned Sum-moned for Conference With Palmer SALT IjAKE, .Tune 4. Isaac Blair Evan. Unilod States district attorney, has been suddenly summoned to Washington for a confere.nco with Attorney At-torney General A. Mitchell Palmer, according to an announcement made j cstprday , , ,, . -The reason for his sudden call to AVashlnston to meet with his chief was not made known by Mr. kvnns bKoro he boarded his train. However, It Is freely whispered in tho corridors of tho federal building- that the re-oc-nt starting of the prosecution against the Utah-'ldaho Smear com-any com-any is the reason for the visit. It was generally believed anions: federal employes, however, that Mr. Evans had been ordered to the national na-tional capital to give his chief firsthand first-hand Information on prosecutions which have been started in the past month. Stephen H. Love, sales manager of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, announced an-nounced Wednesday that he was .going .go-ing east in the interest of shippers of tho intermountain 'country, and with H. W. Prlckott, manager of the traffic! service bureai if Utah, would appear: before the interstate commerce commission com-mission at Washington- Whether he was aware of a meeting in the national na-tional capital in which the local sugar situation would be discussed is not known. ' In view of the enforced absence of j Mr. Evans from the state, the prcliml-j nary hearing of Merrill Xtbley, vice i president and assistant general man-1 ager of the UtaJi-Idaho Sugar company, com-pany, scheduled for today before Henry Hen-ry V. Van Pelt, United States commissioner, commis-sioner, will be continued until after the return of Mr. Evans. General Sales Manager S. 13. Love of tho Utah-Idaho Sugar company, be- fore leaving -for Washington yesterday, yester-day, called attention to .1 dispatch from Twin Palls, Ida., stating that j sugar Tiad made the record jump of j the season there, by going from 17'j to 3 0 cents at a single bound. j 1 "This Is n. complete corroboration' ' of what E said at the Commercial club," said Mr. Love. "The Amalga-, mated has sold all its sugar and with the homo supply gone, the obvious; I I thing happens. Sugar is likely to go j h to a still higher figure if the supply! ' Here is exhausted before the new crop 1 1 comes In." 1 |