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Show George E. Hill of Beetgrowers' Company Stand in Federal Fed-eral Probe RIGBY, Ida., May 15. Cross-examination of Georgo E. Hill, secretary-treasurer secretary-treasurer of tho Beetgrowers' Sugar company occupied much of the time yesterday in the hearing of tho federal trade commission complaint alleging conspiracy in restraint of competition against tho Utah-Idaho, tho Amalgamated Amalga-mated Sugar company and others. Mr. Hill was questioned by Judgo D. N. Straup, counsel for the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. Mr. Hill's testimony was broken by objections ' to the form of grilling by former Governor James" II. Hawlcy, and counsel far it. Mr. Hawloy insisted insist-ed that Judge Straup was exceeding his bounds in pounding on the table In what tho governor termed an effort to intimidate the witness, and said to the former Utah court justice: "If you want to turn this into a bear garden, let 'er go; I'll be there." Judge Straup was questioning tho witness concerning matter contained in a letter written by Mr. Hill to Mr. Cooper at one time engineer for the company. In the letter Mr. Hill took exception of to tho criticisms made by Mr. Cooper of conduct of the company in wL-'uh tho engineer had slated that ers then, In the spring of 1918, that it would not be able to construct its factory that year. In the communication, Mr. Hill stated stat-ed that if the people of the district were told pointblank that tho factory would not be completed in 101S, the farmers would have stopped planting beets and the stock subscribers would have stopped their payments. Judge Straup sought to have the witness admit ad-mit that the company withheld information infor-mation about Its planes. To this Mr. Hill replied that the company had naturally nat-urally to guard itself in Its statements, but that the intention was at all times to complete the factory,- as rapidly as possible. This question of the withholding of information was asked tho witness a number of times in a number of slightly slight-ly different ways and to this line of ex amination both Henry Ward Beer, special attorney for the commission conducting the case for the government govern-ment and Governor Hawloy interposed most ' energetic objections. Judge Straup also sought to learn how many shares of stock were held by A. Godwin, God-win, an officer and official agent of the company. Governor Haw ley likewise like-wise objected to this, stating that such a question might be an entering wedge for many others calculated to reveal the tecrots or the company, which could be used against it. Mr. Beer claimed that Mr. Cooper at the time of correspondence in question was endeavoring en-deavoring to throw the company in the hands of a receiver. Tho question of statements made by Mr. Hill to the Bradstreet commercial agency was also brought up. oo |