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Show Records of the Oregon-Utah Sugar Company Presented in Commission Hearing SALT LAKE, April 24. Presentation Presenta-tion of books and records of the Orc-gon-Utnh Sugar company consumed practically the entire lime yesterday in the hearing of the federal trade commission complaint against the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, Ernest R. Woolley, A, P. Cooper and E. F. Cul-len, Cul-len, charging them with conspiracy to restrain competition in interstate commerce. com-merce. George E. oanders. first president presi-dent of the company and one of its first promoters occupied the stand for the entire da'. A large portion of the time yesterday yester-day was consumed by arguments between be-tween Henry Ward Beer, special attorney at-torney for the trade commission, who Is conducting the case, and Judge D. N. Slraup, counsel for the Utah-Idaho, relative to the admission of documents. docu-ments. Judge Slraup contended that copies should be made of them as tho company, com-pany, which was taken over by the Utah-Idaho, wishes to keep possession and use of its books. Tho documents were placed in eviuence. ;ir. tsanaera continued his testimony of Thursday relative to the financial history of the Oregon-Utah company. Tho only real friction between counsel coun-sel for the government and counsel for the respondent came when Judge Straup said that the witness, Mr. Sanders, San-ders, was endeavoring to shift responsibility respon-sibility from himself to the shoulders of Bishop C. W. Nibley, general manager man-ager of the Utah-Idaho company, who was one of the incorporators of the Oregon Utah company and who succeeded suc-ceeded Mr. Sanders as president very shortly after tho incorporation. Mr. Beer objected most strenuously to the alleged accusation by Judge Straup. It wa3 brought out that George A. Smith, then purchasing agent for the Utah-Idaho, was made purchasing agent for the Oregon-Utah, and that George Austin, then with the agricultural agricul-tural department of the Utah-Idaho recommended his son as agricultural agent for the new company. Evidence was also introduced to show that tho beet contracts offered the farmers by the Oregon-Utah were practically identical iden-tical with those of the older concern. The first plan for a factory, Mr. Sanders testified, was to get the option op-tion held by Alexander Nibley and othors on a plant at Waverlj, Washington, Wash-ington, and move it to Grant's Pass, Oregon, whero the Oregon-Utah plant was to be built. This was not done, Mr. Sanders said, because Bishop Nibley Nib-ley favored a new plant and wanted to make a contract for one .with the Dyer Construction company. |