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Show 'vu j President of Gunnison Valley Sugar Company Testifies to Alleged Duplicities SALT LAKE, April 13. At the federal fed-eral trade commission hearing yesterday yester-day testimony conojvilng tho .-iliegcd efforts of the Utah -Idaho jiigai coin-puny coin-puny to prevent 'he successful operation opera-tion of the Gunnison Vailcy Sugar company was introduced. W. 11. Ross, president of the company, com-pany, was on the stand for the creator part of tho day for direct Hnd cross-examination. cross-examination. Robert B. Young of Richfinld, president of tho Sevier stake of the D. S. church, was termed by Mr. Ross as the man who would havo been responsible had tho company failed. Ross alleged that Young ma-Jo derogatory dero-gatory remarks with the view of injur ing the company. Peter (Sugar Beet) Hansen of Sevier Se-vier county, a field agent for tho Utah-Idaho company, was another employe who had made remarks not to tho advantage of the company, according ac-cording to Mr. Rosa. Mr. Ross, at a later point in the trial, replied to a question of Henry Ward , Beer, special attorney lor th3 trade commission, that the L. D. S. church, as a church, hud never done anything to interfere with hi3 company, com-pany, but that officials of tho church had acted as individuals against him. |