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Show uu OGDENITES TESTIFY IN OIL STOCK CASE SALT LAKE, Aug. 24 Dr. Alice M. Ridge and Robert C. Johnston, both of Ogden, wore among the 12 witnesses that testified yesterday In tho United States district court In the caso of the federal trade commission com-mission against the Lone Star Oil company and others. Huston Thomas, Washington, D. C., member of the commission and former chairman, was the examiner. Hearings on The case, designed to Investigate, the salo of stock of the Lono Star Oil company have boon held In Houston, Texas, Denvor Colo and New York City. A final hearing will probably be held in Washington George F. Barton of Salt Luke (s named as one of tho respondents with the Lone Star Oil company. Tho complainants seek an order by the commission which will discontinue and prohibit the sale of Lone Star Oil company stock If the commission finds that misrepresentations were made in the sale of the stock- |