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Show Us Help Ogden Grow by 1 Subscribing to The Ogden Post! Got Ilolh Sides of the Story. Subscribe Today! I VOLUME OGDEN, UTAH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1929 local chamber VOTE WILL ON NEW CALENDAR Members Newspaper Answers Williams' Complaint The results of analysis of Wheel- samples taken ?;crro,n by Tuesday, August 7 t0 th city won yesterday by the state board of health morning who pronounced the water pure. Samples collected from a water fountain on n avenue also received official sanction. It will be recalled that the published a nauseating artcle on that date stating that water conditions on Wheeler creek were alarming. 7jj ta Vote by 3Iail on (Change of Calendar; Voting of National Nature; Arguments i for and Against Change Given Defendiints Say Dr. Beattys Utterance That Typhoid Fever Is Manslaughter Gave Them Bight to Print Articles; Claim Standard-ExaminWas Honest in Its Purpose "!: er Wash-ingto- in ? Favor of Change in National by Committees; Majority J.n lven recital, much of which is irrelevant and redundant, the Standard-Examine- r answers the complaint of City Commissioner Fred E. Williams, in his suit for $100,000 Stand-ard-hxam:n- er I Members of the Ogden chamber of vote next week on the BgtJonal referendum on the change of the calendar. A letter will be sent to each member of the chamber, giving commerce will ar NUMBER 40 Board of Health Says Wheeler and Ogden Water 0. K. WINTER SPORTS him the opportunity to express him-m- f on the matter. After the ballot inf by mail is concluded, the results vill be forwarded to the chamber of j CARNIVAL FOR commerce of the United States. The national referendum will be conducted by the chamber of com OGDEN ASSURED of the United States among its Ogden Will Be Member of Trithan 1,600 member organizatangular Circuit to Stage Dog ions. The proposals for calendar reform Races, Ski Contests, Toboggan com e from a special committee of the chamber, accompanied by a minority Contests; Site for Ski Jump mport advocating continuance of the infrrw ore - prelent calendar. The recommendations mittee of the coms: are three in number, as fol-loir- That the present calendar should be M changed as to bring about a greater comparability in business records for perjods within a year and for periods from year to year. :.That the form which changes in the calendar should take should be de; through international termined ference. con- IThat the government of the United in participate in an international conference to determine the form of changes to be made in the States should calendar. Selected in Ogden Canyon; Committee to be Appointed Thousands of winter visitors are expected in Ogden as a result of the move made by the chamber of commerce yesterday at a luncheon at the Hotel Bigelow, when the local organization agreed to join hands with Lake Tahoe, California, and Ashton, Idaho, for the creation of a circuit. This move will enable the west to see the greatest ski jumpers in the country in action, according to Lots Haugen, seven times national champion of the sport, who attended the meeting. The plans for the winter meet were of outlined by Wilbur Maynard Truckee, California; who originated the plans for the circuit The site for the ski jump was selected by members of the chamber, Maynard, Haugen and City Engineer They decided that Harry Errctt Shanghi hill just east of Pinecrest Inn was admirably adapted for the pur' pose. Haugen asserted that the necessary work for the ski jump would subject of calendar reform has agitated for a number of years bdth here and abroad. The League of Nations, the International chamber of commerce and the International Astronomical union are. among the organizations which have given it study. iThe report of the chambers committee emphasizes especially inconveniences in business accounting arising Jfom the. facts, that months, quarters and half years are of unequal length, not' tost to exeeed 32000. President Alton will appoint a comqooting at length from a report made to' the League of Nations to handle the initial winter mittee by a special committee. carnival for this section. The committee reporting to the league of Nations went over about Propose Memorial 200 plans for changing the calendar Honor ud recommended attention Society would be centered on three fundaThs btea : to that L. mental questions: L Should the Farr, Pioneer divisions of the year . m the A few days ago, while in Salt Lake present calendar be so changed secremat there will be greater uniformity City, David Mattson, former citizen in length and a and prominent better of state, consequently tary . comparability? of Ogden, was approached by a grand2. Should the weeks be fixed in son of Lorin Farr with the proposiweir relation to the divisions of the tion that s society to be known as the year in which . they occur? Lorin Farr Memorial and Historical 5. How should the form of the Society," be organized. . This grandrest-debe determined? son of Lorin Farr, who is not a The chambers reasons for who in and committee, of Utah, calendar reform, itself puts best known to himself does not want forward no specific plan. In its re-- P name mentioned in this connecft y that a difference of opini- his check for tion, gave to Mr. Mattson s on developed among majority mem-- $100 to be used as a nucleus of a as to .what particular divisions fund for the carrying out of his propof the year should be made equal. osition. Ms of one kind undertake to make To carry out his contribution, the years- quarters of equal length, of the pioneer proposed that kinsman wta the same number of week days the association be organized as fol5ch month. The best known plan lows: That the Church of the Latter-da- y Mtha other type contemplates months Saints appoint Apostle George A. ? 5 length, with the weeks fixed a grandson of Lorin Farr, to fu Tnontft with the consequence Smith, the head society; that the state of the number of week days would Utah appoint as the second member, months and a date ffme n the month would fall upon the Ben L. Rich, another grandson; that woe day of the week. Both types of Ogden City appoint Joseph Farr, F. W. Paii provide calendars of 364 son; that Weber county appoint days of county board the of would utilize a blank day to f ill Stratford, that the Farr famordinary- year, with two commissioners and of the rarr days for leap year. ' ily appoint a member members of the chambers "anfttee developed individual pref-.i-jj- 8 fMr.yMattson pledged himself to asof the a twelve month sist in carrying oui the wishes "feting check the will and deposit thirteen month plan, with grandson, --to the bank rteen month plan an in Ogden $100 receiving most for credit of the association as soon as flje problem attending the wide it is organized. the organiza2? K?T by yer in Easter dates- Mr. Mattson considers Mention of the cham- tion of the society of more than passcommittee, which pointed out the ing interest Lorin Farr wss the first j of jjjvenience of the present arrange- - mayor of Ogden, and was mayor To o twenty-twyears. the city for all the coniInftteeg minority members him, as mayor, was which the Unit PPose any calendar changes. deeds and patents by lit.,.r topawto to Ogtransferred property ed States "port they say: wnerally speaking, the civilized den City, and all deeds to Ogden City does now possess, or is rapidly property run back to him. He was Possess, a calendar man of vision and wterpriw, P uniformity. The in- -, lie spirited and progressive. He laid new calendar having raa-fro- the foundation of Ogden as a muniical the present, or cipality and builded so well that the laaorsiT5 10 lmProve it, would mean citizens of Ogden will honor themto millions of people, selves by oud by honoring his memory memorial to suitable discomfiture a of erection Ctet the ch the present and compiling a history of his life and Vfcld off'1,r.eliiou loyalty, and public services. ,.er nothing of substantial K to business which that furtherance of the idea, though appar-entl- y -enjoy now, if it wilL a considerable sum of money is vitalthe calendar tonr?y being spent to launch it. the proponintimate and habits However enthusiastic 1 Millions of people in this ents of the proposed change IjWry. little into be, general business hasuse a sys-teto wish who voicnuar as presented terest Those tnat than other poPular men-ith of accounting SoniQ. backing worth are months 5.0me to this chamber based upon the present tL such, as Business, so. fcopu11 4 tudied . support of but few now doing ree group has been cir-- I should be careful not to intrude upon concern ma often happens with matters peculiarly of private 2ja cuswith great many people, as well as being interwoven a unless change em.of business prominence, tom of long standing, to busen-- ! is of transcending importance jSepA?S.s prPsa their We commerce of chamber iness itself. The great thinking. ?ten t'. com- riL.p": crnPd that these people are can well avoid taking ary nt pro-Pom- ng w - rs SJv. - enjoy-giabstanti- a1 i m Pat val-enig- le Ihnt W m V-c- h roftv8 That all of the matters complained of by the plaintiff in the alleged publication, were matters which arose from his conduct as a city commissioner and superintendent of the damages. The document is not confined to Water Works Department of Ogden Utah, and were a publication of answering the items mentioned in the City, mutters things which occurred complaint, but additional matter has before theand of City CommissionBoard been entered in the pleadings. The ers of said City and statement Ogden paper charges that Williams was abmade of the matters and truly sent from his post of duty for his own fairly discussed then and there and, also, pleasures, and that he allowed others i from notices and proceedings of said to assume his duties' without instructions from him or anyone else com- Boards of Health done and issued in the course of business as said Boards petent to attend to the same, thereby of Health and that said articles were permitting others to assume said du- bared upon tbe facts then and there ties to be negligently attended to that discussed ami stated and simply covdeaths and illness from typhoid fever acta of the plaintiff ered official the resulted. and said In answer to the statement in the and his were Hoards and Health of simply complaint that the Standard-Examinof .enthe honest made for purpose has a wide circulation in Utah conthe of the community and adjoining states, the answer is lightening discusunder then ditions and there made that its circulation is qonfined to within DO per cent to Weber county. sion and existing and not otherwise The denial is made that James 1. and were a true statement of the discussed and then existing by Casey is general manager and editor facts Board and of Commissioners of the paper, and states that A. 1 said and that laid Boards Health of said ulassman is the editor, and that Casey Dr. Beatty, chairman of the said is only the associate manager. of Health of the State of Utah, Board The defendants cite in the answer and privately stated, not only publicly that no attempt was made to injure to the plaintiff and other city comCommissioner Williams, and deny that the articles were false or defamatory missioners, but to others that typhoid or greatly or at all injured the plain- fever was manslaughter and further conditions such stated that to tiff, or his good, or any name, or ss then existed permit in Ogden City and as reputation, or that the publication hereinafter stated, was manslaughter thereof exposed him to public or any and this defendant had a right to contempt, scorn or hatred, or caused publish the same and advise the comhim or his family great, or any menas to the conditions then and munity tal anguish or distress, and they there that it is the duty further claim that Williams has not ef all existing and which they owe to newspa;ers, been damaged, either in the sum of the to publish and to give to public, $100,000 or any sum. the all news and information The claim is also made that the as topublic all acts done and performed by typhoid was all apparently and public officials concerning their acdue to the use of the Ogden tions in their official capacity, and City waters. they now plead all such matters aa a Great stress is laid on the fact that mitigation and justifications of all Ogden city water was impure, and the damages and claims as alleged and claim is made that controversy be- further state that the publications tween, the city officials and the state complained of were a substantial and board of health lias existed for j "a full and tore statement of the facts, number of years past" Citation is ss they then and there existed and as made that the agreement to chlorin- they occurred as hereinbefore stated, ate the water was not lived up to. and were made and published without The most illuminating passage in malice on the part of the defendants the document ia contained in the next or cither of them and were a fair to the last paragraph, wherein the comment of the official acts of plaindefendants place their right to pub- tiff and his and of lish the articles on Dr. Beattys state- the various boards of health ss aforement that typhoid fever is man- said and as a matter of news and as It is as follows: such were privileged. slaughter. er sus-pected- Traffic Accident Is ly 1 Money Tax Would Fatal to Aged Resident As a result of becoming confused street at the traffic on Twenty-fourt- h between Washington and Kiesel avenues, Dabiel C. Thomas, age 79, a retired farmer of Warren, walked into the side of a taxicab and received inMonjuries that resulted in his death occurred accident The afternoon. day Sunday night .He sustained a compound fracture of the right ankle, a fracture of the cute about right ankle and numerous . the head. Mr. Thomas wss born in a covered wagon near the Platte river, July 14, 1950, while his parents were crossing . . the plains. Funeral services will be held vox afternoon at 1 oclock in the Warren chapel, with Bishop Joseph E. Skeen officiating. The deceased is survived by five children: C. W. Thomas, of Ogden; Delbert Thomas, of Warren; Francis Thomas, of Plain City; Mrs. James A. Marriott, of Warren, and Mrsone wa-U McDonald, of Kelson, Wash.; and ter, Mrs. W. I Stewart, of Ogden, of OgM. J. Thomas, one brother, five great den; 18 grandchildren and grandchildren. tate. He advocated a change in the tax laws so that money in banks snd building snd loan associations would pay a just tax. Automobile tax collecting and assessing was discussed by Assessor Smith. He said that much of the mo- tor vehicle tax dodging had been stop- ped through the law passed by the last session of the legislature. Charles R. Hollingsworth, former senator from Weber county, discussed the proposals for a change in the tax structure, and spoke on the proposed state income tax. Highways Repaired Route Good-Wi- ll by According to an announcement of the OgSecretary E. J. Fjeldsted den chamber of commerce a slignt in the itmersnr change has been made tour, which is of the Idaho good-wi- ll From Preston, Idaho, tne ss follows: route will take the Ogden represent stives through Gentile valley to Grace thence to Bancroft From B"cr0 tour will go straight through to Pocatello. County .Assessor Burdette Smith was the guest speaker before the Exchange club Tuesday. During his talk Mr. Smith asserted that the assessors of Utah do not tax money in the banks, because to do so would wreck the financial structure of the state of Utah. The assessors ignore the law for that reason, the assessor said. Building and loan associations get off easy Smith said, because there is no way to tax them other than to levy on the furniture, fixtures and real es- Road Damage on State Chamber Changes the Wreck State, Says County Assessor ' Papcr Cups Fail to Score in Courts The edict of the Utah state hoard use of paper health, whereby theused in the disbe containers were to funta1" soda at drinks of pensing comand soft drink places is made tra- to road hard a pulsory, is having of Tel In Salt Lake City, a municipal judge has decreed that the state board of health is without authority to enforce its edict. In Ogden, in a case which was brought against Ezra M. Peterson, and tried by a jury in the court of Cfr.fr, f.Ll!- 'jury vv in - This Wednesday evening all roads damaged in Utah by the recent rains and cloudbursts have been opened to traffic and little delay was suffered by tourists in southern Utah districts, it wss reported Wednesday by Henry H. Blood, chairman of the state road department, who returned from a trip through the southern Utah parks. Damage occurring to the roads near the parks included the road from ML Carmel junction to Bryce canyon, where crews were immediately put to work clearing away debris washed down ride canyons snd ever the high' way, the commissioner explained. Little delay was occasioned by such washes and the road was not in a dangerous condition, he said. The Hatch to Fanguitch road suffered similar damage on Monday night, while on the road near Cede Citv the rains washed down aha) rock during the rains of Saturday an Monday nights, but did not block trai fic. structed to bring in a verdict of not guilty. It is said that one or both of the cases will be appealed to the supreme court In the meantime the sale of foiir cutiX sa tLutJ- - 'Commissioncrs Say NATURAL CAS TO The Weber county board of ARRIVE HERE ON ra have refused to improve the read to I.a Plata, giving us the reason for their decision that the minNIGHT ing camp i in Cache county, and also that there is no money available in lias ( Company Will Furnish Gas the county funds. It was pointed out to the commisto Ogdon CusfomerH Soon; sion that, although Weber county Will be Turned Into would not get the taxes from the City mining camp that the commercial activity Mains September 9; Gas Here resulting front the camps revival, would center in Ogden, and that that Ahead cf Schedule; Franchises clnss of revenue would accrue to Weber county business houses. Through Idaho Obtained Commissioner R. H. Norris stated that he did not favor construction unIVdcn will celebrate the arrival of til it was proved that the business nuturul gas Saturday evening, Sepwould come to Ogden. tember 7 when Mayor Frank Francis Mill light the torch for the mammoth gas flare that will leap to a height of 100 feet from the big mains OGDEN CHAMBER on the David Mattson farm south of the Globe mills. Janies II. DcVine will Iks master of MAKES GOODWILL ceremonies. Mayor Francis will speak for city. E, U. Alton, president TOUR TO IDAHO of thethechamber of commerce, will felicitate the officials of the gas comChamber of Commerce Sends pany for bringing the new fuel to Ogden, which will result in industrial SATURDAY 1 Delegation to Idaho Capital to Attend Union 1ncific Athletic Meet; Trip Made in Irge Motor Hus; Ogden Out for 1930 Meeting The Ogden chamber of commerce stands credited with another of those visits which is doing so much to popularize Ogden with her neighbors. The last of these visits was made by fourteen officers snd members of the chamber who attended the Union Pacific athletic meet at Boise last week. The trip was made in Dick fiunns palacial motorbus and was mode with the d purpose of attending the athletic meet and for securing the meeting for Ogden next year. good-wi- ll two-fol- President Alton snd other members of the chamber said that they had never experienced a warmer or more fraternal welcome than was extended to them by the people of the Gem states capital city. The town was ours from the time we arrived until we left, President Alton said, and the hospitality extended to us didn't have any strings on I hope we will have an oppor-tonit- y to reciprocate at the meet of it 1 9.10. expansion. J. D. Roberts, vice-preside- nt of the Ogden ! company, will reply to the addresses of the mayor and President Alton in behalf of hia company. The uoint where It is proposed to ignite the gas front the big gas maina is on the farm of David Mattson, three blocks distant, and directly aouth of the Globe mills. To reach this point ono must go out over Thirty-thir- d street and cross the Weber river on the bridge under the Bamberger railroad tracks. The plare may also he reached by going over the street viaduct to the pavement, thenca southwestern ly along east side of railroad tracks along Hooper road (not across railroad tracks) southwesterly and south to road leading rnst to a point directly aouth of Globe mills. Signs will be placed on the highways to direct traffic. On September 9 natural gas will be turned into the distribution snd service mains of the city, snd after the present manufactured gas Is purged from these mains, Ogden's fine new fuel will flow into tho homes and factories of cuatomers and the huge task of changing all gas burners for natural gas will commence the morning of September 10. The huge llaro marks tho connect tion of Ogden with the unlimited sup- plies of natural gas from Baxter basin and Hiawatha dome gas fields. The gas lines are 380 miles In length one of the longest pipe lines in the United States. The huge project was started last January and ia now completed in about 8 months. The pipe used in laying the lines ranges from 6 inches to 18 inmiles of welded steel pipe ches, 122 r the main sector of trsni' C0,mPrlng mission line. This main line which begins at Green Itiver, Wyoming, and fiends westward to Coalville is fed ,two MneB. one from Baxter basin an me from the Hiawatha structure. Along the entire line the natural, gas companies operate their own tele- phone wire with a telephone located every ten miles. Inspectors will con stantly patrol these different ten mile Twenty-fourt- h end of Monday evening, at 6:30, the Ogden visitors staged a big parade through the main streets of Uofse, preceded by the Union Pacific band of Ogden, and fully 1000 persons, many of them from Utah, were in line. As to the athletic meet, the Ogden visitors said it was one of the best they ever had viewed snd they are looking forward to a repetition here next year. On the return trip home the Ogden chamber members came by way of Twin Falla, where they attended the fair Tuesday afternoon snd evening and- were greatly pleased with the huge array of exhibits of all kinds from the wonderful country adjacent to the prosperous little city. After leaving Twin Falls at 6 a. m Wednesday, the voyagers departed from the Old Oregon trail at a point 12 miles cast of Declo, Idaho, and came home over what ia known as sections. the Snowville cut-of- f. The road was From the surveying of the line, the found to be in good condition and 74 hauling, stringing, welding, painting miles were saved. and lowering of the pipe into the trenches, testing of the pipo and backfilling of the trenches to the preparaMrs. Corey Loses tion of the town plants for the new the work has been successfully fuel, Recover completed more than a month ahead of schedule. The citv bolt line is being tested to make all in readiness for f In the suit in the district court wherein Mrs. Eva S. Corey, sued her exposed to untold hardRalph D. Roberts for pos- - n?t.n R. activities startConstruction '"P1, session of tbe property known as the in ed the one of Utahs dead of S. Barker Corey block, Judge George rendered a derision Tuesday in favor most severe winters. But despite the of Roberts. The property, which is hardships of zero weather, ' heavy located at 7 Washington ave- snows, mountain passes, river crossings, deep canyons, spring floods and nue. ia valued at $125,000. Mrs. Corey set forth in her com- washouts, the order went out to car- n so the line went forward plaint that there was in 1918 a first through on held valleys, across mountains at the the mortgage property by New York Life Insurance company nearly 8,000 feet altitude to its comfor $25,000 and a second mortgage pletion ahead of schedule. Last night Mr. Fitzpatrick announcheld by the Utah National bank, and also that she owed other sums of ed that franchises had Ven granted clear money and was being pressed for pay- to Denning and McFadyen ment. She further set forth that War- through to the Utah-Idah- o line, and ren L. Wattis was at the time man- that the city of Preston, Idaho, had of the bank and granted a franchise. Franklin county aging that he was a cousin of A. B. Corey has not granted a franchise aa yet," g and a friend of Mrs. Corey. but it is the only remaining franMrs. Corey claimed that Mr. Wattis, chise needed to complete the needed acting as family friend and advisor, grants. The board of county - com- had asked that she make a deed to missioners of Franklin county will the property to him not to the bank meet to consider the franchise on which she did. Mr. Wattis managed Monday, September 9. the property and paid out various accounts from the revenue accruing Mrs. Corey demanded a return of the from the property. She continued to property, according to the complaint Mrs. Coreys complaint set out that live in the apartment during this time. In November, 1919, it waa alleged although the deeds given in the transthat the federal bank examiners crit- actions were absolute in form, but icised the bank for the manner in were merely given as security. which the loan was being handled, According to Judge Barkers deand that, on the advice of Mr. Wattis, cision he holds that Mrs. Corey failed Roberts took over the property and to prove that the deeds were given as checked against the income as col- security, but that title passed to the lected and deposited by Mrs. Corey, hank. He also holds that when the who continued to live in the apart- deed was given to Roberta it was obtained from the bank with the underments. to Mrs. According Coreys allega- standing that the bank was the legal tion, RoLerts opened a aet of books owner of the property and also that shotting that the property owed him Roberts had no notice that the bank $20,584.64 and that he paid himself was only the mortgagee of Mrs. Corey. bark with interest at the rate of 8 per Woolley and Holther, attorneys for cent per annum until May 18, 1926, Mrs. Corey, have signified their inwhen the amount due against the tention of appealing the case to the supreme court. property had been paid up. Do Vine, Stine, Ilowell and Gwillinm A. P. Corry died in I92i and the - Suit to Title to Property ; n,iur,1i,, i - son-in-la- 2556-255- . ' ry-o- - vice-preside- nt i , I life-lon- r-- .: ; r , UL i ' A i i i-- ' k rif1-- v v r ' : |