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Show TONIGHT WITH AT nNCE DANCE TONIGHT legionnaires the BERTIIANA LEGIONNAIRES AT THE WHITE CITY L OGDEN, UTAH. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER II, NUMBER 49 1927. Colton Again To Have Hoad COMMISSION FOR PEN NOW HAS Congressman Don B. Colton, of L'tah, will again have his road bill before congress This is a bill where. u Mr. Colton hoped to have the federal government build trunk line s m states where funds for road buding are not available. The principal objections voiced by Chairman Dowell, of Iowa, chairman oi the house roads committee, have been withdrawn, and Colton is hope-tuof getting the measure before thel house at an early date. Representative Samuel S. Arentz, of .Nevada, has announced he will with Mr. Colton in to secure passage of theendeavoring bill. The filiation, Mr. Arentz Sa8edf joints out, would be particularly help- n? vhe rizona atrip between e;ada. over which the Arrowhead Trail passes. There is only a scattering of Arizona in that vicinity so that the residents state is not T!i8tedi ln allotinK funds for the Doty, Judge David R Roberts and T. Samuel Browning Confirmed by City Com mission; Police and Fire Department Under Board's Control; Take Charge at Once Charles B. high-way- service commission Ogdens hu been appointed. Due to legal differences, which took greral months to clarify and which vere finally settled upon Judge N issuing an opinion that the pr passed by the 1927 legislature in constitutional, the board of city commissioners yesterday appointed a civil ori iervice commission composed of development Doty, Judge David R. The,bj.ll also wou,d solve the i k County Nevada Boberts and T. Samuel Browning. budding of Browning's appointment Mayor Jhe north. aad was ratified by the tbs commission falls connection, bill, with the advance from with Comboard of commissioners, t0A eig.ht cent on Primary missioner Harman W. Peery dissentisaid, will care for all ng. Commissioner Peery explained roads, 'm!evada? !eeda n this respect." that he was of the opinion that the outlook for passage of the incoming city commission should be n Boulder conferred with before the appointdam mi m the next congress, Canyon ments were confirmed. Arentz is optimistic. Commissioner Chris Flygare made Such congressmen the point that there had been so much as I llUVC criticism directed toward the commissP.k.en 'nce my return here, Iladley, of Washington; ion that he was willing to. acceed to of Iowa, and the demands of the critics. Fish, of New Accordingly a vote on the confir- Xork Antz said, all spoke of the Boulder Canyon mation of the appointments was and taken; Mayor Browning and Commissthink that it iJ?Ject -- k be passed. thy ioner Flygare voting "Yes," and Commissioner Peery voting No. Qiarles B. Doty was appointed to serve until July 1, 1928; Judge RobLake Mayor ots appointment runs until July 1 Native of Ogden 1930, and T. Samuel Browning will serve until 1932. The board will beJohn F. Bowman, a native of Og-dgin its labors at once. The civil service commission is to has been elected mayor of Sait receive compensation at the rate of Meslnn a $54)0 per day, but the law provides native son of Oat no member shall receive more fortv-S- v thin $40 in any one month. years ago and received his early Section 666 of the law reads: The in the Weber academy. He has head of each department shall, by resided m Salt Lake City since 1903, end with the advice and consent of and since 1908 has been a practicing die board of city commissioners or ittorney. His success in politics may rifr council as the case may be, and e attributed to the fact that he left object, jo the rules .and. regulations Ogden before being taught to vote for of the civil service commission, ap- Democrats, at least half the time. from a classified civil service furnished by the civil service commission, all subordinate officers, employes, men or agents, in said department, and in like manner fill any vacancies in the aame.w B. Charles Murdock After More Weber High Railroad Official Bill Considered Sees Great Prosperity OVILSERVICE prob-from- u- swing-Johnso- be-le- je ng Dick-nso- n, Half-Way-Hou- se vice-preside- nt vice-preside- nt din-M- us tiie rose, and as transportation comes more available and be- g; these desert areas mid arid regions are found to be treasure lands, and not the forbidding places they appeared to be to the first emigrants who invaded our western so n, tex C so-call- ed wilderness, "As an officer of tin Southern Pacific company 1 have watched with great interest the advance of Utah, and the growth of Salt take, of Ogden, l'rovo, tagan and all your other cities and their surrounding areas. More and more closely the destinies of this great region and of the Pacific coast are being intertwined. You are now supplying us on the Pacific coast with SI per rent of our coal. In six years' time the tonnage has grown by 40 per rent in the face of the cheapest fuel oil that California has known in manv years. "In four years' time, your business to tiie Pacific coast, as measured by the data of our company, whose interest lies entirely in building up this relationship, has increased more than &0 percent; that is, you are supplying us, in carloads, 50 per cent more in 1927 than you' did in 1923, and, recip' rurally, there has been an increase of more than of the traffic from California into Utah. You nut only supply us with nearly all our coal. You supply us with our pig iron, which is being used to build up the great steel industry in California. We are very glad when we found it possible to make rates on your pig iron that created a great Not content with having 5000 acre Wt of water turned from the Weber nto the Provo river, und Salt take ity demanding 10,000 ucre feet of water from the Echo reservoir, Joseph . Murdock, of Hcbcr, a member of the Utah Water Storage commission, is seeking to have the promised Kanins diversion canal constructed large enough to convey to Utah luke surplus waters from the Weber river as well as to carry the storage water uhscrilivd for by Provo interests in the Echo reservoir. At the regulur meeting of the Utuh water storage commission meeting Tuesday afternoon Mr. Murdock said there had been considerable discussion of the size the diversion canal should be built, hut that he was under the impression that the storage commission at one time was one record as favoring a canal of from 800 to 10(H) second-feeIt was decided later, he said, to cut the size of the canal down to 300 seconded if the Provo interests should for 10,000 acre-feof storage in the Echo reservoir. As the Provo ntcrests did not subscribe for tiie full it was decided to 0,000 acre-fee- t, mild the canal in proportion to the amount subscribed below the 10,000 t. sub-scril- H et edu-cati- on the meeting of the city commis-u- n yesterday the matter of garbage otpisal was given consideration. The decision of the commission was that ike use of the dump at the city ceme-iet- y should be discontinued at once. At Die company that has the contract to dispose of garbage is to be given the at either of three the city; namely, at Wall of dumping option Places in between venue, Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets; at Jackson, near Eighteenth street, and at West Thirty tkird street Commissioner Peery stated that jome two weeks ago he had requested the city purchasing agent to get in- formation as to the cost of an incin-tinbut that the informs plant uon had not arrived. The comyet mission was of the opinion that the tost would be more than could be sppropriated at this time, but the was to get all available infor-tio-n ready for the use of the administration. de-Q,- 1n in-mi- ng Frank Francis, Fred Williams and Lottie Farr Manning Victorious in Heated Contest; Small Majorities for the Winners; Congratulations Are Extended Victorious Candidates The closest election campaign years ended in the election of Frank Francis, who polled 6055 votes as against 5251 for Albert Becker. Fred E. Williams was victorious in the coimnissionership contest when he polled 5881 votes to 5396 for Farley K. Richardson. In the contest for city auditor, Lettie F. Manning received 5619 votes to 5516 for Mary E. Farley. As soon as the result of the election wus flushed, Mr. Becker extended his congratulations to his opponent. Frank Francis issued the following statement: As only about 7000 acre- Coming without the help of paid ect of storage was subscribed for by I workers and with the backing only of these interests, it was decided to mukel a volunteer organization, 1 greatly ap-tcanal of -- HI second-ferapacity. I predate the fine expression of eonfi-mbWater Needed to Gerry Out I dm-- from the voters. It Is a fine I ' roper 1 roject too, because my opponent It was pointed out by Mr. Murdock I icompliment, one of Ogdens most prominent and that it would be useless to build a I most popular business men. U Dth lake! The raeo for city commissioner was i uiiW - he et er c one-thi- rd the Wekrivr ,e eal d f 1 he water avaUnhi? in hc lake TLuf! f ' lit an Airmail Pnrf Landing Armistice Day Cemetery Abandoned OUT RECORD VOTE acre-fee- t. Legion Men Talk Before Students on Grounds at IN YEARS BRINGS River Water of Transcontinental Ogden the Routes; State andl City Has Great Future; Thousands of Trains and Millions in Payroll Each Year; State Has Untold Wealth Which Will Help to Build a Greater Commonwealth There is no man in America better; equipped to place the proper appraisement on Salt take City, Ogden and the state of Utah than Paul Shoup of San Francisco, executive of the Southern Pacific railroad. On Tuesday night Mr. Shoup was a guest of honor and one of the speakers ut the annual banquet of the Utah Taxpayers' association in Salt Lake City; and Wednesday night he was the honored guest of W. II., E. O. and W. L. Wattis, of the Utah Construction company, at a dinner at the Hotel Bigelow. As executive of the Southern Pacific railroad, Mr. Shoup knows the value of Utah and has the exact figures to set forth those values. It ner given by the Wattis Brothers, was witii these facts and figures that he thrilled the seventy-fiv- e Ogden business and professional men who were invited to be guests at the r. Shoup came up from Salt take City on the Bamberger Electric, as a guest of its president, Julian M. Bamberger; and it was tf this trip that he devoted the opening remarks of the speech he made in response to the welcoming addresses with which he was greeted, lie told how President Bumberger pointed out the objects of interest along the route, and marveled at the fact that the electric road had found it good business to build a system of warehouses along its line for the use and accommodation of the local fruit and vegetable lie also noted the floral growers, companies having mammoth greenhouses along the line; also the flour mills, the canneries, the sugar fac tones, the peach and cherry orchards, ,nd the vinenb-,,- e he generous water supply, the fer-il- e lands, and was surprised when nformed that the Bamberger Elec-ri- c had handled sixty cars of flowers 'or the Miller Floral company and :wo cars of roses which went to Pasadena, California, for. the great row carnival. He was also informed that CLOSEST ELECTION mnrhed with intense interest begin- ning the day following the primaries, mI Both the candidates for the office are I prominent in the business and aocial , of lh' ci- - nd bolh ,n,d i intense campaign for votes. uny such projH.'t without the bringing has been in the groMr. Williams of surplus water from the Weber in business Ogden for many cery river to the lake. , ... , I years, entering the business at the Li... ilL H i. of th. Utah enough to handle the surplus Elks association,president is a member in and water from the Weber during the high many of the citys fraternal organizaindustry in Utah and another great leason after the Echo reservoir had tions. been filled. industry in the same line in CaliFrank Francis is no stranger to This proposition of Mr. Murdocks fornia elected to I inshould be resisted by the Weber River ?&don voters, having Iteen i)ur company has a very direct two terms. He terest in your state in a good many Water Users association. There will I the U?01 Kirkenda11- - and ways. With our connections we are be a time when the surplus flood wo-- 1 w aa i,0ciru by commercially a part of all of your productive sections. Our payroll, with due allowance for our half interest in the Pacific Fruit Express, is in ex' a comeback seldom staged by any cess of $3B),000 per month in this politician that has met three constate. We pay a urge sum in taxes secutive defeats, 500 cars of local freight which by the way, have increase! lad been sent out of the territory something like CO per cent in the last Lettie Farr Manning, the victor in j lh raca for audior luring 1927. He predicted that with-- n ten years, and we have appreciated ai,tr of w. IlLl II jial Farr, assistant attorney a few decades the two cities would and do appreciate, the friendly coopgeneral, and the widow of William J. Manning, A meet; and referred to this strip of eration that the great business inn F ICld II a railway mail official, country as a string of pearls, of rare terests of this state have at all times AllQ value and who died last spring. She has lived extended to us in connection with beyond price. eauty To Ogden he referred as the Half- those questions that promise so serHarman' W. Peery iously to affect the welfare of our ofTjm porta nee "is' rmwTsst.redTndl way house on the great line of railroad; and he as- railroad, and indeed of the railroot serted that so far as his road was con- industry. Members of Herman Baker post, cerned the Ogden Gateway was No Greater Diversity of Resources exeJJed PreMed a willingness to Miktahn. American Legion, attended assem- open to the Denver & Rio Grande I have been asked to speak briefbaJftJSS blies in the various city school yes- Western railroad. Sopne of the high ly this evening upon 'what I might ff K f th port of call on the Montana air mail of the city. terday and addressed the students on ights of his Ogden speech were that consider as the questions of most vita route. Senator King has wired benefit W. patriotism, and set forth the aims lis company had a payroll in Ogden importance to the progress of the peo- Rice Kimball, chairman of the Ogden , and objects of the observance of Ar- of $300,000 per month, and a total ple of this section, and which, indeed aviation Co. mistice day. for Utah of $360,000. That Ogden in a wider sense might be applied to kStSasioiciowIlm,e sections schools which at but our ail held Mr! Glover assures me you country, was on the high road to prosperity, Speakers of, Gets plan un- Armistice day programs were as fol- and was pleased at the spirit of have here the melting pot, literally and Ogden will be included changed lows: and and erecwhich had prompted the your problems and stops will be made in figuratively, Ogden on in the Salt Lake basin Washington school, R. L. Olson, na- tion of her wonderful hotel. Of all are illustrative of nearly all of, the new air mail route to Montana. The I tional committeeman of the legion for he modes of transportation rail, bus problems of the country. In no other IomJ hu Mr. Glover .tor.g, of ' JJtah; Madison school, Ira A. Hug- and air Ogden would be on the section is there greater diversity o master general and it was unler hia I been taken by the interior department routes. lie predicted resources or greater diversity of suc- authority that advertisements are be-- 1 in the letting of contracts for the congins; Weber county high school, Lawrence Clayton; Grant school, R. L. Ol- greater prosperity and growth in the cessful production. f published for bids to handle air 'The state that is first in silver, ing son, J. C. Littlefield and Howard next decade than ever before, and was mail between Helena and Salt idlt. I The contract for relocation of the of the Union Iacuic railroad Swanner; Polk, Arthur Grantham; not dismayed at changed conditions in that is either second or third in cop In this advertisimr Lincoln school, Parley E. Norseth; business and transportation. lie told per, that is surpassing all records in nated at the termini and" are the lJncoln hlghway 10 run also in d Lorin Farr, the Rev. W. T. Moore; of 180,000 cars passig through Ogden the production of zinc, which has tre school for Hie deaf and blind, George during the month of October and of mendous resources of iron ore and D. Shupe, commander of the legion fifty miles of freight cars passing coal as yet beyond ' post. through in a single day. The men produces all the and ate all zone who handle these trains are citizens of Ogden and daily contribute to her cultural products Andrew I well being. SndTdah! ritory of America, whose metropolis I Awarding it the contracts remove, I the wields an center is that commercial a RiafaniTdeleMtloM Mr. Suit of Tiie letter Shoup's remaining step preliminary high lights Died In a to actual construction work on the take speech, which should be of in- influence for a radius of 1000 miles, I Re 33 ehamtar A I formalities such terest to all the people of Utah, are which has water power in abundance, dam exuePt for e official stated department I manufactures of constantly increasing, 8atisfactory the Andrew J. Egbert, one 6f the best given here as an inspiration to those filing riven to I satis- known residents of Layton, died at who believe that Utah can and will and resort developments that are re guaranteeing completion andcontract Qgden stoo commonwealth: the Dee hospital, Ogden, at 7 a. m. grow into a greater near th.l lactory p.rf.rmn. I to the bids made, Salt Lake is more than a commeryesterday. The cause of his death canyon according Construction work must be started is given as blood poison, which devel- cial, agricultural and mining metropwithin 30 days from notification to oped from an injury in his foot. He olis. Utah is the center of a great to More .more the and scenic region. the contractor of the letting of the lived in Kaysville until he went are United the e States of contract. fifty-onbegindistrict years people the Layton i Herman Baker post, American Legion, arid A. G. Guthrie & Co. of Portland was ago, and he lived there until his death. ning to realize that the sea are and at desert Louise and of many regions son He was the Joseph the year the most attractive Taylor Egbert, pioneer hotel keepers sons of of our country. They have section of Kaysville. He is survived by his wife, Mary discovered that oases are not merely Ann Walker Egbert, to whom he was points of expediency with respect to married October 10, 1876. To them human comfort, but give to humanity were born five daughters and three their maximum of comfort, and, as opening bids the reclamation sons. The surviving are Mrs. M. T, science, transmitting the power of and of the waterfalls the reserved the right Mrs. mountains, C. Owens E. service and took several of the workers! Owens, of Logan; con-- 1 the work in one or two contract. The jJJ Mrs. Godfrey Hamblin, Mrs. W. W. of the coal that underlies these moun- gent understanding and personal in land Construc-protyeas science, advancing in tact, have all classes appremtethe made by the Og-- 1 combined bid of the Utah Chipman and Mrs. O. C. Inkley, all o: tains, and ns well their as unothers under the was of desert other the chaylberbJf considerably directions, brings ommerce to acer. tion company Layton, and a son Irvin, also of consulbid. combined der control and makes it to blossom own. but other tain the prospective amount of pound- - a".y The funeral will be held from the rldt Kan'sXsiitlike o?the two contrecU instead of the ore IIIIIlllllIIinilllllllllllllllllllllllKIllIllimillllllllllllllllllllllllllUlIHIilllllllllllllllllg Kaysville tabernacle at 2 p. in. Saturaboi t airmail route were Ogden placed on I to the Utah company will save day afternoon and will be conducted by 5 I Andrew Ellison. $6,000. the route as a stopping place. jj ' Bishop James E. an I The hope is entertained that the Upon the return of President James j Egbert was a high class citizen, frient DeVine of the chamber of com-- 1 big daifc structure will be comolet expert carpenter and a good 11:30 o'clock, the big parade starts from the Ogden EE At be will He greatly and neighbor. sufficiently tc store water for district. thermi-rhlTxecXcommi&f high school and willL proceed through the business 5 missed in his home community. irrigation season. T J Salt Dumping trans-continent- well-know- al ISifJ AS " Utah Construction Track Contract en-erpr- ,.tr trans-continent- al atl,on lle-!un- J. Egbert Yesterday Krfore lt pott-offic- Davis County Egg GAN, Nov. 8. . e -- For the first time contests history of America, a pen of Utah pullets has S2J. awarded first place. This goes to the ten pullets owned ? ft Knight of Woods Cross, to a report given out today Hu e8sor Byron Alder, poultry- the Utah experiment station manager of the third Utah inter-tAn contest, which October 30. ! egg-layi- ng dis-Sjjfi- f0 ac-Lj- jg egg-lyi- Auto ng so-call- ed &S& VS. a E2HLai Js. - Kills Oregon Man iUiam 4- .- h1 1 Layer Leads America WITH at Clearfield Irvine, 30, of Baker, Ore zln,st instantly killed at Wednes-itt0Ln,- n gj6 Lay-ton- . bX ms oclock at Clearfield by an automobile driven Ifr t 1. Biggina of Brigham City, had left his car opposite i . nk stand and was crossing wben h was knocked down W The Fort Hggins automobile, traveling IsL!? tb.e3 state highway, . were . curps will r In many states where beavers r r I tion of the will hold a 0f the accident by line, proposed best lujtigation of some the ypar Sheriff J. D. Burnett of Davis formerly abundant,beaver EEI conference with him. ponds tha E and to the conviction that the meadows are old 2 o Weber At s between football college clock, game while either with silt have filled up EE "unavoidable. Snow college at Lorin Farr athletic park. by the beavers or after they Brown of Ogden was one occupied the dam conwere killed, en w0uidh comtP or deserted Before the game and between, quarters, th,ere will be t Ogden to Took I ckiLpts?raky and stopped. He tinuing to provide a settling basin I over proposed landing sites and kalLu ,ne died from a fracturet for the soil particles washed from Sjb"at tteir 0regularnthly infantry drill by the Thirty-eight- h infantry of Fort Douglas, broken leg. over the situation generally. val8 received a I EE Irv; the such In and and well drum as the as corps. the trumpet places band, by ground. to be held Saturday with Mrs. meetine higher d been I EEl topping beets at United States department of agricul 2511 Tyler avenue. and L. Gus first between Exhibition Becker E. by shooting 1 roorpirtn can not t.ke the nlnce ox I Joseph . ctEvans, knw i and was in company with ture suggests that it is often possible Mf f Benniong lecture BGCOnd half. of Twin Falls, Idaho, to find land now unproductive thatHit?. education in providing an intelligent, I A ne Importance of Spiritual De wiii cm WUn!narried and had two broth informed and sympathetic member-- 1 In the evening, dancing at the Berthana and White Egch might yield fair returns for invest-ln. Baker. They were noti meat and labor if operated as a bea- SSMTST the of American Gardens, Legion. City auspices n Jue death. ver farm for the commercial ptoduc-- 1 guest. Wl Jdy was removed to the Hoi tion of fur. TrilllllllllllllllllllinillllllllllllllllllinilinillllllimillllllllllllllllUllllllinilllinilllllr.lU. S. Department of Agriculture. Mortuary at Bountiful. 6 Armistice Day Program . 1 th-192- T- c? ; U SiK " , - s 1 SET M mi 9 |