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Show : - u OF UTAH LIBRARY ' fcViVtf SALT LAKE CITY, UT'AH, SEPTEMBER 24, 1927 VOLb $, NO. 38 $10)0 A YEAR Msm ' RUSHING INTO COURT, BUT Call Upon Sheriff To Clean-u- p Town Of Booze and Vice 7 INESTER! They declare that patience has ceased to be virtue and that conditions in Magna are such that citlsens are not going to put up with them any longer. Bootlegging and vice are rampant in the town, declared the chairwoman and this roit of lawlessness is flaunted in the faces of respectable citizens with brasen effrontery. In fact, some of the offenders boldly challenge citt sens to do anything with them. The attention of the sheriff end his offlee hss hssn called JeeeBdHiens there more then ooee.'' Promises have been made to clean up the town. Borne raids have been made, but apparently with no effect. Conditions continue as they were. There are some women of courage and determination in Magna who are tired of having ram and vice flaunted in their faces day by day and they are not going to put up with it any longer. . We want to serve notice on the sheriff that unless his office cleans up conditions in Magna, we are going to law-abidin- g Oregon, Wyoming, Montana, California, Idaho, South Dakota and Colorado waa passed by an overwhelming majority of the fifty or more delegatee - present. OGDEN, September 23. More than fifty delegates, representing seven western states, met at Cgden at 10 o'clock Friday morning, to fey plans for the future success or the Democra- tic party In the west and the nation. The gathering, marked by n fine, degree of enthusiasm, was called to or- der in the convention nan of the Hotel Bigelow by Fred W. Johnson of Rock Springs, Wyo. Mr. Johnson Introduced Joseph W. Stringfellow, chairman of SWINGING BEHIND GOVERNOR SMITH McAdoo Announcement Caueee North orn Utah Bourbona to Boliovo New-Yor- k Governor Has Clear Field. (Special Correspondence.) LOOAN Local Republican pollti-clan- a have been pfennig and acheming for some time peat and the air haa been filled with rumora of the plots Not In A Hurry To Get There - antl-Smlt- . - Imrrtoanffd-fcf- l RWSMWESWHSf crorprEOTNOKrreftftfcRmwet oped them soon after the close of the but- , -. and counterplota they have indulged in over the apotfe in Utah, bnt it took the announcement recently made by been n McAdoo stronghold , the Salt Lake county organisation, . who was named temporary chairman of the meeting, while W. O. Chapman of Twin Falla, Idaho; waa designated aa temporary secretary. With the temporary organisation effee ted the delegates passed a motion to appoint a registration committee of one member from each of the states, and a committee on permanent organisation consisting of two delegates from each of the states represented. , Adjournment waa then taken- for . PAYING HIGH RENTS FOR DOWNTOWN APARTMENTS OUT OF CO. POOR FUND not- withstanding that fact had never been h and the newa that one of the party's strong men had stepped aside In the interest of harmony was welcomed quite as much by the preponderating McAdoo element as by the fewer adherents of the New York governor. The latter haa ben admired by Democrats here for his courage and e real Democracy and the general feeling now seems to be that the withdrawal of Mr. McAdoo haa left Governor Smith a clear field for the Democratic nomination and no one cares to hide the evidences of satisfaction that the new turn of affairs haa given. That la among Democrat! of course for local Republicans plain-dnot like the new development in national politics. . -- CACHE DEMOCRATS election feet year. ' They came to life with a start as soon as they heard of It Cache had IT OGDEN, Utah, Sept. 23- - Western Democrats In conference hsre late today Indorsed Governor' Alfred E. Smith of New York aa the moat avail- able candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination In 1928. A resolution declaring this the eenae of the Democrats present from Utah, While Sheriff Clifford Patten is entertaining the public with a few raids oh certain alleged bootleg and vice "joints" in Salt Lake City, some of the women of Salt Lake county, outraged by conditions permitted to exist there, are threatening that if the sheriff doesn't take time to do some real deaning-u-p in the towns of the county, they are going to do it for him. The chairwoman of a delegation of 1. SMS REPRESENTED COUNTY RESIDENTS WONDER WET OPTIONES RAID CITY PLACES WEEN COUNTY TOWNS ARE "WIDE OPEN." Magna women informed The Statesman this week that If the sheriff and his forces dont clean-u- p Magna and do it immediately, they are going to do it themselves. PATIENCE TRIED. S J CITY v T7 vt : IS CANDIDATE FOR CITY COMMISSION EXEORBITANT RENTS PAID FOR LIVING QUARTERS OF INDIOENT8, WHILE RENTAL PAYROLL IS TREBLED Successful and Popular Young nr SIZE UNDER STENACKER ADMINISTRATION. Man la Induced to Enter Busi-ne- . as City Race. Extremely lax management of the county poor funds in the adS. William Tooke, better known to ministration of that department by Cimmissioner W. H. Stenacker, the people of Salt Lake City as Bill, has announced hia candidacy is indicated by an examination of the records of the county auditor a for city commissioner in the primary an opportunity to get together In advance of the afternoon session. This was scheduled for 2:30 p. m. Among those in attendance at the gathering are the following: T. S. Talifero, Jr., and Fred W. Johnson of Dr. T. J. Shan ley and W. Wyoming H. Maloney of Butte; D. T. Marshall, national committeeman from Wyoming; F. D: Kenyon. Idaho; T. J. McHugh and Julius Alchelo, Colorado; Holton Davenport, South Dakota : C. A. Block and I H. Francisco. California: L. E. Dillingham, state chairman. Idaho; Guy Tyler, Pocatello; William H. Twohy, Butte. Mont; T. J. Quealey, Wyo.; A. M. Hammon, F. P. Dobbs, Roy Malln and A. E. Bradford, Ogden; C. S. Goddard, W. W. Armstrong, Fred L. Bagby, C. M. Goddard, James H. Moyle. Joshua Greenwood, George W. Smith, Samuel Russell, and O. W. Ewing of Salt Lake; D. D. McKay of Huntsville: Mrs. W. O. Chapman of Twin Falls. Idaho; Mrs. W. G. Brown. Mra. R. E. L. Collier, Mrs. D. M. Draper of Salt Lake; Joseph Chei of Ogden: O R. Mickelaon of Richfield; Srank Frsnrl of Ogden; John G. M. Barnes of Kaysvllle, and do it" OTHER TOWNS true-bluResidents of other towns in the office. election to be held October 25, next. Mr. Tooke is one of the most popucounty are complaining that while the records show The Lake Salt that sheriff is sallying forth in Salt Lake and successful young business men lar $12,-00- 0 la out of to the county paying lty pay department preferred upwards of the City and knocking over a few alcity and it was only arter much In for a rent and $22.60 have month that rather than rents, per year on the part of his friends leged Joints boose business and vice persuasion Inmany Instances these are exorbitant her disturbing the peace of the induced to enter the race. are flourishing in towns throughout was he that when compared with rentals paid by firmary employes. Hia platform is a business administhe county, at the roadhouses and in Aside from the fact that the trebthousands of working men and women other places. who depend upon the work of their ling of the number of persona whose tration of the public's business. Citizens of Midvale declare that this Mr. Tooke is vice president and own hands and heads to earn their rent must be paid out of the county town is wide open in the matter of of the largest Insurance conmanager . poor fund, does not apeak well for livings. cern in the state, and he haa a recliquor traffic, road houses are running KEEPING UP COURAGE Among the interesting disclosures re- Republican prosperity," It may be ord In full blast every night along various business achievement that gives were considervealed to la the auditors Lake the whether Salt open doing hooka, They already by question highways of the county and liquor to able whistling to keep up their cour- fact that while the county poor fund county can afford to house its Indigent assurance of the strict application of to city af- Delbert M. drink Is easy to get almost anywhere. age as a result of the exposures that rent rolls carried leas than Draper, atate chairman of twenty poor in downtown apartment houses. sound business principles Bingham canyon was never more have been made by The Statesman, names when the Stenacker administra- In this particular instance the county fairs If he Is elected to a commission Utah. wide open In the palmy days of the relative to conditions In Salt Lake, tion took office in 1923, the number of haa paid out approximately $1000 In ershlp. Twice he has led the United States saloon, is the complaint of good citi- but they had figured that the national persona whose rents are paid by the rent for this womans apartment In and Canada in zens of this section of the county, who situation would take care of itself as point of volume of In or care une four not aiv because does trebled first his county years, are up in arms over the alleged open the Democrats were sure to have a seven months induring written and he Is n sursnee business to office. live at the infirmary. manner and apparent unconcern with bitter factional struggle over the pres- INTERESTING FACTS runner-ucontest this year. the in In another Instance the county, for which they declare the few is being idency. The Mr. Tooke waa formerly manager of their political in many months, paid $20 a month rent are that facts Other prospect interesting Mullet-violated. foes being united under an able ag- one case the county has, since early In for n downtown basement occupied by of the clothing department of the Kelly a stockholder in It is reported from Bingham that gressive Company, Smith like leader a has rent a while modest been month a $22.50 1923, cottage poor family, already paying John S. Corlesa, candidate for city just recently the handling of the shaken their conf'drare. a might have been obtained for less the company and bnyor for this well commissioner, is making preparations in a downtown for house apartment of the canyon He is past wholesale liquor supply from their camp woman who, according to Charity money, and might have been more sat- known business house. The latest of hia headhas passed from foreign hands into indicate that reports commander of the American Legion for the formal opening are a of aa lot to live a homo. Claire Clerk refuses doing they Smith, isfactory reaf- quarters. new hands and the price has been In order to break up what anywhere else except in a downtown The hooka show dozens of instances and haa been very active in civic Mr. Corless has been offered the use duced fl per gallon, but these are the scheming seems to be a rather positive advan- apartment; while in another instance in which the county haa been paying fairs. or the lobby or the Chubrhk apartassurance In the situation, Mr. Tooke'a friends give . only changes havpossessed by Ernest Bamberger the county has, for almost the last from $18 to $20 n month rent for long assur- ments for headquarters, the offer The sheriffs forces have been very tage in hia race for the senate. woman $15 periods for some of Its poor, while that hia election would giveadminis- ing been made by L J. Moran, propriefour been a paying years, thorough business busy since a certain reported meeting to ermberger have Those month rent for living In her own many others had to be content to live ance of ofa hia tor of the place. It la expected that in a local hotef recently. It is re- discoveredopposed tration department he has laid month. some his wires a This to to in that house. from $8 $4 woman, quarters the headquarters will be opened withaccording this at that ported upon good authority very well indeed and the task of de- of her friends, la the owner of sev- HANDSOME RENTALS in a few days. Utah of senator senior the meeting hia quest for the nomination la eral othor houses which she rents out from a surThrough an error it waa announced it appears Incidentally, had the chief few enforcement officer feating beso an not of have to one, a relative be She taken would other is easy they sprung to (Saturday) owners in the daily papers that prorferCor-les-ofa today people. of names of the the It as vey of the county on the carpet some de- whom an in mix to sepaeffort and an different Mr. widely in fore three Stenackers counterplans are rents employee that the higher headquarters had been made Mr. compaid, were, and asked him pointedly what the situation as much ns possible. The partment by P. J. Moran, present city there la springing np n class of peo- rated notarlea public. about the rumors that bootlegging was latest one to be exploited is that of Asked how it happened that this ple who specialise in renting houses McCarthy stated that he is missioner. This is incorrect "Pat inAttorney are We in the county. rampant the gubernatorial nomination lady has, for 44 months, been receiv- to the at handsome acting under an old statute which en- has no connection with Mr. Corless formed that the sheriff was told that pushing onto Bamberger and giving the sena- ing $15 n month from the county for rentals.countys indigents titles the plaintiffs to cite he defend- campaign in any way. his for the time was very propitious O. to of David torial OgClerk own In ants before a notary and compel them McKay plum house. her owners Charity living of cleanthi Simllarlly, manf office to get busy and do some den. apostle of the Mormon church and Smith declared she did not know how names those to atate their line of defense In what like sound auspiciously ing up. man of much influence ecclesiastic- this arrangement was made, nor who of n party organisation la known aa taking their deposition!." BUSY IN CITY ally. It la doubtful if there is any real made it. Under this arrangement it is posalso appears that a numworkers. It The sheriff got busy in Salt lake desire to name McKay for the place, JUST TO KEEP PEACE. of those who are, or recently have sible for the plaintiff's attorneys to ber candidates for city office but if hia name can be used to throw Cltv Immediately. the woman whose rent been, collecting rents from the county, question the three commissioners sep- in Fourteen Concerning election are now in the the coming But some of the good people of the the Bamberger ramp Into confusion, haa been paid by the county for up- are doing so on the strength of houses arately on all the happenings at the to announcements field according officer the 182 n will stand then Clark or chance are better refuses why Hattie Mrs. Cantensen, asking wards of four years, and who county are renting to poor relatives who home dallv papers they the in made run-ofthe lu to out bootleg win downclean on the the and up night to live anywhere esceptlng in a Thirteenth South street, dont raid bear the same family name. Dod Rlter and W. T. Burton have anor July 6. when the three men era alend vlre brothels in Bingham canyon, SPRY MEN ACTIVE town apartment Mia Smith said the themselves and in addition nounced A few local friends of William Spry the liquor Joints In Magna. Midvale, leged to have attacked the three plain lady objected so strenuously to living petitions are being circulated for MarGarfield and other towns In the coun- have been active during the past ten at the county infirmary that the char tiffs at a boose party. The other two low L. Cummings, Charles Cottrell, Jr n tv, why there is not a clean-u- p of the days but they got bnt small comfort plaintiffs, in addition to Mrs. Caraten-se- Theodore T. Burton. Ed. Crawtard, the Mrs highas and effort the from their former govare Mrs. Belva Burgner roadhouses flourishing along Burr D. Field. Frank P. Walts. John whole- ernor doesnt seem to be very popu- tary of State Crockett to become govLucinda Parker. ways of the county and why the Mrs. James H. Wolfe, S. workare to members Utah. Its lar here just now at any rate. He haa ernor of After taking the depositions, the S. Corless, and Charles N. Fehr. sale bootleggers, who are reported W. Tooke can then compare be supplying the retailers in these a good Job. they say, let him keep.lt ing overtime and they assert they Surprise plaintiffs attorneys Mayor C. Clarence Nealen continues have spiked the secretarys guns. His Plaintiffs Attorneys Spring of the three commissionanswers the places with their liquor are not caught and be antiafled. Actions. In $10,000 Damage be the only candidate for mayor to much. not are asked name trends haa mentionAuerbachs been doing and put out of business. ers to the various questions in the field. recently H. started definitely William women Senator ed here n few timea of lata but about King get and observe how their respecPossibly if the Hotel waiters political club haa Something in the nature of a bomb them, to fail tive or jibe. Jibe out on a Carrie Nation campaign, all the Interest it arouses la for some pent n day in Logan In company wlih was stories exploded under the defense eirly elected by unanimous vote the followin soma of earnest brother to inquire: Who the hia daughter and ha met and greeted Meanwhile, during the week. Judge there may be a clean-uII. Frasier, president; was this week, when Vere L. McCarthy e He T ing officers: friends. district hia la of an tie Auerbach third Is devil In many the these places. and Ralph Stewart attorneys for the W. M. McCrea Nelson secretary! William filed Harry by known quantity here and not likely most heartily received by all Demorourt, overruled demurrers damage Executive board $10,000 In three the treasurer. plaintiffs Morris, make any to let to declined Dahl and but to disturb any of the othera very crats here, commis- Horace Berk for Stenacker Europe seems to be willing William the county chairman: nled suits T. Moreland, intenagainst John ten announcement of hia political America take the lead in transatlan murh, and qulst. and gave the defendants J. T. Hunter and sioners Stenacker, Dahlqulst hav secretary; Crews, ws at all, the to Is discuss or get active a to answer one tions to There way politics which very In contingent Thats tic flying. Labrum served notice on the three days Harry Fagan. more tourists over. 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