Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-21 | Page 23 | Auctioneer under Fire of City Authorities

Auctioneer under Under Fire of City Authorities Hearing on recommendation of the department of at public safety that the auction license of at Robert Loveberg Lovenberg Lov- Lov enberg eberg at Main street be bo re r revoked Yoked on the ground hat that ho he was not giving l proper value to customers customers customers cus cus- resulted in a continuance of at the th matter by the city commissIon commission commission commis commis- sion today loday until a fair appraisal of at value of ot certain ar articles sold to a a. local youth routh can bo had Action of tho the department of at public public pub pub- lic safety was ba based ed upon a complaint complaint com corn plaint nt made to the police department department department depart depart- ment by a youth whose name did not appear and William that hat the youth had been Induced to spend 21 ai for tor two and anda a knife which it was claimed were not worth 10 altogether although th the l tags on the articles In Indicated a to total al sale value of more than 60 The watches and knife were offered offered of of- in evidence by Lovenberg who explained that he had returned the tho money to the boy when the latter expressed dissatisfaction with the he purchase Lovenberg maintained that the jewelry was fully worth the price his auctioneer got and offered to have the articles ap appraised appraised ap- ap praised by any disinterested Jew jew- eler The city attorney was ni nl- nl t to secure an appraisal from some disinterested party and report I to the commission later