Show SUGAR LEADER MEETS DEA DEATH THI DENVER Colo Cola Feb 18 UP UP- UP William Villiam D. D Lippitt 49 who rose from clerk lerk to president of the Great West West- em ern rn Sugar company was killed yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- in a fall faU from his horse at Cherry Hills Country club Lippitt was tossed headlong against a tree He was wa dead when Dr Claronce Clar once nee B. B Ingraham reached him Attendants At At- at the Country Hills Saddle club lub said the horse b became frightened broke roke and pitched Lippitt against the tree rec As president of ot the Great Western Lippitt directed operations of or the largest argest sugar processing company in Inthe inthe the he United States It has 22 factories in n Colorado Nebraska Wyoming and Montana Born and educated d in Denver Lippitt LipItt LIppitt Lip- Lip pitt Itt entered the employ of the corn corn- pany any a as 33 a young yount man holding a dencal cleri den cal al position He was successively assistant as- as stant secretary of the company general general genral gen- gen eral ral agriculturist assistant gener general manager in charge of or the Colorado district and general manager In 1931 he succeeded W. W L. L as s president In that c capacity he was regarded as spokesman for beet sugar manufacturers when congressional action was taken at the last session to stabilize the industry During the world war Lippitt was connected with the U. U S S. S. S food admin admin- istra tion He is by his widow former former- 1 13 Miss Charlotte A. A Taylor of Flint Mich ich two daughters Mary and Ruth RuthAnn RuthAnn Ann nn all of or Denver and a son son Wil Wil- liam ham am Frank of or Philadelphia I William D. D Lippitt was well known in Salt Lake City He often oHen conferred with Utah sugar com company pan officials although he was never ever associated officially with wiLh any company operating in the state His visits to Salt Lake City were concerned con- con conned chiefly with formulating of policies of ot importance to the in in- |