Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-28 | Page 2 | Cafe Owner Will Test Cigaret Law on Posted Notices

I Cafe f Owner Will Test L Law LawOn w On Posted Notices Proprietor Arrested for Smoking Despite Placards Designating Restaurant as Public Smoking Room Whether signs designating certain I sections of ot caf cafes 9 and restaurants as smoking compartments offers otters any protection to t tobacco ba co users In a public public pub pub- lic pla place e will vill be tested In the city court tomorrow morning when Nelson G. G Van Dyke proprietor of the Van VanDyke VanDyke VanDyko Dyke Dyko cafe 56 East First South street appears for tor arraignment on a harge charge of ot smoking In a public place Sheriff Ben R. R Harries announced today that his office also intends to tomake tomake make mke a test case of other well-known well downtown cafes cates and particularly Inthe in inthe inthe the matter of ot the Hotel Utah where the sheriff Is advised the entire main dining room has been set aside a asa so as a smoking room by the display of ol signs I Mr 11 Van Tan Dyke was arrested MOI- MOI day night at his i cafe cate by Deputy Sheriffs Mike Mauss and William Ir Irvine Irvine Irvine Ir- Ir vine for alleged violation of ol the ant ami- tobacco law aw aw The accused was standIng stand stand- lag Ing ng behind his counter near the cash register puffing a cigar when Mauss MauSS' and Irvine and told him that he le was under arrest He ITe te was told to appear In court Thursday Mr Ir Van Dyke sal said t that he had displayed a sign In the cafe proper which reads This is a smoking room and In three booths or compartments com corn signs ar are posted which read No smokIng allowed Mauss and Irvine said Bald today that the signs were In place aa as contended by Van Dyke but that In all an cases NJ they were printed in mall type The object in making th the arrest at the theVan theVan theVan Van Dyke cafe cate Deputy Irvine said was to test what constitutes a smoking smoking smoke ing room or compartment in cafes cates Due to the fact that both counsel and court were otherwise engaged the case of ol A. A N. N McKay general manager manager mana mma- ger of ol the tho Salt Lake Tribune charged with violation of ot the law scheduled for preliminary preliminary preliminary pre pre- hearing today was postponed until March 3 Thomas Marioneaux attorney for tor Mr tr M MCKay Is associate counsel with H. H C. C Allen in the city court hearing he of at James M McCoy Coy and William Connors on trial before City Judge Noel S. S Pratt on a charge of ot conspiracy to defraud the American Smelting and Refining Relining company by bythe bythe bythe the alleged salting of ot ore samples Preliminary hearings for tor Ernest Damberger Bamberger J J. J C. C Lynch and Edgar I. I L. L Newhouse arrested at the Vienna cafe cate February 20 cha changed ged with smoking smoking smoking ing in a public place have not been set let but will probably be betaken taken up Immediately Immediately Im mi- mediately following disposition of the McKay case This also will apply In Inthe Inthe inthe the cases of ot A. A p P. P J. J E. E Jones It R L. L and George Goorge T. T Smith arrested at the Hotel Utah cafe cate and I. I A. A and C. C A. A West arrested arrest st ed at the state capitol capital and Nels Carlson Carlson Carlson Carl Carl- son arrested at the Walnut cafe cate which will likely be set for March t b. b Y Sako and Ja Japanese Japa Japa- an a- a n nose nese e were WAro arrested by deputy sherIffs sheriffs sher sher- iffs at nt Magna last lut night and charged with the tho possession lon of ot Separate Separate Sep Sep- arate complaints were issued by the county attorney