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Show Hotel Men of Five States View 1 940 Prospects at S. L. Conclave V.-. - ' ; V Increase in Number of Tourists Foecast as War Result The war In Europe will be reflected re-flected by a greater volume of business for western hotel men In 1940, J. Holman Waters of Salt Lake City told members of the Intermountaln Hotel association Friday morning as the thirteenth annual convention opened at the Hotel Utah. . . Mr. Waters, president of the association. as-sociation. Is presiding at the two-day two-day meet. . Because of fighting In Europe, he said, there will be little or no travel on that continent by Americans, Ameri-cans, many of whom will do their traveling In the United States. The west, he added, should benefit. Mr. Waters asserted that hotel business in Salt Lake City in 1939 Is better than In 1938. Delegate from Utah, Nevada, Wyoming. Idaho and California are In attendance. They were welcomed by David Abbott (Abl Jenkins, holder of a slim lead in the Salt Lake mayoralty may-oralty contest He was substituting substitut-ing for Mayor John M. Wallace, who Is 111. The response was made by Chauncey W. West of Salt Lake City, a past president Jack Daly of Salt Lake City led a discussion on what the association associa-tion can do to help hotel business, with Vsy L Miller of Salt Lake City, Richard S. Robertson, Twin Falls, Idaho; Louis Drebben, Elko, Nev., and S. E. Forrest, Ntphi, Utah, taking part A luncheon and afternoon session ses-sion were held at the Newhouse hotel. HOTEL MEN PREDICT GREATER WESTERN TRAVEL Charles A. Horrowerth, left, and J. Holman Waters, convention conven-tion speakers |