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Show 4 TME OGDEN POST Ogden Livestock Show Bigger and Better! January 11 to 16 Bigger and Better! January 11 to 16 OGDEN, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1930. VOLUME 4 4 Ogden Livestock Show NUMBER 6 Chamber of Commerce Reeder Resigns From County Will Fight Request Is Made for MURDER VICTIMS New 31 ilk Ordinance To Urge Road Paving Bank Tax Case City Library Board FUNERAL HELD Milk dealers of Ogden appeared President F.. K. Alton of tho chamAt a meeting of the county comW. II. Reeder, Jr., in a communicabe- AT KAYSVILLE Many Attended the Services at tion addressed to the Ogden city commission, presented his resignation as a member of the board of the Carnegie public library. M r. Reeder stated that he had derived a great deal of enjoyment in serving on the board, but wished to resign that the honor might be passed around among those who are interested in the library and the service it can render to the com- Kaysville Yesterday; Hearing of Delbert Green, Confessed Slayer of Wife, Uncle and munity. The resignation was accept-eWifes Mother to be Held This The commission directed the city Morning in Layton recorder to write a letter of thanks d. Funeral services over the remains .Vof Mr. and Mrs. James Green and ,i'Mrs. Gladys Green, victims of the tri-- : murder committed at Layton last ; I pie Saturday night were held in the "Kaysville tabernacle Thursday afternoon at one oclock, under the direction of Bishop James E. Ellison, of jfthe Layton ward. Friends of the family from the northern part of Utah and some parts of Idaho were in attendance, and was one of the largest funerals ever held in Davis county. For an hour preceding the services the bodies lay in state in the tabernacle where their friends and relatives passed and viewed them. The services opened with the Lay-- . ton choir rendering the selection One Sweetly Solemn Thought; James Ciiddle, of the Kaysville bishopric, the invocation. The speakers were David E. Layton, Jabez S. ;J ?Adams, Frank D. Adams and Bishop Ellison, all of Layton, and the Rev-ereD. L. Hughes of the First ..Christian Church of Ogden. Each t"of whom paid a high tribute ofmusi-'cto the deceaseds. Other numbers were instrumental trio vOh My Father, Mrs. John W. 'Thomley and daughters; vocal duet, '.Sunset, Lela Layton and Blanche Adams, and the selection Shall We Vci Meet Beyond the River," by the choir. sThe benediction was pronounced by West 'Bishop George R. Bennett, of Kays-ville ;;.$ointt while the graves in the cemetery were dedicated by David E. Layton. The floral offerings present spoke of the high tribute the community : held for the victims. a of-Ifer- ed ; nd re-asp- ect al El-v!d- !:j James Green was the son of Mri X Hannah Green. He was born in th years age jssame farmhouse, forty-on- e and had been a farmer since earl; ,outh. Besides his mother, two sis riters, Mrs. James Love of Layton am Mrs. Andrew Adams of Grace, Idaho and his daughter, Lois, survive. 1 Mrs. .James Green was the daugh V ter of John V. Klontz of Sunset Shi ijwas bom in Asheville, N. C., thirty yeight years ago, moving west with thi family shortly afterwards. The Klontzes lived in Monett, Mo., for 21 years, the father engaging in farm ting. t As Lola Klontz she was married ohn Swindle in Monett, divorcing hin From the union, Gladyi jin 1916. Koscoe and Ray were bom. Jame (Green and Mrs. Swindle were marriei 'January 8, 1918, at Brigham City Lois being their only child. Mr. Swin die is said to live in Tulsa, Okla. Mrs. James Green is survived b; her children, Roscoe, Ray and Loii 'S nd the following half sisters and half Mrs. Teeney Andersor & brothers: 'H Washington,. Mo.; Mrs. Ruby Flinders Ogden; Merle Klontz, Ogden, and Ra; Klontz, Sunset Mrs. Delbert Green was bom h Monett coming with her mother (Utah, to live with the. elder Klonts he attended public school at Sunse -- tnd was married to Delbert on Jun 1927, in Salt Lake. The baby born ln 0ffden, Septem t 1929a G"en i the son of Mrt Alexander of Ogden. He wa " in Layton, the son of John Greer . wthemother marrying following th ...husbands demise. The John Gree Cjfarm is about a mile and a half souti the James Green place. ij of Dr. v'4 A. Z. Tanner, Layton physiciat examined the bodies. James Green death was attributed to the bullet hav ing probably piereed a large bloo vessel, the doctor said. Dr. Tanner believed that any on of the bullet wounds received by th women would have resulted in aeatl In anticipation of the large crow which is expected to attend the pre liminary hearing of Delbert Green a 10:00 oclock Friday morning, Justic the Peace Joseph A. Sill of Lay has made arrangements to hoi i the hearing in the Latonia theatre. Delbert Green, 20 years old, accuse of the murder of his wife and her ents, surrendered meekly at 5 a.pai n Sunday while the pistols of two Ogde il detectives covered him as he crawle i. from the bed covers at his Washing ton avenue apartment in Ogden. 'i He readily confessed to Detective C. E. Noble and C. K. Keeter, his cap tors, that he had slain his wife, Mn Gladys Green, 18, and her stepfathe and her mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jame ?i,Pelb! . il-to- ft I Green. The triple slaying occurred in th small frame farmhouse of Jame Green, three miles east of Layton, o the Mountain School Route road a 11:40 p. m. Saturday. James Green, 41, head of the famil mortally wounded as his wifi 8, and her daughter looked on froi their bed. Then the flaming weapon was tun upon them, two bullets strikin, ach of the women, causing almost in tantaneous death to mother and he offspring. The daughter, who ha , i er to Mr. Reeder for his fine service on the board. The commission will confer W'ith Reverend John Edward Carver, president of the library board, before naming Mr. Reeder's successor. Death Takes Wife Of City Engineer Mrs. Jeannette Douglas Brown, wife of City Engineer John C. Brown dided Wednesday at the family home, 2718 Brinker avenue. Death was due to heart trouble from which Mrs. Brown had been suffering for sometime. She was bom on August 10, 1861, in West Weber, a daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Douglas, Utah pioneers. She was a member of the L D. S. church. Surviving besides her husband are the following brothers and sisters: James H. Douglas, Mrs. Isabel Boyle Wallin, Mrs. Alice Stringham, Thomas M. Douglas, Idaho Falls, Idaho; John Douglas, William Douglas, Mrs. William A. Reeve and Mrs. David Revere. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. in the Twelfth ward, with Bishop David J. Wilson in charge. Interment will be in the Ogden City cemetery under direction of Lindquist & Sons. Weber County High To Play Davis High Tonight at Kaysville Coach Dick Thomes veterans will journey to Kaysville tonight to play the first league game of the season there. The Weber boys are favored to win over Davis due to the poor showing the Davis boys have shown in their practice games. Davis has won but one game this season out of six starts. Granite, Jordan and Tooele all have won from Davis. Tooele lost one and won one. The Weber high basketeers, however, are not 'expecting an easy win, as the Davis team is practically the same as it was last year and were runners up in this division last year. The Davis boys have potential strength although their teamwork is not up to par due to a late start this season. raised her body at the approach of the assassin, fell back dead upon the form of her girl, Lorraine, who was sleeping between the two four-months-o- ld women. The slayer fled, being five hours. at liberty for "Family troubles drove me to it, the youth mumbled. I went to the house determined to settle matters. I figured I would bump them off and then bump myself. I would have killed myself, but the gun jammed. He told this to his captors and later to Sheriff George B. Mann of Davis county and his deputy, Horace Van Fleet, who went to Ogden and returned the prisoner to the Davis county jail at Farmington. They were accompanied by Preston Thatcher, Davis county prosecutor. Delbert was on parole from the Utah state penitentiary, being released in 1928 after serving three months following his shooting of a cousin who had taken Mrs. Delbert Green for a ride. Lois Green, daughter of James Green, told Sheriff Mann and his chief deputy, Van Fleet, and Prosecutor Thatcher a graphic story of the tragedy. Lois and Mrs. Hannah Green, mother of Jim Green, fled down the road as the murderer fired his last shots into the bodies of the women. The aged woman, clad in night clothes, returned in a few moments for the infant The story, as told Lois Green, Mrs. Hannah Green by and the slayer suspect himself, opens with Mrs. Delbert Greens determination at 4:30 p. m. to leave her husband, who was working at the Western Junk company on Washington avenue in Og- den. Lois reported that Mrs. Delbert Green had been brought home by Mr. and Mrs. James Love, whom she had met in Ogden. Delbert, upon returning to his home in Ogden, found that his wife and baby had left and decided missioners yesterday it was decided to refuse to compromise with the banka on their tender of 35 per cent for tax payments for 1929. The commission held that the banks either owe all the money or none of it. To accept or not to accept was the question that was debated at a meeting Tuesday in the county court house when city, county and school officials met to consider the settlement of the bank tax case. Former City Attorney Arthur E. Pratt and City Attorney Stuart P. Dobbs advised settlement on the ground that the banks would probably win the case and also that the legislature would undoubtedly pass new tax amendments at the special session of the legislature. Opinion seemed to be unanimous among the officials present that the banks were taking advantage of a technicality of law to get out of paying taxes. Several suggestions were made as to methods of recovering the taxes in case the county loses the suit, but they were judged impractical by the attorneys. Smith County Assessor Burdette said that it was true that the banks were not taxed in proportion to their Competitors, but he was certain that they were taxed less than small home owners and farmers. County Superintendent of Schools B. A. Fowler urged the commissioners to fight the case and not to compromise, saying that the entire county school board felt that the banks were not adopting the right attitude and should pay as in previous years. Commissioner F. W. Stratford summed up his opinion of the matter with the jingle, "A naughts a naught, a figgers a figger. Its all for the white man and none for the nigger, which he quoted as an old southern The commissioner parasaying. phrased it by saying, "A naughts a naught, a figgers a figger. Its all for the banks and none for the people. Home Valuation and Rental Findings Will Be Important A question of home valuation and rentals which will bring findings of great importance to the real estate profession, according to the national association of real estate boards, will be included in the questionnaire now being prepared for enumerating the population in the 1930 census. For the first time the enumerators will ask the value of the home, if owned, or the monthly rentals paid on the home. In making its 1930 questionnaire the United States department of commerce stated that the question of home ownership would make possible a classification of families according to economic status or buying power. The national association of real estate boards points out that the findings of the census will make it possible to ascertain the percentage of home ownership in the many cities, counties and villages throughout the United States, which, when correlated with the cost of homes in those same localities, will show to what degree the cost of homes in a given city determines the extent of home ownership in that community. Likewise the data collected on this question in the census taking, when correlated with a study of the obtaining systems of home financing in different cities, esn show what, if any, influence the local home financing methods have on the extent of home ownership, the association states. Interesting statistics can also be made available on the average value of the home and the average rental in any given city, as compared with the average home value and home rental for the country as a whole. Ogden State Bank Entertains Scouts 1 For the past three weeks the Ogden State bank has been entertaining the various Boy Scout troops of the city and county by giving them personally conducted trips through the bank. The youths make a tour of inspection of the institution while the bank officer in charge of the party explains the workings of a bank and the benefits that boys may enjoy who save consistently. The vaults and safe deposit department have proved exceptionally interesting to the scouts. When the tour is over, each scout is presented with an official Boy Scout calendar and memoranda book. University of Idaho Exhibiting at Show The of cording to announcement by Prof. C. W. Hickman, head of the department of animal husbandry. The university is exhibiting beef cattle and fat sheep. The beef entries are two Shorthorns and two Hereford. One of the Don Blanchard 6th, a junior calf, was first prize calf at the recent Pacific International Livestock exposition. One of the Shorthorns, Hercules Ensign, was second prize senior calf at the Pacific International. The calf that stood ahead of him was the champion Shorthorn steer of the show. The other Shorthorn in the university Here-ford- s, ber of conmicrct1 has appointed a nomination oommiltoe to soieet candidates for the eight directorship of that organization. They are: .1. K. rurver, chairman; A. P. Miller, 11. p. Iverson, It. T. Muirs. (. 11. Walker, and 15. F. Dinsmmv. L F. Whitlock was delegated by the directors with the task of selecting a rcpicsentutivc to attend the meeting of thi American National Livestock association at Denver January and 18. The Ogden delegate will extend an invitation to the association to its 1931 meeting in Ogden. The director appointed Fred M Nye, Robert II. Hinckley, and J. Francis Fowles to wait on the county commissioners and urge the paving of ull the state highway from Death Curve to Twenty-fourt- h street. K. M. lloggan, L. F. Whitlock and Jerry Klomp were appointed a a committee to consider a good-witour to San Francisco January 27. One hundred dollars wus appropriated to apply on the furnishings of the new armory building on Twenty-thir- d 1 h.-l- ll street. Millers Roses Sent declared that we wish to with the health department to bring about an ordinance for Ogden that Ten thousand rose blooms grown will protect the health of the citizens of Ogden. He stated that the by the Miller Floral romnny of inspection during the past year had Farmington graced the floats in the .been entirely "inadequate and insuf- New Years rose carnival at Pasadena, California. ficient. Five thousand five hundred of these Mayor Bundy asked Dr. N. II. Sav-agroses were shipped to a wholesale florhis city health commissioner, opinion on the matter, and the health ist in Isis Angeles who is the largest commissioner gave as his opinion that wholesale florist on the Pacific coast. 4,600 of the blooms parts of the present milk ordinance The other to a leading retail florist in had been found unconstitutional and that the city needed a new ordinance. Tasadena. For yours the Miller Floral comHe further stated that he was in fahas been chipping roses to thr pany vor of requiring pasteurization. coast l, to lie used in the Pasadena The mayor then informed the delethis was the largest shipbut gation that the city ordinances would ment yet sent at one time. soon be revised, and the matter would The extent of the use of flowers in receive their consideration. D. C., is shown by the The day following the request for Washington, of a dispatch from clipping following a milk ordinance, a delegation of the nations capital: butchers met with the commission "The paid tribute to 1930. with a request that the city enforce too, withcapital alxiut $20,000 worth of flowthe recently passed meat inspection ers. A leading florist estimated this ordinance. A. E. Allred, spokesman amount as a fair New Years perfor. the butchers, said that the ordi- centage of the entire holiday trade in nance had been drawn up by their flowers, which he says, was between attorney and that they had paid out 690,000 and $100,000. their good money for it, and that the Some single $600 orders for New enforcement of the ordinance would Years flowers were placed with local enable the butchers to do all their florists. Lists of five or ten names business from 8:30 to 6:16 and there- were left with orders for $60 and $100 by improve working conditions, in ad- worth of flowers apiece. dition to protecting the public health. "Gardenias, orchids and roses were He charged that the smaller markets included in the boxes, which usually were using chemical preservatives on were dolled up with fancy tulle and meats. ribbons. The 1930 debutantes partiCity Meat Inspector Webb was posi- ality for gardenias worn on the shoultive that Allreds charge that pre- der has sold many of these blossoms servatives were being used was ab- at $2 apiece. To Pasadena Carnival ate e, wen-shippe- ear-niva- solutely groundless. City Attorney Stuart P. Dobba stated that the regulation of hours of work through the exercise of police powers had been held unconstitutional and undoubtedly that feature of the ordinance would not hold. However, he suggested a test case which met with the approval of the commission and the butchers. During the argument Allred charged that the city attorney did not want the ordinance enforced, whereupon Mayor Bundy told the speaker that Mr. Dobba was, looking at the ordinance from the standpoint of the people and not the butchers. "One of the largest New Year's orders ever given a Washington florist was for $5,000 from a countess who is now in Europe. The check was accompanied by a list of names to whom She wanted $100 boxes of flowers sent. - Legionnaires From Two States to Come Here Monday Night Legionnaires from posts all over the states of Utah and Idaho have an- nounced their intention of attending the program and meeting of the American Legion at the chateau Monday night to do honor to G, L. Becker. At the last department convention held in Ogden it waa voted to present G. L. Becker with the American Legions distinguished service medal for the service he has rendered the American Legion. Mr. Becker ia the first of the American Legion in the state of Utah to receive this honor. Department Commander C. D. Pope of Price will present the medal to Mr. Becker. Speakers for the evening will include Governor George II. Dern and President Anthony W. Ivins of Salt Lake City. R. L. Olson, chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements, announced that in addition to the three distinguished speakers above, a prominent entertainer will be on the program. The entertaining and original Herman Baker Post No. 9 quartet will give a number of special selections. Word has been received from Idaho that Department Commander Nickolaa Ifft of Pocatello will head a large delegation of legionnaires and prominent citizens from Idaho who will attend the meeting. Idaho legionnaires, as well as Utah, have been benefited by Mr. Becker's services. non-memb- Idaho is making that his wife's parents had taken its firstUniversity at the Ogden Liveshowing them. He then made his preparations stock show this January 11 to 16, acfor the murder a .32 caliby buying bre revolver from a pawn shop in Ogden and getting ammunition for it At 11 oclock that evening he reached the home of his uncle. It was immediately after his arrival that he carried out his contemplated murders. Deputy Van Fleet questioned Delbert in the jail Sunday forenoon as to several deep ridges in his wifes back, the officer reporting that the mark or scar indicated that a bullet might have grazed her back. The prisoner denied any knowledge of the peculiarities. fore the city commission Wednesday with a request for the pnssnge of an ordinance requiring the pasteurization of milk and closer inspection than is obtained under the ordinance now in effect. James R. Beus, of the Weber Central dairy, was the spokesman for the delegation of dairymen and milk distributors. In order to give background as to the importance of the dairy products industry, Mr. Beus asked V. K. Zuppann to give figures concerning the industry. At the outset of his speech, Mr. Beus requested the newspaper men to suppress mention of the dairymens errand on the ground thst the milk distributors "might misunderstood. Tho newspaper men refused to agree. to any such procedure on the ground that the meeting was public, and the people were entitled to learn the proceedings. Mr. Reus advocated the pasteurization of milk an dquoted authorities on the subject. lie said that the distributors wanted an ordinance which had the endorsement of the U. S. bureau of public health, which a former city commission had refused to adopt. He er entry is Hercules Scholarship, the steer that F. M. Roth rock of Spokane, Washington, has given to the college of agriculture scholarship fund.- All steers will be sold at the Ogden show. The college will also have on display at Ogden, 10 wether lambs, four Southdowns, three grade Southdowns, and three Shropshire. All of these wethers were exhibited at the Pacific International and were winners. The university exhibited the grand champion wether at Portland, which sold at $1 per pound. All of the university - Weber Pioneer Dies At the Age of 91 Thomas D. Brown, aged 91, pioneer of Weber county, died Thursday morning at 12:60 oclock at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. George F. Webster, 721 Adams avenue, following an illness of heart trouble. Mr. Brown Was born in Wigan, England, Dec. 16, 1838, and came to Utah in 1862. Mr. Brown was a painter, having served his apprenticeship while in England, and followed this trade while in Utah. Fanning was his later occupation. In 1867 he settled in Farr West and has resided in that community ever since. Ten of the twelve children survive ss follows: Joseph D. Brown, Rigby; Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, Farr West; Thomas D. Brown, Blackfoot; Mrs. Esther Webster, Ogden; Mrs. Harriet Holland, Shelley; Lemuel D., Reuben D.; Jethro D., Harry D., and A. D. Brown, all of Farr West Seventy grandchildren and 97 great-grandchildr- en APPOINTMENTS New Mayor and Commissioner Take Office Monday Noon; Department Assignments and Appointments Made; Wilfong New Police Chief; Dobbs, Attorney; Wardleigh, Fire Chief With the stroke of .12 noon Monday Ora Bundy became mayor of Ogden. The oath of Office was administered by retiring mayor Frank Francis. He mIko administered the oaths to William J. Rackham, commissioner, and to City Auditor Florence 5. Glinca. As many of Ogdens representative citizens as could gain admission to tho city hall were present at the reremony. Following their induction into office, the commission went into session, with City Recorder Robert A. Moyes calling the roll. The first official action was the reading of a assigning departments. Mayor Bundy, upon the adoption of the resoreso-duti- on lution, took over the department of public safety, public affairs and finance and the cemetery. William J. Rackhum was assigned streets, engineering, public improvements, health, and tho municipal golf course. Commissioner Williams, holdover commissioner, retains, under the resolution, :hose departments ho has administered for the past two years, namely, waterworks, parks and public property, and the airport. Appointments were then announced as follows: Chief of police, Albert E. Wilfong, $210; fire chief, H. H. Wardleigh, $210; assistant fire chief, N. T. Moore, $200; sexton of city cemetery, L. II. Swanner, $160; foreman at cemetery, A. K. Wilson, $125; city attorney, S. 1. Dobbs, $250; assistant city attorney, John A. Hendricks, $125; stenographer, Catharina Koldewyn. Treasurer, Ileber Heiner, $200; deputy, Ray Wilkinson, $175; recorder, J. C. Littlefield, $200; deputy, Annis Brown, $110; clerk of city court, D. U. Foulgcr; deputy, Nell Neil Fahey, $110; purchasing agent, Stanley Robins, $175; janitor of city hall, Thomas McDonald, $100? assistant, Mary McDonald, $50. Mayor Bundy stated that Chief of Police Harry S. Anderson had very graciously consented to act as chief of police until the new chief A. E. Wilfong, who is now at the U. S. Army School of Fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, returns near the end of February. Chief Anderson had informed the mayor that he could not servo another term due to private business. Kackhams Appointments Nominations made by Commissioner Uackham and confirmed by the new commission, together with the salaries, follow: City engineer, John C. Brown, $250; health commissioner, Dr. N.' II. Savage, $200; meat inspector, Dr. A. J. Webb, $175; J. II. McGregor, street Commissioner $190. supervisor, Rackham will announce his other appointments later. In the meantime the incumbents will continue in their positions. Mayor Bundy nominated Walter S. Craven for city engineer, and ln doing so slated that the city engineers office was an office of record and that he felt that the engineers office should come within the depart- ment of public affairs and finance. Commjssjoner Williams voted with Commissioner Rackham on the city engineer, fixing as his reason that he felt that each commissioner should make his own appointments. Commissioner William nominations, which were approved, together with the salaries, follow: Superintendent of waterworks and park department, Fred Packard, $250; chief deputy, George Carey, $190; bookkeeper, Carl Watson, $185; meter installer, Louis Lofgren, $175; inspector, James P. Jensen, $150; parks and caretaker, II. W. Shurtliff, $125; airport watchman, Scott Brimhall, $50. survive. There are two sisters, Mrs. Katherine Field, Ogden, and Mrs. Sarah Jane Bedford, Rupert, Idaho. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1:30 oclock, in the Farr West chapel, with Bishop Lorenzo Taylor Officials presiding. Friends may call at the Receive Farr West residence of a daughter, Gifts Mrs. Elizabeth, Martin, Saturday am At the Monday morning meeting of Sunday. Interment will be made in the Ogden city cemetery. the city commission the retiring officials were presented with beautiful 4-- H gifts by the employes of the different departments. Mayor Frank Francis was presented Show Compete with a fitted traveling case and a leatherboard case and a pocket-boo- k Two club livestock judging carved to match. The presentation teams from Davis county will attenc was made by Commissioner speech the Ogden livestock show next Sat- Fred E. Williams. urday morning and compete with Chief Police Harry S. Anderson teams from all over the state in made theof presentation speech prior to a judging contest which will start at bestowing Commissioner liar-wa- n upon 8:00 oclock. W. Peery a white gold pocket The Davis county teams are com- knife and chain. posed of the following boys: William Chief Deputy Auditor Marcus A. McEntire, Wendell Barber, Van Green, Critehlow presented Mrs. Lettie ManRoss Layton and Russell Thurgood, ning, retiring auditor, with a white all of Clearfield, and Kenneth Clay- gold wrist watch and bracelet in behalf of the employes. ton, of Kaysville. The retiring mayor, commissioner These boys have made a good showand auditor made fitting responses, Is in and it contests, previous ing hoped that they will again show up and said that it had been a real pleasure to be associated together (hiring well. their administration. City Recorder sheep also will be disposed of follow- Robert A. Moyes and City Attorney Arthur E. Pratt also spoke. ing the Ogden sale. Retiring Judging Teams to at Stock 4-- H Fine |