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Show Post Head The THE Complete News A Review7! The Post Is Crowing; Subscribe NOW! OLl'ME 4 Governor Each Tuesday Made Thrift Day Here dern gives views on AMENDMENTS m Mayor Lundstrom of the Cache chairman 'Logan, Union, 'oonty Tangible Taxpayers rttj.hpH an open letter directed to Itrtmor Dern, taking him to task constituesr supporting the proposed nt! amendments. Following is the --w Qf the governor in full. It is a Zgthy letter but worthy of careful by all those who desire inanition as to what the governor has few days ago dr Mayor Lundstrom: I ask your indulgence for my unstable delay in answering your let-t- r of September 23. I am glad to for my enply with your request pinion as to certain phases of the mposed constitutional amendments dating to taxation. 1 observe that you sign your letter ehsirman of the Tangible Taxpay-- n Union oi Cache county. I venture i suggest that the name of that should more logically be Union. If Intangible t tax revision Taxpayers will benefit program t njbody, it will benefit the owner of tngible property, which is practical-rtfc- e only property now being taxed; id if it hurts anybody it will hurt owner of intangible property, teh i now escaping taxation. Present System Wrong So far as I am concerned, I do not link it is a square deal to saddle the atire tax burden upon the farmer ri die business man who cannot hide ii property from the assessor, and it the holders of stocks, bonds, and ther securities earn large incomes rithout paying any taxes. That is o hat our constitution does now, it exempts the great bulk of tangible property from taxation. We nnot reach intangibles until the is amended. Therefore, when oa argue against the proposed nnidments you are arguing against uing intangible property, IT you doubt the foregoing asserts, I invite your attention to the allowing facts: Intangible property consists of bares of stock, bonds, notes, bills, rtdits, mortgages, money, accounts mivable, judgments, etc. The constitution of Utah provides ut all property in the state shall 0 taxed in proportion to its value, 3d that the legislature shall provide T law a uniform and equal rate of aessment and taxation on all prop-rt- y in the state.according to its value money. In other words, the consti-dio- n declares that all property, wther tangible or intangible, shall suessed at a uniform rate. This what is known as the uniform B. on hie." the constitution then reand proceeds to exempt intangible property from taxa- - However, uses itself 109. Pint, it provides that the stocks of operations shall not be taxed where J property represented by such ns is taxed. This means the prac-- ?, total exemption from taxation liU shares of stock. Mid. 5 the constitution exempts taxation all real and personal rtgages. This exempts bonds, be-bon- ds are mortgages. - It also xompts all real estate, mortgages jjs chattel mortgages. It exempts notes or other obligations secured Tjnortgage on land, improvements, ,)r other , ther tangible orpersonal property, intangible, imrd, the constitution authorizes of debits from credits, ? .deduction ch means that from all credits zJ accounts receivable, notes and balances the taxpayer may de-'debts, leaving only the net or i!Tnt balance subject to taxation. ihe rosult is that, although Utah feasibly has the uniform aPPHM almost exclusively to property, since bonds, notes oUler vestments secured by ;t?ages, as well as shares of, stock, exempt from taxation. The ' 7 intangibles subject to taxation money, solvent credits and fran- L- These are not exempt, but ,. 1 tw not taxed for other I explain herein. Ansi vent credit is a bank balance . ther credit less ones debts. If ; t all it must be taxed at the as tangible property. Thus v, institution at present authorizes tation of bank deposits, but same rate as real estate taxed. so-call- ed i vent credits are being y by widows and orphans estatc in probate, where such frequently is rankly unjust, of solvent credits will not taem for taxation because the take nearly if not quite all t Continued on page 6.) iaXe8i0n A?.-0- n Constitutional Amendments J?? institutional amendments, Jjfta ,WB1 be voted upon at the Kra election November 4 will page Tundn Ogden Post 5 n this issue of Consideration of Increased equipment and Personnel; Wants City to Huild Drill Tower; Says Fire I.oss Quite l.ow; Frowns on County Fire Contract econt mends At yesterday afternoons adjourned meeting of the rity commission, ller-u- rt Raines, insjwctor for the San ''raneiseo office of the National Board of Kin Underwriters, apjiearcd and discussed informally tho citys fire depart ment. His first recommendation was that the city iwrear-- its fire fighting force end equipment. However, he said, that 'ire Chief Wardleigh was closely the recommendations of his ward, lie stated in answer to Mayor Ora Bundy's questioning that the per capita fire loss in Ogden was quite ow. In explanation of this statement he said that brick construction in the residential districts helped to keep down the fire loss. Mr. Haines said he lmd just eom- and that Clctod a test of thc pumpers found the mutors in good condition, but that the pumps were showing loss of efficiency through pumping water from open ditches where sand is present. This brought out a discussion of the countys contract whereby the county pays the city per year fur fire protection. Mr. Haines stated that the amount charged was entirely too low. He recommended the construction of drill tower, and that the city send one of its men to some department so equipped so that the man could learn thc training system so that he Man in turn could instruct the men of the department, lie commented on the condition of the fire hose, and said it appeared to be in good condiJ. W. Hart, member of the grain that tion and that the city had ample for farm storage division of the federal its present requirements. in week this several days board, spent lie slated that now was. no time to Ogden making a survey of the storage make extra expenditures in the det, facilities in this region. W, II. manager, and Jesse Wade, aecre partment on account of the depression, but that he would recommend tary of the Intermountain Grain that the commission study the condiGrowers, Inc., cooperated with Mr tion of the department with a view to in the Hart survey. Recommendations will l made for increasing the personnel as soon ns the building of new warehouses where conditions improved. they are thought necessary. It ii probable that one will be built at Tre Choir to monton, according to Mr. Berrett, fol-owi- ng J. Finch Returns From Trip to Canada B. 1 Nfct FIRE EQUIPMENT J. Finch, district engineer of the United States bureau of public roads, returned to Ogden Tuesday from an extended business trip through Idaho and Canada from the Utah line. Mr. Finch traveled 3300 miles by 'automobile and spent three days in the wilds on horseback. He went to Idaho to inspect ten federal aid road be-iu- con-litoti- INSPECTS CITY Announcement has been made by Foulger. president of the board of education of Ogden, that a Thrift Day senes will be again observed in the city schools this year. Each Tues-?.abe designated as Thrift Day, and students will be asked to make small bank deposits on that The teachers will have charge of day. the accounts for the banks. Each student. will have an individual account in his own name, but subject to the control of the parent or guardian. Mr. Foulger is impressed with the thnft idea, he says, because it engenders in the minds of the children the idea of saving their possessions for a time when most needed. He added that thousands of dollars are placed in interest savings accounts for the children. The system has been used in the Ogden schools for the past three years and has proved satisfying to children and parents and teachers, Mr. Foulger asserted. say.) i 47 FIRE OFFICIAL A. P. Lund-itiopernor Whites Mayor Answering Questions go the Tax Amendments; Says Tkat New Constitution Will Enable State to Properly Tax Banks; Present Tax Is Unfair (A NUMBER OGDEN, UTAH, KKIDAY, (XTDIIKK 21, 1930. projects and eight forest road projects and reports that he found the work progressing satisfactorily on each piece of work. The mileage of the projects comprises 80 miles of federal aid roads and 52 miles of for est roads. Mr. Finch says there are six inches of snow on Lookout pass between Wallace, Idaho, and Montana. Here Railroad Granted Judge Orders Jury to Government Making Grain Survey Accept 1931 Budget Right to Close Depot Return Verdict of Not duilty in Clark Case The state utilities commission The directors of the Ogden LiveS. P. Stock Show Directors stock show met Saturday afternoon at , granted permission to the Smlthem the Hotel Bigelow, The budget for Paciflc railroad to discontinue its non 1931, prepared by Secretary E. J. agency station at Career, jiut west Fjeldstcd and Assistant Secretary I of Ogden. The place hud been used make shipments of sugar beets, Reed Warnick, was accepted by the The Utah Tower & Light company board members. I was authorized to extend its lines to I if i? lf Portage, in Box Elder county, and the T. highway commission received ptwwtir1.nup to I to abandon a grade cross-th- e permission I time of his death. where the Uncolii at Wasatch, jng A. P. Bigelow, president of the show, I is being changed. It is near highway will appoint soon the committees for the border the next exhibition, which will be held Judge George S. Barker Tuesday nf:ernoon, on his own motion, directed the jury in the case of Robert Clark, charged with burglary in the second degree, to return a verdict of not guilty. Clark was charged with breaking into the Paramount theater on the night of June 15. The testimony up to the time that the prosecution rested showed that the theater management had locked the house at the conclusion of the last show and seen apparently that nobody was left in the theater. Later two suspicious characters were seen in front of the theater and one of then: tried the front door. This aroused the suspicions of the management, and still later the house was re opened and a search made. Clark, it was said, was found bock stage in hiding. He had a gun in his pocket and his shoes in his hand. A tetate Utah-Wyomi- 1 e,t J'jarr- - Dates Set for Meet Of Municipal League ! The Utah State Municipal league e will meet in Ogden Friday and Ogden plant of the Amalga-- 1 urday, October 31, and November 1, at mated Sugar company at Wilson the Hotel Bigelow. The program the refining run Tuesday I ranged for the meeting will include: morning. The factory will probably Friday Registration at Hotel Big- run for 35 or 40 days. lelow lounge, 9 to 9:50 a. m.; commu- The factory employs approximately I nity singing, Mark Robinson, leader; 250 persons during its fall run and I call to order, President John E. Booth; will slice from 1500 to 2000 tons of I invocation. Bishop Joseph Ririe; per day. The beet crop in 4 he I dress of welcome. Mayor Ora Bundy, county comprises about 4000 acres and I Ogden; response. Mayor Walter K.I the yield is fair. Granger of Cedar City; address, LiSr"a11 Cj.ties The harvesting and conversion ofc.ene Spanish city attorney the crop into sugar means that an im- - Andrus,addre L 52T depart mense sum of money will be turned C- R?kelley, loose in the county within the ensuing I erat,on neer of Brigham City; appointment of days. committees and symposium, Mayor .Frank Martines of Richfield. I Afternoon session 2 oclock. Com- BlOlOglCal Survey Sat-Th- ed witness had testified that Clark said when found that he was seeking place to sleep. Judge Barker said that, in view of the fact that Clark was charged with burglary in the second degree, it was incumbent upon the prosecution to show that he had forcibly entered the house, and that this fact had not been proven. District Attorney David J. Wilson contended that the fact that Clark was not in the theater when it was closed and was found in it later, with the additional discovery that a back door was open, was sufficient in itself to show that he had made forcible Barker, however, entry. Municipal Financing From thought otherwise, and the jury reA request has been made by the address, thc Buyers Viewpoint, B. P. Van not biological survey department. Wash- - voorhis, manager bond department, turned an instructed verdict of guilty. who shoot to D. hunters C., ington, Trust company, Salt Lake; Clark had been in the Weber ducks bearing bands on their legs to county What Municipal Officials address, Le- jail awaiting trial since the night of American notify the office in Washington or to the From the superintendent of the Bear River I 0n. Expect Olson, department his arrest. He is said to have caused Ray bird and game refuge, George Mush-- 1 commander, American Legion; sympo-bac- the sheriff considerable trouble and to have engineered ate was believed office 721, Hotel Bigelow. BiUm, Mayor James Walton of to tempts escape from jail on at least biological survey hart been band-- 1 monton. occasions. two Cankda Ban-icMexo to tag water fowl from Evening session 7 oclock. and from Maine to California in Bt Hotel Bigelow, Mayor Ora an effort to determine their flights Bundy, toastmaster, I and other information. Saturday General assembly at Ho ( all is Information tel Bigelow; invocation, the Rev, John lt important that about ducks shot with bands on their I Edward Carver; community singing, I Mark Robinson, leader; address, Huegs be sent in, Mushback added. man Values in Municipal Government, G. Harvey Hancock, managLeRoy Marsh, district agricultural ing editor, Salt Lake Tribune; address, Shir inspector, urges citizens to use calI "Special "Improvement Taxes, OI1 cium cyanide to eliminate the box jey p J0negj city attorney, Salt Lake; eider Tax bugs now infesting houses, trees, What the Proposed The lowest bid made for remodeling address, Mean to Jorgensen of fences and other spots in Ogden. Amendments snd extending the Ogden rostoffice I Satina; report of committees; election The powder can best be applied with was made by March Brothers Con-- 1 of 0ff,cerg; selection of 1931 a small spray gun, he Said, as it goes company of St. Louis, anitjon out in the form ef a gas and is very I been was for $254,000. has who Ora Bundy, penetrating. However, if a spray gun Miyor I Fourteen bids were submitted, has coin- - cannot be obtained the powder can be on the program, working the award will be made after a review I pje tentative arrangements after sprinkled on the bugs with a teaspoon of each. The low bidder, it was ex-- 1 eonferrina with other state officials, or some other implement plained, will not necessarily be award Mr. Marsh has the calcium cyanide . . ed the contract if the terms of inoth-U- -, his office, 2457 Grant avenue. at OI aCtOTieS 1 er bid prove better for the govern-ad-bee- ts $ ASks That Hunters Report Banded DucksIwsTdSirSSSi 1 Judge 01 l. k, Tre-Th- Official Urges Use Of Calcium Cyanide To Eliminate Bugs Ridfipr PnQtnffipp ccnven-stractic- n j ment. Other bids were: Yeager and Sons. Danville, 111.. $309392; Charles Weitr, r r Oiaie the state Allcanningfactorie.of Sons. Des Moines. $282,763; with thi favell. Minneapolis, $302,700; I liam McDonald Construction company, completed their tomato season, George the c t 82x8 800 King Construe-- 1 Shorten, assistant secretary of announced Canners association, Utah Uon company. Minneapolis, $315,800; . James Devault, Canton, Ohio, $316,-- 1 this morning. has been reported by vanous Oak- It McDonald. Inc., and Shuler 722; nd I canning officials that the tomato pack land $339,700: Mead p.1 - this year was light because white fly DenConstruction rompany. I attacked the vines earlier in the season Construction Jacobsen ver $299 900: I end the weather has been very Lake City $284360; & Co , Salt fake City! fevorable for ripening lately. Some factories will now turn their $267367; George A. Whitmeyer, Og the canning of edery, j" f3!9jj9S Ce F Building! and vegetable mixtures for pumpkins Oeden $317,000; Campbell a"d Pa company; St. Louis, $294,679. D. Wil- - W. un-SET- 'lad8 Uor-ret- Tabernacle Federal Jury Finds Jack Sandman Guilty jury in the federal court Thursday found Jack Sandman guilty of maintaining a nuisance, and sentence will be Imposed Saturday by. Judge A similar charge T. D. Johnson. against Doc Thompson was dismissed upon motion of the assistant federal attorney, Edgar Jensen, after the government had given its testimony. The information alleged that between the dates of April 18 and 24 last the defendants maintained a nuisance at what is known as Jack and Jim's place, a restaurant, 2317 Washington avenue, by having in possesion and selling intoxicating liquors. Federal officers testified that they purchased and confiscated certain intox icating liquors and that the place was considered to be a bootleg joint. Jurymen in thc care were Charles t, Kasmussen, A. G. Berrett, Carl E. J. Gibbons, J. F. Fitzgerald, C. G. Adncy, Amos Epperson, F. W. Vail, J. T. Taylor, II. A. Peterson, Fred Baker, and W. B. Taylor. Immediately after hearing this case the court took up the condemnation case of the United States government against the Andrew B. Cook company, Wasatch Gas company, David Dec Harris and wife, James II. Cook and wife, Uintah Pipe Line company, Barnes Banking company, T. Jesse Harris and wife, and David W, Dun can and wife. In this case the government seeks to condemn about 320 acres of land adjacent to the Ogden ordnance depot, a few miles south of Ogden, to be used as a protective area. The property is said to extend a quarter of a. mile wide acres the east, north and south sides of the arsenal propA Present Oratorio The Ogden tabernacle choir will present Mendelssohn's oratoria, Elijah, .his evening at the tabernacle. Director faster Hinchrliff states members of the Salt hat twenty-fiv- e Lake tabernacle choir, Including Director Anthony C. Lund, will assist the local choir in the presentation. The solo work will le divided between singers from Salt Lake and Ogden. Two or three choruses which have not been sung in previous presentations of the composition here will be rendered by the large choir, Director Hinrhcliff said. Admission will be by invitation, and the doors will close promptly, at 8:15 p. m. The concert will last for one and a half hours. Lind-cmis- erty. United States District Attorney Charles R. Hollingsworth is leading counsel for the government, and E. M. Bagley of Salt Lake is leading counsel for most of the defendants. Attorney Hollingsworth advised the court that by stipulation the Wasatch Gas company and the Uintah Pipe Line company had agreed to the condemnation ot their property with the understanding that they be permitted to build and operate pipe lines over the condemned premises. The Jury called to hear the case and set the value consists of Ephraim Clewson, II. B. Miller, Elmer A. Irvin Carrigan, Harry J. Stew Now Daley, art, Samuel P. Snow, Hyrum Olsen, Moroni Doxey, A. R. Martoch. Isaac C S. Gunnell, manager of the Pa- Jensen, A. S. Gardiner, and Carl R. cific Fruit Express company, states Jansen. that shipments are running very heavy The contention of the defendants is at the present time about 95 per cent that the government offers under of the business being perishables from value lor the lands desired. California. John Stallings piesded guilty to a Of this traffic the majority is charge of violating the national prograpes. Railroad men expect that it hibition act and Saturday was set for will continue some two or three weeks the imposition of sentence. A jury in the case of the United he said. o States and Idaho Utah of out against Domino Ydo and. Shipments of on a tried F. Cook, charge run about 40 cars a day of potatoes, maintaining a nuisance at 150 Twenty apples and vegetables. Pacific Fruit Express Shipments Heavy Can-did- Committeewomen of County Hold Meeting: The precinct committeewomen of tho Republican county committee met at the Republican headquarters Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. I. N. Fulton presided, later turning the meeting over to Mrs. J. G. Falck. George II. Lowe gave a talk on economic conditions. Don B. Colton, representative to congress, and J. Reuben Clark, Jr., recently appointed ambassador to Mexico, will visit Weber county soon. On November 1, Mr. Colton will make a talk at the American Legion chateau. The meeting will be called to order at 8 oclock. Mr. Gark is on his way to Utah from Washington, D. and the date for his appearance will be announced ater. Woman Attacked by Unidentified Man An unidentified man attacked Mar- garet Anderson, 18, of 871 West Twenty-fourt- h street, Tuesday eve- ning shortly before 8 oclock, according to police reports. The girl said that the man ap- reached her from behind and grab-e- d E her, at the same time clapping his hand over her mouth. She screamed, however, and when her assailant saw another man approaching in answer to her cries, he loosened his hold and ran down the steps of the viaduct' and was lost to view in the Tsilroad yards. Miss Anderson described the. man as about 22 years of age, roughly dressed and wearing a cap. Police Officers George Finn, George Theo-bol- d, and J. C. Hutchins made a thorough search of the yards. sixth street, the La Grande Cottage rooms, rendered a verdict of no guilty Tuesday afternoon. A case against Leo Gtugg, charged with violation of the Harrison narcotics act was dismissed Tuesday afternoon. The case was formerly tried in the federal court, resulting in a hung jury. ; |