| Show ' S L News Of Week : In Revie tv State Observes Opening Of Legislature Twenty-thir- d staW legislature opened sessions in capitol chambers this week Seated two appointed senators after a two-hodebate concerning the right of Governor Henry H Blood to fill legislative vacancies Governor’s message pleaded tor a new econ- omy in state expenditures that “the general fund ” must be kept out of the red" Senators introduced 38 bills representatives 10 in the first week The little Wagner act designed to bring political employes under the state labor relations act was introduced in the senate e Mrcy Flight— Wings of mercy failed to locate serum for a Cedar City baby when Richard Batt 21 unlicensed pilot landed his unlicensed Eagle Rock monoplane in a snowstorm near Alpine on the way to board of — health- - laboratories-inlh- a state capitol The young flier scarcely able to boast because - he could claim less than three hours’ dual instruction faces' charges for the illegal flight “Type 16” serum’ was not avail- able in the city and was not found until Dr L W McGregor of St George located the rare serum 'through San Francisco laboralife-savi- Section B Local and Financial News Press-Gro- Publishers Chart Future Head Utah State Press sociation Leland Barms (seated) G newly-elect- ed head of weekly neivspaper publishers of Utah talks over plans with Elisha Warner vice president of the group up Speakers Urge Editors to Face Duties urgingnewspaper-editorandpu- k- lishebs to assume their full share of public responsibility marked opening sessions of ths forty-firannual meeting of the Utah State Press association Saturday-- at the Newhouse hotel Leland G Burress-o- f Bingham was elected president of the association succeeding Val H Cowles of Pnqe Elisha Warner of Spanish Fork was named vice president Hendrik Romeyn of Salt Lake City was reelected secretary-treasurby acclamation st - 15 1939 r - — 11 - Soldier Gets Municipal League Stabbed by Tax’ Irate Husband 'Segregated Supports Bill Knifing Ends Argument Over Attentions ths fort hospital Saturday night suffering with an’ abdominal knife wound while his alleged assailant Carl F Slaton 33 civilian orderly was held in the city jail on a charge of attempted murder Jackson was taken to the police emergency hospital Saturday after noon suffering what attendants said was punctures e intestines After ejnergency treatment he was transferred to the fort hospital where his condition late Saturday was pronounced "fairly good" Couple Paid Call er New Directors Chosen for the board of direc tors were A C' Saunders of Castle DaleC A Epperson of Kaysvilie Frank Gaisford of American Fork Edgar Simpson of St George and George Harrison of Roosevelt The annual meeting which attracted more than 60 members and tories Flown here’ by United Air Lines guests from ail parts of the state the serum was taken to Cedar will conclude Sunday morning with City Saturday morning by Mr an executive session of the 4 Conference'of'-tb:a nd Mrsr KB“'HahSert of "529 Cleveland avenue who braved icy newly appointed legislative commithour tee roads in a six and one-haElective state officials and memdash to save the baby’s life when weather conditions prohibited de- bers of the state legislature with other public dignitaries were guests livery by airplane e e e of the association Saturday might at a “gridiron” dinner Mr Epperwas toastmaster and greetings son Telephone Company were extended by association leaders and guests Maps" New Building Principal speakers Saturday were Three million dollars will be exIdaho of Blackfoot pended in construction of new Byrd Trego Edwin daily newspaper publisher buildings purchase and installation of new equipment and re- A Bemis of Littleton Colo field manager of the Colorado Press asmodeling of present headquarters officials of the Mountain States sociation and Georgs H Watson mayor” of Alta Telephone and Telegraph comDial announced Monday pany Urges Con fidenco telephones were promised by 1940 Speaking on the topic “Confide New $485000 building will be conurged structed at First South and State in Your Public” Mr Trego themstreets site of the old Salt Lake newspapermen to dedicate selves first to serving the public theater good and to take readers into their Traffio Engineer Named — Ap- confidence on matters of news and business policies proaching a more scientific atIf a paptr Is serving the public tack upon Salt Lake City traffio Mr and auto accident problems the to the fullest posslbla extent said the publisher need not Trego Fire commission appointed city Chief Walter S Knight city traf- worry about personal auccess As an example of “confiding In fic engineer agreed to employ a the public” the Idaho publisher told him to assist national expert educational program carried an of s of pay-aapproved Installation readk meters for downtown on in that state to acquaint ers with the importance 'of legal parking areas as recommended notices of newsConsolidation by Chief of Police William C papers which frequently arouses Webb public resentment would bring no Motorists contemplated attachsuch reaction if the necesaity was cars to their ice or skates skis ing he as combined snow and Ice formed fully and publicly explained e slalom course two added a The importance of publishing pubbusinights during the week notices in detail was stressed in lic auto boomed for ness body repair talk by Mr Bemis who pointthe shops ed out it was a safeguard for the official and a guarantee to Burglaries Continue Unabated-Burg- lars public against secret processes during the week ’’lifted" the publichidden channels goods ranging from 22 gallons of through antifreeze to eight chickdns Tied to Freedom biggest night of the year for loot “The question of public notices totaled $1000 in four raids Thirteen burglaries theft of 25 auto- is tied very closely to ourof form the and numerous car of freedom and freedom mobiles remarked ths speaker solved press” were by thought “prowls” iovernment can operate thearret of arlng ufmlnori more effectively when It has the A d “Dillinger boys” people Sines we girl later implicated with confidence of itsmake decisions and the Juvenile gang admitted she elect citizens to us and since it is had “held out” on the leader in administer for a recent “job” kept $40- during physically impossible for us to meet govher combing of a house on Yale daily or weekly on questions of then ernment or its administration avenue we look to our elected representatives to give an accounting to us at a time and place when it is conU’ Regents Choose venient for us to read or listen” One of the weaknesses of the Deseret Professor publication laws relating to Regents of the University of presentnotices is that too little pubpublic Utah appointed Dr Hyrum lsrrequired Mr Bemis deSchneider Deseret professor of licity clared or there is insufficient geology replacing the late Dr give the publio a complete Frederick J Pack promised aeropicture civil the with cooperation nautics authority in establishing Seee New Industry aviation ground school courses at Mr Watson described Alta’s skiapproved issuance the ’U" facilities to the newspapermen ing the to finance of $104000 in bonds and asserted that it would become new fieldhouse one of Utah’s "major industries” tthat the state some Technicalities Stall Trial - At- He predicted would have more tourists in the day A Fisher In theGeorge torneys in the summer trial disagreed over admission of winter thanother special gueats indeAmong records bank and board land troduced at the meeting were WarMr Fisher that to prove signed Monroe of Elko Nev president former state land board secretary ren financial gain of thp Nevada State received Measure Would Ban Levy for General Fund ot-th- “Detective E J Blazzard reported Slaton with his wife called at 71 Twelfth East street "to settle what apparently had been an argument over asserted attentions Jackson had been paying to"Slaton entered the apartment” Detective Blazzard 8aid "he went straight to Jackson and with a knife in his hand told him to As Jackson stood up stanjJ up Slaton stabbed him with the knife “After stabbing Jackson Slaton took his wife and left ths apart Slaton’s-wtfeJI-"Whe- n lf you-par- city-wid- ment” Wyoming Man Meets Death When Struck by Train Visitor Here at Homes of Sisters Killed on D & R G W Tracks Reese Jones 44 who came to Salt Lake City only four days ago to visit his two sisters was killed instantly Saturday at 735 p m — crushed beneath a Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad passenger train out I walked back a way and The victim who resided at Su- got there was the man's body He apdiwalked perior Wyo apparently parently had walked directly into rectly into the path of the train the the tram which was traveling be"Sanpete Flier" en route from tween 50 and 55 miles an hour” L G Winslow 68 of 609 East Marysvale to Salt Lake City at Sixteenth South and Fourth West Ninth South was conductor of the streets train Justice of the Peace Herman Mrs J Melvin Renshaw of 841 coroner termed the Gygi acting Washington street sister of the vicman’s death accidental pending fur- tim said Mr Jones had been visitther investigation ing at her home for the past four ’I thought the train had struck days He is survived also by another something” Engineer- - Ed Bartlett of 275 West Sixth South street said sister Mrs Nina Barney of 1459 I stopped it as soon as I could and Indiana avenue New Traffic Engineer Plans Safety Class for Firemen Knight Says He’ll Start in ‘Own Back Yard’ IX - m -Glt3M)f -AutD- Hazard9 4reah self-style- - see As the first step in “an educatiohal program to make regarding traffic” Fire Chief Walter newly appointed city traffic engineer announced Saturday hold a safety school at No 81 fire station Monday at 10 a y firemen and “any others interested” city safety-conscio- the entire S Knight he would m for all off-dut- "We have been conducting schools Tuberculosis Unit to Meet lo regularly” Chief Knight said "but next week I intend beginning stressing traffic safety and there is no better place than my own back yard” Couple Arrested The Slatons were arrested a few minutes later at their apartment 318 Fourths avenue "Slaton admitted stabbing Jack-son- ” Detective Blazzard said “but boasted that ‘I feel I had a right to considering what he (Jackson) was doing’ " Others in the apartment when the reported stabbing took place were Charley Shely a cook in the 38th infantry at Fort Douglas Ms and Mrs Charles Kelly and Mrs Ethel McKinley who rents the apartment Detective Blazzard said the complaint of attempted murder would stand unless Jackson died If that happened he said Slaton would be charged with murder tee Press-associat- ion hl for Water Sales asao-ciatio- author of a lax segregation bill Meningitis Epidemic Breaks Out Among Navajos Slate Medical Official Reports 15 Deaths During Last Three Weeks reaches of the Navajo Indian reservation of southern Utah northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico Saturday came reports which indicated an outbreak of spinal meningitis of epidemic proportions Dr William M McKay director “ From- the isolated snow-covere- d of the division of disease control of Taxi Robbery Arrest the Utah ’state board of health announced that 15 deaths from the disease had occurred on the reservation during ihe past three weeks —six of them during the'past week and one of them the child of a white trader' He warned all Utahns to stay away from the reservation part of Two Salt Lakers meditated in the which is located in San Juan county county jail on the virtues of sobriUtah ety Saturday as the county attorney’s office drew up a robbery comGovernment Active Finishes Spree League of Utatf Saturday approved V bill to " create a "segregated tax "system” which would prohibit the state from levying any property tax for general fund purposes in the future The measure as prepared for submission to the legislature "Would reserve permanently to cities counties school districts and other local taxing unltS'the right to tax tangible property The atate would be left to pay its expenses from various excise and intangible property taxes and other speclarievlesr Directors of the --league at a meeting in the Newhouse hotel also reaffirmed their demand for 50 per cent of the state’e liquor receipts Blood Stand Oppose Both actions "were “in opposition to Governor Henry H Blood’s recommendations to the legislature last week The governor In his message not- ed that the general fund property levy had been dispensed with in the calendar years 1938 1937 and declared-tha- t it “must again be levied if state functions are t5 be sustained” The municipal league bill would make such restoration impossible Governor Blood also advised the legislators it would be "imprudent" to divert the liquor profits from ths general fund 4938-but-- he Cites Home Rule Leon Fonnesbeck Logan city attorney who drafted the "segregat-e- d tax system” bill said it embodied the league’s philosophy of “horns rule" as opposed to centralization of governmental functions and reyr enues Besides telling the state to keep “hands off’ of the basic source of local revenue it would strip the stats tax commission of power to revise assessments made by county authorities — The commission would be left with general supervisory power over local taxing methods but could neither raise nor lower county valuations them with relieving School Funds plaint charging Meanwhile the Associated Press taxi driver of his vehicle at the The bill proposes that ths presreported that government medical climax of a bit of revelry Friday ent state school funds be collected service officials were active in the night ( by the state tax com'misaion but field checking reports of the disease The complaint prepared for filing from a segregated— portion of the which appeared to be virulent in the in city court names Earl Draper mines and utility valuation Instead Red Rock and Aneth 35 of 158 Hawthorne avenue and of from all property In the state districts of New Mexico and Utah Carroll H Chealey 32 of 820 South Other sources indicated that per- West Temple street who stuck This valuation would b divided so that the state’ would be entitled haps not so many pearsons were some kind- of hard object "against dead of the disease as had been re- the back of the driver’s head forced to tax on that portion of the mines valuation in each county WASHINGTON Jan 14 2P)— Five ported to the Utah health office him from the cab and drove away and utility to 33 per cent of ths total asequal thousand six hundred Utah WP A Reports to the Navajo central 25 The driver Gordon Charvoz workers and 4100 workers in Idaho agency at Window Rock Ariz and of 231 Third East street was picked sessed valuation in that county If the proportion exceeded 33 per cent at the hospital government will lose their jobs by June 30 if Navajo up shortly by a passing motorist W Ship Rock N M placed the deaths and taken to a telephone where he the surplus would be added to the the $725000000 other property taxable by ths local P A deficiency appropriation is variously at two and six said the notified police districts passed the United States confer- Associated Press The tax commission would be reence of mayors estimated Saturday Navajo health authorities were quired to levy on the utilities an The conference estimated 1151300 hindered by the fact- - that among amount equal to the levies in the W P A workers would' lose their scattered Indian families illness and counties or cities concerned so that jobs reduction by states including deaths are unlikely to be reported all property whether taxed by the' about the the following showing employment Navajo superstition state or by local units would be December 31 1938 and estimated “Chindi" or evil spirit which acburdened equally Neither would be handiwas also a death 1939 30 re companies June employment allowed to tax on valuation assigned spectively: Idaho 11100 to 7000 cap to factual determination of the Withdrawing a plea of Innocent to ths other Utah 14900 to 9300 Montana 20- - extent of the disease and admttting-guilt-Jim Smith 38 600 to 12900 Nevada 2600 to 1600 Find two deaths was sentenced Saturday to 15 yekrs Estimates Revenue Wyoming 4800 to 3000 The Navajo central agency -- at in state prison for the killing! of Mr Fonnesbeck estimated the 33 Window Rock denying a wide- Miss Gussie Willie Douglas 4Sj after per cent Would produce school funds spread epidemic said two deaths the charge was reduced from first about equal in amount to those at present If a surplus were raised were all that so far have been di- to second degree murder Miss Douglas was stabbed to death it could be carried over if the to the dread rectly attributed last December 11 in a hotkJ at 528 1 amount were less the next legisdisease The government Indian hospital West Second South stretV'where lature could revise the 33 per cent ' at Ship Rock reported six deaths the couple lesided figure upward He said 10 or 12 states have segDistrict Judge CKcar W Mcfive of them in the and Guided by a jury recommendation Red Rock districts in New Mexico Conkie at first refused to reduce regated their tax systems of leniency District Judge Oscar W The action on the liquor measure and one from Aneth Utah which is the charge which had been recomMcConkie Saturday sentenced C W down from Ship mended by District Attorney Calvin came in response to the governor’s Preston 22 of 806 Arapahoe avenue Rock the San Juan river W Rawlings until details of the message leaders explained to six months in the county jail for “The money waa ours in the first No outbreaks were reported in case had been recited It was disconinvoluntary manslaughter in dis- closed that the man and woman place" eaid Mayor J Bracken Lee the or Fruitland Farmington nection with an auto fatality tricts of the reservation one of the both negroes had argued over of Price league president 'The Preston waa convicted last week most inaccessible areas in the south Smith's demand that the Woman state took it away and we merely on a charge arising from a collision west want it back to pay the costs of engive him 30 cents last November 20 in which Eldon McConkie ordered Smith forcement” About 11 cases have been taken Judge 20 K Woilshleger of 1425 Van to the Ship Rock hospital in the last committed at once Auto Fees Share Buren avenue was fatally injured six weeks five from Aneth and six Mr Woilshleger was a passenger from The city officials who also ask in a car driven by Paul B Franke 50 per cent of the motor vehicle' liIndian traders on the reservation 1291 road which Redwood South Jr cense receipts ‘appointed a negotiisolated cases to collided with the auto driven by annually report health authorities and ating committee to work with the government Preston State Association of County Offieach year traders say there are Isocials which advocates retention of lated deaths from the disease This educational campaign the" present distribution of 70 A year however traders said the per disease appeared more active than in conjunction with national social cent to counties and 30 per cent to Delegation $tiiflies 1 will be cities hygiene day February usual launched by the public health comL A Wynaught Milford mayor Register’s Place mute of --the Utah -- State— Junior was- an To Call Building Buis D C Jan 14-- The chamber of commerce the commitWASHINGTON eissistant Salt Lake City atAdvertisement for bids for con- tee announced Saturday night after torney and Elmer A Jacob Provo Utah congressional delegation met Saturday on call of Senator struction of the $200000 United a Newhouse hotel meeting city engineer as members " Medical societies through the William H King to consider appli- States bureau of mines building A safety committee to work for cants for appointment as register probably will begin about January state will be called upon to furnish coordination of municipal traffic 31 Lewis Telle’Cannon of the firm speakers for civic and social organ legislation also was named of the Salt Lake land office ' by Mayor No agreement was reached but of Cannon and Mullens architects izatipns during the campaign said Lee to include Commissioner John Woodland Willard over the week end the delegation said Saturday T of now B Matheson Wayne Specifications of Salt Lake City are being completed will consider further action state Ghairman chairman Mayor F Joseph Law of Slash Will Hit 5600 Utahns Teeo-nos-p- house-approve- d Slayer Gets 15 Years Death Driver Gets Term Annual meeting of ths Utah Chief Knight was appointed trafassociation will be fic engineer through action of the Tuberculosis held Friday at 12:15 p m in the Newhouse hotel under direction of city commission but will retain A S Brown acting president Miss the nominal title of fire chief Ada Taylor Graham executive sec“Our boys have always been retary announced Saturday to regard traffic rules but taught Reports will be presented at the inasmuch as we have launched upon two a and vice meeting president new program of that nature presidents a treasurer and 12 direc- intend to stress as much as posit tors will be elected Miss Graham said receipts from sible is no better place to start Christmas seals up to Saturday “There were $86 less than on the corre- than in my own back yard but before I'm through I'll have every sponding date in 1938 Responses personal in the city listening organization former Masters H have been Ira received and from approxfrom bondto the ptea- - to beeome traffic constate 50 of Idaho cent to those of imately secretary per was elected L Morris scious whom seals were mailed board of president of the city "According to my present plans education replacing A E Eber every organization in the city which Leaves Oregon hardt retiring head of the board can call together a representative M O Ashton first counselor in group will have a traffic at the first meeting of the year expert talk the L D S church presiding bish- to them Fisher Harris and LeGrand P office to Inducted were Backman was "The traffic opric left Saturdayvfor Portland program Ore where he will inspect church launched in earnest and will con' as new board members Davis county cannot legally purbuildings and make-wor- k projects tinue in Ihe same vein” Socialized Dentistry — Dentists chase water rights in the Echo dam ann or the Weber Water“jUsefs' of the state dental association nounced —Friday — su prepayment for the benefit of farms contract plan designed to offer whose owners ars financially un adequate oral health protection able to purchase ths rights Asat $10 per person sistant Attorney General S D Huf As chief deputy sheriff of Salt to start at the expiration of 'a f Silver beaver awards were pre- faker Informed Davis County AtLake term imposed -- by another judge county George Beckstead H A P Cutler to sented Vaughn Calvin L Rampton in an torney knows a little about the law and But the second judge had ruled Kipp and J Frank Hampshire at opinion Saturday the fellowship dinner honoring Mr Rampton explained that the when he receives an order from a that the sentence he gave was to scoutmasters of the Salt Lake Boy county was eager to assist certain judge committing a lawbreaker to "run concurrently ‘with that imsilver beaver farmers hoping to purchase’ the Scout council posed in the first court that man goes'to jail When -- —'la the highest award a scouter jail II those orders were followed rights and then to sell the same to the man’s time is up he goes free can receive the individuals at cost the prisoner would have to be two O L Hansen Sanpete county “A county may purchase water Just like that people Mr Beckstead reasoned clerk was elected president of the rights for its own purpose but there But Mr Beckstead encountered and he himself would have to be Counof Association State is no law which would authorize it a Utah situation Friday which left him a combination of Houdmi and to purchase for the use of others Solomon So he asked Deputy ty Officials at the two-da- yweek conin the air not to say out on Ofup the or for ths purpose of reselling and vention here during Walter M Attorney County a limb now He has & prisoner ficials adopted resolutions pre- there are no county funds which Critchlow to perform a bit of pared 15 bills for presentation in may lawfully ba used for such pur- doing time who was sentenced legerdemain with the commitment th state legislature poses” Mr Huffakcr ruled by one judge to a term that was papers and see what resulted Opinion Bans City officials taking prominent part in municipal league legislative program T L A VVynatfgiif left head of a negoiiating committee on auto license fund distribution and Leon Fonnes-bec- k - - (deals--Nep- JANUARY Four Pages of Opportunities The State Municipal e f SUNDAY MORNING - Victim of what police officers said was “a little family trouble of Private Melvin long standing” Jackson 35 member of the service company at 'Fort Douglas was in Election of officers and speeches rs - UTAH SALT LAKE CITY Part 2 Bingham Man Heads State Classified Ads gknmwe F 4 j Teec-nos-p- Teec-nos-p- Social Hygiene Campaign Set two-we- named-chairm- Mr Critchlow went lnt6 & brown study and came out with the decision "It can’t bo done” Other deputy county attorneys who’ had the matter explained to them were sympathetic but leaned over backward in an effort to refrain from attempting to influence Mr Critchlow’s opinion The central figure in this legal impasse is one Sam Beigelman 51 of Los Angeles who was convicted last fall of issuing two insufficient funds checks In one case he came before District Judge Oscar W McConkie for sentence on' October 31 Judge McConkie knew there was another charge pending and sentenced Beigelman to jail for three months to be served at the expiration of another term But the second case wasJieard by District Judge Lewis Jones of Brigham City who was assisting An earlier conin this district viction was obtained but sentence was postponed until November 18 On that date apparently unaware of the terms of Judge McConkle’s ord?r he sentenced Beigelman to six months — thre months suspended and the remaining three months to run concurrently with the other term He also ordered Beigelman to report to thqaduk probation officer once a month during the period in which sentence was sus- i y Police Chief Dewey F Hawkins of Qgden and Mayor A E Miller of St George Brigham-Cit- Bit of Solomon’s Wisdom Would Help in This Case r Count Sends Pair To State Prison - Terms of one to 20 yean in stated for second degree burglary “That raises another problem" were Imposed in district court SatMr Beckstead mourned “If Bei- urday on Leo Love 26 of 240 West South Temple street and Odell gelman has to stay in confinement three months ofter the McKay 20 of 223 California street Love 'had been 'convicted of Jones sentence is finished ljow R W Bqwer service sta- is he going to report to the probatlon and McKay had pleaded guilty tion officer?” The efficials believe Solomon t® jal charge of entering the garage could have really made a name of Ross S NuttalJ 926 East Thir-teen' South treat for himself on this one pended prison- - he th - - 4 |
