Show CLUB ASKS CITY Cl Y FOR FORTO MORE POLICE POLICETO TO STOP CRIME Mayor Agrees to Request for Increased Pro Pro- Protection Protection Protection CHILD IS PURSUED Another Report Made Mado fu o of Prowler at Ogden Home Additional police protection In the residential rc districts was requested of the city commissioners this morning by a committee of women as the re result r re- re suit sult of recent attacks upon children and burglaries The women also asked that action be taken toward boarding up en eo- eo entrances trances and windows of or abandoned houses which are arc becoming public nuisances and anti In which crimes may be committed It was explained to the commis commis- commissioners commissioners that the request comes from the Business and Professional Wo Wo- Women's Women's mens men's club of Ogden who recently appointed a committee composed of Mary E. E Rawson Dorothy Madson Madsen and Mary Uary Duffy to take up the mat mat- matter matten ter ten with the city SHORT OF POLICE Mayor Major Browning who Is s head he d of the public safety department told the women that he appreciated their Interest and would take up the mat mat- matter matter matten ter ten with the police department He lie added that It is unfortunate that the police department Is somewhat short-handed short but he would do what he could Commissioner Harman Peery agreed to confer with officials of ot the health department regarding the boarding up of and windows of vacant houses bouses which constitute a public nuis nus- ance once The women said that it Is apparent apparent ent that crime Is not diminishing In Ogden and additional protection is necessary Members of ot their club are business women they added and it Is sometimes necessary that they be out on the streets later than most women TEXT OF LETTER Their communication to the com coin commissioners missioners m follows At HAt a business meeting of ot the Professional and Business Women's club Ogden of held Wednesday W even- even evenIng evening Ing October 26 a motion was duly made and passed by a unanimous vote ot members members' present appointing a committee o to wait upon your our hon hon- honorable honorable honorable board beard and request that in view of the increasing lawlessness and crime throughout the country and particularly the recently report report- reported ed criminal attacks upon children and women and burglaries in Og Og- Ogden Ogden Og- Og den our police department be in instructed In- In Ind instructed to place C more e patrolmen In Inthe J the residence d c districts tr of ofa Ogden and particularly to compel the owners of various buildings to board up or lock their premises which are fast tast be becoming be- be becoming coming public nuisances in our city We Ve thank you ou in anticipation of or your consideration and co operation in this matter and stand willing at any time to render whatever whale assist assist- assistance assistance assistance ance is possible In its performance GIRL PURSUED SUED A man In a light hat and suit caused a great deal of excitement in inthe Inthe Inthe the neighborhood of the La Frantz Franta apartment house Wednesday night when he ran after a small girl reported today This was the third successive night that small smail girls have been molested here and police are of ot the opinion that a dangerous degenerate possibly an escapee from a mental hospital or Of ora Ofa ora a penitentiary is at large in Ogden Monday night a small girl was out out- outraged outraged outraged raged after alter being carried into a va vacant so- so cant house hou e at Twenty third street and Adams avenue Tuesday a man ex exposed ex- ex exposed posed himself to a girl at Twenty-fifth Twenty street and Jefferson avenue and last night the girl was was' chased on Twenty Twenty- seventh u street between Washington and Adams avenue PROWLER REPORTED P Police Pollee continue to receive recel many calls from alarmed residents who ho ho report prowlers about their homes during diring the night and early in II the morning Wednesday afternoon police said Id Mrs Mra H H. C C. 2833 Van Bu- Bu Buren Buren Burca ren rca avenue reported that a man had attempted to remove remo a screen from one of the windows of the t theme home heme He was frightened away they said by neighbors |