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Show I ACTION HELD I UP ON LICENSE Applicant for Soft Drink Parlor Permit Given Strenuous Quizz The rigid elimination which .ill applicants must undergo f--r llcens to opon soft drink parlors 1m 11 whore licenses have previously been invoked, wu mad apparent thin morning when J II. Coatee appeared H IWoro the city commission artd made I application tr, dpi n b soft drink parloi b In the Nations! Hotel building on Twenty-fifth street The ll.-cno (,f a B former proprietor of this pla-56 waa revoked recently as an alleged result H of liquor sales. Coatcs declared under questioning that ho had no a f f II latlon with tin' former proprietor and promised that there would be no liquor sold under his proprietorship. Mayor Francis asked hlrn If he was not cognizant of the fact that there are more than 50 soft drink parlors In Ogden and that competition was keen In the sale of soft drinks. Coatesl asserted he was willing to take his chances on making money even in the 1 face of competition. In answer to questions Coates Bald he was t pay $ion for the equipment In the place and was then to pay $100' a month rent Despite the doubt ex- pressed by the commissioners that. 50ft drinks would pa a profit with this heavy overhead. Coates de. I tn ! ho wanted to enter the business. The commission, however, did not' grant the license and left the mal over until tomorrow. In the mean-time mean-time a rigid Investigation Will be made1 I in regard to the applicant The com- I missloners nlso said that before they would grant any license they would call In the owner? "f the building and would warn them that If liquor sales were conducted there in the future 1 the place would be taken to court and efforts made to declare it a public nuisance, thereby closing i' 1 ntlrely for a considerable length of time. The action this morning was taki n In the present campaign of the city to wipe out Illicit liquor sales and the. dispensing of whisky In soft drink par-' lors of Ogden. |