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Show SOLDIER DEM) HIED I'll OROIIZL PLATE Unveiling of Tablet In Memory Grove Marked by Attendance of High Dignitaries and Officer ' By SELMA MILLER. Muffled eoba and tear, for aona loat on tho field of battle punctuated punctu-ated tho unveiling of the bronse tablet bearing Iho wnni of . Til Utah mm who died In Iho World war and dedication of tha Gold Htar Mother.' Memory Urovo tn City Creek canyon ,'rlday morning. With atata and city ulgnltaries, repreeentallvee of tha rainy, tha Had Croes. the I). A. V. and tha Harvtce tllar legion and othera participating, par-ticipating, tha woman of tha IHab men who perished In tha war dedicated dedi-cated their teatimoniai of reiaem-branoe reiaem-branoe to their dead. Solemnity marked tha occasion ntf fnlr4a gatharod at tt tock In tha urovo and on tho turrvund-liif turrvund-liif hllVatdao to honor tho daad. With trovernor Cavarlae K. Ma-boy, Ma-boy, forma r Uovtmor ktlinon Bam-harcor Bam-harcor twar aovarnor) ; Mayor C. ( iararwa Naaln of Halt Ia.ka; National Na-tional Commander Jamea Mrfar-land Mrfar-land of tho l. A. V.; HvrKnt Hamuol Woodftll, rjroatoot hiS of tho war and ropraaontatlva of tftrlffadiar Oanoral IT. 1. MrAlai-andar. MrAlai-andar. and prwnlnont cltlaona ran fad In aomlctrrlo on ono atUa of tho tablat. and notional and atata officer of tho BrvUo Htar laaln and I. A. V. oppotUa, tho program fot undr way. Tha Vort lMi(tala band played .' rr. My Vvl, to Thaa." and Rabh4 Adotph Htelnar oteppad forward for-ward to dallvor tho Invnd-atton,. SPIRITUAL AID INVOKEO, k "May thla Memory Orovo ho to ua an oror pitant ramlnd-ar of tha food and faithful aona of thla mm. 1 monwoalth and taarh ua tho apirtt of aacrtftr-v and dvottin to .our fan-it Ha, our eommunlty and our country and all mankind." ha aald In part. "Hand, oh, our marciful Father." ha aald In ektalnc "Thy runaolatlon and comfort to tho ha-raavad ha-raavad haarta of our (kild Rtar Mothra. l.t th am ha atrenRthanad by tha hop of Immortality. Lt tham know that thtr aunt llv In Tha and thai Thon rwi rdaat tham for thalr aacrtfic And brav-ary brav-ary In coordano with Thy ly. lna klrvdnaaa and par fact Juatlca." A tmich of quaint dianlty and Inaplratlon waa addad whan Rnlftl Sialnor ked that th (athartnc rpat th Twntjr third paalio, whirh Waa dona. Mrsf. K. O. Howard, a sold star mothar and chairman and traaaurar of Momory Orov, to whom moat of tho honor t du for th auocaaa of ha arrovo, atapnad forward and un vat lad th bronaa tablat and I placd a - houquat of flow are. Mr. Howard directed th rmlalna; of tha funda for completion of tha grove and Inatallatlon of tha tablet, and th honor of unveiling the bronaa waa fittingly trcordVd her, WREATHS PLACEO. , A Oold Star emblem onatruotad of yellow flower and symbolic of th Gold Btar women who eatab-llahed eatab-llahed th grov In honor of th dead, waa then placed at 4ha baa of ha tablet by Mra. Lucy Garvin national chairman of the Oold Htar woman.- Thla waa followed by tha placing of a laurel wreath by Her-geant Her-geant Woodflll, "great! hero of the war, who waa wleoted to represent rep-resent Brigadier Ueneral U. U. Mc-Alexander, Mc-Alexander, who waa out of tha city. Following tit aiming of th re-ealonl re-ealonl by th Kxananga elub iContlnued on pag 9.) SOLDIER DEAD HONORED WITH BRONZE PLATE (Continued from paga I mala quartet, iiayor C. riarenoa Keelaa opened hi dedlcatsqr ad-tlreaa. ad-tlreaa. II auoled from Unooln'a famoua Oettyeburg apea- h when he aeiKratrd tha natlona,! reeling plao of fallen Civil war heroea In !. "It M for ua. tha living, rather., ta be dedicated her to th unfln-lahed unfln-lahed work which they who fought her have thue far ao aotoly ad-vaaoed.' ad-vaaoed.' Quoted the mayor, making thul fanaeua addraea lMHralle to Ihe oaduiona and problema of the living today, "it la rather tor ua to he bar dedicated to tne great tek remaining before tie that from theae honored dead wa take Increaaed devotion to that rauae for whlrb they gave tha laat full measure of devotion that wa here highly reeolve that theee dead ahall not have died In vain: that tbla nation, under Hod, ahall hav a new birth of freedom, and thaj the government of the people, by the people, for the people, ahall not peril per-il k from th axth." THANKS WOMEN. , . All honor la due to rhe woaten who hav glva thl -ov." eald Mayor Naelen. "1 want ta thank them In behalf of official of th city, county and xata for bringing thla to lha attention of tha em-inunllv em-inunllv I want to eepectally lliank Mra. C. . atlnnay. who laid the mailer of the grove befota tne it.jr CNtmmlaelon. and Mre. K. O. Howard, wh worked o hard I make it a reality. I hopo that tha ppl of th community will com hr often, and that It may become th patri-otl patri-otl heart of the at ale." In cloalng hi remark Mayor Neelen merte a plea thai children be taught patriotism aad that everyone ahsuld practice patriot lem. for, ha declared, there were neml to tho country lnld a well ai ! outalde. ' j Tapa waa bounded and noy Beam, raleed a flag and closed tha eervic by repeating th pledge of allegiance to lha flag The flagpol wa arented by ! Mr. Joeeuhln WUkas, a Uold Miai Mother. a fRAISCt AMANOCMINT. Military prclion and afflcUno marked tha aervlce. Bpeelal policemen po-licemen kept guard o th roadl and patha near th grav to Pre ent Intrueloa. Mr. John U Spencer waa chairman of lha program. pro-gram. Following tha close of th service.. Major W.' O. Whit ol th Hatvatlon Army, who ha er several memorial dedicated ti World war heroe. declared that tl appropriateness, beauty and die patch not any ha haa prevlouell see could com par to tho o today. Xha bronr tablet which waj unveiled, and which waa tha cente of attention, waa deelgnad b: Architect Walter J. Cooper of Sal lk. It waa caal In a local foun dry, and Mr. Cooper waa aaaiatai by H. W. Uaum. con.lructloa n glneer. It weigh almoat a , toi and meaeuree 1 feet la height b: feet In width. It I of atatuan bronaa, which I tmperriou to th eiementa, and la est la a rocl wall, th foundation of which I cement and th outer aurfac i cobbleelone ffct Himpllelty 0 dealgn la tha outstanding faatura At tha top la a laurel wreath witl a gold tax In tha center, whll oi I'nlted Btalee and on tha other the aeal of th .late of Utah. Th only Inaorlptlon 1. 1. arateful Hemambrane." and It ' name appear In panel. Both th work of Mr. Cooper and Mr. Baum wr given gratuitously. In a publlo atatement mad by Mr. R pen car. as chairman of tho ssr -vice, th thank of th women reaponeibie for - th bronaw - and grov and Ha de1lcatlonYwa extended ex-tended lo all Individual aad'or-ganlaallon aad'or-ganlaallon that had (Ivan - as-alatanoa. as-alatanoa. Mra. Spencer mad thl tate-ment tate-ment to th preaa at Ui clou of th ervlcee: "E7vry posalbl effort ha been made to hav th list of names inscribed on th tablet absolutely perfeet by checking It with vry available source of Information. Including In-cluding war departmnt rcord. If daplt the effort any omli-ion omli-ion h. occurred, th commute aaka that detailed Information of urh rrnr be aubmltted to W. J. Cooper, architect of th mmorlal table . ,. |