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Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-28 | Page 35 | Biggest Utah Gun to Go in Place

Type issue
Date 1926-11-28
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Biggest Utah Gun to Go in Place
Type article
Date 1926-11-28
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 35
OCR Text Biggest Utah ah Gun to Go in Place Giant 1 7 to Rest in Memory Grove Disabled Vets Lay Concrete Base Ease BaseI I S By DON HOWARD Just like it was the day it stopped throwing black ones at American doughboys from behind the German lines That's the way the giant which tie the Disabled War Veterans of ot Salt Lake have Just received from the department of war and which Is to be placed on a knoll overlooking Memory grove in City creek canyon appears In the shadow of the capitol building the captured trophy along with other reminders of or the big big fight that have been placed there since the memorable November 11 11 In 1918 will stand as a lasting memorial memorial memorial memo memo- rial to those sons of ot Utah who came back from the war with their bodies broken and twisted The rue state and Salt Lake I.-ake City went fifty tifty on the big the tho largest captured gun that will be besent besent besent sent to the state The trophy arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived in Salt Lake last week and will be put into position some sonic time in the near future according to El Elliot El- El I hot liot R. R Wright newly elected commander commander com com- mander of the Disabled Veterans DISABLED VETS WORK Ten men from the Salt Lake post have finished the work of laying the concrete bases for tor the gun As soon as the cement sets the gun will be betaken betaken betaken taken from its place in a Salt Lake warehouse and its ten tons of death deeth dealing destruction forever silenced will vill be placed in the grove across the creek from the Gold Star Mothers' Mothers memorial building The rhe short ugly barrel of the howitzer is covered with patches of rust from the rain and mud of German German German Ger Ger- man trenches and the wheels of the carriage are caked with the muck of the battlefields For ten days the giant gun will set on on the knoll In Memory lemory Grove in the condition that it was taken from Europe During this time pe people of ot Salt Lake are e Invited to come and see the trophy Then it will be cleaned and polished and will vill be covered until the date of its unveiling when official ceremonies ceremonies ceremonies cere cere- monies will be held at the grove Some in freight freight was paid by Utah and Salt Lake City for this trophy and the city of ot Salt Lake will pay for the removal of ot the gun from the warehouse to its permanent permanent permanent perma perma- nent site it was stated by officials of the local Disabled Veterans' Veterans post Praise for the part Governor Govern r George H. H Dern Mayor layor C. C Clarence and Mrs E. E O. O Howard have played in the bringing of ot this trophy to I Utah is given ghen by disabled veterans The state war trophy committee appointed by Governor George GeorgeIa Mabey Mabey Ma- Ma bey also has ha the gratitude of the Disabled Veterans for lot the part it pla played ed In securing the for the city of Salt Lake Lale Those Thoe who laid the foundation for forthe the gun in Memory grove included besides Commander Wight George A. A F Faust retiring commander Theo W. W William Allmark William Wil Wil- i iliam liam Higby Charles Hoffman Anton Anton Anton An An- ton Jess R. R Jensen Preston Thatcher and John Bloomquist I
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