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Show WHY AIRPLANES 0!B NOT FLY OVER OGDEN 01 ARMISTICE DAY I nfavorable weather conditions pre-vented pre-vented the two slant airplanes from BOarlng over Ogden in the big celebration celebra-tion yesterday. Plans had been completed com-pleted to have Carl Johnson. Denver aviator, stop off in Ogden for a few hours, entertaining the citizens of this city with a few stunts before depart-i depart-i ing for San Francisco Johnson left Denver .Monday morning, according to word which has been received here. In i V oming, between Cheyenne and Og-Iden. Og-Iden. he encountered a snowstorm and was compelled to land five miles from I any place of communication. Johnson .states that he hiked the live or more miles over rough country In an attempt at-tempt to find a place of shelter. He finally came to a farm where he was housed for the night. With fair weather conditions prevailing, he no doubt would have been here to entertain enter-tain yefftei n ty, O. C. Prest. flyer of the Western Aircraft corporation of Salt Lake City, planned to fly to Ogden early yesterday yester-day and entertain the local people from the air with fancy dips and dives land tricks. The rains of the early tmorning made the trip impossible. Two local girls had arranged to fly 'with Preat, and their disappointment I was' far greater than the disappoin-raent disappoin-raent of the people. Homer Ellison, Denver business man, well known in Ogden and other cities of the west, passed through Ogden torlay en route to Dos Ansele?. I Kllison stHt-(l to a Standard represent-ative represent-ative that Johnson had planned a trip' 'from Denver to San Francisco, thencp to Los Angeles, then back to Salt Lake City and from Salt Lake City to Denver Den-ver unaccompanied. Ellison was unable un-able to stal1 just when thr proposed trip would be made, but said Johnson' expected to make th flight boforp December 1 to avoid heavy snow Storms in crossing the mountains. His appearance In Ogden is being eagerly awaited. |