Show THAIN Of ARMY T TRUCKS SOON O JO 10 AR ARRVE IV IVIN IN UTAH U. U S. S Transport T r Motors Due in Evanston Tonight After After Stop in Ogden Party Due Here Tuesday WHEN HEN the army motor tran tran- vy port train reaches Evan Evan- Wyo late today the worst i part of the journey will vill have been passed and for the remainder re- re of the It will not re require require re- re quire quiro such a strenuous effort on the part of the officers and men mn of the train to keep t S Sunday will be a day of rest for the mod modern rn day crusaders and bright and early Monday morning the train will wend its way through the beauties of I Utah reaching Ogden shortly after afternoon afternoon noon for a stay overnight Tuesday I morning at o'clock the train will willi take up its Journey to Salt Lake which it is expected will be completed inside of four hours which will put the soldier soldier sol aol dier motorists in Salt Lake about 11 Unless there is Information to the I contrary the local reception committee I and and the several subcommittees are making their plans for the arrival of the train at that time I The journey of the truck train across I Ithe the country has brought to the attention attention atten atten- i tion of th the people generally in a most forcible manner tile tHe value of a first class highway from the ho e East to West West- I highways which serve in Ira wet and dry weather alike I RAINS CAUSE CAUSE DELAY I It was heavy rains on the Nebraska dirt roads which caused the truck train to break brea its schedule In two days' days I run un in Nebraska the train made but forty forty forty- six Bix miles miles considerably considerably less than the usual one days day's run The information received here was to the effect that the due entirely to road conditions conditions condi condi- the machines themselves standIng standing standing stand stand- ing up wonderfully well under the racking work to which they were put It required every bit of nerve and energy energy energy en en- ergy V which the personnel of the train could muster to keep ago in through the mud and quicksand of Nebraska which buried burled the cars hub lub deep In places s every machine had to be towed through by tractor At one spot it re required required required re- re seven hours for the train to pass over a distance of feet CABLES BROKEN A one and three-quarter-inch three towing Une line together with a three-fourth-inch three steel cable parted under the stress and it was necessary to finish the task with chains Weak bridges have delayed the train somewhat in Wyoming but the difficulty difficulty difficulty culty has been overcome in the main by sending ahead an engineer detail equipped with bridge building trucks It has been necessary to strengthen V practically every bridge Dr S. S M M. Johnson who accompanies the train as spokesman will wll not hold a mass meeting here Tuesday night as had been planned for originally originally originally nally it being deemed inadvisable to hold a meeting at this time Dr Johnson John John- son eon will however deliver his message and plea for assistance in the creation of a national highways system before the tha meeting of the Rotary club at V luncheon Tuesday noon and before the conference of governors at the Alta club on Wednesday parade c committee again calls at attention attention attention at- at of business men to the escort of business and industrial machines to the army anny train Every owner and operator operator operator opera opera- tor of a truck is invited to participate In iii the escort These machines will form on Second West street extending north from Second North and will take up the march immediately after the army train has passed The parade will be headed by a platoon of motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle motor motor- cycle police and will be reviewed by city County state stat officials from a stand which will be erected in front Of the K Kearns arns building BRIGADIER p G GENERAL GENERALD ENE R A L LCHARLES D 13 CHARLES B. B DRAKE chief of the motor transport corps of the United States army who may come to Salt Lake i I I I I I I i I I I I I V 1 S ry 1 erV V 4 V V V 1 ii 1 L V KV V py f fV V V V V V VV V |