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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1919
Page
2
A communication from Jack Littlefield will be published with a reply after an arshy officer, currently at Fc. Russell, who faces criticism, returns to alec the position. The fragment indicates a pending official response once the officer resumes duties.
President Wilson leaves Washington to tour the United States to advocate the Versailles peace treaty and its covenant of peace. He aims to counter Senate attacks while urging public support amid Congress debates and partisan criticism. The trip emphasizes direct leadership, public persuasion, and the need for fair publicity to guide the nation.
A Chicago dispatch quotes J Ogden Armour on the crest of high living costs while others doubt an immediate price drop. Franklin MacVeagh & Co President R A Keyes, Great Lakes Trust president Harry Merrick, and Selz Schwals Shoe Co chief J Harry Selz discuss wages, production, and a possible truce between capital and labor to ease prices.
Government experts from Utah Agricultural College in Logan announce a plan to beautify Delta in Millard County as Utah’s model city. Landscape gardener Emil Monsen will design street plantings with ten tree varieties, avoid corner plantings, and create a 30 acre city park with eight to ten thousand trees, all at no municipal cost. The effort follows earlier projects in Payton and Ogden’s Lorin Farr park, including an artificial lake and boule construction in the plan.
In Brigham City, city beautification moves forward as Mr. Hansen’s plan for a park around the stake tabernacle is approved. He will direct grounds layout with statewide extension, aiming to position Utah as a notable center for artistic school surroundings.
Scientific American details America's air service buildup during World War I. It notes initial limits with two fields and 55 serviceable airplanes, later describing training stages, pilot and observer production, and the surge in training planes and engines. By armistice, 34 fields operated, 1063 instructors, 8602 graduates, and substantial American production of planes and engines.
Washington reports a rejected amendment to the land leasing bill which would have let the president fix prices of coal oil and other products from government lands. The plan faced strong Western opposition and claims it would centralize pricing only for a portion of U S oil.
The Bohemian government cabled United States Senators Lodge and Knox urging support for self determination of 3,500,000 Germans in Bohemia and the Sudeten marches. It asks assurance of aid for Germany before the peace treaty ratification by the United States.
Promoted as a big feature with Dorothy Dalton and a good comedy at the COZY. Tomorrow promises Pete Morrison Mark Walcamp Tom Mix and Harold Lloyd in the next lineup. A bomb scare interrupted a premier causing a dramatic disruption amid crowd and security responses.
President Wilson fixed the Pacific fleet review for 3 p.m. on Saturday September 13 at Seattle. He will spend two days in San Francisco on September 7 and 18 as originally planned, after considering postponement due to coast arrangements. The change ends speculation about delaying the review or shortening the San Francisco stay.
A telegram from Joseph Tumulty reports that varsity activities will pause from September 1 to September 15, moving to San Francisco for a Pacific coast conference. Tonight Lorin Farr Park hosts a big dance with music by S. P. Band and Lillian Thatcher Orchestra.
California 1914 varsity training camp opens as eleven veterans from UC face stiff competition from former greats and freshmen. Coaches led by J. AL Strout prepare for a new season with players including L. E. Flewitt and J. Dreasipy among others while several veterans from prior years fill out the squad.
Ogden Tigers face a coaching vacancy as Roger Van Pelt declines to return and enter business. Supt Hopkins aims to secure a first class replacement before the weekend, with Lester Wilford Romney and Whitehall among candidates. The district hopes the new coach will lead the Tigers to victories as the season opens early this month.
The Virginia House of Delegates, by a 1 to 21 vote, refused to ratify the federal woman suffrage amendment. The session in Richmond on September 3 produced a decisive setback for suffrage supporters as they failed to secure approval.
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