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Show American Legion Convention Ends; . Ogdenites' Honored Two 'Ogdcn men were honored at the closing session of the American 'Legion convention which adjourned last night at 7 o'clock, following an election of officers. L. J. Holther, 'commander of the Herman Baker Post No. 0 of Ogden, was elected a member of the state executivo committee, and J. C. LIttlefield, secretary of the Ogden Og-den post, was chosen as a delegate to 1 attend the national convention which 'Is to be held in Cleveland in September. Septem-ber. The state convention was pronounc- :ed a success In many ways at the closing session Inst nlpht. The active 1 interest taken by delegates from all parts of the. state was extremely gratifying grati-fying to the state officers. Even the I most inaccessible points of Utah were represented, among theso being St. "George, Richfield and Vernal, and dol-cgatcs dol-cgatcs from these sections were keenly keen-ly alert to the work of the state body and reported good progress in their home posts. I McCarthy Commander. Murray W. McCarty, commander of Richard W. Young post No. 20 of Salt Lake, was elected commander of the Utah department of the legion at the election of state officers, succeeding Hamilton Gardner, also of Suit Lakc.i McCarty defeated Dee Stone of Wilkes! Post No. 2 by a vote of 10 to 35. j McCarty was an aviator during tho war and is now practicing law In Salt Lake. lie is the son of the late W. ; M. 'McCarty, justice of the supremo j court. John E. TTolden, one of tho most j active members of the American Leg-i Leg-i ion of the state since its formation, was re-elected state adjutant and' treasurer. Mr. I-Ioldcn has handled, the work of both offices for months,1 land, by tho unanimous action of the I delegates, his work was approved and ho was elected to continue in both these offiqe.s for another year. Mr. Holden is the son of E. H. Ilolden, editor ed-itor of the Salt Lake Tribune, and served with the Seventeenth field artillery ar-tillery in France. Ho was badly I wounded in battle near Chateau Thier- ry and was an inmate of an army hos-pital hos-pital for more than a year following his being hit with a high explosive j shell. His jaw was nearly shot away, an eye was torn out and both arms I were nearly blown off. The surgical work accomplished by tho most distinguished dis-tinguished surgeons of tho country In his caso attracted almost nationwide attention and medical men from all parts of. the country inspected the work following his operations. Earl L. Anderson, who served with Mr. Holden as assistant state adjutant, adju-tant, was reappointed to that position. posi-tion. He also was elected head of the delegation to the national convention to bo held in September. Changes in Committee. A change was made in tho selection of tho executive committee, there being be-ing one elected from each Judicial dis-' trict. the delegates from the judicial! districts electing their committeemen.! The following wc elected: L. J. Holther of Ogden; E. A. Strandquist, I of Logan; William J. Vay, of Salt I Lake; Starr Jordan, of Provo; P. N, Peterson, of Oasis; H. E. Beal, of I Richfield, and Stanford Ballinger, ofj Price. j Universal military -training came in i for a large share of attention during, the closing sessions of the convention.! Yesterday morning an attempt was! made to pass a resolution declaring1 for compulsory military training. The! resolutions were tabled by a vote of' 4 2 to 22, During the afternoon tho I military policy committee prepared i another set of resolutions which were' Military Training. j The military training resolution which was adopted follows: "That wo Indorse tho military policy as, adopted at the Minneapolis convention conven-tion of the American Legion as Interpreted Inter-preted by the military policy commit-! tee of the legion, reading as follows-1 "The military policy commltteo of thej American Legion indorses the princi-i pie o military policy as laid down in the resolution of the national conven-j tion of the American Legion which! favored universal military training, J but which also provided as a condl-! tlon precedent thereto, and as an cs-i sential safeguard thereof, for civilian Qontrol, a thorough housecleaning and elimination of the inefficient officers land methods of our entire military es-I es-I tablishmcnt, equality of obligation and opportunity for all American citizens, and adequate protection against an enlarged or stronger military caste." Abolishment of the present court- martial system of the army and tho establishment of a new system, based i upon the present principles of justice, iwith due regards lo the rights of the 'accused, was Included in another resolution res-olution passed at last night's session. : A resolution condemning the ac-I ac-I tion of approximately 1,200 ( young men of Utah who successfully evad-ied evad-ied the. selective "draft law was voiced 'in a resolution which was unanimously unanimous-ly passed. The resolution calls on the department of justice and other governmental gov-ernmental agencies to punish the of-! of-! fenders and pledges the support of the entire legion body In Utah to aid In the campaign to bring them to Justice. Jus-tice. Other Resolutions. Numerous other sets of resolutions were adopted, some after considerable debate, but there was no wide dls-sentlon dls-sentlon of opinion on the more Important Import-ant matters. There was warm dobatc In regard to a move to declare for tree speech. It was decided that any move in that direction might be misinterpreted mis-interpreted by the I. W. W. and similar sim-ilar organizations of radical nature, and the matter was decided by lndors- I ing such federal laws and rulings In I regard lo free speech as arc in force. Provo was unanimously chosen as the next meeting place of the state delegates. The date of tho convention conven-tion will be fixed by the executive committee and announcement made through the department headquarters to the different posts. I Mrs. J. G. Falck, of Ogdcn, state or-j ganlzer of tho Service Star Legion, made an appeal to tho convention during dur-ing tho afternoon in behalf of her organization. or-ganization. She desired thai her organization or-ganization be recognized as tho auxiliary aux-iliary of the American Legion. Trie matter was referred lo the different posts with instructions to determine Just how each post felt about auxll-' laries and then to report to the department de-partment headquarters in order that! final action may be taken. |