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Show I HIS BEADY FORSQLDIERS Government's Award Received 1 on Recepil of Discharge j Papers B Victory medals are now ready for H distribution to nil BOrVlQC men who iiOUl an honorable discharge and serv- B c during the war, according to an H jnnouncement made today by Lleutcn- H ant It. V. Laughlln. victory button B commissioner for the tnl ermountaln B district who was in Ogden today. H Lieutenant Laughlln was in conference 1 nh J. (? Llttlcfield. adjutant to J. H Ray Ward, commissioner of public H ifet. and arrangements were com- B pieted whereby the medals may be B awarded to all former service men who meet the requirements. .1 VKW Al'lM V FOR THEM. B Less than ten per cent of the Serv- -Ji Ic men entitled to the niedal in ibis v district have applied for them, Lieu- Q i.nant Laughlln said. Tho requlre- j ments are the same as were In effect 'M when the Victory buttons were dlstrlb-uted dlstrlb-uted They may be obtained by aend- J ing the army discharge to Lieutenant "9 Laughlln at the at my recruiting sta- 3 lion in Salt Lake The me.lal will be M pent and the discharge returned wlth- ,4i in twenty-four hours and the dls- j charge papers will go no farther than W iia.lt Lake, the officer said. It la bc- jm lleved that many former soldiers are ;cl not making application through four their discharge wtll be lost. Extreme 3 precaution is being taken In this re- -j ;rd, th0 officer said Men may ap- :3 pQ in person with their discharge pa- pcrs, it was announced. J PROMPT ACTION. "'M Commenting upon the prompt ac- 3 tion in connection with the receipt of n U.c buttons tn Utah Lieutenant Laugh-,4 Laugh-,4 Iln wild that approved application was :M made on the second of July and the , medals received ten days later. It was . J necessary for the application to travel jH by mail to Philadelphia and return of '.'"S the medals to Salt Lake. 'VjB The medal Is bronze, one and four-tf four-tf nths Inches in diameter and su:- ia pended from the ribbon by n rlnK. the ..JB some as most of our medals.' Jn the jn one side a winged Victory st-iiag" lull length an2 iull o- - me re- l vero side. Inscription, "'The Great War i2 for Civilisation" together with the I M immcs of the allied nations. I jl The ribbon is a double rainbow, having the red in the center and with a white thread on each edgo. H sym-bollses sym-bollses tho dawn of a new era of calm after the storm. All countries participating par-ticipating in the war on the sldo of the allies rcif adopted Identical llb-bona llb-bona through an inter-allicd commission commis-sion that met ;,riR following the jav This commission also de-,-red on uniform specifications for I the medals Lieutenant Laughlln estimates that V500 Victory medals will bo applied for through the army recruiting station, sta-tion, i m..sbbssMsS03S |