Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-10-19 | Page 1 | Legion Buddies Greet Pershing at Convention

LEGION BUDDIES GREET PERSHING AT CONVENTION A. E. F. Commander Arrives Ar-rives at New Orleans on Fourth Day of Meeting;! Battle Looms in Election ORGANIZATION DYING, SAYS FORBES' AIDE Oklahoma Man Declares Left New Orleans After Af-ter Message From Capital CONVENTION HALL, New Orleans, Oct. 19 (By A. P.) Removal from the post of coordinator of the federal bureau bu-reau of hospitalization of Briosdisi General Charles E. Sawyer, President Harding's personal physician, chargsd with blocking tho American legion hospitalization program, was demanded de-manded by the legion national convention conven-tion her today by a vote of SOI to 375. NEW ORLEANS. La, Oct. It (By A. P.)i-The fourth day of the national convention of the American lesion. In progress here, was marked by ths arrival ar-rival of the commander of the American Ameri-can expeditionary forces. General John J. Prrshlnir, who reached here today from Washington after a day spent In Atlanta, Ga. The general, official dignity laid aside, leaped from the platform of his sleeping car ahead of his staff officers and grasped the hands of the "buddies' who had come to the station to meet him. Tomorrow the legion will select a, successor to Hnnford MacNIder, na-" na-" lionsi commander of the organisation. Lat last night Major Hugh Scott, a medical officer, whose home la In Oklahoma Ok-lahoma City, Okla, and who to now serving as executive officer t Colonel ('. H. Korbe. director of the United rttatea Veterans' bureau, told a representative repre-sentative of the Associated Trees that Colonel Forbes' decision to return to Washington followed a long dtatance telephone conversation with high officials offi-cials In Washington, In colae touch with the president. Dr. Scott also said that. he regarded the legion as a dying organization, and that he believed that the last blow had been administered to It when Prealdent Harding vetoed the measure for adjusted ad-justed compensation last summer. Alvln M. Owsley, head of the legion's commission on Americanism, today appeared ap-peared to be the outstanding candidal, for national commander. Supporters of William K. Ileegan, New York suite commander, and the first candidate to publicly announce that he was running for the office of chief executive of the legion, appeared discouraged by unconfirmed uncon-firmed rumors that the Missouri delegation dele-gation and the predicted Mld-Weet coalition had spilt and that the South, with the possible exception of Alabama, Ala-bama, was lined up In ravor of Owsley. I'otltlcal wiseacres affected to see In this a definite declaration by the legion that they did not desire to dlsi.uas the matter of the Ku Klux Klan. Friends of the Texas man point to his record during the wsr, and declare their confidence that he will be able to do so again. The greater part of yesterday afternoon after-noon waa devoted to Missouri's snnual campaign.