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Show UTAH TO RECEIVE REGENT FLAGS Presentation to Take Place at Tabernacle on October 8. The colors of the 36-nd Infantry will be turned over to the state of Utah by Sergeant Ser-geant Axel Madsen of the regiment at the tabernacle "Wednesday night, October S. The colors were given to Utah because be-cause of the large number of Utahns who fought with the regiment. The 262nd is said to have included the largest number of Utahn3 in battle in any single organization. or-ganization. Soldiers will be admitted free to the memorial exercises at the tabernavle and the presentation service will be part of the program. The doors will be opened to the general public at 8 p. m. Soldiers will be issued tickets at the Hotel Utah headquarters, which will open October 6 at 1 p. m. Two sets of colors were presented to the 362nd infantry at Camp Lewis soon after af-ter the organization of the regiment. One set was given to the state of Montana when the 3(J2nd was demobilized at Fort D. A. Russel, presentation being made by Colonel J. B. Woolnough, commander of the regiment. The other was given to Sergeant Mad-sen Mad-sen for presentment to the state of Utah. The emblem was placed in his hands because of his official connection with the 362nd infantry association. Sergeant Madsen, who was active in forming the organization, was elected a trustee. As )s customary, the colors of the 362nd infantry in-fantry were not used at the front, although al-though taken overseas. Their use was limited to reviews or to indicate the post of command of the regimental commander when not in combat. Sergeant Madsen says that Colonel Woolnough. on handing over the colors, expressed regret that he could not accept ac-cept the invitation of the sergeant to be present when the colors were handed over to the state. Nothing better shows the record of the regiment, in the opinion of the officers of the 362nd infantry association, than the words of Colonel John Parker, the regiment's regi-ment's first commander in action, in a letter to the men. written when he was lying wounded in a hospital: "The colonel is proud of the way the regiment took every objective given to it. No set form of speech or orders can express ex-press his just appreciation. In your first fight you broke the Hindenburg line and rolled through the Argonne forest, and took every objective assigned to you for , that day. In your second attack you I broke the German Stellung Nord on the j celebrated Kxelmhilde lines at Gesnes and you took and held the hill beyond the corps' objective. "In both cases you met and whipped in your first fight the Prussian guards. You lost no prisoners. You sent many crack guardsmen to the rear. "The number of big and fild guns you captured in three days is not accurately known, but it is about equal to the total our country had of these guns when it entered the war. "No regiment of any division or any service at any time has ever done better In its first fight." Mrs. J. TJ. Eldredge. Jr.. of Ogden was in Salt Lake yesterday, conferring with Mrs. John Q. Cannon, chairman of the reception and registration committee of the Utah welcome-home celebration. Mrs. Eldredge represents the Women of American Ameri-can Patriots' organization of Ogden. which will assist in the registration work. Mrs. Cannon will arrange for special organizations organiza-tions to help each day. As Wednesday is expected to be the heaviest day for registration, which will take place on the mezzanine floor of the Hotel Utah, the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Pio-neers, the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Women of American Patriots will assist in the work. Mrs. Bertha Martin and Mrs. Mary Page Westover of the Daughters of the Confederacy Con-federacy have been added to the official reception committee. Mrs. Frank Evans of the reception committee will have charge of the girls of the different counties coun-ties of the state who represent the Red Cross. |