Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-20 | Page 23 | Bryon P. Spry Directs Drive

Woods, assistant secretary of war, who has cnarge of re-employ mont ior discharged dis-charged soldiers. Mr. Spry's headqua r-ters r-ters are at San .Francisco and he is directly di-rectly under Captain E. C. Wemple, director di-rector of the western district. "On promising to take back the returned re-turned soldiers, sailors -and marines, the employer is presented with a certificate by the war and navy departments stating that the heads of the company have assured as-sured the war and n,avy departments that they will gladly re-employ everybody who formerly worked for them, and loft to serve in the army and navy in the great war." said Mr. Spry yesterday. The citation is signed by the secretnrv of war, the secretary of the navy and Arthur Woods, assistant secretary of war. It is handsomely engraved and engrossed with the name of the firm or individual re-employing service men. November 11, 101 S. Mr. Spry was transferred trans-ferred to the department of finance under un-der General H. M. Lord. While in Salt Lake Mr. Spry will live at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sanders, 33 First avenue. , m P. SPRY ItCTS DIE Employees Urged to Give Back Positions to Returned Re-turned Service Men. i Byron P. Spry, nephew of former Governor Gov-ernor William Spry, who left Fort Douglas Doug-las in 1918 as a corporal for training at Jacksonville, Fla., and who won a commission com-mission as second lieutenant at that training camp, later was promoted to first lieutenant and assigned to the quartermaster-general's department at Washington, Wash-ington, is in, Salt Lake directing a campaign cam-paign to get all large employers In the army of business men to promise the government gov-ernment to re-emply ex-service men formerly for-merly in their employ. Mr. Spry is now working under the department de-partment directed by Colonel Arthur