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Show T2i ' General Richard ty. y (llh Announces MeetingU for June 4-5 1 s ' 1 r j Counties to Have fl, Votes for Every Hu Men in Service, General Richard W. you, , iflfl .run- state chairman ami l the American letfou in Vial,' j'l , issued a call for 1110 firal' '"I JU I caucus, to he held i S;,u h'Y I4 ;uul 5- The slssi"'iS, UomUnl ! announces, wilt be in , 11 j beRii.ninK at o 'clonk 1l I K noon of June -1. ' i livery Utaiin who served j ,lf !'JU' tary or naval establish,,,,,,,,, 0 United States between April 0 'i HTl 'and November 11, 1918, j, dil L - attend and have a vnir-r, .,1 cecdings of this caucus, ,,(,t JH , the decision of the state n,J committee. 1 T The call ibsucd by General J0 j acting as chairman of t he slate., I live committee, follows: "On March 15 of (l,is ,rar a J U of nearly 1000 officers ami '. represented all the, combat ,jvjiiw ali sections of the y. o. s. .' C vened in Paris under tlic Jinr ) tO tho temporary committee of ih,."u ican legion which had been foniiLdv i Franco. Atu' National Caucus Held. '.;;rj; "On May 8, il and lu a awl , more than 1500 officers and iikh!i$ 0 resell Hu.t; each slate in i lie V Status, was convened iu Si, Lmi, thero performed the same, fundij the Paris caucus for the men who1 Jpell retained in and had returned America. , r "As a result of this caucus i i Louis a plan of organization ,VBJ cd which provides for t he csijj.ii y ment of stato organizations, aiil tains in of fico the temporary slal J. ficers and executive committee, 3 virtuo of the authority thus in? this call is issued. "All persons who were in tlh- sjvqj tary or naval service of tin: I': '" -States during tho period betwrcn , ti, 1917, and November 11, lSli, ;JltM dates inclusive, and all u;ms -adtli served in the military or ua.val j of any of the Kovernmcuts a!c4'' with the "United States durin? 11 1 world war, provided that they wi-ii i! pesi izens at the time of tlicir cnlisti exccpL those persons separated fiun-io service under terms amounting to m( honorable discharge, and except :K-' those persons who refused to i smt their military duties on the groii.,.tS, conscientious or political objectisi, "' urged to attend the state caucus -'m held in Salt Lake June 4 and 5i( :i ,0 tabernacle, beginning at &30 on; afternoon of the 4th. Plan Vote by Counties. "It is suggested by Ike waj t. ' committee, in order to provide fort " rescntation for every couaty in '-is ' state, that voting be by countits ; that each county shall have three . (, ' for every one hundred men ml tered the service from that i - Every man eligible ior iui-uaj(aj .... the American legion shall tores' : '' in the caucus. . ; ',!;- "The duties of the caucus mil . -:,.s hear the action taken by tlic St. I ... ... caucus and determine on' course! ii under; to' appoint temporary strrle , cers and an executive committee, - until the state convention of lie ' lean legion, which will be held in ber, ami which said comnu tec u have authority to incorporate .M Jj I ican legion in the state ot l - Issue charters to posts having f. i ; more applicants; to provu e tor a, - vemtion to be held in Oc o ber all officers and enlisted men ( -u Vo 'membership in the lc ,:i: ticipate in the. eiecti cm o t Kjn ,Ul tives to a national come it n l.. , convened on Novembe r o ,? apolis: to hear nJ.'lcc" I,l presented by the J'"1 ment commission; to p important questions W"Wh1f canism; and to WJtti duties as may properly ,v: "By order of the csccutne en .... te 1"UCHAT!TJ AV. YOUNG, "Brigadier Genera. "Temporary State uai Official, T.vT.rtJT0N. ' BALDWIN ROBERT ua, .. Tempor;irySecrota2 j s: |
