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Show CAMPAIGN UNDERWAY' TO SPONSOR TRAINING WEEK Eighteen governors have acted thus far on the suggestion of National Na-tional Commander James F. O'Neil of The American Legion, that they proclaim January 5 to 12, 1948, as Universal Military Training Week to be devoted to a public study of this security program. Nine other governors have advised ad-vised Commander O'Neil that they would issue such proclamations but copies of these have not yet reacned national American Legion headquarters here. The 18 states in which UMT Week already has been proclaimed are Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mary-land, Minnesota, Misissippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Okla-homa, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont Ver-mont and West Virginia. The governors of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and Virginia have informed Commander O'Neil they are in favor of observing UMT Week and would cooperate. However, in these four states special spe-cial proclamations are banned by long-standing practice. The 16,701 posts of The American Ameri-can Legion and the 11,746 units of its Auxiliary, have been asked to hold special UMT meetings during the January 5 to 12 period. Similar Simi-lar requests have gone to the local units everywhere of 67 other national na-tional organizations, members of the National Security Committee, which are supporting The American Ameri-can Legion in its campaign for en-ictment en-ictment of UMT. |