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Show Local Legionnaires To Attend Birthday Party Of Utah Group A number of the members of the Cedar Post of the American Legion are expected to attend the annual reunion and 22nd birthday stag; party of the Utah American Legion to be held in Salt Lake City on Friday, March 14th. Events of the reunion will be held throughout the entire day at the Newhouse hotel. Climaxing the day-long fete will be an address by a prominent national na-tional figure at the birthday banquet. ban-quet. In previous years the state reunion committee has obtained a national commander and national chaplain as speakers. The banquet wil be followed by an immense floor show and patriotic spectacle. Throughout the day, reunion headquarters will be held open for meetings of various department committees, for reunions of veterans veter-ans of various outfits and various branches of service. In line with recent registration of all World War veterans to prepare pre-pare for organization of home defense, de-fense, and in line with the recent announcement of President Roosevelt Roose-velt outlining general plans for home defense, the service of the War veterans, too old for active service, and too young to be left out of the picture, national and home defense will be the theme of all meetings. |