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Show T3Ae AMERICAN LEGION. j (Copy for This Pepartinent Supplied by i the American Legion News St-rvice.) HONOR TO MINNESOTA WOMAN Dr. Helen Hughes Hielscher Is Chosen State President of Women's Auxiliary of Legion. Approximately four hundred delegates dele-gates fr-n all parts of Minnesota at-W at-W tended the first state convention - - of the women's , !." :jj auxiliary of the- s I American Legion : 4 s -s in Minneapolis. ' jp- x -"S The meeting f I marked the begin- i " 4 ning of the na- .- ' tlonal organizn-I organizn-I tlon of the auxil- jr ')8 lary, which is ex- f j ' t pected ultimately fc. .v v. ,t ,v, . . -1 to bind together about ten million women, the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of former for-mer service men of the World war. ine delegates at the Minnesota conference con-ference represented about 0,000 tfiem-bers tfiem-bers of the 113 units of the auxiliary In that state. The convention adopted a state constitution con-stitution modeled after the tentative constitution previously used by auxiliary auxil-iary units, and voted to "dedicate themselves to the cardinal principles of the Legion." Officers elected were: Dr. Helen Hielscher, president; Mrs. E. A. Lew-Is, Lew-Is, first vice president, Mrs. Myrtle Getz, second vice president ; Mrs. O. B. De Laurier, historian ; Mrs. George H. Barber, representative on the national na-tional executive committee. Miss Pauline Curnick, representing the organization division of national headquarters, addressed the convention, conven-tion, outlining the plans and aims of the organization. Kansas members of the women's auxiliary will hold their state convention conven-tion January 10 and 11, and other states are expected to take similar action in the near future. |