Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-27 | Page 10 | Determined to Keep Regiment's Colors

DETERMINED TO KEEP REGIMENT'S COLORS SALT LAKE, April 27 That the colors col-ors ol the 862nd infantry shall remain in Utah and shall not be turned over to Montana is tho determination of LleuL Col. Fred Jorgenson, adjutant general for Utah. A letter from the adjutant general of tho United States army 'to Lieutenant Colonel Jorgenson .say : "It is noted that ycu acknowledge receipt of the national and regimental colors of tho 362nd infantry. This office of-fice holds the receipt of tho adjutant I general, state of Montana, for the col-1 ors of the 362nd and 02nd infantry, it j being determined that slate furnished i the majority of men for the organiza-1 lion. Please verify presence of these colors and inform this offfce under what authority Ihey were turned ove,r to you and from whom they were received." re-ceived." Colonel Jorgenson replied that the colois were delivered to him by the coiur sergeant of the 362nd infantry In person, he having brought them from Cl.-.'yonne where the regiments was mustered out and in view of the larger ! number of members of the regiment being Irom Utah, the question having been determined by the officers of tho regiment presumably the delivery was made to him on order of the war department. de-partment. "The fact that the colors are in possession pos-session of the state of Utah," said Col. Jorgenson, "and that they wero" delivered deliv-ered here by an official of the 362nd infantry, is conclusive evidence that the colors belong to Utah. They vill remain here." net