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Show VETERANS DEMAND FORBES BE TRIED fORMER DIRCCTOH IS niTTERLV SCORCHED UY DELEGATES AT CONVENTION National Commandrr McFarland De llvors Annual Address, Which Is Received With Great Approval Salt Luke City. -A resolution de liuindiim' that Colonel Charles K l-'oibos, former director of the Unl ted Stales veterans bureau, who it Under two Kiund jury indict iikiiiLh fo: KwindliiiHf several hundred thousand dollars from the bureau, be brought to speedy trial, was passed unani inously by the fourth annual convrn tion of the Disabled American War Veterans, Wednesday at the Auditor luni. Thu subject of Colonel l-'orbe. Vas brought up by National coin Inander McFarland while delivering his it-port. McFarland said that he believed Forbes should he prosecuted kt once and that his trial should not be delayed until ufter the November lections. "I believe this convention should go on record as favoring a speedy trial ml full punishment for Forbes," declared de-clared McFarland, and this was met with a vociferous donionst nrt ion ol pproval by the convention. "He n; Indicted by two rind juries, and it he is KUilty we should demand the full penalty of the law," he said Pride in the achievements of hi rk'anization and modesty as to ho own part in those acdiiiplishment-inaiked acdiiiplishment-inaiked tlie annual report of Nation 1 Commander James A. McFarland delivered before Wodnct-!ay morning's morn-ing's session of the fourth annua! Convention, Ilisablcd American Veterans Vet-erans of the World' War, in the Kich rds street auditorium. Cominaudei HcFarlaml held that the suere-s ol the Iis-.ihlcd Vetetan body is due to the untirihK' efforts of every niembe of the orvTaiih-at ion. Particular ere. I h he j-avp ti the past national com manders and to th...--e members ot his own official family upon whom the burden of administration devolv d during the past year. Pleading with the veterans to keep their organization intact, he touched pen its prowth and its present landing in the nation. Praise for Britradier General Frank T. Mines-, director of the veterans' bureau, who ddressed the Tuesday session, and for his work in reorganizing the bureau, bu-reau, was iven. |