The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-08-13
ROOSEVELT MEMO
RIAL ORGANIZATION
COMPLETED IN STATE
Colonel Lewis Y. johnson, of Louis
VILE, Is Named to Head Great
Memorial Movement In
This State.

ment was maze To-Day ny SoiohSi wa
liam Boyce Thompson, of New YORK
City, president of the Roosevelt Me-
mortal Association, that the organiza-
ton to collect the fund of 5,0oO,ooo
during the week of October 1927 has
been completed in most of the states.
The following men will act as state
chairmen and will have direction OF
the campaign in their states;
Arizona, former Governor Thomas
r Campbell Phoenix; Arkansas, wal
lace Townsend, Little Rock; Califor-
MIA. Governor William d. Stephens
Sacramento; Colorado, Samuel D.
Nicholson, Denver; Connecticut for
mer President William Howard Tatt'
New Haven; Delaware, former cover
nor Charles R. Miller, Wilmington
District of Columbia, Frank J. Hogan
Washington; Florida, s. c. DELL Ala
china: Idaho, Will H. Gibson, Noun
tain Home; Illinois, Governor Frank
O. Lowden, Springfield; Indiana VIII
liam C. Robbs, Indianapolis; Iowa.
Charles H. McNider, Mason City; Kan
sas Goernor Henry PJ. Allen, Topeka;
Kentucky, Lewis Y. Johnson LOUIS
willie. Maine, A. ]. Sweet, Auburn
MARYLAND, Judge John c. Rose, Balti-
more. Minnesota, Irving A. Casweli'
Anoka. Missouri, Arthur M. HYDE
Trenton. Montana, Thomas A. Mar
low. Helena; Nebraska, R. B. Howell
Omaha; Nevada, Samuel d. fia'.'
Reno: New Hampshire, Major FRANK
" Knox. Manchester; New Mexico
Colonel R. E. Twitchell, Santa re;
North Carolina, Judge Jeter c. Pritch-
ard, Asheville; North Carolina syi-
vanus M. Ferris, Dickinson; Ohio Ar
tbur L. Garford, Elyria; Oklahoma
James J. McGraw, Ponca City; ore-
eon, DR.. Henry Waldo Coe, Portland ;
Rhode Island Harry P. Cross, ProVi-
dence. South Carolina, T. II. wanna
maker, Columbia; South Dakota Gov
ernor Peter Norbeck, Pierre; Tennes-
see. Luke E. Wright, Memphis, former
Governor of the Philippines; Texas
Hon. T. M. Mccormick, Dallas; Utah
Colonel c. E. Loose, Provo; Vermont
Earle s. Kinsley, Rutland; Virginia
Percy S. Stevenson, Norfolk; WASH
ington, William H. Cowles, Spokane
West virginia, Grant P. Hall, Charles
ton: Wisconsin, Augustus II. Vogei
Milwaukee; Wyoming, Governor Rob-
ert d. Carey, Cheyenne. George "
Perkins is chairman for New forF
City.
Regional conferences, at which the
state chairmen and the state commit
tees from groups of states will discuss
the plans for the Roosevelt campaign
yi,, he held in ten cities during the
next few weeks. Tbs first OF thess
conferences, at which campaigner'
from seven of the central states VII
no nresent will be held in the Black
stone Hotel Chicago, Thursday Au
enst Ia. and will be addressed by Col
onel Thompson and Ma1or-Genera
Leonard Wood. The other cities II
which the conferences will be held ant
the dates are as follows: ST. Paul
August Is; Salt Lake City, August 10
Portland, Oregon, August Is; Dallas
August 10; Kansas City, August ~
San Francisco, August 20; Atlanta
August 81; New York, September 3
Boston, September 4.
The plans of the Roosevelt Memoria
Association include a magnificen
monument at Washington and the es
Enlistment of a public park at Oyste
Bay, in which may be included event
ually the Roosevelt home at Sagamor