The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-10-22
|fALLON'S War VETERANS
ATTENDED RENO CONVENTION
State Branch, American Legion.
Perfected. Fifteen Posts Repre-
sented AT Convention

Seventy-six delegates from vari-
Gus American Legion Posts, through
out the state gathered in Reno last
Saturday to attend the American
Legion Convention. Fallon was rep
resented by the following delegates. .
p. F. Hursh, f. H 1iursh, Ira l..
Kent, G. F. Engle and J. B. Laveaga.
Mayor Stewart Of Reno opened
the meeting with an address of well
come to the visiting delegates.
Col. Serugham, State Commander,
American Legion. conducted the
meeting and a report Of the commit
tee appointed to draw up eonstitu-
tion end bylaws vas called for.
Harvey M. Payne. acting state seere-
tary Of the American Legion. and
chairman of the above committee
submitted the proposed constitution
and bylaws which were accepted.
The greater part Of the business
was prepared by committees who lat
er in the day submitted their re-
ports TO tie convention. The follow
ing committees were selected:
Membership-W J pike of Tono-
pah; Ira Kent of Fallon; s. Johns of
Yerington William Settlemeyer of
Elko; Herbert squires of Las Vegas
Resolutions. s. Bennett Of
Ely; Harlin Howard of Reno; Leslie
Blake of Carson; Roy Haines Of
Lovelock.
Nominations-R A Allen, james
McManus, J. Andrews of Lovelock;
w. H. Curtin of Goldfield; ]. J. Nc
Carthy of Carson.
Legislation George springmey-
er; J. B. Laveaga of Fallon; Maur-
ice Sullivan of Carson; ". E Lick
ing of Battle Mountain and W
Burke of McGill s
Finance. S. Sinai Of Reno; G.
r. Engle of Fallon p Harris of
Gardneryille: L. S. Young OF Love-
lock; r. A. Bowdle of Ely.
Place of Conventional X. Smith
of Lovelock; Chester Patterson of
Reno; Morley Griswold of Elko;
George Robinson of Ely.
LovelociS Chosen
Loyeloek was unanimously chosen
as the place for the next convention,
executive committee. sF#
The proposition of a cash bonus
for former service men was over
whelmingly defeated.
Unusual interest eentered in the
report of the committee on resolu-
tons
The temporary organization was
made permanent with the election Of
the new board of state officers, to-
wit:
John G. sorugham. Reno. state
chairman 49,
J. S. Bennett. Ely. first vice chair
man.
H. NJ. Paine. Carson City. second
vice chairman.
Harry scheeline. Reno, state treas
urer. aH4
John Sinai, Reno, state historian.
State Executive committee-Wil-
liam Settlemeyer. Elko; ". II. Cur
tin, Goldfield, and G E. Levitt, Yer
ington
The delegates to the national con-
vention to se held in Minneapolis
November 10. Il and Il are: John
G. Scrugham. Reno; W J. Pike.
Tonopah; Roy c. Haynes. Lovelock; ;
Morley Griswold. Elko. and j. S.
Bennett. Ely. .5sE
The alternates to the national con-
vention will be chosen by the five
voting delegates elected.
Members of the national commit
tee are: e. L. Malsbury, Reno. and
S. S. Arentz, Yerington.
After a lengthy fight on the floor
Of the state convention of the Amer
ican Legion, which was held in Reno
recently. ii was decided to place the
Nevada chapter on record as against
any form of bonus pay from the ma
tional government for service men
and TO exclude from membership IN
the American Legion all men who
served in the American or allied
armies and who were not citizens of
the United States after November
IL, 1918. 1t was also voted to rec
ommend to the state government
legislation suppressing |. w. W.ism,
Bolsheyism and other forms of an
archy.
The bonus pay for soldiers pro-
voked hot debate among the dele
gates and the discussion was mar
Towed down as to whether the ser
vice men, when congress takes the
matter of a reward for its ex-soldiers
up, would prefer bonus of $50 or
an eighty-aere tract of land free.
"The eighty-aere tract of land
means that the western states. which