The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1923-08-24

First DIST ri t-ReV. Il. u.
Clemans, Owatonna; F. p. Meary,
Austin; F. A. Franz, Albert Lea.
Second District-Eli Lund, Win
dom; F. D. Zingheim, Blue Earth;
A.. M. Kircher, Mankato.
Third District-Martin D. Heffer-
man, Cannon Falls; Arthur Lee,
Mortified.
Fourth District-Gerhard Bundle,
st. Paul; George Cady, St. Paul.
Fifth District-Mayor George E.
Leach, Minneapolis; Edwin Lindell,
Minneapolis.
Sixth District-Stephen Simonet,
Little Falls; Fred Miller, Kimball.
Seventh District-E. E. Howard,
Wheaton; J. C. MCGOWAN, Benson;
E. M. Pike, Ortonville.
Eighth District-Jalmer Johnson,
Virginia; ]. H. McGough, Cloquet;
P. o. Stone, Aurora.
Ninth District-A. G. Russness,
Moorhead; N. H. Hagen, Roseau.
Tenth District-Harry G. Settler,
Osseo; Karl Victor, Lindstrom.
In case of inability of any ma
tional convention delegate to act as
official voter at San Francisco, the
following alternate delegates will
vote instead;
At Large-Allen Moore, Fair
mont; E. c. Nicholson, Minneapolis;
Stafford King, St. Paul.
First District. w. Scott, James
vile; j. L. Wheaton, Albert Lea; A.
w. Mcclure, Waseca.
Second District-Richard Mueller,
Springfield; w. T. Payne, Lakefield;
John Roberts, Worthington.
Fourth District-Dr. A. A. Van
Dyke, st. Paul; Eugene O'Neill, ST..
Paul
Fifth Distrirt-S. B. Swenson,
Minneapolis; Nicholas Phillips, Min
neapolis.
Sixth District-C. C. Davis. Brain
erd; George Gustafson, Bemjdji.
Seventh District-E. L. Boline,
Alexandria; DIR. w. P. Robertson,
Litchfield; C.. l.. De Rue, Marshall.
Eighth District-A. B. kapplin,
Duluth; ]. T. Nolan, Gilbert; l. R.
Sher, Hibbing.
Ninth District. E. Zumwinkle,
Pelican Rapids; E. G. Larson, Pend
| mum.
Tenth District-George Borg, Co
kato; Carl w. Gustafson, Chisago
City.
Resolutions Adopted.
Resolved-That we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota express our sim
cere feeling of loss at the death of
President Harding and join with all
citizens of a Borrowing nation in
mourning the death of kindly man,
a good citizen, an able leader and a
good statesman; and extend to Mrs.
Harding our sincere sympathy in her
bereavement and express our APP
probation of her tender and helpful
service to our disabled comrades.
Our loss is the greater because we
realize that there is removed from
US her helping hand.
| Resolved THAT we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota extend to the
Grand Army of the Republic, the
Spanish War Veterans, the Veter-
ans of Foreign Wars, the Great War
| Veterans of Canada, the Disabled
! American Veterans, and The aAmeri-
can Legion Auxiliary our sincere ap-
probation of the messages delivered
by these organizations to our Fifth
Annual Department Convention; and
reaffirm our pledge of hearty co,
operation in all matters in which we
are mutually interested.
Resolved THAT we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota express our
thanks for the splendid favors ex-
tended in various ways by the Shat
tuck Military Academy, the School
for the Deaf, the City of Faribault,
the Faribault American Legion Post,
and in particular to Mayor Thomas
Quinn and Ray Moonan, chairman
of the Convention Arrangements
| Committee, and his assistants.
Resolved we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota express our thor
ough confidence in and sincere APP
| probation of the work of our ma
| tional department officers during the
past year.
Resolved That we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota appreciate the
assistance rendered the American
Legion in all its work by La Societe
des Forty Hommes ct Eight Chew
aux during the past year; and that
we endorse the orphans program of
| La lSociete as proposed and initiated
| by the New Orleans Promenade of
The Forty and Eight.
Resolved:-That we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota again urge the
adoption of the federal adjusted
compensation bill as adopted by the
American Legion assembled in Ma
| tional Convention; and direct that
| this resolution be Immediately COM
municated by our Department Adj
jutant to all agencies concerned.
Resolved That we, the Legion
aires of Minnesota heartily endorse
| the message and actions of our De-
| partment Commander with reference
| to those Veterans Bureau employees
| who, as Legionaires, have appeared
in district and state conventions of
the American Legion with the in
sidious purpose of destroying and
discrediting the work of the Mime
sofa Department of The American
Legion in connection with efforts to
secure justice for service men and
women.
Resolved That we, the Legion
| aires of Minnesota most emphatic
ally condemn the disgracefuI action
taken recently by the Minneapolis
City Council which extended an
official welcome to one Bentall upon
his return from the federal prison
where he served a sentence for
sedition and for obstructing enlist
ment in the armed forces of the
| United States in the world war
and that we hold equally responsible
the members of the Minneapolis
City Council present who voted for
the motion, and those who by their
absence made such action possible.
Resolved That we, the Legion