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Show Filipinos Stage Last Minute Marriage Rush Advised they have only this week left before Utah clamps down on the marriage permits for their races, the county clerk's office witnessed a vertiable deluge of Californians Monday forenoon, seeking May Day marriage. Many have wired, telephoned, and written from the coast cities to learn what time is left them and Miss Alice Pendleton, clerk, rather anticipates a busy week in this branch of her office work. Couples were waiting on the doorstep door-step before office opening hours Monday morning. There are some who feel the state has been short sighted in writing this prohibition into their marriage laws. They claim these people are still going to marry, and honorable marriage is a good custom. Now, Arizona, with her law amended, will draw these 1 several hundred couples into her counties. Others who have seen the effects of these marriages, especially where the children are ' concerned, feel that the state of Utah did a wise thing in writing ' this law into its statutes. |