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Show iiiTi jo " FILE REGISTRATION Scores Turned Away; Supplementary Sup-plementary Tabulation May Be Necessary. OFFICIALS ARE ELATED Supply of Cards Exhausted at an Early Hour in Afternoon. Women of Sail Lake responded to the rail of the National Council of Defense in such imexKeted numbers yesterday that the registration eanls were exhausted ex-hausted and sc ores were turned away from registration p'nees without, having boon able to offer their services to the government for war work. Plans for a supplemental registration in the near future will be formulated by the Salt Lake commit tees. This will be one of the most, important of the matters to be decided at the moot ins to he called for a canvass of the registration to be held some time this week. While the exact number of women "registering .lurimr yesterday could not be obtained last ni.iht and the data en ; the cards prohablv will not be tabu-1 lated and made public until after the committee uiec.r.u.g. njirox niately 5UW Salt Lake women signified their willingness will-ingness to aid in war work. Five thousand thou-sand cards had been distributed by the committee among the various registration registra-tion places and practically all of these were used. Scores Turned Away. Boring the early afternoon the supplies sup-plies of cards became exhausted in the downtown districts and calls for aid were telephoned Miss Sarah Kddington. j citv chairman of registration, by the registrars. The outlying districts of the. citv were canvassed and as many cards as could be spared from these registration registra-tion places were distributed where there was the greatest need. Despite the efforts ef-forts of Miss Eddington and her assist- i aids, however, scores of women were turned awav because of the lack of cards. " I Members of the committee believed that oOOH cards would be a sufficient number for the city anil .2,700 for the entire state. These were ordered- printed, print-ed, and members of the commit tee were very much surprised to learn that they were entirely inadequate. Reports from out of town points reaching Airs. R. 1'-. L. Collier, vice chairman of the council of defense and state chairman of registration, regis-tration, indicated that the supply hail been exhausted during the afternoon at a number of points, and that the response re-sponse of the women over Utah was as general as in Salt Lake. Supplementary Registration. " It seems that we must have another registration in Salt Lake if not over the state." Mrs. Collier said last night. "I cannot announce this officially and speak onlv for myself until after the meeting is called,' but there are hundreds hun-dreds of women anxious to offer their services who were not permitted to do so yesterday on account of the scarcity of cards. The response to the call of the government was a noble one.1' " Wo are very much elated at the results re-sults of the registration,"' said Mrs. 11. (). Leatherwooil, city chairman of the South league unit of the women's committee. com-mittee. "The response was more universal uni-versal than we had deemed possible, and the central registration places were out of cards during the latter part of the afternoon.7' "Such a ready response was not anticipated, an-ticipated, and we are deeply gratified,'' Mrs. W. X. Williams, state chairman of the Women's Council of Defense, said. "The registration will be eaivyassed as soon as instructions from Washington are received." Mrs. Williams and Miss Kddington desire to meet with the members of the regular committee tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at the Hotel Utah for the purpose of considering a supplementary registration. |