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Show CROWDER PRAISES UTAH'S FINE RECORD State First to Complete Certain Lines of Draft Work. Official recognition that Utah was the first state to complete the work in connection con-nection with the classification and the physical examinations of registrants of September, 191S, between the ages of 19 and 36 inclusive, was received yesterday yester-day by Captain- F. V. Fttz Gerald, state draft executive. "Congratulations. Utah," was the human interest note which General Crowder added to tfie telegram. Utah had completed the work when there were only twenty-one states that had even got started in the race, a-s revealed re-vealed by the progress charts. Delaware, with only five local boards, had J,ust completed com-pleted 30 per cent of the classification work in those five: and the District of Columbia, which has twenty-three boards, but all fn close proximity, was not entered en-tered oi. the chart. Utah's nearest competitor was Iowa, which hart passed four out of the seven columns, but still had virtually to begin physical examination work In at least some boards of the state. Uocal draft boards of Salt Lake City are calling for volunteer assistance in getting get-ting out the questionnaires for registrants of September, 191S, who have not yet received re-ceived their copies. Several volunteers, school teachers, and high school pupils, were on hand yesterday, and the work of mailing out the first 10 per cent of the questionnaires was accomplished. A like number are to be placed in the mails daily until the list is completed. Lionel C. Ainsworth. private in the selective se-lective service bureau detachment of the United States army assigned to Utah, has been transferred from the state head-quarteis head-quarteis at the capitol to the -Ogden board. James H. Collins and Donald R. Fellows, privates in the same detachment, detach-ment, have been ordered to report to the state headquarters for duty, after being on detached service. |