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Show UTAHNS DEFEND PAROLESYSTEM SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 6 (U.R) Utah officials toady defended defend-ed the state's recently revised parole system against an attack on state paroles by J. Edgar Hoover, federal bureau of investigation in-vestigation chief. Gov. Henry Blood and attorney general Joseph Chez, in answer to charges made in Washington by che G-man director that states were releasing dangerous criminals crim-inals through parole, declared that Utah's system was more effective ef-fective than those of a majority of other states. Eighty-two per cent of Utah parolees reform after their release re-lease from prison, the governor I said. This figure is higher than that of any other state, he believed. be-lieved. Chez declared that the system could be improved by addition of three parole officers to the present over-worked staff. Any fundamental change in procedure would require an amendment to the state constitution, consti-tution, Chez said. |