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Show UTAH STUDENTS AWAIT FINALS IN SPEECH CONTEST Fifteen Utah high school students stu-dents will compete in state finals of the annual American Legion oratorical contest Saturday at 9:30 a. m. at South high school, Charles A. Smith, chairman of the Legion Americanism committee, can," the contestants will be required re-quired to give short, extemoran-eous extemoran-eous talks, Mr. Smith explained. announced this week. The state winner, Mr. Smith said, will compete in the national contest at Charleston, S. C, this spring for the $4000 college scholarship scho-larship offered by Eddie Cantor, radio and screen star. Finalists will be entered by Legion Le-gion posts at Salt Lake City, Og-den,, Og-den,, Brigham City, Fillmore, Price, Myton, Lehi, Granite, St. George, Salt Lake and Box Elder counties. Miss Marjorre Simkins of this city will represent Spring-ville Spring-ville Post No. 2 8. In addition to giving prepared speeches on some aspect of "The Advantages of Being an Ameri- |