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Show NAMED ASSISTANT DISTRICTATTORNEY Shirley Penrose Jones Is Given Appointment Appointment of Shirley Penrose Jones, who has been connected with the city attorney's office for -two years, as assistant district attorney wan announced today by District Attorney At-torney K. A. Rogers. The appointment took effect immediately. The vacancy occurring In the city attorney's office through the resignation resigna-tion of Mr. Jones will not he filled Immediately Im-mediately City Attorney W. 11. Kol-land Kol-land announced. During his service with the city Mr. Jones has cared for workmen's compensation, liquor forfeitures for-feitures and license hearings before the .city commission. The position of asslstsnt district attorney at-torney has long ben one of the most ought after appointive posit'ons In the county and the whole Third Judicial Judi-cial district. All criminal prosecutions in the district court are handled Jointly by the district attorney and his assistant. assist-ant. Numerous applications were received re-ceived by Mr. Rogers, lie for hts cornection with the city attorney's office, Mr. Jones was a first lieutenant with the army service corps, attached to an infantry regiment regi-ment at Camp L'pton, New York. The unit was unique in that it was -om-pos?d entirely of attorm ys enlisted "for field service in J-rance" and was under sailing orders for months, although al-though it never left the I'nlted Htutti. t'fcth had two representatives in the unit, tha other being Joseph E. Kvans of Ogden, who Is now district attorney o the Second Judicial district. i Previous to his enlistment In the army, Mr. Jones had engaged In tha private practice of law in Mult Lake. He was graduated by the - George; Washington ufivrrs!ty and he spent ; four years In Washington, D. C, as , private secretary to Senator Reed ! j iSmoof. j |