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Show HUNDREDS TOIL TO RAISE UTAH JAPAflESEFUIIO Drive May Bo Extended in Order to Reach $28,-000 $28,-000 Quota; Boy .Scouts Aid Flower Sale ' Thera muat ba ito tat up In local affort If Utah la to maat tha ohll-gail ohll-gail or upon har t provld $2f.K to tha national fui)d for Japanaaa relief now bain ralaed throuirh tha effort of tha Amarican RM Croat. R. N. Toun. chalaman of tha Salt Laike county commit taa on relief fund, emphasised today. aj ' - ' - - - - asaaiaaVeaHa.aaaaaBiaB . WJrBtWW&BBmr" 'rTavVSaT xU"" I gftlSXIM Sj campaifrn, Mr. Tonne aald: Thoae wa hava been able to reach In the! emergency have tiven . generously j to the eauae, hut there are thou-aande thou-aande of Individuals willing to jrlve but whom we have had no oppor- tunlty to aollclt.. Thaa should make thalr contrthutlona through the churches or mall them tn direct I to John Cutler, prealdent of the Deaeret National bank and treasurer treas-urer of the state committee." No estimate of Utah's response to the appeal for relief of those rendered destitute In tha earthquake earth-quake which ahook northern Japan two weeks ago will be available for aeveraj days, Mlas Lou Hume, secretary of tha state committee, of which Bishop Charleo W. Nib-ley Nib-ley ,1s chairman. Indicated today. Some sections of the state have filled their quota, but many others are way under the firurea set, and. although tha campaign was ached-uled ached-uled to close tonight, the effort may have to be continued Into next ; week. In any event, contrlhutlona tothe fund may still bo made and will be acceptable up to an Indefinite Indefi-nite date. This becauae the condition condi-tion In Japan baa become more appalling than when the first appeal ap-peal for help went out. STATES OOUBLI QUOTAS. Under theee circumstances. Miss Hume points out practically all other western atatea have exceeded their quotaa, some of them nearly doubling the amount called for. Today the county workers mre selling flowers along Main street. Every cent received from these aales goes directly Into the relief fund. Promptly at ! o'clock thta morning the volunteer flower glrla took their at and a on the street and proceeded to sell blooms to every pedestrlsn encountered. - With Abe aale still In progress. Indications were that the thousands of flowers donated by local florists and amateur ama-teur grower would not supply the demand. More than twenty-five boy scouts. Including two diminutive diminu-tive Japaneaa boys, assisted the flower sellers. ' MURRAY CONTRISUTIS. Chairman Toung today received t2bo from C. E. Gauftn of Murray, who reported that additional sums from that place ware to be expected. ex-pected. Relief fund depositories In the south end of the county hava been named aa folio we: Firat National Na-tional bank. Worklngmen'a tore, city recorder, all of Murray; Hy-rum Hy-rum Bennlon Jr.. Teylorevtlle; Mrs. William Neff. Hoi II day; Archie Hen n ion. Granger; Charles Perry. Brlnton; Thomaa Dlmond. Bennlon; Ben-nlon; Jesaia Wheeler. Houtfc Cottonwood; Cot-tonwood; A. M. Cornwall. Mill Creek ; J. A. Cornwall, Winder; H. D. Nellaon. Hunter, and Mrs. Okahlra, Murray. Among the heavy contributors today, tha Utah-Idaho Sugar company com-pany tendered a cheek for KM sa its portion of tha fund. Mora than $1100 waa received Friday In tha canvaaa of office buddings and approximately ap-proximately II W0 was sent In to the Deeeret National bank without oil citation. From Provo, word was received that tha Rika there are eelllng flowers on the at reel a today In an attempt to raise the full Utah county quota. |