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Show Civilian Registration For Home Defense In Utah Pleases Gov. Maw SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. State volunteer registration for civilian home defense exceeded all expectations expec-tations by nearly fifty per cent, Governor Herbert B. Maw, chairman chair-man of the State Council of Defense, De-fense, declared after a preliminary survey or registration returns. Complete returns, however, will not be available for another week or ten days. Cooperation of press and radio in emphasizing to the public the importance of home defense and the imminence of an emergency, made possible the splendid showing, show-ing, he declared. Despite the fact that county defense councils have not all yet been organized, every county made a fine showing in (Continued on page five) Center Wd. Gleaners Meet Tuesday evening the Center Ward Gleaner Girls elected the following officers for the coming winter: President, Dorothy Hirschi; vice president, Nellie Jensen; secretary, Alta Hinton; historian, Carol Sullivan. Sul-livan. After the business meeting the girls were joined by the M Men and both enjoyed a talk given by Alva Snow, who recently returned from the eastern states mission. Civilian Home Defense (Continued from first page) registration. An estimated registration regis-tration of 10,000 persons for home defense was exceeded by possibly 7,000 and in some instances, registrations reg-istrations exceeded the number of cards available. "Defense Week and registration registra-tion day was a voluntary and" splendid demonstration of the loyalty loy-alty of Utahns to their national and state government," he declared. de-clared. "If they continue this spirit of generous service, and other states equal our own patriotism, patri-otism, then the state and nation have nothing to fear from any enemy in the world". |