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Show F.B.I. To Hold District Meet Here Tomorrow In Liberty Hotel 5 Public Meeting To Be Held At 1:30 p. m.; Closed Session Follows A vitally important meeting for law enforcement officials and civic leaders of Washington, Iron and Kane counties will be held tomorrow, to-morrow, Friday, Feb. 27th, in the Liberty hotel, it was announced today by Sheriff Antone B. Prince. Featured as the principal speaker at . the public meeting which opens at 1:30 p.m., will be Pres. Glenn E. Snow of the Dixie college. A motion picture, "Men of the F. B. I.", will also be shown at that session. The conference will be held under the direction of Jay C. Newman, special agent in charge of the F. B. I. field division di-vision covering the states of Utah and Nevada. Closed Session At a closed session for police only, which commences at 3:15 p. m., subjects of particular per-tiance per-tiance to law enforcement agencies will be discussed, including the alien enemy control program and the war-time duties of police officers. of-ficers. F. B. I. Special Agent George L. Carroll of the Salt Lake (Continued on page five) I E F. B. I. District Meet r (Continued from first page) ! City office will assist in the pro- l gram. In announcing this conference, Mr. Newman, who will direct the program, commended the law en- forcement officers in this area 1 for their splendid cooperation with I the F. B. I. He pointed out that because of the cooperation rend-T rend-T ered the F. B. I. in its mobiliz- ation program, it was possible to t apprehend on the opening of this I country's entrance into the pres-f pres-f ent war, more than 1,000 poten-? poten-? tially dangerous alien enemies. I Mr. Newman advised that these f F. B. I. quarterly police confer- ences have been held on a nation- f wide scale since the Federal Bur- 1 eau of Investigation was desig- f nated as the investigating and coordinating agency in National T Defense matters by Presidential X Proclamation in 1939. He advised "T that during the last quarter of ' 1941, 375 of these conferences T were held over the country, at- tended by 17,211 police officers t representing 8,136 law enforce- ment agencies. |