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Show Cedar Cifcy Will Be Scene off Mass Navy Enlistment Program Pearl Harbor Attack Anniversary Services Sponsored by C of C With "Avenge Pearl Harbor'' as its slogan the Cedar City Navy Recruiting Station Sunday, June 7, will commemorate the six-month anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor by swearing in volunteer vol-unteer Navy recruits at a colorful, public ceremony in Cedar City. Tills program is being sponsored by the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and will be held at the band stand In the park. The Chamber of Commerce Committee Com-mittee in charge of the affair, composed of D. W. Cony, Theron Ashcroft and John S. Christensen, announces that President D. C. Dix will preside, band music will be furnished by the Cedar City Junior Ju-nior high school band, and the presentation pre-sentation of the colors will be made by members of the Cedar City Battery Bat-tery of the State Guard under the direction of Lt. V. A. Cooley. Talks will be given by Mayor H. H. Lunt, President David L. Sargent, Sar-gent, E. K. Bean, Chief Machinists Mate, U. S. N., Recruiter in charge of the Cedar City Recruiting office. The administration of the oath to enlistees will be by a commissioned officer of the Navy from Salt Lake district recruiting office. All men who enlist in the Navy this week will be sworn In at the same time in the various cities throughout the United States. l:i Cedar City the program will begin at 11:45 a. m. and the Oath of Allegiance Al-legiance will be administered at 12:25 p. m., the corresponding U-tah U-tah time to the Japanese treacherous treacher-ous attack on Pearl Harbor December Dec-ember 7th. Tins week the Utah Navy Recruiting Station is golni to enlist as many men In ONB: week as were enlisted during the whole month after Pearl Harbor. This mass swearing In of Navy recruits next Sunday Is Utah's answer to the Axis. These men will be called the "Avengers of Pearl Harbor" and Utah has much to avenge. There were 47 brave enlisted men and officers who were either killed or reported missing as a result of that sneak attack and the U. S. S. Utah was sunk outright. Captain Mervyn S. Bennlon of Utah was a-warded a-warded the Navy cross posthumously posthu-mously for his bravery In refusing to leave the bridge of his ship although al-though mortally wounded. Our goal In Utah will be to enlist en-list as many men in the Navy in one week as were enlisted in Utah the first month after Pearl Harbor. Har-bor. Utah hasnt forgotten its sons who died December 7th and the "Pearl Harbor .Avengers" will prove to the Axis that Utah will provide five men for every one who is lost. |