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Show Chain Store Staff Pledges Aid in Victory Drive Logan's chain store employees served Tap some bad news for Hitler, Hit-ler, Hirohito and Company this week when they added their names to a pledge, already signed by hundreds hun-dreds of men and women behind the counters of chain stores from St. George to Logan, assuring Uncle Un-cle Sam of their all-out cooperation coopera-tion in the war time emergency. The pledge eventually will carry the signatures of more than 2,500 Utah chain store workers and will be sent to Donald M. Nelson, America's Am-erica's war production chief, as an evidence of the patio tic spiri tol the people who are supplying civilian needs on the home front, according to L. B. Wallace, chairman chair-man of the Logan chain store com- munity managers' committee. I The pledge was originaetd recently re-cently in Salt Lake City by Harry L. Hoagland, J. C. Penney Company Com-pany executive and .president of the Utah Chain Stores Association, following an appeal by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenth.au for an intensification of retailers' efforts ef-forts in the sale of war savings stamps and bonds. "No more patriotic group can be found anywhere than the loyal Utah citizens employed in the chain stores of the state," Mr. Hoagland said, "As soldiers in the army of supply, all of them are doing their utmost to expedite the Victory drive and, at the same time, uphold the high living standards stand-ards of Utah consumers." |