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Show clothing. Therefore, we of the United States must open our closets clo-sets as well as our hearts and provide the clothing that is necessary neces-sary until their -factories can manufacture man-ufacture enough for civilians as well as soldiers. Under the campaign plan each of the three sponsoring groups is naming chairmen in each Utah community. The three local chairmen chair-men will name local committees to handle the campaign - in that community. All clothing collected will be shipped at the expense of the state committee to a central warehouse in Salt Lake City for reshipment. The drive to "Share Your Clothes With The Russians" according to Mr. Gaeth, is not a rag salvage campaign. All clothes donated should be usable garments, cloth or shoes, either in good secondhand second-hand condition or readily convertible conver-tible into wearable, garments. RUSSIAN RELIF.F DRIVE PLANNED Aides Named For Clothing Campaign , To obtain clothes for Russian civilians, left destitute by German Plunder, and whose needs are mounting daily . as the Russian armies liberate more and more cities and many thousand of civilians ci-vilians once held under bondage by the German armies, the Russian Rus-sian Relief society will organize a week-long , statewide drive for secondhand clothes and shoes, Arthur Ar-thur Gaeth, State Chairman, announced an-nounced Saturday. - The drive will 'be held in Utah August 7 to 12, inclusive, under the sponsorship of the Utah Council Coun-cil of Defense, the American Legion Le-gion and the American Legion Auxiliary. At an organization meeting held Sunday Dr. E. A. Jacobsen, dean ' of the" Utah State Agricultural college school of education, was named Cache committee chairman. Members of his committee art Byron Snow, Nibley, District American Am-erican Legion commander; Mrs. L. K. Baugh, Logan, representing the . Legion Auxiliary; Ray Nelson, Lo gan newspaper men; and J. W. Kirkbride, county office of civilian defense coordinator. ., Each community in the county will set up a committee of three to conduct tlie drive and designate desig-nate central collection depots. A goal of five pounds of used clothing and two pairs of unbroken un-broken shoes for each family in the state, has been set, according to Mr. Gaeth. The contributions will be gathered at central loca-t loca-t tions, will be stored, packed and shipped to Portland, Oregon, where it will be forwarded to Russia for civilian aid. "Most of the textile factories of Russia were demolished in the first onrush of the Germans," according ac-cording to Mr. Gaeth. "The few that remained turned out uni-. forms and clothing for the sol-1 diers. As the Russian Armies push back the Germans and find the land and the homes looted, hun- j dreds of thousands of Russian j civilians must go on relief for i |