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Show Navy Plans "Vengence" Sign-Up Week With "Avenge Pearl Harbor" as its slogan the Salt Lake Navy Recruiting Re-cruiting district Sunday, June 7, will commemorate the six-month anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor by swearing in Navy recruits at colorful, public ceremonies cere-monies in Salt Lake City, Provo. Ogden, Logan and Cedar city. Prominent Civic foficials in the cities will participate and in Salt Lake City Gov. Herbert B. Maw will have part in the impressive ceremony which will probably be held on the capitol steps. All men who enlist in the Navy this week will be sworn in at the same time in the various cities 12:55 p.m., the corresponding Utah time to the Japanese treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. '. "This mass, swearing in of Navy I recruits nM, ounday is Tj tan's answer an-swer to the Axis", Lieutenant R. , W. Schlecht, officer in charge of j the Salt Lake Navy Recruiting District office, said. "These men ; will be called the 'Avengers of 1 Pearl Harbor' and Utah has much to avenge. There were 47 brave ; enlisted men and officers who w'ere : either killed or reported missing as the result of that sneak attack ' and the U. S. S. Utah was sunk ' outright. Capt. Mervyn S. Bennion of Utah was awarded the Navy cross posthumously for his brav;ry, in refusing to leave the bridge of ! his ship although mortally wound- 1 ed. ; "Our goal in Utah will be to en- ' list as many men in the Navy in one week as were enlisted in Utah ; the first month after Peart Har- j bor. Utah hasn't forgotten its sons who died Dec. 7 and the 'Pearl Harbor Avengers' will prove to the S Axis that Utah will provide five J men for every one who is lost.", ! |