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Show 5 Appeal Made For Clothes For Russia CO; xc!; Anyone Wishing to Give Cloth- a ing to The Russians May Djj :at So By Bringing Articles Ta! l The Armory Next Saturday . tj An appeal for Utahns to share their old clothes with the Russians, Rus-sians, whose valiant fighting has 3 saved so many American soldiers' li lives, will be made throughout i.5 the State from Aug. 7th to 12th, vy Arthur Gaeth, State Chairman : announced this wek. The appeal , is for coats, pants, suits, dresses, I,; shoes, underwear, overcoats, fur 3 coats, and children's garments. y All should be- wearable or con- !?; vertible, even if second-handed. In this community the cam- paign is under the direction of the Commander of the American Legion Post, the President of the American Legion Auxiliary unit, ai and the Chairman of the County Council of Defense. Contributions of wearable clothing may be , made by contacting Joseph Ur- ;f senbach all day Saturday, Aug. 12th at the Armory building, Mt. Pleasant. Clothing picked up locally will J; be shipped to Salt Lake City for 1 sorting, and will be shipped from there to Portland, and thence to Russia. Since Russia is not at war with Japan, the shipments go through to Russia without interference. in-terference. Necessity for the contribution of second-hand clothing is shown, according to Mr. Gaeth, by the fact that when the German hordes overran Russia and engulfed en-gulfed the civilian population, all textile factories, with few exceptions, excep-tions, were destroyed. The few . -remaining were needed to produce pro-duce uniforms for the armies. As the Russian armies, in a brilliant bril-liant recovery, liberated all of its lands, the civilian population was was revealed in rags. Two years without new garments left them in tatters, their reserve stocks were looted by the Germans. The present campaign, giving S first aid in clothing to the Rus- , sians, will probably be the last call in this particular field, for ! by the time these new supplies of used clothing are worn out, Russia will again be producing its own, if machinery is avail-- avail-- ?ble. , There have been 300,000 appeals distributed throughout Utah. Name tags of the donors attached to the packages, will assure that the Russians receiving them will know of the charity of their friends in America. Now is the time to clean out those closets of old clothes which have been of no use to you or your families. |