ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS MUST BE RAISED TO SEND H.S. BAND Urgent Appeal for Rest of Fund Made By Boosters STORY OF CONTEST Entire Nation Will Be Watching Outcome at Fostoria Ogden High school's crack R. O. T. C. band, which will compete in the first national school hand contest at Fostoria, Ohio, next month, will play over KYW, the radio station of th- Chicago Evening American, at Chicago, the evening of June 1. This information was re¬ceived today from William J. j Clark, director of the radio | department lor the Chicago newspaper, Onlv about $1000 is needed to in¬sure Ogden High school's crack R. O. T. C. band's going to Fostoria, Ohio, to represent Ogden and Utah in the first national high school band contest. Business men and organizations that have contributed about $9000 toward the amount needed send out an urgent appeal for the rest of the sum needed and the high school faculty and band boys join in this appeal. Checks or money should be sent without delay to Captain Carl Dockler, treasurer of the R. O. T. C. fund, at the high school. Very few days remain, for the band must leave on Sunday, May 30, in order to get to Fostoria for the contest. Contributions received Thurs¬day were as follows: L. D. S. church, $500. John Scowcroft & Sons company, $50. Warren L. Wattis, $25. O. A. Moyer, $5. FIFTEEN STATES ENTERED, (Special Dispatch.) NEW YORK, May 21.—The first national high school band contest organized on a comprehensive ba¬sis will be held in Fostoria, Ohio, June 3-5, as the culminatoin of the state contests for these bands now being held in fifteen states and in the New England section. The bands eligible to the national will be the first and second winners in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Min-nesota, Montana, New York North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, ' South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin, and the winner of the New England sectional contest, to be held in Boston. The city of Fostoria is wildly enthusiastic over its prospect of being host to the national tourna¬ment and is making elaborate and extensive preparations for enter¬taining the young visiting musi¬cians. The city is itself the proud possessor of a remarkably fine high school band, which has already won two state Contests and is hoping to be victor this year for the third time and so to obtain permanent possession of the bronze and silver trophy awarded state champions. In 1923 it also won the national high school contest held in Chicago, al¬though the competition was not among state winners. NATIONAL AUSPICES. High school bands desirous of entering the national from states in which no state contests have been held will be admitted to the preliminary for scattered bands, to take place in Fostoria the first day of the national. The winners of this contest will be eligible to the national on a basis of equality with the state winners. The school band meets are un¬der the auspices of the committee on instrumental affaisr of the music supervisors' national conference, J. W. Fay, Louisville, chairman, and of the national bureau for the advancement of music, C. M. Tremaine, director. The state meets have been held annually since 1924 sometimes organized directly by the committee in co-operation with colleges, universities and state band associations.