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Show Bill Asks Enrolling Of U. S. Women WASHINGTON, March 18 Compulsory registration of all women citizens between 18 and 65 for civilian or military service was proposed Wednesday in a bill introduced by Representative Joseph C. Baldwin (R), New York. Coming close on the heels of legislative proposals for creation of volunteer women auxiliary corps for duty with the army and navy anywhere on the world wide battlefront, his bill calls on mothers, wives, daughters and sweethearts to line up with the nations manhood in the total war against the axis. Ogden Relief Societies Mark Centennial March 17 marked the one hundredth birthday anniversary of the L. D. S. Relief society, and the event was celebrated by every ward in the city. Dinners, programs and luncheons were given throughout the various wards. Each group was given a recorded message from President Heber J. Grant and Amy Brown Lyman, president of the Relief societies of the church. All the presidents of the various wards were honored guests for the occasion, and a special feature was the characterization of the general presidents of the society. This was done in various ways, such as life sketches and pageants. The presidents who were impersonated were Emma Smith, wife of the founder of the church, Joseph F. Smith; Eliza R. Snow, Zina D. H. Young, Bathsheba W., Smith, Emiline B. Wells, Clarissa S. Williams, Louisa Yates Robinson and Amy Brown Lyman in their succession. A number of out of town persons returned to their home wards for the occasion. The Relief society has increased from 18 members at its inception, to 113,000 members of the present day. First Time In More Than 20 Years American troops boarded transports to go abroad to fight for the first time in more than two decades. Before the end of the first year of fighting we had troops in action all around the globe. Doughboys stationed for months in Ireland led the recent African invasion; soldiers and marines in the Solomons were driving the last Japs off Guadalcanal. American airmen were bombing Germany and Italy. When new fronts were opened, Americans felt sure, United States soldiers would be found fighting on them. Oct. 1 of legislation authorizing an allover stabilization of prices, salaries, wages and profits, and especially designed to halt the upward climb of farm prices. American Flying Fortresses hammer at Nazi occupied Netherlands in their tenth daylight attack on German held western Europe. |