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Show RED CROSS NURSE TO TELL OF ASIA EXPERIENCES Miss Blanche Jones of Provo, a Red Cross assistant program director di-rector who served for 23 months in India, has been scheduled to speak at the Milford Methodist and L. D. S. churches on Sunday, February Feb-ruary 17, it was announced by Mrs. Ardith Outzen, Milford Red Cross chapter chairman. Miss Jones, who is the daughter daugh-ter of Mrs. Joseph H. Jones of Provo, arrived in Delhi in April, 1944, and set up an entertainment program in the Red Cross club which numbered among its first guests members of Merrill's Marauders, Ma-rauders, returning from Burma. Many other veterans of the Burma campaign also came to Delhi on furlough and, through arrangements arrange-ments made by Miss Jones, were granted privileges at the canteen, run under the auspices of the viceroy, vice-roy, Lord Wavell. After spending several months in Delhi, Miss Jones was assigned to a U. S. Army rest camp in the Himalayas, located about 30 miles from Simla, the summer capital of India. There she arranged entertainment enter-tainment programs for veterans of the Assam and Ledo campaigns who came to the camp for two-week two-week leave. Among the personalities Miss Jones met in India were Lord Wavell, General Stilwell, and the Maharaja of Patiala, who entertained enter-tained lavishly for the GI's he invited in-vited to his estate. She was in Bombay awaiting transportation to Red Cross headquarters head-quarters at Calcutta when an ammunition am-munition ship blew up, setting off a train of explosions which wrecked the Bombay waterfront and killed hundreds. Miss Jones and four other Red Cross girls, who were staying at a hotel operated by the army, went to the scene at midnight mid-night In an army truck and served hot food to the rescue workers and fire fighters. Their efforts received considerable notice in Bombay papers, pa-pers, one of which carried a feature fea-ture story on the five American girls. |