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Show Entrainment of450' Utah 1: , Draftees Held Up bPTlui III BOOKED FOR LEVIS I DELAYED Officials Say Drastic Measures Planned to Prevent Spreading of Epidemic in ' State AS A direct renult of the epidemic of Spanish influenza influ-enza raging in various, citie aui cantonment of the country, Provost Marshal General Crowder haa canceled hla order for entrainment entrain-ment of 45o t'tah drafteea to Camp Lewis. Wash . between Orlnher 7 I and 11. according to a bulletin received re-ceived her today from Washington. The order withholding tha I'tah draftees from entrainment wss Issued ss part of a general order canceling Induction orders for MJ.Ooa men Into various mobilisation camps and can-tonmanta can-tonmanta th country. The oanael-latlon oanael-latlon la Indeflnlta and probably will continue until tha spread of tha die-ease die-ease la entirely checked. REPORTS ARE WANTED. eltate, county and municipal officials ara cooieratlng with health offtcera In an effort to atem tha epidemic In I'tah. An appeal Is made to Individuals to take every precaution agalnat Infection and to report each suspected cse Immediately. If caaea continue to develop In Increasing In-creasing niimhara-ln Utah, officials say It will ba necessary to cloae all amusements amuse-ments and prohibit tha holding of any public gatherlnga of any sort So fsr no caaea hava been' reported In tha public schools of the stata. However, officials declare that If extreme pre-cautlona pre-cautlona ara not taken by parenta against children becoming Infected. It will ba necessary to cloae tha achoola-flRST achoola-flRST DEATH IN UTAH. The first death In Utah from Span- ish Influensa wss that of Joha Hogan, a traveling salesman, who died In a hoapltal at Ogdan. Aa a reault of treating treat-ing "flu" patlenta, aaven young women nurses of tha Dee hoapltal In Ogden are aald to ba suffering from the dlaeaaa. Four Utah soldiers are reported dead In army centonmenta. They ara Evan Banee of etunnyalde, at Camp Grant. Rockford. 111.; Private Kdwln Dahl-qulst Dahl-qulst of Sandy, at Camp Merritt, N. J.; Harold Cox of Falrvlew, at Camp Lewie, Wash.; Dellala Hanaen of I'ro-vo, I'ro-vo, at Quantlco, Fla. Word haa been received at the local Red Croaa headquartera that tha national na-tional Hed Cross wsr council hss appropriated ap-propriated 1676.000 for combating the spresd of. ths dlseaae. |