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Show ; UIMS WILL HELP i llll HEALTH HOI TVo Salt Lakers Will Take Course of Intensive Training Train-ing in Denver. Announcement is made at headquarter? of Salt J-.ake chapter, American Ked Cross, of the organization of the medical medi-cal unit which will sail .soon for Italy to conduct a health campaign in that country with the stamping out of tuberculosis tuber-culosis as the particular objective. The Italian Tuberculosis Unit of the American Hod Cross, as the organization will he known, will be under the supervision super-vision of Colonel Robert Perkins, Red Cross commissioner for Italy. It was upon surest ton of Colonel Perkins that the work was undertaken. The movement move-ment haw the heartiest support of the Italian government, which intends to build permnnently upon the foundation laid by an educational campaign as complete com-plete and thorough as the Red Cross can m:i ke it. The. sum of 51.100.000 has been appropriated appro-priated to carry on the work for the last six months of the present year. A purchase of military and hospital equipment to cost $1.9.200, asked by the Red Cross commissioner for France, has been authorized by the war council of the American Red Cross. The purchases will include 300.000 shirts, 500,000 sheets, 250,000 ward slippers, slip-pers, 50.000 bathroom slippers. The schedule sched-ule submitted by the commissioner for France includes requirements to January 1. 1919. It is expected that all other necessary articles will be obtained through chapter production. Miss Agrnes Xaisbltt and Mrs. Frauces-B. Frauces-B. Tavlor, who for some months have been closely identified with the department depart-ment of home service in connection with the local Red Cross, left yesterday for Denver, where they will attend an institute insti-tute for a sort of postgraduate course in home service operation. The 'course will continue over a period of six weeks. Thomas S. Green, a Spanish war veteran vet-eran and well known locally as a breeder of fancy strains of game birds, has donated do-nated a pair of game chickens to Salt l.ake chapter, Red Cross. The birds will be exhibited at the state fair and will be auctioned to the highest bidder before the conclusion of the annual Utah exposition. expo-sition. The chickens, according to the donor, are the result of a series of infusions in-fusions and crosses of the best strains of games from the nations of Europe, , now allied with America in the prosecution prosecu-tion of the war against Germany, with champion breeds of the United States. The strain thus procured has been named by the. breeder "Allies." All Red Cross workers have been asked to assemble at 6:30 Monday evening at Sixth South on State street for participation partici-pation in the Liberty loan parade. Uniforms Uni-forms must be worn on this occasion. |