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Show red cross en G0LLECTSF1NE SUM Nearly $900 Thrown on Huge Flag in Monday's Parade. Reports officially rendered to executives of Salt Lake chapter. Red Cross, show the sum of $S9.i.C4 collected on the big banner in Monday night's parade. The contribution was made in small sumf, and before the parade disbanded the weight on the big f:ag required the strength of forty men and women to support. The machinists, too, collected S3. 12 during the parade. Every Red Cross Worker has been urgently asked to participate In a mass I Jbertv loan convention in the L. P. fr. tabernacle Saturdav nighL The affair will be under the direction of the Liberty loan committee and a portion of the center cen-ter section of seats has been reserved for Red Cros people. Captain Frank Edwards Ed-wards of the British army will be one of the principal speakers. First-aid classes have been definitely arranged at Amelia. They will be held at 4:45 and 7:30 p. m. each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. This morning machines will be sent to Fort Douglas "by the Red Cross motor corps to pick in a coterie of soldiers for work at the Belgian relief warehouse. The soldiers will assist in packing and preparing- for shipment donated clothing. Two baling machines are being used for compressing the bundles into compact form. Yesterdav 250 cash meals were served at the Red Cross downtown cafe. In addition, ad-dition, twenty-five meals were served free to soldiers. Today is fish day at the cafe. One market has donated 125 pounds of fresh rock cod. which will be cooked at the Rotisserie f-r service at noon. Three hundred and fifty heifer calves have been donated to the Red Cross by four counties in Utah thus far in the A. R. C. livestock campaign. Sevier cattlemen cat-tlemen have given 100, Wasatch 60, Tooele 50 and San Juan 60. This information infor-mation was submitted at a meeteing of state committeemen with the general livestock committee of the Red Cross at the Hotel Utah yesterday. Predictions were freely made that the campaign would net fully 1500 calves. It is expected ex-pected that the sale will net an average of $404 for each calf. The sale will be conducted by the Salt Lake county chapter, chap-ter, except "in instances where counties express a desire to have their livestock sold at the Denver meeting in January. Thus far the drive for linen for hospitals hos-pitals in France has not been accorded much attention in Salt Lake, probably due to other drives and similar activities. Manager Robert J. Shields. Salt Lake county chapter, calls attention to the great need for this material overseas and expresses the hope that response from this time on will be generous. The local chaoter is asked to provide 2500 sheets. 2500 bath towels. 5000 hand towels, 3500 handkerchiefs, 500 napkins. |