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Show the demands made on the motor corps. The present foroe, while larger than usual, is unable to keep abreast of the growing requirements. The Red Cross shop Friday morning will receive flowers, and during the afternoon will deliver them at t lie Red Cross emergency hospital and at Fort Douglas. who rendered first assistance for the relief re-lief of the suffering children, their care having been taken over by the juvenile court. Response to the call made by the Red Cross for nurses to assist in Salt Lake and outside homes during the epidemic, made yesterday morning, was gratifying and met Immediate requirements, according accord-ing to the management in charge of this department of mercy. But the demand, continues to grow, and volunteer registrations registra-tions for this work must correspondingly increase if the fight against the epidemic is to be successfully waged and gaps in the nurse-helper ranks, caused by exhaustion ex-haustion of workers, kept filled, Robert J. Shields, chapter manager, says. A registered ntrse whose home is in Des Moines. Iowa, and who has been visiting in Salt Lake, registered at Red Cross headquarters yesterday for volunteer volun-teer work and was immediately assigned to a caso. The patient, a child. Is very 111 from pneumonia. More volunteers are required to meet BED LIN IS WEEDED Bf EPIDEMIC VICTIMS Donations of Sheets and Pillow Cases Sought at Red Cross Shop. Health conditions obtaining for the moment In Salt. Lake have made an extraordinary ex-traordinary demand for sheets and pillow oases, both at the Red Cross emergency hospital and in numerous residences in various sections of the city. To meet this demand arrangements have been made by Mrs. George M, Miller, manager j of the Red Cross shop, to receive dona- tions of such articles at the shop and arrange ar-range for delivery here most needed. "This demand Is of a most imperative nature and i growing hourly," Mrs. Miller explained. "Such stocks of these articles as we had when the new condition condi-tion arose were quickly exhausted, and we have heen forced to make this .appeal to the people and business men of the city In order to relieve the unfortunate situation. We will receive the materials at the shop and deliver them where the requirement is most urgent, free of all cost." Mrs. Miller and her assistants are keeping keep-ing a close check upon calls for bed linen, and relief will be afforded with all possible possi-ble speed. The Red Cross shop, according to the management, is greatly in need of all kinds of clothing, principally for fall and wititer use. Overcoats and cloaks are in groat demand Just now. the sudden cooler weather having caused an unusual call fdr these garments. Shoes, too, are needed very much, while the demand for children's clothing, always heavy, ia greater ihan ever since the epidemic set-tied set-tied over the city. Several calls have been made upon the shop for clothing for i -hildren orphaned In the last ten days. These calls have all been served. Yesterday more than 100 offers were made to executives of the Ked Cross j i hapter to adpt the two little McLaUgh- ; lin orphans, who were found Sunday ! morning crying by the side of their mother, who lay dead In bed In a Japa- nese rooming-house. The matter Is out of tho hands of the Red Cross officers, 1 |