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Show community kitchen will probably get permission per-mission from the school board to use the kitchen in the .high school for the purpose of preparing fond for the afflicted persons who are unable to help themselves. them-selves. The Red Cross women have 'asked everyone who has any spare time to volunteer in the service. RED GROSS AIDING IN INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC POCATELLO, Idaho, Nov. 5. The Pocatello chapter of the Red Cross has taken active charge of the influenza situation situ-ation in this city and is rendering valuable valu-able assistance to the city health authorities. authori-ties. . All the hospitals in the city are crowded with influenza victims, it having been found necessary at times to place several patients in the same room in order to accommodate them. Doctors have worked day and night; the city was compelled to tratisfer the street workers to the cemetery to dig graves; local undertaking parlors were reported to contain as high as eleven bodies at one time, and altogether the epidemic has taken Pocatello by storm. Many new eases were reported yesterday. In "handling the situation the Red Cross opened an office with Mrs. Charles G. Sumner in charge to receive telephone calls for assistance and supplies. The work is being directed by Dr. R. J. Smith, city health commissioner, and W. R. Siders. Mrs. E. C. White has charge of motor transportation and nurses, and others connected with the relief work arc hurried back and forth in aut o mobiles, under the direction of Mrs. White. The women who are supporting the |