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Show WANT 19 TO TAKE TRAINS AS 1RSES i Red Cross Recruiting Of- fice Is to Be Opened at Carnegie Library. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, July 27. Nineteen young women are wanted immediately to take up special training as Red Cross nurses. To secure the required number of girls between 19 and 35 years of age a recruiting recruit-ing office will be open at the Carnegie library each day, beginning next Monday, between S and 9 a. m. and between 2 and 3 p. m. A Red Cross nurse will be in charge of the recruiting. The, decision to open the recruiting of-tjgwvas of-tjgwvas arrived at last night, when Embers! of the county and state coun-cil coun-cil of defense held a meeting at the office of-fice of Dr. K. M. Conroy. A letter from the state council of defense was read, in which it was pointed out that 25.000 young wrmen are wanted as nurses for the Red Cross nurse reserve. The allotment allot-ment to Ogden City and Weber county is nineteen. Mrs. H. H. Spencer, chairman of the women's -council of defense, said that that organization would do everything possible pos-sible to a.id in securing the required number num-ber of young ladies. Superintendent W. W. Rawson of the Thomas D. fee Memorial hospital voiced his approval of the methods suggested for the securing of the required number of nurses, and promised the fullest cooperation co-operation of the hospital in the work. Mrs. Edward Bichsel, member of the state council of defense; Dr. E. M. Conroy. Con-roy. chairman of the county council of defense; Dr. R. S. Joyce, chairman of the sanitation commission of the state council of defense, and Rev. John E. Carver, president of the Red Cross chapter, chap-ter, were among those present and who offered their co-operation in the work. |