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Show ALL GAUZEROOMS OF COUNTY ARE TO CLOSE THIS WEEK American Red Cross Faces General Shortage of Material for Manufacture of Needed Surgical Dressings. ACCORDING to official statement issued yesterday morning by the Salt Lake County chapter, American Red Cross, the gauze-rooms gauze-rooms of the city and county, forty-odd forty-odd in number, will be compelled to suspend operations early this week, either Tuesday or Wednesday, for an indefinite period. There is enough gauze on hand to run tomorrow, and the working up of the scraps and packing of the goods will keep the rooms open for a day or two, but not longer, unless a new supply arrives. This situation is not confined to the Salt Lake County chapter, or to the chapters of the Mountain division alone, but tho shortage of gauze is a general one, extending the country over. The details of the situation, so far as the Mountain division is concerned, con-cerned, aro fully set forth in the official of-ficial statement. Goods May Be in Transit. There is, however, this hope for the Salt Lake county workers: A large quantity of gauze was ordered several months ago. and is supposod to be somewhere in transit. If this material mate-rial arrivos, it will tide over the shortage short-age until the government can have the matter adjusted. In tho meantime, the workers of Salt Lake county will continue con-tinue with never-flagging energy to maintain the record output of sewed and knitted articles for the soldiers and the allies. Following is a list of the forty-six gauzerooms now established in the Salt Lake County chapter: Headquarters, Women's Service auxiliary, University students. Ladies' Literary club, Columbia Colum-bia auxiliary, War Work depot, East high school, West high school, Women of the University of Utah, Brvant school, Immauuel Baptist church, Granite Gran-ite district auxiliary, Third Presbyterian Presby-terian church, Wilford ward. Richards ward, Waterloo auxiliary, Sugarhouse ward, Sandy City Independent, Lo-Grand Lo-Grand ward, Liberty Stake First ward, Fort Douglas, Miller war, KIks' Ladies' auxiliary, Secoud ward, Whitney hall, Annella auxiliary, West Jordan, Crescent, Cres-cent, Draper, Granite, Uniou, Riverton, Butlerville, Murray, South Cottonwood, Burton ward, Holliday ward, Mill creek, Winder ward, Bennion ward, Taylorsville, Hunter ward, Granger ward, Garfield, Magna. Work Shows Increase. Reports for April show that during that month the gauzerooms of the county turned out a total of 151,234 surgical dressings, an increase of 42,-409 42,-409 over the previous month. Many of the rooms mentioned, however, were not opened until late in the month, so their figures are not included in the April totals. Miss Gertrude McGrath, supervisor of gauzerooms for the Columbia auxiliary, auxil-iary, announces that the room in the Newhouse hotel will not open this week, but w be reopened May 20, if the gauze shortage can be overcome. Following is the official statement issued is-sued by the Salt Lake County chapter: The manager and chairman of supplies of the Salt Lake County chapter, American Red' Cross, feel that the supervisors of gauzerooms gauze-rooms of the chapter should be put in as close touch as possible with the present gauze situation. A contract for gauze to last until the latter pat of August was made in December. The work has grown to such an extent in the last two or three weeks that the amount of gauze will only last until the end of the first week in June. Unfortunately, Unfor-tunately, about 40,000 yards of this was shipped from New York on February 16, and, owing to congested con-gested freight conditions, has not arrived in Salt Lake. In March the government commandeered the entire output of all the gauze mills of the country and apportioned it among army, navy, Bed Cross and the wholesale trade and hospitals throughout the country. These last will have to get their gauze after the present supplies are exhausted through the government. govern-ment. We were advised that the government had allotted to the Mountain division of the Red Cross 2,000,000 yards, which would in turn be apportioned to the various va-rious chapters, according to their needs. We immediately placed an order with the Mountain division for enough gauze to last us until the first of August, but the Mountain Moun-tain division advises us by telegram, tele-gram, a copy of which we quote, as follows: News Discouraging. ' ' Your wire twenty-ninth received. re-ceived. Regret exceedingly not being be-ing in position to fill your order for gauze. Since writing you on twenty-fifth on this subject have received some very discouraging advices from Washington. Writing you fully. ' ' And by letter of April 30: "The gauze situation is far ffom encouraging. While we were promised prom-ised definite deliveries beginning in April, there is a pronounced shortage of gray goods and there is certain to be a serious delay in the shipment of this material. Much of the gauze purchased by the government is far behind the ' date of promised delivery and the conditions appear to be growing worse instead of better. ' ' And by letter of May 3, which says: ' 'I have filed your requisition, requisi-tion, but, as I wrote you, we cannot can-not make any promises in the matter mat-ter of future deliveries of gauze." All of which goes to show that it is extremely uncertain as to when any more gauze may be expected, ex-pected, and it is quite possible that our gauzerooms may have to be closed temporarily in the immediate imme-diate future. JOHN MALICE, Manager. CLARA C. WORTHINGTON, Chairman of Supplies. The Royal Neighbors ' auxiliary yes-terday yes-terday turued in to the secretary of the local chapter a cash donation of $63.50. Salvage and Paper. Official statement I concerning salvage sal-vage and paper now being handled by the Junior Red Cross is issued by Miss Mabel Cook, secretary of the special committee having the matter in charge. The Columbus school will hold a rummage rum-mage sale this week, and will be glad to collect any articles if notified, and this statement also applies to the Douglas school. In case of the other schools, the collecting will be confined to flat paper and magazines. A list of those to be notified is: Columbus, 2530 South Fifth East street, C. H. Eeele, Hyland 2954-M. Douglas, Seventh South and Thirteenth East, Evelyn Reilly, Wasatch 226S-.I. Emerson, 1343 McClelland street, C. II. Eeele, Hyland 2954-M. Fremont, 153 South Second West, E. S. Halloek. Lafayette, 135 North State, J. Fred Anderson, Hyland 133S-R. Lincoln, 440 West Fifth South, Elizabeth Bond, Wasatch 5797-B. Longfellow, First avenue and J street, Grace E. Frost, Wasatch 46S6. Sumner, 640 Third East, J. Challen Smith, Hyland 767-J. Notify the principal in the evening, or send note to the school and children chil-dren wTill call. Following is a partial list of the finished fin-ished articles received yesterday at local headquarters: Salt Lake Stake Relief society auxiliary, Seventeenth ward, twelve pairs of socks. Pioneer Stake Relief society auxiliary, Group No. 8, twenty bed shirts. Bingham auxiliary, aux-iliary, forty suits of paiamas, four pairs of socks. Liberty Stake Relief society auxiliary, Tenth ward, seven bed shirts, eleven pairs of socks. I. B. G. auxiliary, three suits of pajamas. Welby Ideal auxiliary, three bed shirts, fourteen pairs of socks. Liberty Stake Belief society auxiliarv, Third ward, eight bed shirts. Salt Lake Stake Relief Re-lief society auxiliary, twenty-seven pairs of socks. |