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Show RED GROSS FUG TO BE REPLACED Quick Response Is Made to Appeal for New Banner for Headquarters. Red Cross headquarters is to have a new flag; in fact if all the offers of flag contributions received yesterday were ac copied all of Amelia Palace coulu be eovere:J with embelms of the mercy Institution. In-stitution. Answering an appeal made by The Tribune Trib-une yesterday morning, more than a dozen applications were made for the honor of supplying a new flag for headquarters. head-quarters. The policy of "first come first served" ruled, however, and B. J. Rad-,,diU, Rad-,,diU, president of the Tintic Standard lIm thing company at Tintic, was given the phonor. ,n Amelia Palace was opened yesterday - lorning for the business of the day at l::t) o'clock. A minute afterwards Mr. addHz called by telephone and instructed ana'ger Robert .1. Shields to purchase a .g, no matter what the cost, and send i bill to him. "Get the best in stock. :1 if that isn't good enough get one ' I will meet youp noeds. I will foot 1, bill. Can't let you fly a torn lianner. Gtlie limit," Mr. F.addit?. announced. iriug the entire day men and women se In their offers of donations, and in o'kir .two instances disappointment was seen that the suggestions were made l"riags be furpUl ed to meet the de-"ia de-"ia when tlie next one has outlived Its llsehiese. i matter of sentiment and love for jne 1 flag arrangement have been made to tiove the red cross from the cen--e,r d attach the emblem on the new whu-j,,, In dltlpn lo appealing for a Bed Cross 'iaS e Tribune yesterday issued a call tor ejhtnff for women and children, or maters from which to make clothing, rms, was in behalf of the Red Cross shop j- rlet with such spontaneous response, re-sponse, a force of workers at the shop , ViletX all day long to receiving c'lothini.tid materials. Besides the goods sent incsterday a number of telephone offers Ve received, these donations amount! to not less than two wagon loads, w-h wdll be picked up by members mem-bers of -. motor corps today. 'The iponse was greater than anything any-thing weaVe yet had. and we are profoundly pro-foundly gteful to the contributors. Their donations!) help out wonderfully In this crisis. Wcan use all the goods of this sort that can get," said Manager Mrs. Miller lastvonjng. Discontinue Gf tn0 collection of nut shells and nit pits has been ordered at Red Cross sdquarters. Collections were ordered stoed 0I1 orders received from the war dert10nl. Salt Cake chapter, American R f;ross has something more than a balcar0ad of peach pits on hand, 'lheynav be sold locally or on the coast fpfuel. Fruit pits are heavy in (use! oil ntent. Miss Grace iSev, director of the Junior Red Cross oi.hp Mountain division at Denver; is eiole p, sat i.ake to-nlent to-nlent for a nrerence with local officials. |