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Show IRK OF RED CROSS ABROWIIISIIEO Dr. Farrand Determined to Give Further Aid to Devastated Areas. Dr. Livingston Farrand, chairman of the central committee of the American Red Cross, vho will speak in Salt Lake at the meeting on June 'M aud .Inly I of the Utah officials of the organization, organiza-tion, lias recently returned from Ku-rope Ku-rope where he lias been gathering data on which to base, the future relief work of the organization. Together -cith other officials he has determined that there still remains much for the Red Cross to do, especially especial-ly in the devastated areas. This foreign for-eign -work will be carried on by agencies agen-cies of the Red Cross now iu operation. The Salt Lake Red Cross executives will meet this afternoon at. 3:30 to make their final plans for the coming of Dr.1 Far rami and other leaders in the national and Mountain divisions of the organization. Among the interesting reports which Dr. Farrand will speak of jn his talk here is that dealing with tho disposition disposi-tion of the surplus knitting yarn originally orig-inally purchased to make socks and sweaters for American soldiers. Sixtv-five tons of this material has been manufactured into 78,000 yards of cloth and 33,000 shawls fifty inches square which have been shipped abroad to help provide for the destitute Avar sufferers of Europe. - The shawls are especially heavy. The cloth consists of 50,000 yardsj all -wool, for blankets and heavy garments, and 28,000 yards eightv inches wide with a cotton warp. In "addition, the American Red Cross has, since t lie first of the year, shipped 1,060,017 pounds of yarn and more than 22,500,000 yards of material for the making of garments textiles valued at $11,295,141 and including dress goods, 'canton flannel, outing flannel, bathrobing, bleached and un-hlonrhci-l muslin, sateen, needles and similar accessories have also been shipped. This material will be used in France or sent to Belgium, Poland and the Balkan states, where most needed, and Tyill be fashioned into garments by the people who are to receive, it. It is estimated that the German invasion in-vasion of Franco and Belgium alone made wanderers of 1,250,000 formerly happy country people, and Red Cross investigators have reported' the need for clothing among these and other war sufferers as being even more imperative im-perative than food. The Red Cross is still busy in Europe Eu-rope at duties other than that of relief re-lief of the war-stricken peoples of the devastated countries. There are still Ampricnn soldiers there, and Dr. Far rand will also tell something of them. The following incident is going the rounds of Red Cross circles about the soldiers and what "ivas once tho "Crown Prince's Bath Suite.'' American soldiers with tho army of occupation at Neucnahr, Germany, are. finding great interest in a suite of rooms in the former palatial hotel that now serves as an army base hospital. The rooms are known as tho "Crown Prince's Bath Suite,'' being part (if the epiarters occupied by Frederick W'ilhclm, formerly crown prince of Germany, Ger-many, on his frequent visits to Neuenahr. The suite is 'used by the home service section of the American Ked Cross and doughboys who visit it to get information about, the folks back home spend must, of their timo cracking jokes at tho former royal oc-cui'nnt's oc-cui'nnt's expense. Before, the war people came from all parts of Fiiropc. to take the mineral baths for which the hotel was more or less famous. The dressing room attached at-tached tn the former prince's bath is separated from tho bath by luxurious velvet draperies. Beyond these curtains cur-tains is an ample, Roman bal h faced with whito tiling. It is set, in the floor and reached by a. iiliort flight of steps. |