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Show FOUR YOONG WOMEN ASK TO GO TO THE WAR AS NURSES There has been considerable activity activ-ity at the local United States Army recruiting station on Tw-enty fifth street, during the past few days, according ac-cording to a statement made this morning by Sergeant Victor McCorr, the recruiting officer. Lieutenant Coffey, head of the Utah-Idaho dls trict of the recruiting department of tbe army, was In the city yesterday, having just returned from a trip to Idaho. He reported that in increased increas-ed activity, similar to that in Ogden. had been noted all over his district, though the enlistment is not as large as it should be under present conditions. condi-tions. Sergeant McCorr, in speaking of tbe local enlistment, said that he ex pected to send ten or fifteen recruits from Ogden to Fort Logan, Colo., today to-day or tomorrow, if they pas the medical examination. At Fort Logan, they will be put through a course of : sprouts," so that they tan be handled han-dled as soldiers and will then await orders from the front. Of the men who enlisted here, two or three were transients, and the others were men who had been working here all winter win-ter Four local young women applied for enlistment as nurses, a day or two ago. but were informed that the local recruiting officer was not empowered em-powered to enlist nurses. In refer euco to these. Sergeant McCorr said that the young ladies were unable to qualify for enlistment as nurses anyway, any-way, as none of them possessed tho certificate of a graduate nurse and that is tbe first requirement. oo |