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Show CALL ISSUED FOR 5000 MIRSES WASHINGTON, March 7. A call for 5000 nurses between now and June 1 for service in military hospitals at home and abroad has been made upon Ihe Red Cross by Surgeon -General Gorgas of the army. Nearly 7000 nurses nurs-es already have been supplied by the Red Cross but the need for grows imperative daily. Of the eighty or ninety thousand registered nurses in tho United States General Gorgas estimates es-timates that approrJmately 30,000 will be needed for servico in army hospi- . tals this year. |