Four hundred thousand books were
sent to prisoners of war in the bel
ligerent countries by the Danish Red
Cross.
* * *
The Netherlands Red Cross operat
ed three ambulance trains of twenty
four coaches each during the war.
* * *
The rules of the Swedish Red Cross
for the election of probationary nurses
requires that they “must be of sweet
disposition and serious mind.”
* # *
The American Red Cross was nam
ed beneficiary in the will of Thomas
Frazier, a colored soldier of Morgan
City, La., who died February 16, 1919,
in General Hospital No. 8, Otisville,
N. Y., of wounds received overseas.
His insurance policy is for $5,000.
* * *
During chaotic days in Siberia,
prior to the arrival of the allied forces
and the Red Cross, railway coaches
were stripped of the plush linen on
the chairs and this was used to orna
ment women’s dresses. Peasant
women today may be seen in plush
adorned dresses, and the color of the
plush tells whether it came from a
first-class, second-class or third-class
coach.
V V
Writing to Henry P. Davison on
the plan of the Cannes conference for
a world-congress on Red Cross work,
following the conclusion of peace,
Baron Sonnino, the Italian minister
of foreign affairs, says:
“The work of the Red Cross has
been so beneficial for suffering human
ity in general that I am sure of the
success of your plan of action. There
is hardly any need for me to express
my best wishes for the happy out
come of the project.”
* * *
The American Red Cross commis
sion to the Balkans is taking care of
wounded Czecho-Slovak soldiers who
are being sent home by way of
Trieste, the Jugoslav port on the
Adriatic sea.
The work is being done at the re
quest of the government at Prague
„ _^ which has asked the Red Cross to pro
vide transportation, doctors and
nurses for the sick and wounded. The
first convoy handled came from Co
lombo, Ceylon, and was made up of
508 wounded.
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Needs of Refugees Met Promptly
Immediate needs are pressing
through all the foreign countries and
the Red Cross is meeting them with
unfailing promptness. Nine hospitals
with a total staff of fifty Red Cross
nurses have been established in
northern Siebria. Twelve hundred
convalescent and young children are
being fed daily in the Armenian re
fuge at Port Said from recently es
tablished diet kitchens and employ
ment is being found for those who are
ableto work. Huge warehouses have
been established in the ravaged re'
gions of France, stocked with tons of
clothing and household utensils in
order that the French government
may call upon them for auxiliary sup
plies in their efforts to start these
desolate people in life once more.
Even the terrible conditions prevail
ing in Russia find the Red Cross un
dismayed. The sixth American Red
Cross supply train of tweny-six cars,
carrying clothing, blankets and medi
cines valued at $38,000, is even now
moving across Siberia and arrange
ments have been made to send large
stores of clothing, medical and sur
gical supplies and food as rapidly as
possible. Twenty-five hundred tons of
supplies have already gone forward
and more will follow as soon as they
can be moved.
Out from the reeking filth of prison
camps men are struggling back to life.
Food, clothing, medical attention and
shelter are their crying need. These
are furnished by the Red Cross in the
form of sanitary trains for stretcher
cases, canteens and mobile hospitals.
* * *
In the comparative report by chap
ters for 1917 and 1918 Christmas Roll
call campaign, which has just been
compiled by the northwestern divi
sion, Cordova had a decrease of 610.
The membership for 1917 was 1400;
for 1918 was 790.
* * *
Over 300,000 pounds of used cloth
ing, in 2,100 bales, were started to
Europe April 7, as the first shipment
of over ten thousand tons of clothing
collected -by the Red Cross on its re
cent country-wide drive. Two thou
sand additional bales lie at the docks
awaiting transportation.
Two shipments will be sent out each
week until the total of well over
10,000 tons has been shipped. Clothing
is sorted, packed and baled for ship
ment in 150 pound bales. Fifty work
ers at the Brooklyn warehouse, where
these garments are handled, keep
them pouring through a funnel into
the assortment chamber, where they
are divided, made into bundles and
enclosed in burlap. The electric press
turns out a bale every five minutes.
The Cordova chapter did not re
spond to this call.
* # *
Parisians are rubbing their eyes to
make sure that the big hotel recently
built by the salvage section of the
American Red ' Cross for visiting
doughboys is an honest and truly
reality. Although it can house 1,200
and 1,600 enlisted men, only eight
days were required to plant it on the
Champs de Mars. This speed stunned
the natives. They are shrugging their
shoulders out of place in an effort to
understand it. Many of them now re
fer to the Americans as magicians.
A California man, Captain C. Ross
Corbin, was in charge of the job.
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The division department of civilian
relief received a telegram from the
New York Home Service section an
nouncing the arrival in New York of
nine English war brides, all destined
for Oregon homes. The chapters con
cerned will ascertain if the parents
of the men in service are ready to re
ceive their new daughters and report
to the Red Cross in New York when
the proper arrangements are made at
this end. It is understood that in
each instance the brides have suffi
cient transportation to take them tc
their respective destinations. A1
women arrived on the same boat, anc
their interest will be safeguarded
while they are waiting in New York
by the Red Cross.
* ¥ *
One hundred and fourteen histories
—count ’em—one hundred and -four
teen.
That is a good many histories and
when they are assembled they wil
make a volume bigger than an eigh
teenth century novel and much more
interesting, for its two thousand pages
or so will throb with the story ol
good deeds accomplished, of obstacles
overcome, of a great people joined tc
put across a big task.
The activities of 800,000 members
of the Red Cross will be chonicled ir
this dynamic narrative. Every chap
ter in the northwestern division will
have its separate history, fully' and
vividly written by its own historian
and illustrated with many photo
graphs as well as with maps and
charts. These historians will soon be
sitting down to their typewriters, foi
a suggestive outline to guide the
writers in the preparation of theii
manuscripts went out last week all
over the northwestern division. At
least three copies of each chaptei
history will be prepared by the chap
ter historian. One copy will be kepi
on file by the bureau of file records
at national headquarters, one copj
will be kept by the division office and
one copy by the chapter. No doubt
also, libraries and the local press will
be eager to use the history.
Each history will be the official wai
record of the chapter, to whom has
come this great opportunity to pres
ent its vital story of over two years
of ceasless activity for the Red Cross
—a story of service always faithful
and many times heroic.
FIRE DESTROYS MANY
BUILDINGS ON CREEKS
Arrivals in Fairbanks from the
creeks report that with the excep
tion of the messhouse and one small
cabin, all of the buildings on the
Last Chance Association claim, on
Engineer creek, were destroyed by
Are.
The messhouBe building and the
cabin were saved owing' to a small
garden patch Intervening between
them and the advancing flames.
The heat from the forest fire is said
to have been so intense that it was
not possible for anyone to approach
within fifty feet of the fire.
On Gilmore Creek
The forest fires sweeping the (joun
banks, had reached the mouth of Gil
try, according to reports from Fair
more creek, threatening to do a great
deal of property damage. It was con
sidered very doubtful as to whether
the cabins and the large quantities of
cordwood, which lay in the path of
the flames, could be saved. The wood
had been recently hauled to the var
ious mining claims in this neighbor
hood preparatory to commencing sum
mer work.
The celebrated K-W Spark Coils are
for sale by the Northwestern Hard
ware Co. 14-tf
Job printing at Dally Times office.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
LOST—A package containing a pair
of trousers, between Northern hotel
and round house. Reward for re
turn to Northern hotel. 22-tf
FOR SALE—Gas launch, 37 feet long,
equipped with 16 horsepower Frls
bee engine. Inquire on boat at the
ocean float. 17-4t
WANTED—Woman wanta position as
cook for small crew, in or out of
town, Apply Times office. 17-3t
LOST—Ladies’ broach with Alaskan
design of pick, shovel and pan.
Finder return to Times office.
FOR RENT—Room* over Bank of
Alaska, formerly occupied by North
land Club. Will be altered to suit
satisfactory tenants. Apply Bank of
Alaska. 3-tf
WANTED — Woman baker. Apply
Northland Bakery. 29-tf
FOR SALE—McCarthy Greenhouse.
Everything modern and up-to-date;
doing fine business; will sell cheap
if sold right away. Owner must
leave for states. Wire or write Mr.
Norman A. Erickson, Box 383, Mc
Carthy, Alaska.
FOUND—A bunch of keys. Owner
can secure same at First Bank of
Cordova. 16-tf
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