Arizona republican., 1917-12-17
RED CROSS ACTIVITIES

latives of the men and to organize friends and relatives for mutual help and cooperation.
 The Service Section has the home address of a large portion of the se lected men and desires to complete its files with the names and address of every man in the service of his coun- try. During the next two weeks a rep resentative from the section will call at the homes, so far as they are known. to ascertain the names of the relatives of the men and to enlist their assist ance in the work of the section.
 The office of the secretary is located at the Chamber of Commerce and any one having information, especially of enlisted men, is requested to commun- icate with the office.
 Tinfoil old clothes, and bottles, met al scraps and discarded automobile tires, salvaged and sold by commit tee of Red Cross workers here pro- | duced more than 5000 for the Red Cross War Fund last month. l So successful has been this Red Cross mobilization of Junk that a salvage section of the Western Di- vision has been created with Mrs. Otheman Stevens, originator of the | savage lQea, as dlfector.
 The committee began operations in Los Angeles last May and the first months returns were s90. Since then they have increased steadily.
 The success of the Salvage section in Los Angeles can be duplicated here, declare the Red Cross leaders. Mrs. Louis H. Chalmers has been named chairman of the salvage work the pos slplilties Of which are unlimited. Odds and ends of old jewelry will be collec- ted for the treasure and trinket de- partment which will be opened within a short period.
 A market has been found for many articles formerly thrown away, such
 as discarded gold and silver pieces, tin
 foll brass, bronze, iron and lead, dis
 carded dental filings, typewriter rib-
 bon, boxes, carbon paper boxes, auto :. tires and tubes, rubber in any form (except garden hose), tooth paste
 tubes shaving cream tubes, cold cream jars, old newspapers, old ma gazines
 and waste paper.
 ' Among the volunteer Red Cross !: workers none have labored more ear : ! neStly for the cause than Audrey Me
 Murtrie seven years old and Dorothy
 cummings, aged eleven who gave a / benefit performance recently netting : s1O1 which they turned over to Mrs J. A. Rogers, in charge of the Red ] Cross magazine and newspaper depot t The youngsters arranged a carnival | which they held in the Cummings gar 1 age, 1927 Woodland avenue. The penny : admission included the war tax.
 With f;1b
 depending entirely upon their cloth 2 ing for warmth, Marshall Hale on hi: . recent visit here urged the shipmen
 of warm garments every week or d
 least every two weeks. The manager -' of the Pacific division emphasized tn. l. need Of the lack of coal in France anC d the need of warm clothing
 The Red Cross has purchased larg,
 quantity of sweaters to fill out unti
 such time as knitted garments can b
 supplied. The bought sweaters ar
 not all wool and therefore not as warn '' as the hand made variety. It has bee f. suggested that women who are mak - ing Christmas gifts devote their tim
 to at least one knitted article for sol
 dier in foreign service.
 g. Mrs. ". K. James. chairman of sun II plies, checked the following for ship - ment last Tuesday Il sweaters: ,
 mufflers; 64 pair of wristlets and 6 ~ pair of socks.
 The Monroe school contributed tn
 following amount of tin and lead fo If to the Magazine and Newspaper Depc - the past week: Miss Standlenger roo1
 GA 12A pounds; Miss Zacher grade 5
 21a pounds and Miss Ethel J. MacMar - tin, grade A pounds.
 .. Two shipments of yarn have bee .9- received by the local chapter of tn
 Red Cross within the past week an
 400 pounds more is on the way. accord " ing to word from headquarters.
 The Catholic Women's auxiliary 47 the Red Cross organized last Thur. = day will bring many new workers in
 the association and systematize u - work of others who have for weeks al
 months been among those foremost . the service.
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