The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-05

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Rsd Gro" Chapter Secretary,
Maple 2862.
Rad Cross Financial Secretary
Maple 1862
Civilian Relief. Maple 400.
Registration offices for Red Cross
classes In Nrst aid, home care OF tho
sick AID dletetlcs, Maple 1873.
Red croH Canteen service, Maple
4i9s.
6OHE United States government
has asked the American Red
Cross to operate a plan Tor re-
81 stricted communication be-
tween persons in this country and their
relatives or friends in enemy countries
OF in the provinces occupied by the
enemy.
Under this new order a communiCa-
tiun service becomes creative under
the home service section OF the civ
ilian relict ol the Oklahoma county
chapter oi the American Red Gross,
Of which Fred Bearly IS chairman and
Mrs, Claude B. Mccartney eNtcu,ion
secretary
lhi, department will rndelvOr to de
liver all proper messages without cost
20 the inquirer but the delivery OF mes
hhktN AdlllbA w khdl dllN''N ~ f'
reau Of communication will plraphrasc
or translate the message or send 4 ON
another form to a neutral country,
Cewhere the message will be forwarded
10 the person addressed.
Answers will be received by the bu-
reau OF communication at national
headquarters through a neutral country
and the bureau OF communication viii
send paraphraSe or translation OF
their answers to the person making the
original inquiry.
In addition TO the transmission OF
messages, money and parcels for Amer
lean prisoners Of war IN Germany will
be transmitted Also mdney and par
Gel, ior allied prisoners IN Germany
and Austria
Locally few applications have al.
ready been received, the messages ior-
warded to h adQuarteF As delivered.
but not sufficient time ha, elapsed for
return messages to reach Oklahoma
City.
This bureau of communication Is not
concerned with letters and parcels to
American soldiers and they will re
main under the same ruling as before
Parcels for American soldiers are only
accepted by postoiiices II accompanied
by request from the soldier in Qucs
tion, approved by his commander
During the first three days Of July,
Oklahoma tcrrid month with its en-
erva,ing climate, the usual quota Of
finished work was recorded at Central
sewing department OF the Oklahoma
county chapter OF the Red Cross.
Jones City delivered thrty-fivc pa
j,ma shirts and sixteen muslin bed
shirts; University Place unit brought
in six canton flannel bed shirts and
eighteen helpless case shirts: the
Twenty street unit sent in
twenty-three canton flannel bed shirts
and four helpless case shirts, and Wal
lard W. G. I. L. unit sent IN four
helpless bed shirts
The Edmond, Britton, Harrah.
Crooked Oak and Choctaw branches
each delivered as follows: Rritton,
four canton flannel bed shirts, twenty
helpless case shirts and one pajama
coat; Edmond ten bed shirts, seventy
helpless shirts and five pajama suits
Harrah twenty helpless bed shirts
thoctaw l29 muslin bed shirts
Crooked Oak thirteen pajama suits
and ono pair OF pajama pants. Ep-
worth unit closed the day with deliv-
ering eleven bed shirts.
"Save the waste and win the war" is
practical precept when utilized by
t.,ntar .I ,..,rL,,. &. tt,a,.
take every tiny scrap of stout muslin
9leitoyers from hospital bed shirts and
cut them into strips like carpet rags
These are delivered TO Central work
rooms and form the cords with which
all bundles are tied into their regular
quotas.
In the supply rooms at Central sew
ing rooms one compartment is given
over to housing these handy balls
which form part OF every table equip
inent during packing hours.
Beginning this morning new unit
ih Red Cross work will begin activity,
known as the second floor clerical
force OF the Mason Little and company.
This unit u composed of girl clerks
employed in the suit department and
their speciality viii be the sewing on
of labels which are the furnishing
touch to every article sent out from
the sewing and knitting department at
Central work rooms.
Those who form this unit are Mrs.
Elizabeth M. Burlington, chairman.
and Mrs. Marie Splitter. Mrs. ]. c. !
Schwenk, Mrs. Blahch Jackson, Mrs. ]. !
a. Todd, Mrs. Dale Pirt. Mrs. Mary
+. Hunter, Miss Hattie Barksdale, |
Miss Eva Mc'tannus and Miss Eva
Leads.
No ieft-handed folder Of dry cleaned
and pressed suits and clothing could |
outdo the work of the folding commit
tee OF the sewing department OF Cen
tral Red Cross work rooms. Every |
day this busy squad stands AT tables
with piles and heaped piles OF wrinkled |
finished garments, 'hich they are to |
metamorphose into tidy we'll l-groomed |
Beaudfy the Comp,eMon
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