The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-06-04

relieved from further observation and
treatment at Walter Reed general
hospital, Takoma Park, D. G., and Will
proceed to Camp Dodge.
Capt. Charles Fielding Clayton, med
ical corps, is relieved from duty at
Ft. Smelling, Mimi, and will proceed
to Des Moines.
First Lieutenant Frederic c. Lord,
infantry, now on duty as assistant
professor of military science and tac-
tics at the Iowa State college of Ag'
riculture and Mechanic Arts, Ames,
is relieved from his present duty at
that place and will proceed to Camp
Dodge for discharge.
Capt. Addison H. Flourney, quarter.
master corps, will assume duties as
constructing quartermaster and dis
bursting officer for Fort Des Moines
hospital, Des Moines.
Red Cross Entertain Cripples
With great army motors, each carry
rying "a men, crippled soldiers at Ft.
Des Moines and from the base hospital
at Camp Dodge were hauled to the city
the past week and all manner OF
events were pulled off for their de.
Light. Theater parties, banquets and
the like were provided and the men
thoroughly enjoyed the occasion. Hun.
dreds Of wounded and gassed men are
at the two hospitals as we'll as, large
contingent suffering from mental trou-
bles produced from shell shock. A
number of the crippled men are still
confined to their beds and operations
ono ,,orforr,o od n olnoncf avprv dav in an
effort to patch up the poor fellows SO
that they will be able to move about.
Nobody will ever know the extent OF
suffering and anguish that these men
are called upon to o-endure. A number
of organizations are still sending del
icacies to them and this would be
greatly increased if people all over
the middle west but realized the need.
In one ward the other day we talked
with ten men confined to their beds
and each was from different state.
Telephone Men Given Great Reception
About the liveliest reception accord
ed any bunch of returned soldiers was
that given the telephone unit when
about 200 telephone girls met them at
the train and an impromptu parade
was Immediately organized. Headed
by the Shrine drum corps, the 408th
marched in the rain from the train to
the army club.
The telegraph battalion was organ.
lied in Iowa and men recruited from
this state, North and South Dakota,
Minnesota and Nebraska, in August,
1917. All men are employees of the
Re)l TeleDhone cOmDany .r.t, III
Fred McDougaL OF Davenport was
placed in charge. as lieutenant colonel,
Lines of communication .,ere initiated
for the American army by the 40Sth
throughout fighting In France.
Nurses for Permanent Army
Surgeon General Merritte w. Ire
land, during his recent visit here, held
a conference with the nurses at the
base hospital and at Ft. Des Noines.
He is g, endeavoring 4to get volunteer
nurses for regular army service. He
made the following statement:
'If the army is reduced to half a
million men and we make the usual
allowance for a, sick list of four and
one-ha per cent, the army will re.
quire in its nursing corps $3.50 nurses
in addition to the necessary enlisted
men. At present large numbers, of
army nurses procured through the
Red Cross are being reHeevd from
service with the military establish.
ment. In New York and Newport
News they find that the Red Cross
has many opportunities for them, ii
they are properly equipped, to enter