Detroit evening times., 1942-06-18
Home Defense Notes.
State 10 Train
16 Nurses 10
,Re|ieve. Shortage
BY KEN HALL


To aid in filling the critical
shortage of nurses for civilian and
war needs. a Michigan training
camp for 165 qualified student
nurses in conjunction with the
federal program for nursing will
begin next Monday at the Wayne
University.
The first class will be drawn
from six schools of nursing In
Detroit and Southern Michigan
and the students will be given
basic science courses. usually ins
cluded in the first semester of the
hospital nursing school ciriculum,
In order that they may proceed
with supervised training practice
In hospital wards in advance Of
the usual fall classes.
The course Is sponsored by the
college of liberal arts at the uni
versity and all enrollees must first
enroll in one of the participating
schools at Harper or Ford Hos
pital. Detroit; Highland Park
General Hospital; Butterworth
Hospital, Grand Rapids: Hurley
Hospital, Flint. or the Sparrow
Hospital. Lansing.
Tomorrow evening at Northern
High School, Woodward and Clair
mount avenues. a drill team for
the women of Area 6 will be
organized under the direction of
warden Mrs. Ilean Woodruff and
area warden James J. Bellon. The
meeting is called for $3.50 o'clock
and all women wardens of the
area are invited TO attend.
There will be an air raid warden
recruiting rally for Sector C.,
Zone ! of Area 20 in the Howard
. Rescue Mission, 446 Howard street,
FRIDAY evening at $50 o'clock.
The district is bounded by Bagley,
West Lafayette. Cass and Fifth
avenues. All residents are invited.
Leading civilian defense officers
of the city and state will be
guests OF British Consul Cyril H..
Cane at a dinner Friday evening
in the Detroit Club at o'clock in
honor OF Hon. Oliver Simmons.
who Is a member of the British
Parliament's air raid precaution
committee. late president of the
air raid protection institute and
an authority on airplane con-
struction.
Mr.. Simmons will tell the
civilian defense officers OF this
area how air raid precautions are
handled in England. Among those
invited are Glenn c. Richards,
associate co-ordinator Of Detroit :;
Frank NJ. Laury. chief air raid
warden: Melvin II. Lanphar, citi-
zens' defense corps; Capt. Don
Leonard, Michigan director Of
civilian defense. and H. J. Lassa-
line of Windsor's civilian defense
council.
There is 10 be a neighborhood
meeting under sponsorship of the
local defense wardens and officers
of the area at Carstens School.
Friday evening. 8 o'clock. at
which Mrs. Winifred Cohoon of
London will tell of her experiences
in the British ambulance corps.
Movies also will be shown.
Thursday evening. June 25, a
class of 1,211 auxiliary firemen
will be graduated at Cass Techni-
cal High School. This class has
been trained under direction Of
Chief Harry J. Callahan OF the
fircmen's training school.
Detroit's quota of auxiliary fire.
men is $500 and at the present
Rtime only about half Of that num-
Iber has been enrolled for training.
The second class of 2,235 will start
work at once and 800 more are
awaiting the third class.
In connection with the gradua-
tion exercises, at which Mayor
Edward J. Jeffries will address the
auxiliaries, will be an exhibit of
the city's newest fire fighting
apparatus in Second avenue along