CLUB SELECTS OFFICIAL STAFF Business and Professional Women of Ogden Cast Ballots Supplementing its nation-wide distribution of flour and clothing, the American Red Cross has made available blankets, comforters, and sheets to the needy distressed people of Weber county, according to an announcement Saturday from the Weber county Red Cross headquar¬ters. Additional ready-made garments such as hosiery, underwear, trousers, knickers, jumpers, overalls and play suits have been supplied through the local chapter which is continuing its work. 1838 FAMILIES AIDED During the past month, according to the report of the make-work committee of the American Red Cross and the Weber county-Ogden city emergency relief committee, 5,338 new garments have been distrib¬uted here, and 1838 families have been assisted with Red Cross cloth¬ing. These articles, distributed from the Red Cross storeroom, included men's shirts, underwear, hose, pants, helmets, jumpers, overcoats, boys' pants, shirts, underwear; children's sweaters; girls' dresses, underwear; children's and women's hose; wo¬men's night gowns, dresses and bloomers and garments for infants. Volunteer women of the city num¬bering 104, have during the month served 529 luncheons and the host¬ess committee has served voluntar¬ily a total of 848 hours. GARMENTS CUT OUT For the Red Cross sewing room the John Scrowcroft & Sons Co., Quinn Garment factory, and Ogden Utah Knitting factory, has cut ma¬terial for 2274 garments during the month. These included 912 women's and children's dresses; 710 men's shirts and 602 boys' shirts. The following list of items have been received from the Red Cross for distribution: 84 pairs of boys' cords; 275 pairs of men's cards; 1920 pairs of play suits and overalls; 900 blankets, and 300 comforters to¬gether with 480 pairs of men's un¬derwear. The Red Cross sewing room here during the month made six mat¬tresses, 20 quilts and a total of 3026 garments. A drive for used clothing netted 2486 garments which were reno¬vated and mads ready for use again. Weber County Will Be First to Obtain Free Federal Flour Wheat Turned Over To Mills Upon Orders From Chicago Through the efforts of M. G. Pence, district manager of the Farm¬ers National Grain corporation, and L. W. Nims, local chairman of the American Red Cross, Weber county will be first county in the United States to receive free flour for dis¬tribution to the poor. This is part of the relief action taken by congress whereby 40 mil¬lion bushels of surplus wheat held by the farm board will be distrib¬uted. The flour mills of Ogden were to grind the wheat today and the flour should be ready for distribution by Mayor Ora Bundy's committee next Saturday or Monday. WORK DIVIDED Mr. Pence received requisitions late Wednesday afternoon from the Chicago office of the American Red Cross and immediately turned over the required wheat to the mills. The flour for distribution in Weber coun¬ty will be ground by the Hylton mills. The Globe Grain and Milling company the Sperry Flour company will grind flour for distribution to counties which have no modern mills. It is expected that a fair propor¬tion of free flour for distribution in the area west of Ogden will be ground by the mills here. A total of 13,800 bushels of wheat will be sent to the Hylton mills to be ground for local*consumption and the flour will be packed in special Red Cross bags, 48 and 24 pounds each. The Globe mills will receive 10,043 bushels on the first order with prob¬ably more later and the Sperry Flour company 20,010 bushels, Mr. Pence was notified by the Chi¬cago office of the Farmers' Nation¬al Grain corporation that 200,000 bushels of wheat will be loaded from its stock in Ogden but whether all of this will be ground by mills lo¬cated here was not known. The Weber county flour distribution committee under the chair¬manship of Mayor Ora Bundy was to meet today to plan distribution of the flour. Part of the 200,000 bushels avail¬able here will be used for stock feed it was reported, and the Globe Grain and Milling company has already released one car of bran for relief of farmers in Huntsville. NEW CLASS TO BE ORGANIZED Home Hygiene and Nursing Will Be Taught In Course Mrs. Henry C. Gwilliam announc¬ed today that the Red Cross will launch class work in home hygiene and nursing this week at a meeting to be held Wednesday night, com¬mencing at seven-thirty o'clock, at the home of Mrs. A. E. Smith, 2863 Fowler avenue. All interested in such a class are invited to attend the meeting and details will be ex¬plained at that time. Mrs. Smith will be the instructor Much Clothing Provided For Needy By Efforts Of Red Cross And Aid Center Many Persons Donate Time and Labor To Help In Cause Mrs. J. T. Rushmer, chairman of the production committee, delivered a report at the annual meeting of the Weber county chapter of the American Red Cross last week, de¬tailing the work done in the Red Cross sewing room in connection with the Weber county and Ogden city emergency relief headquarters. COMMITTEE FORMED Assisted by women from their or¬ganizations, the following commit¬tee members had been appointed to make plans for manufacture, collec¬tion and distribution of clothing: Mrs. Edward I. Rich, Mrs. Joseph E. Wright, Mrs. Julia Parry, Mrs. William Treseder, Mrs. C. B. Morse, Mrs. J. E. Carver, Mrs. Al¬bert E. Becker, Mrs. J. E. Cave, Mrs. C. Gwilliam, Mrs. Rushmer as chairman, Mrs. Ezra C. Rich, Mrs. C. Lucius Laudie and Mrs. D. E. Rhivers. During 1932 the Red Cross donat¬ed 21,000 yards of material, consist¬ing of gingham, outing, shirting, prints, sheeting and birdseye cotton. John Scowcroft & Sons company and the Ogden Utah Knitting com¬pany cut 9,886 yards into 5,052 gar¬ments for the committee. These in¬cluded girls' bloomers and under¬wear, boys' underwear and shirts; sleepers, women's night gowns, pa¬jamas, women's and girls' dresses, men's and boy's shirts and baby gowns and jackets. The sewing room also distributed 3,841 yards of material and the gar¬ments were made in home by indi¬viduals. Volunteer workers in the sewing room put in 1,696 hours of labor. Needy persons have been given 6,056 hours of work in the sewing room; luncheons were served with¬out charge by 60 women's groups to women in the sewing room, includ¬ing hostesses and assistants. These totalled 1,225 meals, which required 681 hours to prepare. LARGE SPREAD Red cross material has assisted 473 families and new and used garments have been distributed to 3,742 families. Approximately 11,200 garments were collected from residents of the city by Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts and from donations through the efforts of the four stake Relief societies, Children's Aid society, Red Cross, American Legion Auxiliary, Protestant churches, Catholic Wo¬men's league and Martha and Mar¬tha Junior societies. Some 2,376 garments were made in the sewing room from Red Cross material by paid workers through the efforts of these organizations and 1,304 used garments were mended, and 39 quilts made while 27 bundles of used material, weighing 5 1/2 pounds each, were distributed in the homes to be made into quilts. Seventy pounds of new cuttings were distributed for making of quilts in the homes. Two mattresses were made. Laundries, free of charge, dry cleaned 93 garments before they were distributed and laundered two bundles of used clothing. GOODS SHIPPED The following articles were sent by the National red Cross for distribution in Ogden: women’s union suits, 120; men’s trousers 360; men work hose 576; men’s dress hose 564 women’s hose 1,128; infants’ shirts 60; children’s play suits 36; young men’s cords 60; men’s overalls 420; boys’ overalls 108. Total garments, 4,178. An emergency chest was filled for the secretary of the Red Cross, consisting of 45 garments, and 45 bablayettes, sheets and pillow case made from new Red Cross material The sewing machine company and generous individuals loaned machines for use in the sewing room. The local chapter of the Red Cross provided the thread, needles a miscellaneous supplies. MEMBERSHIP LARGER The report of Arthur Wooley chairman of the roll call, indicated that 1,008 members joined the ber chapter of the Red Cross 1933, which was about 100 more belonged in 1932. Treasurer F. A. Kuhlmann show that $1,171.27 was spent by the Weber chapter on food, fuel and small amount of clothing, and medical aid for Weber county families. Dr. R.L. Draper showed that 25 persons finished the first aid course during the year, qualifying as first aid instructors. F. C. Van Buren, chairman of the life saving committee, reported that 130 adults and 1,001 children learned to swim in Red Cross courses. In addition to the 1,108 senior members, Miss Ida Fitzsimmons said 4,575 junior members were signed up, who made 13 dozen garments, collected buttons and made 750 Christmas menu cards, the latter for members of the United States navy. Mrs. H. C. Gwilliam, secretary reported that when the national organization discontinued paying an executive secretary last February, she was asked to take the work over and accepted. She said she handled 316 cases and made 129 investigations and that her services were without compensation. FLOUR GIVEN L.W. Nims, who was succeeded as chapter chairman by Charles H. Thorstensen, reported that during 1932 Weber county received 1,494,797 pounds of Red Cross flour, cracked wheat and bran, all of which was distributed locally. This included 1,383,257 pounds of flour, 75,540 pounds of cracked wheat and 36,000 pounds of bran.