LOS ANGELES EVENING HEARLD AND EXPRESS: TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1942 Red Cross Leaders in Conference WORK OF MODERN RED CROSS TOLD Red Cross workers, coping with the tire shortage, maintain horsedrawn canteens and ambulances…bicycle squadrons…squads of mounted horsewoman …scooter ambulance. A Dalmatian dog rescue squad… Red Cross women workers drive tractors on farms…”man re engines…assist draft boards Defense councils, rationing boards…take fingerprints in war factories… This broad picture of how Red Cross activities have expanded along with the traditional “Angels of Mercy” activities on battlefields, in hospitals and in disasters was presented by speakers today as delegates from 20 states met here for a three-day conference of the American Red Cross National Committee on Volunteer Service. In the words of Mrs. Dwight Davis of Washington, D.C., national director of Red Cross Volunteer Special Services, the women came to Los Angeles “to learn.” She told the group at the Wiltern Theater: THEORIES PRACTICED “Here on the West Coast you have been putting into practice the theories and training on which Red Cross services are based… To you, operating and living in blackouts has become a simple fact. You are prepared for raids. In no part of the country is this true as it is of the Pacific Coast… So we have come to get a first-hand report…” Since 1939, she related, the American Red Cross has aided 15,000,000 refugees in Asia and Europe. Mrs. Lyman Henry Johnson, chairman of the Volunteer Services in Los Angeles, presided. Gurney E. Newlin, chairman of the Los Angeles Red Cross chapter, introduced Mayor Bowron, Major Gen. Maxwell Murray of the Army, Rear Admiral I.C. Johnson of the Navy and Major J. P. Shwerin of the Marine Corps. DIRECTORIS’ REPORT Highlights of the reports by assistant directors included: Mrs. Archibald MacLeish, assistant director, camp and hospital service: “Seventy-one Camp Councils are looking after the welfare of men in the armed forces.” Mrs. F. Trubee Davison, Motor Corps: There are now 850 Red Cross Motor Corps, with 12,000 personnel. “Many chapters are training on Army trucks, jeeps and peeps; others are driving both fire department and hospital ambulances. We have also an increasing amount of mobile equipment.” Mrs. Graham Dougherty, Canteen Ser4vice: “The Canteen Corps must be prepared to give service in civilian attacks by the enemy. I feel sure that you are trained to serve.” Mrs. WIlmarth S. Lewis Staff Assistance: “Today there are over 26,000 staff assistants manning information desks, switchboards and doing other work.” Mrs. William McKee Dunn, Hospital and Recreation: “red Cross’ Gray Ladies’ receive and conduct visitors around hospitals, accompany patients to X-ray and operating rooms and do other merciful deeds.” Mrs. Grace Hendrick Eustis: “The ‘Volunteer,” Red Cross publication, is pegging its circulation at 40,000.” Three leaders are shown at the conference of the American Red Cross National Committee on Volunteer Service, now being held at the Wiltern Theater. Left to right, Mrs. Archibald MacLeish, assistant director of Volunteer Services; Mrs. Henry Lyman Johnson, chairman of Los Angeles Volunteer Services; Mrs. Dwight Davis, national director.