FEBRAURY 1, 1942 NURSES FETED AT CEREMONIES Volunteer Aides Welcomed Into Regular Red Cross Service Impressive ceremonies were held Saturday afternoon when 15 Red Cross volunteer nurses' aides be-come regular Red Cross corps members. Welcoming the women to ranks of Red Cross workers was L. Wes¬ley Robbins, vice chairman of We¬ber county Red Cross chapter, who praised the "graduates" for their application. Also speaking for the Red Cross was Dr. R. L. Draper, former chapter chairman. Presenting the professional view¬point toward the volunteer work¬ers was Dr. G. W. Schelm of Dee hospital staff. The nurses' aides took their six weeks of intensive training at Dee hospital. Certificates of completion of the course and volunteer nurses' aide corps pins were given the women by Mrs. L. G. Diehl, chairman of the Red Cross nurses' aide com¬mittee, and Mrs. O. C. Hammond, instructor of the course after Mrs. R. B. Porter had given a brief introductory talk. Members of the corps presented their instructor with a gift, after which tea was served by members of the committee on nurses' aides at the home of Mrs. J. T. Rushmer, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1942 THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER Red Cross Activities BY DOROTHY PORTER Ten advance first aid students completed their course Thursday night preparatory to joining the 50 others expected to take the in¬structors' course, beginning next week. Those completing the les¬sons last night were Dexter Farr, David B. Ballantyne, Vernon El¬liot, David Welling, Reed Gardner, Kate Fenton, Betty Smith, Olive Vandenberg, Ruth Young and Norma Saunders. William T. Raney, national field representative, has informed the local Red Cross office he will be j in Ogden next Monday to begin the class for prospective instruc¬tors. He will hold classes each night from seven to ten o'clock Monday through to Friday in the Central building, Weber college, room 110. Teachers or nurses may attend this class if they have com¬pleted the standard course. All others must have completed the standard and advance courses, which include 50 hours of extensive first aid training. All those desir¬ing and qualified to join this class should call the Red Cross office, dial 7961, to register. At the con¬clusion of this class, assignments of instructors will be made and classes that have been requested will be started immediately. The second lesson of the stand¬ard first aid course was given Thursday in room 214, Central building, Weber college. Dewey Favero is instructor. The class in¬cludes those who began their training last Monday night and those who had to make up the second lesson for one of the other classes. Classes in artificial respiration and fractures were given at the Ogden high school Friday night. Five hundred new first aid text¬books have arrived. Anyone wish¬ing to purchase one may do so at the Red Cross offices in the city- county building or from class in¬structors. JAP RED CROSS REASSURES U.S. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (AP)-Senator Thomas (R-Idaho) said today he was informed that the American Red Cross had received assurances that the Japanese Red Cross had arranged for adequate care of United States prisoners and internees held by Japan. More than 600 Idahoans, employed on naval construction on the Pacific islands, were believed captured by the Japanese when the islands were invaded. Thomas said that Red Cross showed him a cablegram from the International Red Cross which quoted the Japanese Red Cross as follows: “We are carrying on relief work among war prisoners and civilian internees according to the spirit of the Geneva convention of 1929. With authority of the Japanese government we have organized in our central committee relief service for war prisoners and civilian internees. Through the intermediary, International Red Cross, we are prepared to furnish facilities to the representative of the international committee, who undertake relief of American oners of war and civilian in under Japanese authority.” COURSE BEGUN AT HILL FIELD 2/13 Kent S. Bramwell, Weber county Red Cross chapter first aid director, is conducting a first aid course at Hill field for wives of army officers stationed at the air depot site, under permission granted by army officials. Mr. Bramwell is conducting the classes from two-thirty to four-thirty p.m. daily. A course in standard first aid training has been requested by students of the state school for the deaf and blind, and Mr. Bramwell said instructors of the deaf at the school will be drafted to explain the lessons in sign or lip language. Ten students are in an advanced first aid class, which will be completed this week to permit the student to enter the instructor training class which will be started next Monday by William Raney, national field representative of the Red Cross. Fifty persons are to take the instructor class, Mr. Bramwell indicated, and all of them will be assigned to teach classes immediately upon completion of the course.