NEEDLE GROUP OBTAINS CITY CONCESSIONS Additional Office Space, And Curb Parking Cards Granted 1/42 Red Cross workers were given additional rooms in the city-couty building and free parking privileges in connection with operation of a sewing room at 416 Twenty-fourth, by city commissioners' action. The additional office space con¬sists of a suite of rooms on the fifth floor of the city-county build¬ing, formerly occupied by the as¬sistant city attorney but now va¬cant. Permission was also given to use the city courtroom on the same floor for large gatherings. Room Offered During discussion of the organiz¬ation's expanding activities, Mayor Peery suggested the city commissioners' large public meeting room on the sixth floor be turned over to the Red Cross committees, say¬ing he has a reception room con¬nected with his own office which is now virtually wasted space and could be used for city commission meetings. No action was taken on this, but all members of the commission as¬serted they are desirous of cooper-ating in the work being carried on by the Red Cross and will as¬sist in providing whatever space is needed. Mrs. Leah Greenwell, executive secretary of the Weber county Red Cross chapter, appeared before commissioners on the matter. Parking Cards At request of Mrs. Wade M. Johnson, chairman of the Red Cross sewing committee, commis¬sioners instructed Police Chief Rial C. Moore to prepare special signed cards which, when placed in an auto window entitle that auto to free parking privileges. The cards, signed by Chief Moore, will be distributed to sewing work¬ers each morning by Mrs. Johnson and collected by her each evening, so they will not be used except by persons who are actually doing Red Cross work, Chief Moore said. Volunteer Crew About 15 to 20 women work with¬out pay at the sewing room, 416 Twenty-fourth, making dresses, shirts, layettes and other clothing, and distributing yarn for sweaters, sox and other garments, Mrs. John¬son said. "The women put in many long hours at these sewing rooms and at the end of the day they are tired and like convenience of hav¬ing their cars parked near the rooms," she said. During the discussion it was pointed out that army autos also have parking privileges in down¬town metered areas. PINS, GAPS TO BE GIVEN DEE AIDE TRAINEES Ceremonies for Group af Fifteen Students Planned 1/3/42 A graduation ceremony will be held Saturday at two-thirty p. m. for 15 women who have completed instruction at Dee hospital for membership in the Red Cross vol¬unteer nurses' aide corps. After the ceremony, the women will be guests at a tea at the home of Mrs. John T. Rushmer, 2625 Tay¬lor. Pins and caps will be presented by Mrs. R. B. Porter and Mrs. O. C. Hammond. Mrs. Hammond, a registered nurse, was instructor of the class. Mrs. L. G. Diehl, chairman of the nurses’ aide committee of Weber county chapter, American Red Cross, will introduce the speakers. Principal address, somewhat in the nature of a commencement address, will be given by Dr. G. W. Schelm, pathologist of the hospital. L. Wesley Robbins, vice chairman of the county Red Cross chapter, will also speak to the graduates. This is the first class of nurses’ aides in Utah. Another group for training at the hospital. L. Wesley Robbins, vice chairman of the county Red Cross chapter, will also speak to the graduates. This is the first class of nurses’ aides in Utah. Another group for training at the hospital is being formed and expects to get under way about mid-February. The graduates-housewives, principally, with some working girls in the group-are: Mrs. John D. Buswell Mrs. James French, Misses Ann and Helen Gajewsky, Mrs. Charles W. Hoisington, Mrs. Lois Holmes, Miss Virginia Honnold, Mrs. M. B. Hunkins, Mrs. E. B. Hunt, Mrs. Ross Porter, Mrs. C. R. Riepe, Miss Elizabeth Stanford, Mrs. Charlotte Stone, Mrs. Rulon Taylor and Mrs. L. J. Vandenberg. War Veterans Complete Death Case Investigation Federal Hospital Didn't Refuse Patient, Says Manager ¼ War veterans officials in Salt Lake City today had completed an investigation into alleged refusal of the U. S. veterans' hospital there to accept Homer C. Marsh, World war veteran who was found dead Tuesday morning in Weber county jail, where he had asked for shelter. The story carried by The Stand¬ard-Examiner Tuesday afternoon said the veterans' hospital would not. accept Mr. Marsh as a patient because he was a victim of tuber¬culosis. William Higbee of Salt Lake City, national executive committee¬man of the American Legion vet¬erans' bureau, who conducted the investigation, said no one had con¬tacted the veterans' bureau or the hospital on the Marsh case. He quoted A. E. Littlefield, manager of the hospital, as saying: "The veterans' hospital is not a tuberculosis hospital," but the hos¬pital has never turned a sick man away and never will." The investigation revealed that Ogden Red Cross officials, to whom the case was referred, had known that even if Mr. Marsh were sent to the veterans' hospital, he would be transferred again to the state tuberculosis hospital here, and be¬cause of that had turned the case over to Mrs. Myrtle E. Gilles of the county matron's office, in an attempt to place the man in the tuberculosis hospital direct. R. C. Glasmann, Utah depart¬ment commander of the American Legion, said Mr. Marsh was kept at the jail through a misunder¬standing. "We thought the sheriff's office had taken him to the veterans' hospital," Mr. Glasmann said. "We thought he was just going to wait at the jail until one of the sheriff's cars returned from an errand out of town." Local Red Cross authorities said the hospital in Salt Lake City had not refused to take Mr. Marsh, but had not been asked, because of the nature of his illness. Utah Lauded for Exceeding Quota 1/42 A.L. Schafer of San Francisco, Red Cross Pacific area manager, sent congratulations to Utah on this states’ achievement in exceeding its Red Cross war fund quota. Utah was the second state in the Pacific coast area and the fifth in the nation to reach its quota. Contributions total $165,756 compared with a quota of $162,850. Chapters which have reached or exceeded their quotas are Cache, East Millard, Emery, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Salt Lake Summit, San Juan, Tooele, Uintah, Utah, Wasatch, Washington, Weber and South Sevier. WELFARE GROUP TO TAKE CLASS 1/42 Welfare league girls will enter a Red Cross standard first aid class next week, it was reported totday by Kent S. Bramwell, director of first aid training in Weber county. Barbara Weeks will be the instructor and the class will be held in the children’s welfare clinic on Grant between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth. Dentists will meet at Ogden high school Friday evening. On Monday Sears-Roebuck first aid detachment will start training. Other industrial detachments will be started in their courses next week and include the Emporium and the Nadine shop.