ORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1942 RED CROSS TO BEGIN EVENING SEWING GROUP Seven to nine p.m. Is Period Selected for Late Production In an effort to keep up with increasingly heavy demands, the Weber county Red Cross sewing room production will be stepped up by the inauguration of night sewing groups beginning Sept. 21, according to announcement today by Mrs. Clyde T. Greenwell, executive secretary of the chapter. Mrs. Carlyle Eubank chairman of the war production department of the chapter is arranging to start the night groups, to be held between the hours of seven and nine daily, and invites all defense workers and other women who can do so to join these groups. All women over 17 are urged to register for the classes, which will be under the supervision of Mrs. Lucile R. Chambers at the Red Cross sewing room at 416 Twenty-fourth street. One hundred and fifty hours of volunteer service are required to qualify for award of the handsome production pin of the Red Cross. In connection with the opening of the new group, an urgent need for chairs and sewing machines was announced, and anyone willing to loan these items is asked to get in touch with the chairman or supervisor, or with the Red Cross chapter office in the municipal building. More sewers are urgently needed MR. Greenwell stated. SEPTEMBER 13, 1942 NEW FIRST AID CLASS SLATED A new Red Cross first aid class will start next Tuesday evening in Room 108W, old Central building, at seven-thirty p. m. This class will be held each Tuesday and Friday until the course is com¬pleted. Pfc. Frank Baker will in¬struct this class. Mr. Baker has had considerable experience as a teacher, and now is teaching classes at Ogden arsenal. Anyone desir¬ing to join this class may do so. A statement reads: City-Wide Classes "City-wide first aid classes will commence Monday, Sept. 21, in all areas of the city. If you desire to take first aid this fall, please phone 7961, and arrangements will be made to have the class as near to where you live as possible. It is necessary that all register at the Red Cross office, by calling 7961, so Kent S. Bramwell, first aid director, will know how many instructors and classrooms must be arranged for. Those interested are urged to call Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, giving name and address. "Advanced classes will be ar¬ranged by request, and will start just as soon as sufficient numbers have expressed a willingness to at¬tend them. For Defense Workers "All defense workers are urged to take first aid during their open hours, so they may be prepared in case any emergency occurs. We are finding through a number of enlistments, and the hiring of in-dividuals, that first aid training is giving the people preferences over others who have not had this train¬ing." RED CROSS GETS HORSE SHOW AID Ogden's Advertising and Sales club announced today that over $1200 was realized in net proceeds from the Soldiers' Benefit Horse show recently presented in the Og- den stadium. Al Epperson, financial chairman of the horse show, placed the gross proceeds at $2112.08 with show ex¬penses, including government tax, at $898.35. As planned for the distribution of the funds, the recreational and hospital services of the Red Cross received a check for $910.30 as two-thirds of the net proceeds. The new recreational center for Negro soldiers at Twenty-seventh and Wall will receive one-third, or $303.43. "With a financial report such as this, the horse-minded individuals of this community are indeed to be congratulated on their splendid support," said Al Hyde, general chairman of the event. "The credit for the presentation of Utah's finest horse show of all time goes to the Horse Show association and to Phil Dix." Ogdenite Gains Service Ribbon AWARD…Dr. R. L. Draper, chairman of medical aid for Weber county Red Cross chapter, is shown pinning a service ribbon on Mrs. S. P. Dobbs, one of 60 nurses’ aides in Ogden and one of 25 who have completed their 150 hours of voluntary service for the current year. Although one of Ogden’s busiest women because of her social obligations, Mrs. Dobbs has found time to complete her training course and give her obligatory 150 hours of service. Red Cross Aids Soldier In Visiting Sick Mother Red Cross Aids SOLDIER’S FRIEND…Edward B. Eisen, field director for the Red Cross at Hill field, helped a soldier to reach the bedside of his sick mother. Organization Assists the Armed Forces in Many Ways Offering many important services and a great deal of assistance to officers in dealing with soldier problems of various: kinds is the Ogden area military chapter of the Red Cross, headquartered at Hill field. Edward B. Eisen is field director of the organization. Typical of the extent to which the Red Cross will go in helping soldiers is a situation involving a private in Stockton, Calif., who received these telegraphed words: ' Mother not expected to live. If possible, come home at once." Lacking the necessary travel funds, the soldier appealed to the Red Cross office. His appeal was acted upon at once. Investigation Made After a swift investigation— which involved securing verifica¬tion of his mother's illness from the Red Cross office in New Jer¬sey, checking with his superiors as to whether permission would be granted for a furlough, and check¬ing and making arrangements for the fastest rail transportation— the soldier was loaned $50. Just three hours from the time the request was made, a Red Cross worker personally placed him on the train bound for home. Meanwhile, the New Jersey Red Cross office received word that the mother's condition had taken a turn for the worse, and so notified Stockton. Checking the probable position of train en route, the Stockton office wired Field Direc¬tor Eisen at Hill field to inter¬cept the soldier on his arrival at Ogden and make arrangements for transfer to a plane. At two o'clock in the morning — after patiently waiting at the railroad station for an hour and a half due to the lateness of the train, Eisen located the soldier, drove him to the Salt Lake City airport and put him aboard an eastbound airliner. Ex¬amination revealed that the switch to the plane delivered him home two full days ahead of schedule. Rooms Furnished The organization has been In¬strumental in furnishing fourteen of the post day rooms at Hill field with such items as radios, phonographs, ping-pong tables, magazines, book games, curtains and draperies, and the instigation of first aid classes. Another of the group's activities was the provision of several sets of boxing gloves for the negro troops stationed at Hooper.