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Show Entrainment of450' Utah , Draftees Held Up bPTlui 1: III BOOKED FOR LEVIS I DELAYED Officials Say Drastic Measures Planned to Prevent Spreading of Epidemic in ' State ASepidemicdirectof A renult of the Spanish influenza raging in various, citie aui cantonment of the country, Provost Marshal General Crowder I haa canceled hla order for entrainment of 45o t'tah drafteea to Camp Lewis. Wash . between Orlnher 7 and 11. according to a bulletin reWashington. today from ceived her The order withholding tha I'tah draftees from entrainment wss Issued ss part of a general order canceling Induction orders for MJ.Ooa men Into various mobilisation camps and can-tonmanta th country. The oanael-latlon la Indeflnlta and probably will continue until tha spread of tha die-ease la entirely checked. REPORTS ARE WANTED. eltate, county and municipal officials ara cooieratlng with health offtcera In an effort to atem tha epidemic In I'tah. to An appeal Is made to Individuals take every precaution agalnat Infection and to report each suspected cse Immediately. If caaea continue to develop In Increasing niimhara-ln Utah, officials say It will ba necessary to cloae all amusements and prohibit tha holding of any public gatherlnga of any sort So fsr no caaea hava been' reported In tha public schools of the stata. However, officials declare that If extreme pre-cautlona ara not taken by parenta against children becoming Infected. It will ba necessary to cloae tha achoola-flRST DEATH IN UTAH. The first death In Utah from Spanish Influensa wss that of Joha Hogan, a traveling salesman, who died In a hoapltal at Ogdan. Aa a reault of treating "flu" patlenta, aaven young women nurses of tha Dee hoapltal In Ogden are aald to ba suffering from the dlaeaaa. Four Utah soldiers are reported dead They ara Evan In army centonmenta. Banee of etunnyalde, at Camp Grant. Rockford. 111.; Private Kdwln Dahl-qulst of Sandy, at Camp Merritt, N. J.; at Camp Harold Cox of Falrvlew, Lewie, Wash.; Dellala Hanaen of I'ro-vo, at Quantlco, Fla. Word haa been received at the local Red Croaa headquartera that tha national Hed Cross wsr council hss appropriated 1676.000 for combating the spresd of. ths dlseaae. |
