Cry For Nurses Stirs Red Cross To Make Appeal

*Leppert, Director of civilian relief for the Red Cross, Gulf Division: people must realize that we need many more nurses; some patients have no care whatsoever; calls for attendants who need not be nurses, white or black, man or woman [me: usually calls for attendants were directed at women]; we will scour the parish to find as many Negro women volunteers as possible; even the wealthy lack care*Administrative coordination/centralization: RED CROSS asks physicians NOT to assign nurses to this or that patient; RED CROSS should deal with this through its nurse enrollment bureauNewspaper article