• The Red Cross will assume charge of supplying needed nursing personnel and will pay salaries and other expenses connected with the details of such work during the influenza epidemic• The St. Paul Red Cross received this advice yesterday from W. Frank Persons, chairman of the Red Cross, who has been in conference with Surgeon General Blue• It was decided that the Red Cross will furnish emergency hospital supplies, will detail and control the placement of nursing personnel and will gather facts about the spread of the disease and the adequacy of existing local resourcesNewspaper article