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    "ocrText": "e\n-2 -\nIT,\nDauser reports the Navy will need 1,500 Red Cross nurses in its Nurses Reserve.\n9\n5\n5\nThese demands make it imperative that all the nurses in the nation qualified for\n7\ne\nFirst Reserve of the Red Cross enroll at the earliest possible moment,\nS\n\"From experience gained in the World War we know that in order\nto provide 5,500 qualified nurses to the Army and Navy. a reserve of many more than\nthat number will have to be furnished. Our national defense also requires thousands\nof public health nurses. To fill this need we urge the enrollment of all qualified\npublic health nurses at this time,\"\nMrs. Flikke asks Miss Rosele:\n\"Are yóu ready to take the oath, Miss Rosele?\"\nMiss Rosele replies: \"I am.\"\nCaptain James L. Murchison, adjutant of the Walter Reed Hospital,\nWashington, D.C., walks over to desk, tells Miss Rosele to raise her hand. He says:\n\"I, Agnes c. Rosele, of Washington in the District of Columbia,\ndo solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United\nStates against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and\nallegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental\nreservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge\nthe duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me, God.\"\nNOTE TO NEWSREEL COMPANIES: This has been staged for Tuesday. October 8, at 9. a.m.\nin the Braille Room of the District of Columbia Red Cross Chapter on\nE Street, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Street, N.W. It is\nplanned to shoot all scenes in the one room. If you wish contact men\nto see the layout and discuss possible changes. please call: Lewis H.\nBowen. National 5400.\nADDITIONAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR SCRIPT WRITERS\nJ\nMiss Rosele is the first of 4,019 Red Cross nurses who will have been added\n8\nto the Army Nurse Corps by July, 1941. The Corps now consists of 1,000 nurses\na\n62639"
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