SEAMEN’S HEALTH
CONFERENCE OPENS
f Red Cross Meeting in Oslo
Addressed by King on
Hygienic Welfare.
By the Associated Press.
OSI.U, Norway, June -9. —The In
ternational Red Cross conference on
the health of merchant seamen has
heen opened hy Kins Haakon.
I»t the presence of high Norwe
gian officials ttini delegates from
nearly every nation in the world,
the King spoke of the urgent need
for considering the hygienic welfare
» of seamen throughout the world.
, Harold Engelsen. nnv> surgeon,
read an address written hy Roald
Amundsen, commander of the Norge
on its flight over the North Pole, on
the need of seamen's welfare, con
forming with proposals formulated
hy the Red Cross.
Ry request of the Red Cross League
a. seamen's medical manual hy Eng
lensen will he proposed to the con
ference with a view to adoption hy
all nations. It already has been
adopted by the Norwegian govern
ment for merchant ships and schools
for seamen.
The American delegate is Talia
-4 ferro Clark of the United States Pub
lic Health Service, who plans to es
tablish a new emigration inspection
service at Oslo and Hergen duly 15.
After a three-day session here with
visits to medical institutions and ex
cursions to points of interest in the
vicinity the conference will go to
Bergen for a two-day program and
thence to Trondhjem for its closing
meeting.
GRADUATION IS HELD
AT INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE
Fifth Class at Army Institution
Addressed by Prof. Robert
S. Brookings.
Graduating exercises for the fifth :
class of the Army Industrial College i
were held yesterday in room -51! 1, Mu- I
rations Building. Secretary Dwight F. |
Davis of the War Department pro
■ sented the diplomas and the principal j
address was made by Prof. Roliert S.
