Red Cross Serves Humanity Coast Chapters Set 500,000 as Roll Call Membership Quota The American Red Cross will hold its annual roll call for members from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day, November 11-29. In the Pa¬cific area the local chapters have set 500,000 members as their quota toward the national enrollment. A. L. Schafer, manager in the Pacific area, sets forth Red Cross accomplishments during the past year, thusly: Relief units were called upon to render assistance in 103 domestic, insular and foreign disasters. In the United States assistance was given to 119,000 sufferers in 163 counties where 78 disasters struck. In the Pacific area, 4,722 families were aided in seven disasters. These included summer floods at Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and Kelso, Washing¬ton; winter floods that affected 16 counties in western Washington and north Idaho; the destructive flood in the La Crescenta-Montrose district and other sections of Los Angeles County, a flood at Heppner, Oregon, and a fire at Dorris, California. The Red Cross now has a relief worker at Nome, Alaska, where he sped by airplane to give aid to the stricken city which was swept by fire on September 17. Home service workers in 736 chapters dealt with the problems of 329,728 ex-service men or their families. In hospitals and regional offices of the veterans' administra tion and in other government hospitals, representatives of the national Red Cross dealt with 67,599 men or their families. During the year 130,972 first aid certificates were awarded. Since the establishment of the service 763,546 such certificates have been granted. Life-saving certificates during the year numbered 72,503 while the grand total in this group is 569,973. The national Red Cross expended $282,000 in giving the two services to the public last year. Red Cross chapters to the num¬ber of 424 employ 750 public health nurses. These public health nurses throughout the nation made more than one million visits to or in be¬half of patients and inspected 629,-025 children in public schools. During the year 1,425 authorized instructors were active in teaching classes in home hygiene and care of the sick. Out of 62,000 students who received instruction, 49,006 satisfactorily completed the course and received certificates. Since the Red Cross began teaching the home hygiene course it has issued 732,733 certificates. The Red Cross maintains a re¬serve of enrolled nurses to draw on whenever the nation faces a great epidemic or when some section is overwhelmed by disaster. There are 36,133 nurses on this list. The na¬tional Red Cross expended $179,700 for public health nursing and home hygiene work and $31,200 in sup¬porting the nurses' reserve last vear. RED CROSS TO TAKE U. S. GRAIN Relief Agency Also Will Handle Stabilization Cotton WASHINGTON, March 21.—(AP) —Henry Morgenthau, Jr., farm board chairman, announced today that the Red Cross has agreed to take over the balance of stabiliza¬tion relief wheat held by the board by August 1, and the balance of stabilization cotton by October 31. Congress made available for relief purposes a total of 85,000,000 bushels of stabilization wheat and 844,000 bales of stabilization cotton of which a large amount still remains undelivered. RED CROSS PLANS Of the cotton, 295,580 bales have been delivered and of the wheat, 70,- 016,510 bushels have been turned over to the relief agency. The Red Cross has made arrangements for the disposal of 10,119,371 bushels of wheat and expects to complete arrangements for disposal of the rest well before August 1. Morgenthau, who completed the new arrangement with John Barton Payne, chairman of the Red Cross, indicated that the transfer would make it possible for the grain stabil¬ization corporation to reduce its Chicago office to a skeleton organi¬zation "within a short time." SAVING TO UNITED STATES "Since the operating costs of the stabilization corporation are paid out of money loaned by the farm board from its revolving fund, the negotiation with the Red Cross will result in substantial savings to the federal government," Morgenthau's announcement said. The agreement does not affect the disposal of farm board wheat futures of which it had more than 30,000,000 bushels on hand on March 6. These are being disposed of now in a way that Morgenthau hopes will not disturb the market. Report Is Made on Flood Relief Work Joseph Williams, chairman of flood relief in Centerville, submit¬ted the following business report on flood money distribution in the state of Utah. This report was sent to Mr. Williams by the Red Cross. The Red Cross reported that there were one hundred thirty four cases investigated in Salt Lake, Utah and Davis counties. Sixty-five of these cases were from Davis county. This report is a preliminary financial state-ment: Receipts — Contributed by individuals and organibations, $26,-205.00; contributed by American Red Cross, $2,000.00. Expenditures —Maintainance of disaster suf¬ferers, $6,921.00; clothing, $859.68; building, repairs and real estate, $13,568.18; household goods, $1,-642,78; family services, $802.64; field supervision and field expense, $2,052.39; food, $281.40; livestock and poultry, $400.00; farm imple¬ments, $250.00; tools, stock and equipment, $146.30; cash grant to chapter for follow-up work, $90.09; and other expenses, $1,190.62. RED CROSS SERVICE '"TYPICAL of its outstanding service in all disasters the American Red Cross, with the Chicago chapter as the operating unit, met the emergency in the recent Chicago fire," A. L. Schafer, manager in the Pacific arear, advises Dr. K. L. Draper, chairman of the Weber county chapter. He says: "First aid stations were set up immedi¬ately by the Chicago relief workers. These made fifteen hundred emergency dressings between Saturday afternoon and Sunday midnight. Scores of firemen with badly in¬flamed eyes were given treatment, thereby benig able to remain at the fire front. The Chicago Red Cross also established canteen service, supplying sandwiches and coffee, to more than one hundred fire companies that remained on duty for thirty hours. "The fire area being largely commercial, the few refugee families within the district were housed with friends temporarily. Household goods will be awarded to these distressed families." Mr. Schafer further says: "The residents of Pacific coast states know how speedily and effectively the Red Cross acts in disasters. Striking examples of disaster relief are found in the southern California earthquake March 10, 1933; in the Montrose-LaCrescenta flood in January this year, and in the devastating floods that swept Washington and north Idaho last De¬cember." Several hundred thousand dollars made available by Red Cross chapters and the national organization were expended in relieving distress and rehabilitating the vic¬tims of these disasters. U.S. GRAIN SENT TO SAVE STOCK Over Eight Thousand Tons of Wheat Approved For Utah WASHINGTON, April 14.—(AP)- Millions of bushels of free government wheat are being sent into 15 western states to save livestock. The Red Cross, handling the dis-tribution of wheat donated by con-gress from farm board stocks, has approved applications for 8,084,160 bushels of feed. Much of this al- ready has been distributed to farm¬ers. South Dakota, ravished by drouth _ and loss of credit, received the larg-est amount—42,805 tons. North Da-kota, also hard hit, has received 30,470 tons. The wheat approved for other states in tons follows: Colorado, 585; Iowa, 3070; Min-nesota, 5,372; Montana, 17,655; Ne-braska, 9,475; Wyoming, 2756; Ari¬-zona 30; California 150; Idaho, 9402; Nevada, 2188; Oregon, 460; Utah, 8,527, and Washington 1,791. This wheat will go to the relief of 98,328 farmers. Scout Brings Life To 'Drowned' Youth FLUSHING, L. I., Sept. 6—(UP) —Orin Campbell, 17, lies in a me¬chanical lung here today with a chance to live, ''all because a mem¬ber of the American Red Cross Jun¬ior life saving crew refused to be¬lieve three doctors who said the boy was drowned. The boy had lain submerged at least five minutes when his body was recovered. Three doctors pro-nounced him dead. Robert Spieth, 18. an Eagle scout, rushed up and applied the Schaeffer prone method of artificial respiration. Police applied an inhalator when they arrived just as the boy showed signs of life.