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Show 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 ac-complishments 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 16counties 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 helped by airplane to give aid to the stricken city which was swept by fire on September 1 7. Home service workers in 7361 chapters dealt with the problems off 329,728 ex-service men or their families. In hospitals and regional offices of the veterans administration andln'other government hospi¬tals, 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 number of 424 employ 750 public health nurses. These public health nurses throughout the nation made more j 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 732,753 certificates. 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 stabilization 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 unde-livered. 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 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, indicate 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 Cr-oss. The Red Cross reported at 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-) irient: Receipts — Contributed by. individuals and organizations, $26,4 205.00; 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. |