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Show ' ... i RED GROSS EXPENDS EIGHT MILLIONS FOR RELIEMNMSASTER Year Just Closed Put Heavy Task on Society 120 Calls fop An unusually largo number of dlt asters In the United States and Its In jular possessions bavt required astltt anco from the American Red Croat during the year just closed. The or ganlsatlon sent emergency reliel workers to tbt tcenet of 120 tornt does, floods, fires and other types ol catastrophes and expended 18,020,00 la relief and rehabilitation of the vie tlms. . Calls for aid came from eleven other nations In which tarthquaket floods and other problems caused dis tress to large populations, and th-Red th-Red Cross tent 176,300 to help In re Having the suffering. Tha catastropht causing the great est loss of life and most wldeapreac devastation was the West Indiea hui rlcane of September, 1S28, In wblcl more than 2,000 llvet were lost Is Florida, Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. A relief fund of $5,883,725.8? . was contributed by the public, follow Ing a proclamation by the President of the United States, to which tb Red Cross added 150,000 from Its own treasury, tnd tbt toclety wat tna bled to give relief to more than 700, 000 persona. I In the early Spring, river flood! In the toutbeastern states cost a heavy i loss to many persons, 76,000 tnhsb , Itants being affected In four states The Red Cross assisted 4,383 families, approximately 28,000 persons, with ( food, clothing, temporary hooting. teed for stock tnd teed for replant ing. In til, thirty-eight states were vis Ited by calamities during tht year, affecting 364 counties. Twenty-eight counties were devastated twice by itortns, fires and floods. Red Cross txpended 3434,000 from ttt treasury In giving relief In these disasters, and at ont tlmt had a many at 120 disaster relief workers, nurses and other representatives In the field. Fundi tor this relief work are oh talned In the annual roll call tor members, mem-bers, which occurs from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving Day, November 11 to 28. Only once a year during this period of Roll Call does the Red Cross ask publlo support to carry on Its many activities. |