Show I I Work oi 01 Relief ei Organized by byr by r 1 I 1 I 1 Government on Large Scale j I II 1 YM MM M G r l arch 20 The The 1 principal ru functions of tho 8 government govern WASHINGTON ment went of the United States today tollay wa was to extend relief to the thour i sands of homeless sun sun- survivors ors of the Ohio and aud Indiana floods In q quick ick succession every Query agency l g envy of the government go from the from the President Sec President Sec nd-Sec- Sect Sec Sec- t rotary of War Garrison t to to every ery t tI I I 1 1 bureau chief chic in whose whoso department relief re 1 r lief ex expeditions c could be organized I r J moye moved swiftly fly I 1 1 I All troops of the department of or theP the I P I east cost were ordered to hold bold r t r iii in readiness for dul duty duly in lie tho flood a J toy districts One Oue million rations sufficient suf suf- t h to f feed oed persons for persons for forI j jy y I 1 Inc five do days ays s at least are arc been being purI purchased purchased pur pur- I I chased chase by ly the war department and andI I hurri hurried to the tho Ohio and Indiana A I I t towns 11 0 S. S y I Tents t to shelter at least 1 t OO O OI 1 y 1 c t I 1 person t r t thousands of c t hO hospital l and field fiel supplies nr me are L being I loaded ln c in jil gals cars at nt nearby arm army po pot posts t J. J I 1 N s I and within twenty lour hours t r J x reach the devastated sections c J I I Messages cs of of J 3 ex exchanged lu o Cl c A f J i I b 1 by u t the flu I I- I IU U 1 cut and Ind time tile governors j 1 Y 1 1 r jf j 1 I I of If Ohio Ohi a and fn Indiana were followed I I silts lIss M 1 uiL t r b by b v I I I It d 11 l' l o i t s C on ond Q J t II 1 t l RELIEF ORGANIZED BY GOVERNMENT BYON ON LARGE SCALE All Al Troops in East Ordered in Readiness for D Duty ty in Flood Districts Continued Page Page 1 1 were promptly answered l Py Y y the government gov gov- 0 el departments The Thc President was wan In close Hose touch with wih the situation all aU da He lie In day was constant communication com corn with wih Secretary Garrison aid ad apprised Chairman Martin of oC tho atu and Chairman Fitzgerald of or the tho House appropriations committee that the government was going ahead with wih emergency expenditures on the as assumption assumption as- as that Congress would back up the administration later on Thc They both wired promises of or hearty support and ant orders ent 1 went vent out on every side aide for Cor a gigantic gigantc work of relief role The President called caled upon tile tho people of ot the tho nation to cont contribute mon money y liberally to the American Red Ked net Cross which In turn appealed to tho thio governor governor gov gov- l JOV-l a of the states to help gather relic re- re lic funds Supplies e. e Major P. 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C oy was sent sent to tn Columbus to handle medical supplied Nine Nino medical officers and four fifty hospital c corps went from the tho department department depart depart- ment mont of the east carr carrying ln a a. big bit supply supply supply sup sup- ply of or surgical dressings typhoid anti prophylactics and the complete re servo servo medical supply ply comprising hundreds hundreds hun bun of drugs druga sufficient to treat twenty thousand patients patents for tor ono one month Precautions against t tho spread of or disease ase are to bo be handled bandied by s sanitation sanitation sanita sanita- tion ton exp experts rt Miss 83 Mab Mabel l Boardman of tho the Amor- Amor lean ican Red Cross was active o acU at hea headquarters head head- quarters here herc telegraphing orders to nurses at Cleveland and Cincinnati Cincinnat am and calling upon other nearby chapters for physicians and nurses saving Life crew crews were ordered loD to lo D Delaware laware 0 O. and the tho public health distributed led Its is agents over o cr mae affected districts Postmaster General Burleson made every ery possible effort to Install t tern tern- m- m ery e malt mall service lct and ant r restore tho tIm main routes route between th the east and nt west as rapidly as 8 possible ble Malls Mails ans that regularly pass east an and west vest through the flooded d districts district wilbe will wil willlie wi be lie detoured until further notice I GOH Governor Cox Appeal fur for Aid tid Tho TIm following telegram from Goer Cover Gf cr nor Cox of oC Ohio to President M W H Ileon ol was 8 received today tolay Wo We 00 have asked the secretary o or of orwar war this mornIng for tents supplies s ra rations and nd physicians 1 In n the tho name of tons humanity HJ o see sec v that this is ute rated granted nt a at r the earliest possible moment The Tho situation earlest In lii this tate state Is critical We WeI v e believe that people were wel unsheltered unsheltered un un- un- un sheltered I Ue e last lat night and the l Uon are th that t before night the Mus Mus- us- us valley will vill wil suffer sutter the tho tate late o otho or of ortho ale valleys tho the Miami and ana h doto valcY 1 r n nt rue M it y v 5 Cox have Havo directed the secretary of ot wa war Immediately to comply with wih your OU re request request re- re quest and to use er e every agency of oC hi his department to meet maet the needs of or th the the 5 situation itu ati on |