Show HOOVER CLAIMS MANY DIE FROM CLOTHING LACK to L Declares Nakedness Fully as at Serious as Famine in W War at Zone Washington March farch 24 Lack Lack of ot clothing In tho liberated countries ot central contral I thought b by Herbert Hoover Boo European n relief commissioner to bo ho as 55 serious as tho thu shortage of ot ottoo too food In a a. cablegram toda today urging Americans to contribute liberally to the tho collection of ot clothing being made this week by br tho the American Red ned Cross Mr tr Hoover said that in some of oC tho thu considerable considerable consider consider- war devastated countries a n. able ablo portion of or the tho population was unable un unable able to leave their homes because of Insufficient clothing while new-born new babies In Serbia wore wrapped in paper because cloth was not available Illness sickness and anti death said Mr Hoover in hi his cablegram arc di directly directly ell ell- attributable to a condition which Is unimaginable to an any one who has hns not seen Been It Tho The hospitals are aro without 1 bandages and the patients aro are often dressed In rags In Serbia new born babies are wrapped in iii paper for tor want of ot the necessary clothing Men Olen women and children insufficiently clothed and barefooted In the coldest weather ieather are area a common sight In Rumania I cannot connot urge the American people too strongly to give from their plenty plent for tor the tho relief of ot the tho suffering and privation privation ration In the liberated territories undergone undergone undergone un un- un- un by people who for the most part were allies with us In a great cause and who have ha suffered from their devotion to that cause far tar more than the American people |