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Show SALT LIKE ILL UP Ifl RED CROSS SUBSCRIPTIONS Cleveland Leads Cities of More Than 100,000 Population, Pop-ulation, With Per Capita Donations of $6.20. NEW YORK SECOND WITH GIFT OF $5.84 Zion Third With $2.31; $18,000,000 of the Great Fund Desired to Be Raised Today. WASHINGTON, June 24. New demands de-mands on the American Red Cross disclosed dis-closed today by Eliot Wadsworth, acting chairman, show that the hundred-mtllion-dollar fund, 518,000,000 of which remains to be subscribed in the final campaign round-up tomorrow, may not last longer than six months. "The need for relief work In nearly all the allied countries is looming so big," said Mr. "Wadsworth, "that our $100,000,-000 $100,000,-000 can easily be spent within six months, even though the Red Cross practice every economy and give aid only to the most worthy causes." For this reason Red Cross officials are hoping earnestly that the fund will be largely over-subscribed in the final hours. Special collections in thousands of Sunday Sun-day school and church services today are believed to have raised about $2,000,000, although few definite reports were Te-cetved Te-cetved tonight. The addition of this estimate esti-mate made the total fund tabulated at headquarters about $S2, 000,000. Tomorrow Is "Pershing day." Pershing's Message. This message to the American people, cabled from France by Major General Pershing, was made public by Red Cross headquarters tonight: r "Americans can show their colors in no better way than by subscribing generously gen-erously to the Red Cross." ' From sun up tomorrow! to mldnlscht, committees in virtually every city, town and village In the United States are expected ex-pected to work strenuously to collect the dollars that will mean life saving for American soldiers and sailors, and mercy for millions of civilian war victims in Kurope. Will Continue Work. Tomorrow night the campaign will close officially, but a few cities expect to continue con-tinue the work most of t he week. Even those which end the active canvass tomorrow to-morrow probably will not report in full until Tuesday and the grand total may not be ascertained until Tuesday night. It was announced by the Red Cross today to-day that a corps of physicians and nurses will be sent shortly to Rumania to fight disease which has developed among the thousands of war fugitives crowded Into that portion of the country still held against the central powers'- armies. Chairman Wadsworth disclosed also that the committee tn charge of Red Cross work In France recently cabled that every cent of the $100,000,000 mercy fund could be spent to good advantage in France immediately im-mediately and urging that as large a proportion pro-portion of the sum as possible be allotted to the French war zone. One Million Reasons. "There are a million reasons why this Red Cross fund should be over-subscribed tomorrow," said Mr. Wadsworth. "I think I am not wrong in believing the lost minute response of the American people peo-ple will equal its generosity displayed by reports during the strenuous campaign days last week." Fif.ures made public by Red Cross headquarters head-quarters showed that the highest per capita contributions among cities of more lhan lOO.oon population came from Cleveland, Cleve-land, whose record for t he campaign is not likely to he challenged. Cleveland's collections so far make a per capita do-nation do-nation of ?6.C0. New York City Is second .ith 15.84. Other cities, with their per capita gifts, were announced as follows: Salt Lake City, $2.31; Denver, $2.18 : Ft. Louis, $2.18: Minneapolis. 11.90; St. Paul, JI.S2; Chicago, J1.6H; San Francisco, $1.61; Pes Moines. $l.n3; l.os Anueles. jl.43; Spokane, !0 cents; Portland. Ore.. 79 cents; Seattle, 66 cents; Tacoma, Wash., 41 cents ; Oakland, Cal., Sfi cents, and Fort Worth, Texas. Ill cents. |