Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-04 | Page 1 | Accounting of the Red Cross Council

ACCOUNTING OF THE RED CROSS COUNCIL WASHINGTON"; Feb. 3. An accounting account-ing of American iped Cross war council appropriations made public tonisht at headquarters here shows that uti to January Jan-uary S there had been appropriated from the war fund $77,543.4":. every d'vlar of which was for some form of relief work at home or abroad. Ail administration expenses In the United States are paid out of general funds, largely from membership mem-bership dues, and for this purpose 51, 292 had been appropriated. This, with S CIS, 000 drawn from miscellaneous funds for various purposes made a grand total of $73,45,7-7 appropriated for all purposes, pur-poses, Xearly three-fourths of $-11.57.755 withdrawn for foreign relief work went to France, and of SC4.32o.lSl for the purchase pur-chase of supplies, nearly one-third was for France.